Factual error: A young boy is brought into a paediatric emergency room, where after trying measures to save him fail and he dies - he has no heartbeat. So they use a defibrillator on him, but that's the problem: You can not use the defibrillator on someone with no heart beat, who has flatlined. The heart is an electric pump; with no spark, there is nothing to jump.
kh1616
3rd May 2017
Dragonfly (2002)
30th Mar 2017
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Factual error: They don't have coconuts in India, where the film is set, and yet Baloo finds some.
3rd Jan 2017
Cape Fear (1962)
Factual error: When they are on the houseboat and everything is calm, the sound comes from birds, and in particular, Kookaburras. These birds make a very distinctive sound, it sounds like someone is laughing, but the birds only live on the east side of Australia, nowhere else.
30th May 2016
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)
Factual error: In the beginning, Sundance is accused of cheating at cards and the man accusing Sundance doesn't know who he is. To prove it, Sundance shoots the holster off the man and then the gun from his hand, and then shoots the gun around the room. All this takes 9 bullets. The gun is a revolver holding 6 bullets.
22nd Mar 2016
Elementary (2012)
One Watson, One Holmes - S3-E19
Factual error: In the scene in the hospital, the guy who drove his motorbike into a van has an IV canula in his right hand, but the IV pole and the IV bag are on the left side of the bed, which means the IV line has to be long enough to go up to the bedhead, then behind the bedhead and then up to the bag, leaving no way to check for air bubbles.
23rd Feb 2016
Gone Girl
Factual error: On page 512, line 10, there is a mistake in the "voice over" when dealing with the killing of Desi, "the feel of his own blood spurting between his fingers with each pulse." The jugular vein was cut, and veins don't spurt with each pulse; they ooze. Arteries do the spurting with each pulse.
16th Nov 2015
Blindspot (2015)
Factual error: The memory Jane has of the man who takes away all her memories holds a butterfly needle to Jane's arm. The butterfly needle is called that because it has 2 wings and a body in the middle. To use this needle properly, the person takes both wings up together to be able to slide the small needle in, but the person we see using it, doesn't do this - he holds the needle behind the 2 wings and then inserts it. Also, this needle is far too small to handle the bag of drug-filled fluid that is intended for Jane's arm.
9th Oct 2015
Rebecca (1940)
Factual error: Crawley tells the girl that Rebecca's body was in the sea for two months and Maxim had to identify her, which is totally ridiculous: A body in the sea for two months would have been eaten and nibbled on by everything that eats meat and is passing by; there would be hardly anything left.
27th Dec 2014
The Wooden Horse (1950)
Factual error: When the two escapees from the POW camp are in the anchor room of the ship they are on, they leave the harbour and the pilot boat leaves them, but then the chain for the anchor goes out, but they are moving away from the port, why on earth would they be dropping the anchor? If anything they would make sure that all the chain is in the anchor room and the anchor would be on deck.
15th Nov 2014
Carrie (2013)
Factual error: In a flashback scene, Carrie's mother is giving birth in bed; there is blood, but no placenta or umbilical cord, which we can see when the mother picks up her baby and places her on her chest.
7th Sep 2014
Diana (2013)
Factual error: When Diana's father's surgeon shows Diana around the hospital, they end up in an operating room and they are both wearing street clothes. Problem is there are doors in every hospital where operations are performed and no-one is allowed past those doors without wearing scrubs, paper hats, booties and face masks, no matter who you are - they have to keep the operating rooms as clean as possible.
5th Jun 2014
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Factual error: When Jon Favreau is in hospital, his IV bags are way too low. To be effective, the bags must be much higher so they can drip properly, even the one attached to the machine. (00:27:55)
7th May 2014
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
Factual error: When Webster is attempting to open his first safe, on the job, so to speak, he only turns the wheel once. Now, I am not an expert on safes, but I do know that the wheel must be turned back and forth, with the correct numbers, a few times, at least.
6th May 2014
The Cave (2005)
Factual error: When they go into the water, they put mouthpieces in, but, a few times, they talk to each other, which is impossible with mouthpieces in.
10th Mar 2014
Malice (1993)
Factual error: Dr Hill says he's a cardiothoracic surgeon, so what's he doing operating on a woman that needs a gynaecologist surgeon? When doctors specialise, that's it, they do not swap and move in other fields, the only time this would happen is in an absolute emergency, as in if there was only one doctor on duty. But that wasn't the case here.
2nd Mar 2014
The Impossible (2012)
Factual error: When Maria is in hospital, the device that controls the flow of the IV is around the wrong way and turned off - twice useless.
2nd Mar 2014
The Impossible (2012)
Factual error: When Henry uses someone's mobile to call home, which would be overseas, he only presses about 4 numbers, when he should have had to press about 10.
19th Jan 2014
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Factual error: When Mikael goes to visit Henrik in hospital, Henrik's IV bags are far too low for the IVs to drip.
16th Jan 2014
Clear And Present Danger (1994)
Factual error: A bunch of troops are in heavy camouflage in helicopters, going to an assignment. The officer in charge tells them to take their dog tags off and empty their pockets of anything that could identify them. This is silly: first, in troop helicopters, the troops wouldn't be able to hear the officer's voice - it's too noisy - and second, this would be ingrained in them, to remove dog tags etc, and would have been done back at the base, before they left.
24th Sep 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Factual error: When Rosemary finds Mr Teed's dead body, the kettle is boiling. It's the type that will keep boiling until someone turns off the stove or takes it off the heat; neither of these things happen, and yet, before the scene is finished, the kettle stops making that boiling sound.
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Suggested correction: Sorry to burst your bubble here but there is scuba equipment which allows for talking whilst using a regulator.
They're not wearing such equipment. In the movie they're just wearing regular mouthpieces.
In the DVD commentary the writers explain that the divers should have been wearing full face masks which allow for communication, but the director changed it for mouthpieces, but kept the talking in. They pointed out this mistake.