Corrected entry: At the beginning when Bud is in the liquor store, and he first talks to Lynn, you see an overhead mic at the top of the screen. The next fee shots are from different angles or with the camera pulled away, but just before he leaves, they go back to the same scene between Bud and Lynn and the mic is there again as he says goodbye.
kaevanoff
12th May 2023
La Confidential (1997)
5th Jan 2021
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Corrected entry: At the senate hearing, in Michael's statement he says he was in the Navy. Towards the movie end during a flashback at the dining room table, Michael tells Sonny he joined the Marines.
Correction: The US Marines are part of the Navy.
30th Nov 2020
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Corrected entry: This could be an error done on purpose to simplify the audience understanding. When the Russian Alpha fires on the Red October towards the movie's end, the torpedo's course is stated as 315. Ramius then tells Ryan to steer the sub to a course of 315 to head into the torpedo. That's wrong. If the torpedo were on a bearing of 315, the sub would need to be on a bearing of 135 to be heading directly into it.
Correction: The torpedo fired at Red October is reported at bearing 315. Then Red October seers a course of 315. That is accurate to set a collision course with the torpedo.
How? Both objects would then be on a heading of 315 thereby going in the same direction, not heading into each other. If the torpedo was traveling on a bearing of 315, the reciprocal heading would be 180° opposite, or 135.
When they detect the torpedo the Russian says there is a torpedo in the water bearing 315, meaning the torpedo is 315° from them, not that its course is 315. Ramius then orders the sub to head in the direction of 315 which is the direction they detected the torpedo as coming from.
The torpedo's bearing is 315 from the sub's position, but has a COURSE of 135, towards the sub.
31st Aug 2020
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Corrected entry: When Dunbar is leaving for his assignment, the officer holds a gun to his head to commit suicide. He's facing the camera with the gun screen left and a window screen right. If he shoots himself in the head from that position as implied, the bullet would have gone through his head and blown out the window, which the viewer sees intact after the shot when Dunbar looks back at the sound.
Correction: The bullet could easily have ricocheted off either side of his skull and gone another direction.
15th Mar 2019
The Patriot (2000)
Corrected entry: When Benjamin Martin meets with Cornwallis about the prisoner exchange and brings the dogs in (Great Danes or otherwise), Cornwallis refers to them as "boys." The black dog is female.
Correction: "Boy" for dogs is gender neutral. A lot of owners of female dogs call it a boy. Certainly with 2 dogs you'd never say "come boy and girl."
I have 3 dogs, 1 male, 2 female. No one in the family calls them boys. Sorry but I don't buy that explanation. I think it was just a miss.
1 example, an example where the females are the majority. Not really a good example I'd say. Again, "boys" is gender neutral. Also, he says it once, just once. Are you saying it is not possible for someone to call a male and female dog "boys"? It's not a movie mistake.
It is entirely possible that the film-makers chose to have a female dog play a male dog. For example, in the TV show Lassie, Lassie is played by a male collie even though it is well-established that Lassie is a female. A more recent example is the reverse, where on the CBS show Seal Team, there is a dog on there named Cerberus who is male, but is in fact played by a female named Dita.
It should be noted that people have submitted mistakes for the wrong sexed animal being used (i.e. a male dog playing a female). But really to be considered a character mistake, it would have to be out of character for the person calling a female (or male) animal "boy" (or "girl"). Calling a male and female dog "boys" doesn't seem out of character enough to be a mistake.
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Correction: Please rewatch the scene (time 00:09:05 and 00:09:23). It's not an "overhead mic at the top of the screen" in those two shots. What you see is the dark image of a pipe tobacco pack on the white background of a metal sign, attached to the liquor shelves. The sign reads "Cool Mild 10¢" with lower part of a pipe tobacco pack. The vintage sign is for "Granger Rough Cut Pipe Tobacco" from Liggett and Myers Tobacco. Here's an identical sign: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vtg-granger-rough-cut-pipe-tobacco-440971789.
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