Corrected entry: Just before The Sanderson Sisters put the two bullies in the cages, the blonde boy says, "why is it always the ugly girls out late?" In the background you can see a crew member run out and adjust something on the lawn.
Super Grover
31st Oct 2018
Hocus Pocus (1993)
26th Oct 2018
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Corrected entry: Bronson Perry (Hugh Jackman) is giving Eddie a pep talk just before he takes on the 90M jump and Eddie says, "Hugh, it's gonna be all right." (01:36:00)
Correction: The character's name is Bronson Peary, not Perry. Eddie doesn't say, "Hugh" he says, "Peary, it's gonna be all right." There are other instances we hear Eddie say the name "Peary" such as when Bronson is about to leave Eddie's hospital room, earlier in the film.
20th Nov 2017
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Corrected entry: Before Eddie walks out for his 90m jump, Bronson hands him his helmet on which he has just finished inscribing "eagle" in gold permanent marker. When they walk out out of the tunnel to the competition area, Eddie is holding his helmet, and "eagle" has disappeared. (01:22:00 - 01:24:00)
Correction: Look again, it's there. When they walk out of the tunnel Eddie's goggles are around the helmet, and we do indeed see the word "eagle" through the tinted lenses of the goggles.
8th Mar 2005
101 Dalmatians (1961)
Corrected entry: Perdy has a blue collar and Pongo has a red collar. When Roger and Anita fall into the pond, Pongo is pulled in with them, Perdy does not fall in, she is holding on to Anita's torn dress. In the later scene Perdy gets out of the pond and shakes herself off, Pongo is standing there as if he never fell in. (00:09:35)
Correction: It isn't necessary to be shown everything onscreen. Yes, Pongo is in the pond just as Roger takes Anita's hat from Pongo. Then, while we see Roger placing the soaked hat on Anita's head onscreen, it's at this moment offscreen we can safely presume Pongo is walking out of the pond just as Perdita is walking into it to fetch Anita's shoe. So in the next shot onscreen we're shown Pongo is already out as Perdy is now walking out with Anita's shoe in her mouth with a "Hmph!" attitude, punctuated by her shaking the water off her body.
24th Sep 2018
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Corrected entry: T'Pol reminds the Commander, that last time he got too friendly with an alien contact, he ended up carrying a child. Trip became pregnant in S1 E5. (00:15:20)
Correction: The submitter of this mistake was confused since this is submitted for episode 2 "Broken Bow" yet this conversation between T'Pol and Trip occurs in the much later episode "Oasis" which completely nullifies this mistake. Trip dealt with carrying a child in episode 5 "Unexpected" and T'Pol reminds him of it in "Oasis" which is episode 20 (on Netflix it's 19 because 1 and 2 are combined) of season 1. There is no continuity issue with the episodes.
Correction: That exchange occurs in the episode "Oasis", S1, E20.
17th Sep 2018
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Corrected entry: When Hank says "There's no professor here, I told you that", when he says "you that", we can see his lips aren't moving.
Correction: After Wolverine enters Xavier's house Hank stops him, and in a shot facing Hank's back he repeats "There's no professor here, I told..." then it cuts to a shot facing Hank as he finishes saying "you that," and we can indeed see Hank's mouth moving as he says those two words. There is no audio mistake here (timecode 00:30:20).
18th Jan 2007
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Corrected entry: Copper is chasing a white rabbit and turns into a puppy, then back into a dog, for a brief moment. This was on the DVD.
Correction: There are no continuity issues with Copper within this scene. We are shown three different scenes of Amos Slade's winter trip for the hunting season. In the first scene, early in the trip we see Copper is still a small puppy when Chief rescues him from the snow, and in the third scene Copper is a large fully-grown adolescent who is a trained hunting dog. It's during the second hunting trip scene that Copper chases the white rabbit, and at this point Copper still has puppyish behavior as he's growing into an adolescent.
12th Jun 2004
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Corrected entry: We see Boomer the woodpecker peck the end of a tree branch off in an attempt to get the green caterpillar. When the branch falls, Boomer stays in midair for a second, then he falls to the floor. But being a woodpecker, why not just fly from the ground instead of continuing to fall? (00:15:15)
Correction: Seriously? Because that's the whole point. Boomer is a bit of a hokey woodpecker who was taken by surprise and just wasn't thinking.
25th Apr 2014
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Tin Man breaks the flower pot for Lion's crown, the top of the flower pot falls away, forming the spikes on the crown. In the next shot when the Lion is wearing the crown, the base has been cut out to allow room for his head.
Correction: No, the "base" has not "been cut out to allow room for his head" because when Tin Man lifts the flower pot to break it, there is no base at the bottom whatsoever. Tin Man's fingers are gripping the inside bottom of the pot, and we see through the center.
30th Jul 2008
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Corrected entry: In the shot in the bathroom, Tanya has a small diamond necklace but in the next shot in the bedroom the diamond appears larger.
Correction: Tanya's diamond solitaire pendant is never "small" in the bathroom scene, and it's the same large size during the bathroom and bedroom scenes. There are even a couple of nice closeups of the necklace in the bathroom scene, such as when Tanya says, "Donna Sheridan, you shady lady."
12th Aug 2018
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Corrected entry: When everyone goes out of the castle after Fred and George do their prank to be expelled, you can see a cast member hidden behind a pillar in the upper left of the screen. (01:37:20)
Correction: I provided a timecode for this entry, and when I was providing a screenshot I became unconvinced that this person gives any clear indication of being an actual crew member (not "cast member" which means member of the cast). Yes, we see someone who's standing to the side with his arms crossed, wearing a T-shirt and trousers. The problem is that in this shot we see half the students are not wearing their school robes and are dressed casually as well. We also see a Slytherine girl standing behind Harry who has quite a sour look on her face and she's not cheering at Fred and George's antics. So seeing a student stand to the side isn't a dead give-away since logical explanations could be any or all: 1) he's another annoyed Slytherine; 2) he is personally not fond of Fred and George; 3) he's a jealous 7th year who's irritated that Fred and George are leaving and he's not. This person may very well be a crew member, but since there's nothing particularly revealing about him we can't just presume he's a member of the crew. Anyone else have thoughts about this specific person seen in this shot?
