Phaneron

6th Nov 2021

Eternals (2021)

Trivia: After 13 years and 26 films, this is the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to receive a "rotten" rating from Rotten Tomatoes upon release. This is somewhat ironic given that there were reports that Marvel considered it the best film they had made yet, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige felt it could be a nominee for Best Picture at the Oscars, particularly as its director ChloƩ Zhao had recently won the Best Director Oscar for Nomadland, which also won Best Picture.

Phaneron

5th Nov 2021

Eternals (2021)

Trivia: SPOILER: The mid-credits scene sees the debut of Eros, brother of Thanos, who reveals himself to also be an Eternal. The reason why Thanos looks so different from his human-looking brother is because Thanos carries the Deviant gene.

Phaneron

29th Oct 2021

Jigsaw (2017)

Deliberate mistake: During his autopsy in Saw IV, it is revealed John Kramer was 52 at the time of his death. Kramer's role in this film is the very early stages of his time as Jigsaw, shortly after his cancer diagnosis, which would put him in his early 50's. However, he looks far too old to convincingly be that young (Tobin Bell was in his mid-70's at the time of filming). He even looks older than he did when he was on his deathbed in Saw III.

Phaneron

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

Savage Land, Strange Heart (1) - S3-E8

Plot hole: When Kazar discovers that Sauron is really his friend Karl Lykos, Lykos reveals that he was turned into Sauron by Mr. Sinister. However, in the season 2 episode Mojovision when Sauron was attacking Shana, Magneto already knew who Sauron was. Magneto was the master of the Savage Land mutates years before Mr. Sinister was and hadn't been to the Savage Land for many years before then, so if Magneto already knew who Sauron was, then it couldn't have been Mr. Sinister who created him. (00:19:46)

Phaneron

27th Oct 2021

Saw V (2008)

Character mistake: When Erickson is telling Strahm that he no longer has any jurisdiction over the Jigsaw case, he mentions that over a dozen dead bodies were recovered at the meat packing plant, including two cops. There were in fact only 10 dead bodies: Danica Scott, Judge Halden, Timothy Young, Jeff Denlon, Lynn Denlon, Jigsaw, Amanda, Art Blank, Officer Rigg, and Detective Matthews. (00:20:28)

Phaneron

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

Savage Land, Strange Heart (1) - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: When Lykos transforming into Kazar, his wings tear out of his jacket sleeves, and are incorrectly colored the same brown as the jacket. A couple of shots later, his wings have disappeared and don't form again until his entire jacket is torn off. (00:07:13)

Phaneron

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (2000)

Trivia: Chris Potter, who voiced Gambit in the animated series, was brought in to audition for the role of Cyclops. By his own admission, he didn't want to play the character, and wanted to hold out and play Gambit in a live action role, feeling that Gambit would finally appear in the next installment following the release of every film. Potter for his part admitted he was too old to play the character by the time he was finally adapted to live action in 2009.

Phaneron

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

Saw (2004)

Other mistake: When Adam is saying to Dr. Gordon "What I saw was you get into your car, that's it," Leigh Whannell's natural Australian accent slips through on the last two words. (01:18:09)

Phaneron

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

27th Oct 2021

X-Men (1992)

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