Question: Luke gets everyone together at Jabba's palace in order to rescue Han Solo. Why didn't Luke just get a bunch of Rebel fighters to storm the palace? They had the fleet available, so they could have easily overpowered Jabba and his guards without having to resort to risking all of his friends in an overly complicated rescue attempt, and they wouldn't have had to bother with the whole sarlac pit fight at all.
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18th Jul 2022
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
17th Jul 2022
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Character mistake: Why didn't Joe, Connie, and the students just run back down to the front entrance of the school? They had plenty of time instead of making the effort of going to the roof.
Suggested correction: No, they couldn't. They barely made it to the roof on time and that was closer than the front entrance.
14th Jul 2022
Goldfinger (1964)
Revealing mistake: The rear projection behind Bond as he is driving through Geneva doesn't match the scenery outside his car.
10th Jul 2022
The Mummy (1999)
Plot hole: If the Medjai are supposed to be the guardians against Imhotep and sworn to make sure he never comes back to life then why weren't they in possession of the key that opened everything in the first place?
Suggested correction: Because it got lost in the centuries that passed. It's possible they don't even know every step on how the mummy can return.
24th Jun 2022
Speed (1994)
Revealing mistake: The monitor Payne is using to the watch the inside of the bus is nowhere to be seen every time the inside of his hideout is shown. Only until it's revealed he had a camera hidden is the monitor shown.
12th Jun 2022
Clear And Present Danger (1994)
Factual error: It wouldn't have mattered that Ritter had his "autographed get out of jail free card" given to him by Cutter or authorized by the President, it was still an illegal operation that Congress didn't know about. Anyone involved in it would be going to prison regardless of position.
Suggested correction: The point Ritter is making is the operation was personally authorized by the President behind closed doors. If Cutter and Ritter were arrested for their involvement, they would be pardoned by the President. The President of the United States has the authority to pardon someone even before they have been charged with a federal crime, as Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon. Jack doesn't have this protection because he is to be the scapegoat if the scandal is exposed.
11th Jun 2022
Speed (1994)
11th Jun 2022
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Plot hole: There is no way the airport personnel could have kept everything going on quiet from the thousands of civilians in the airport. Even if nobody heard the shootout between McClane and the terrorists at the baggage area someone would have found out about the crashing of the Windsor flight.
10th Jun 2022
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
2nd Jun 2022
Arachnophobia (1990)
Factual error: Jerry Manley's corpse wouldn't have been returned to his home town as depicted. He died in a foreign country outside the U.S. from what was thought to have been a fever, his corpse would have been quarantined for possible contamination and autopsied which would have quickly determined his real cause of death from the spider.
2nd Jun 2022
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
14th May 2022
Field of Dreams (1989)
Revealing mistake: The time on the scoreboard clock when Ray hears the "go the distance" message changes from 10:30 to 10:32 in a matter of seconds.
2nd May 2022
Speed (1994)
30th Mar 2022
Seven (1995)
Continuity mistake: When Somerset, Mills, and John Doe walk away from the car near the end of the film the doors on the passenger side of the car are left open but when Somerset runs to back to the car to meet up with the delivery van the doors are suddenly closed without anyone closing them.
23rd Mar 2022
Raising Arizona (1987)
Trivia: As mentioned before the newspaper H.I. and Ed read about the quints is mostly repeated nonsense. It the first paragraph contains an in-joke about actor Trey Wilson mentioning his portrayal of Nathan Arizona.
1st Mar 2022
Raising Arizona (1987)
Revealing mistake: When H.I. Is trying to decide on which baby to take one of them has very curly hair but when the mom sees them all sitting up in their crib none of the babies have that same hair.
5th Feb 2022
Groundhog Day (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Phil wakes up for the third time he immediately runs out of the hotel without speaking to anyone in order to get to Gobbler's Knob faster but when gets outside the piano teacher is already walking across the street. She shouldn't already be there if Phil went straight from his room to the street.
17th Jan 2022
You Only Live Twice (1967)
14th Jan 2022
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Stupidity: Why in the world would Tony of all people leave his old suits in storage WITH the miniature arc reactor still inside the suit? This would have served no purpose to Tony since he already has his own arc reactor in his body.
Suggested correction: This is a question which is easily answered; Tony had the idea of putting someone else in the suit (like Rhodey) himself. Plus, it's logical to think he has built multiple miniature arc reactors, after the events of the previous movie. Plus, he can probably just as easily switch from arc reactor to arc reactor in his chest when changing suits, so he has a fully powered arc reactor ready in each suit.
11th Jan 2022
Jurassic Park (1993)
Revealing mistake: The two Jeeps running during the tour are supposed to be automatically moving along the track in the road but several shots reveal there is nothing connecting the Jeeps to the track.
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Answer: The fleet was getting ready for the final battle to destroy the new Death Star. Rescuing Han was a personal rescue mission for Luke and Leia. As far as the fleet was concerned Han was a causality of war. Quote "The sacrificing of one individual to save millions is the corner stone of any civilisation."