23rd Oct 2012
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Corrected entry: At the end of the fight in the ministry of magic, Voldemort is saying to Harry: "You're a fool Harry Potter and you will lose everything". During that moment, you can see someone walking in the window behind Voldemort. (02:03:00)
Correction: No, we do not "see someone walking in the window behind Voldemort" in the background during this shot. The only movement we see are the glistening particles of sand floating in the air in the foreground.
27th Aug 2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Harry, Ron and Hermione have just finished talking to Sirius in the Hogwarts Common Room, wait for the shot to cut to Hermione and watch as the shot moves to look out the window. You can see a pole/microphone as the camera moves. (00:50:45)
Correction: I looked for the "pole/microphone" in both the widescreen and fullscreen versions, but did not see anything unusual at all.
13th Jun 2018
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Corrected entry: At the end the museum burns down to the ground and Barnum and Phillip decide to open up again. However once the new circus is open we see Barnum leave to see his daughter perform in the ballet. But in reality it was over 5 years from when the museum burnt down to when the circus opened. Yet his daughter is the same age.
Correction: Within the movie's storyline, the tented circus opens a short time after the building burns down, despite the fact that "in reality" it was 5 years. This film is not a historical documentary. It's a highly fictionalized story loosely based on a few real people and real events, and as such they're not obligated to be factually accurate, which is a standard accepted movie convention.
23rd Apr 2018
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Corrected entry: At the end when PT hands over his top hat to Philip, Philip has a coat with tails. They disappear during his number. In fact they disappear mid-shot - he runs onstage and they're there when he starts sliding, but disappear in the split second he's behind a woman in a purple dress. (01:34:25)
Correction: This is not a mistake or slip-up of any kind. This shot was cut seamlessly and quite beautifully. It's a rather poignant moment, done creatively to be symbolic of Phillip's new role as the Ringmaster. Phillip rushes to the ring wearing Barnum's top hat and carrying his cane. So as Phillip slides into the ring he's actually sliding into his new role, and his simple old coat with tails transforms into a Ringmaster's elaborate coat. Phillip's new coat has full frontal gold frogging, two gold braid epaulettes, embellished black/gold accented collar and sleeve cuffs, and gold braid trim. This is an artistically brilliant shot, not a mistake at all.
27th Aug 2001
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Corrected entry: When the wedding is taking place, the priest's cross turns upside down for one frame.
Correction: He does not wear a cross, and there is no cross on his clothing. I wanted to provide a screenshot, so in every shot he was visible I went frame-by-frame to see what the submitter could have meant, but found nothing.
8th Aug 2018
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: Near the end, when Hermione leaves Harry to talk to Sirius in the castle, as she moves out of frame you can hear her saying "Don't help me" or something similar, presumably to a cast member. (02:03:45)
Correction: Hermione says, "Down Buckbeak," when she walks out of frame.
Why would she say that?
Buckbeak is playful and could be trying to engage with her which she doesn't want to at that time. It is similar to coming up to an excited dog or horse and saying "down boy" or "easy boy."
8th Sep 2016
Jaws (1975)
Character mistake: Captain Quint tells Hooper and Brody that the USS Indianapolis delivered "the Hiroshima bomb" in 1945. This is a myth that has persisted for decades and right up to the present. To prevent it from being lost in one piece, the Hiroshima bomb was actually delivered in pieces by various means to Tinian Island, where the parts were reassembled before it was carried aboard the Enola Gay to its target in Japan. The USS Indianapolis delivered only the detonator for the bomb. (01:29:00)
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Suggested correction: This isn't a mistake since even you say it is a commonly believed and spoken of myth, so how is the captain repeating a commonly held myth a movie mistake? That would be like calling it a movie mistake if the character of King Arthur said the world was flat.
I agree with Jason, that it was correct for the character of Quint to have truly believed it. This was submitted as a "character mistake" which is appropriate. According to MM's guidelines a character mistake is "something a character wrongly states as fact... Something more significant than a minor error anyone could make."
Suggested correction: Quint likely believed the ship carried the bomb. It's unlikely he would know the details of an intricate plan to deliver the pieces separately. It may not have been factually correct, but it was correct for the character to have believed it.
13th Sep 2003
Apollo 13 (1995)
Corrected entry: In the shot of Fred and Mary Haise at the Apollo 11 lunar landing party Mary is obviously pregnant. Apollo 11 was nine months before Apollo 13 and Mary is supposedly 8 months pregnant at the launch of Apollo 13. She does not have a baby during Apollo 13 and even if she was pregnant during Apollo 11 it would not have showed yet.
Correction: I disagree rather strongly with the statement "Mary is obviously pregnant" during the Apollo 11 lunar landing party at the Lovell house. We see Mary Haise in a few shots wearing her high-waisted white dress, and she does not look pregnant.
18th Jul 2018
Halloween (1978)
Corrected entry: When Laurie goes to the Wallace residence to check on Linda, she enters the living room and a crew member's arm can be seen sticking out from the left wall.
Correction: That's not a crew member's arm, it's Laurie's moving shadow being cast on the wall as she turns twice.
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Correction: You are seeing teenagers picking up and tossing toilet paper while TP-ing the house, none of them are crew members.
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