PeterNZ

16th Feb 2024

Aliens (1986)

Continuity mistake: From Director's Cut. The scene where Al is being quizzed about the ownership of the discovery of the object discovered by the "Mom and Pop" survey team tells us that a call has been put in by that team to the base. But then when they discover the ship, where is the call? They explicitly do not call it in. Now this is not just a general enquiry because they were sent out there two weeks ago to a specific grid reference. "He says he's onto something." (00:16:34 - 00:18:38)

PeterNZ

20th Dec 2023

Deep Impact (1998)

Trivia: The actress who plays Lilly Rittenhouse is Hannah Leder. The name of the boat her family are provisioning is Hannah. Strangely, the name of her character on IMDB is Holly, not Lilly. (01:48:09)

PeterNZ

19th Dec 2023

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Plot hole: When McKenna is fighting Colorado at the end, McKenna does not go for Colorado's revolver. He cannot have known the bullets had been tampered with, since that information was only known to Colorado and Hachita. Perhaps he deduced it when Colorado didn't draw his gun. (01:56:00)

PeterNZ

Continuity mistake: When Clara is about to leave Doc's workshop, the position of Doc's hand on the telescope alters each time we move from rear to front shot. (01:08:09)

PeterNZ

Factual error: Preparing to run the model train in Doc's workshop, Marty connects the clamp to the positive terminal. But he actually connects to the white ceramic insulator. Doc correctly connects to the negative metal terminal. (01:10:01)

PeterNZ

5th Oct 2023

Time Tunnel (1966)

The Kidnappers - S1-E28

Continuity mistake: At the very end of this episode, when they have just arrived in the new time, Doug is fighting a man in a turban. He loses the turban, but then the next shot, it has reappeared on his head. (00:48:54)

PeterNZ

1st Jul 2023

Deep Impact (1998)

Other mistake: How can it be named Wolf-Beiderman? Wolf never sent the email, and even if it did go, once the network was restored, he never called it Wolf-B before writing it on the floppy label. The president says both were killed in the crash. So, they invent an astronomer working at the observatory and no one notices? Remember, the floppy was destroyed in the fire. Wolf never called anyone; he was killed while trying to make a call. Maybe the pics were also burned. Mr. Perry never followed up?

PeterNZ

Video

Continuity mistake: The attachment to the minisub is inconsistent. It is an open hook first then as it's being lifted it becomes an enclosed shackle looking quite different. Plus a figure now appears on the roof. Ben Gazzara has just gone below. (00:57:42)

PeterNZ

2nd Jul 2022

Magellan (2017)

Factual error: The film informs us the gravity on Neptune's moon Triton is less than 8% of Earth's. But the whole physics of the rocks and his movement on the surface do not reflect that. The actual surface is frozen nitrogen. The difficulty he has in moving around is not well correlated by him only weighing 7kg. Https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5361488/.

PeterNZ

18th Oct 2021

Top Gun (1986)

Continuity mistake: When Cougar is looking at the picture of his wife and child, it's a girl. When he is interviewed by the Captain, he says "I almost orphaned him..." (00:10:14 - 00:13:03)

PeterNZ

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Suggested correction: He actually says "I almost orphaned 'em out there today" ie. Orphaned THEM not him.

stiiggy

Except he follows it up with "I've never even seen him." So he's talking about a boy. And before the orphan line he said "wife and kid", not "wife and kids", implying only one child.

Bishop73

And he couldn't have orphaned them anyway if their mother is still living. Dude was all shook up and couldn't think straight.

17th Sep 2021

Star Trek (1966)

Video

Continuity mistake: When Buster approaches the table, we see the glass is about 1/3 full. Next shot it's 2/3 full. Then it's picked up by the chap with the goatee, But it reappears on the table at "weapon." Next, at the wide shot, it's empty, (as are all the glasses, also the other glasses were full, now they are empty).

PeterNZ

Continuity mistake: In the saloon scene, Buster sits at the table, then later stands up. He is right next to the table. Then we see a wider side shot, where he and his chair have teleported away from the table. He does his kicks then he is back close by the table again.

PeterNZ

30th May 2020

Our Man Flint (1966)

Revealing mistake: The drums that the women escape in are anchored to the seabed because they are sitting upright, even when empty and the boat driving off. (01:44:25)

PeterNZ

Submarine Sunk Here - S1-E10

Other mistake: Aside from the error of having mines so densely packed and so close to the bottom so deep, there is no possible way the Seaview could have settled to the bottom while passing through this minefield without being destroyed. (00:48:00)

PeterNZ

29th Sep 2018

The Avengers (1961)

The 50,000 Pound Breakfast - S5-E19

Continuity mistake: The clock showing London time is 12.15 when Emma is captured. Shortly after, the ticker timer goes off, it looks like almost 5 or 6 o'clock. But the ticker message is timed at 12.15. A short time later, after the escape, it shows 10.40.

PeterNZ

20th Mar 2018

Time Tunnel (1966)

Revenge of the Gods - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: Jiggs goes back with a bag of grenades and a machine gun. He fires the gun, but when he is jumped on by the Trojan, the bag is gone. An object which may be a bag is lying on the ground, but is not the one he brought. No further mention is made of the grenades. (00:21:20)

PeterNZ

29th Jan 2018

Time Tunnel (1966)

Continuity mistake: When bringing the cannister up, the rope is rigged such that the lifting rope is under the supporting rope. But as soon as it appears on deck, the lifting rope has switched and is now over the supporting rope, and the tackle is nowhere to be seen. (00:49:00)

PeterNZ

18th Jul 2017

Away All Boats (1956)

Continuity mistake: When the bulldozer is pushing the boat on the beach, the driver is initially dark skinned with a hat. Then next shot he is fair with no hat. Then back to dark skinned with no hat. (00:24:55)

PeterNZ

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