Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie as the Marines are once again raising the flag on the White House after the terror attack you can see that the roof is still brutally damaged and there has been no repair work done. When the camera pans over toward the Washington monument, you can see that the monument is already being reconstructed with scaffolding all around it. (01:45:30)
Ssiscool
20th Dec 2013
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
7th Aug 2014
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Corrected entry: During the air attack on the White House, an anti-aircraft battery pops up from the roof, which then completely ignores the attacking plane, allowing it to fly around machine gunning everyone for a while longer until the fighter shoots it down.
3rd Apr 2018
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Corrected entry: When a woman is shot in the head, the bullet hole is in the left side of her hat. But then when her hat falls off, the bullet hole is in the right side of her head. No, the bullet didn't pass through both sides. She was shot from the front, so there should only be one bullet hole in the same place. (00:30:00)
27th Jan 2014
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Other mistake: Harry now has Dudley's toy room and Dudley's is next to his, however when there is a shot outside the house there is only the one window on the left side of the house and not much space between it and the left outside wall, where is the window for Dudley's very narrow room? (00:09:00)
22nd Apr 2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Continuity mistake: At the end-of-the-year feast the Slytherin banner is green and gold, but their house colors are green and sliver, as evident by their robes. (02:11:00)
18th Mar 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Harry figures out that Hagrid got his dragon egg from "Snape"(Quirrell), at the begining of the scene, Harry's cloak is buttoned and still is when he, Hermione, and Ron are running to Hagrid's hut. When he reaches Hagrid's hut, it is unbuttoned even though he never unbuttoned it himself. (01:46:50)
1st Jun 2012
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Harry, Ron and Hermione go to the third floor corridor for the first time, they all run into the corridor with Fluffy in and close the door. In the next shot, Ron walks through the door again and closes it again. (00:59:40)
7th Dec 2008
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Dudley pops up after Hagrid gives him a pig's tail, his face and hands are clean, even though he was just eating Harry's birthday cake with his hands. (00:16:40)
19th Sep 2002
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the pupils are waiting on the stairs before being sorted into their houses, Malfoy speaks to Harry and is clearly at the top of the stairs. However as the pupils go into the dining room, Malfoy is nowhere to be seen in at least the first 30 pupils. (00:41:15)
8th Dec 2003
Fawlty Towers (1975)
The Germans - S1-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When Basil runs from the restaurant and into the office, as the door opens to the hallway you can see a monitor in the office, showing what we can see. The director must be watching the action from in there.
Suggested correction: Most places like this are likely to have CCTV and the office would be the optimum place for the manager to watch on the monitor.
9th Mar 2011
Saw (2004)
Plot hole: Det. Kerry says at the scene of Paul's trap, "He had two hours." There is no way she could have known that. The clock simply said 3:00 and the tape specifically says "you have until 3 o'clock or this room will become your tomb". No way to know that's two hours after the fact. (00:17:30)
Suggested correction: In the flashback of the razor wire trap, it shows the clock as a few minutes past 1, so he did know he had 2 hours.
24th Jan 2011
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Continuity mistake: Right at the end, the dying Poloma reaches up and touches her brother's right cheek. Her bloody fingers leave a trail behind. This disappears in the next shot when Alejandro turns his head to look at Gibbs.
12th Sep 2004
From Russia With Love (1963)
Corrected entry: When Tatiana enters Bond's room, he is about to take a shower. He never goes and turns it off. (00:51:10)
19th Apr 2004
From Russia With Love (1963)
Continuity mistake: During the battle at the Gypsy camp, Kerim Bey gets shot on his arm but when Bond talks to him later, he has blood everywhere. Even if he had blood on his hands, I don't think he started to touch himself everywhere just for the fun. (00:45:20)
6th Jan 2004
From Russia With Love (1963)
Continuity mistake: Just before Kerim Bey overturns the table in the beginning, at the Gypsy camp fight, two bottles are visible on the table. When he overturns the table, there's only one left. (00:42:50)
19th Oct 2012
From Russia With Love (1963)
Character mistake: In the scene at Kerim Bey's office, when the bomb goes off, we see a heavy desk topple over. Bey says he was saved because he was relaxing on the couch with a girl. But he wasn't at the desk before either. He was sitting in some sort of sofa arrangement in a different corner of the room. We don't even see the desk before the bomb goes off. (00:32:05)
5th Jun 2003
Dr. No (1962)
Corrected entry: When Bond and Quarrel are shooting at the "Dragon", Quarrels gun is a revolver, which should be a six- shooter. Yet, he fires much more than 6 shots, without reloading. The PPK should also be 6 shots.
23rd Dec 2014
Dr. No (1962)
Continuity mistake: When Bond leaves the hotel to go to Governor's House he has no pocket square. At Governor's House he has his pocket square. Then in the next scene at professor Dent's, the pocket square is gone again. (00:25:30)
21st Apr 2013
A View to a Kill (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Bond is in Mr Howe's office at San Francisco City Hall, the exit-only door is marked "Divisions of Oil and Mines" when he leaves. But when Stacey is fired, the door is marked "Division of Oil and Mines." (01:07:00)
Suggested correction: It's two different doors that are seen. Both go to the same office but it's two different doors.
12th Dec 2020
A View to a Kill (1985)
Corrected entry: When Bond leaps from the bridge in his pursuit of May Day, he lands on and crashes through the boat's roof. When we see May Day jumping onto the speedboat, the boat's roof is now completely intact. (00:20:00)
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Correction: Yes and no. Yes, the roof is badly damaged and yes, the Washington Monument has scaffolding up around it. But, no time scale is given as to how long it has been since the attack. The White House has much more damage to it, and work would have started to secure the actual house rather than starting with the roof, so it's entirely plausible that no work would have been done by this point.
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