Trivia: Linda Hamilton says to Nolan and Irisa "Come with me if you want to live." This is the exact same line Arnold Schwarzenegger says to Linda Hamilton in the movie The Terminator.
Tricia Webster
15th Jul 2015
Defiance (2013)
6th Jul 2015
Inside Out (2015)
Trivia: John Ratzenberger has been in every Pixar movie to date and here plays the role of the character Fritz, who is is a greenish Mind Worker with a mustache and no hair who installs an upgraded console in Headquarters when Riley turns 12.
25th May 2015
Once Upon a Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Mary Margaret gets thrown by the Lily dragon into a rock, her blood smear on her head is large and messy. They cut away and cut back to her quickly and it is nice and neat with two blood drop lines slowly forming away from the cut. (00:44:00)
2nd Feb 2015
American Horror Story (2011)
Trivia: They pay homage to the original 1932 movie Freaks. In Freaks, Cleopatra gets mutilated and turned into a tarred and feathered bird for visitors to gawk at in terror. Hercules gets viciously attacked under the carnival vehicle. In this episode, Stanley gets cornered by all the freaks under the carnival vehicle and gets viciously attacked and mutilated to resemble Meep (a feathered freak who was killed by the cops in an earlier episode).
29th Jan 2015
The Wedding Ringer (2015)
Trivia: At the very end of the movie when Jorge Garcia says "I don't have a good feeling about this", it is in reference to his TV series "Lost" where he is in a plane crash.
28th Aug 2014
True Blood (2008)
Trivia: The person running the TV boards at the very end is Charlaine Harris, the author of the True Blood Sookie Stackhouse series.
8th Aug 2014
Extant (2014)
Continuity mistake: Quinn is having a meal with Ethan at a restaurant. The position of Ethan's fork keeps changing to facing him to facing away from him. He has not touched the fork to eat the pie. (00:31:00)
8th Aug 2014
Let's Be Cops (2014)
Trivia: Stay for the outtakes after the film.
29th Apr 2014
Two and a Half Men (2003)
Trivia: While they are playing Pictionary/drawing Larry yells out Duckie from "Pretty in Pink" to Lindsey, and Alan looks confused. Jon Cryer, who plays Alan, played Duckie in "Pretty in Pink".
6th Jan 2014
Modern Family (2009)
Continuity mistake: Mitchell places his glass trophy on the left side of the mantel. The award moves to the center of the mantel just a few seconds later.
11th Dec 2013
Frozen (2013)
9th Nov 2013
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Trivia: Stay during the credits for a scene part way through and another one at the end.
3rd Jul 2013
Perception (2012)
Alienation - S2-E2
Trivia: Pierce and Moretti are questioning a woman at her front door. The doorbell chime is the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Fittingly, she thinks her husband was abducted by aliens.
24th May 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
17th Nov 2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Other mistake: Neither Edward nor Bella are sparkling at the very end of the movie in the sunny scene in the meadow of purple flowers, as the vampires are supposed to. (01:40:00)
6th Nov 2012
Flight (2012)
Question: Can inverting a plane completely upside down and then turning it 180 degrees truly keep it from going down in a sharp nosedive and "gliding" to safety? Seems rather far-fetched but made for a very interesting exciting movie focal point.
13th Aug 2012
Leverage (2008)
Trivia: In Season 5 Episode 3 titled "The First Contact Job", Elliot tells the scheming scientist James Kanack (a guy who is trying to locate alien signals and have them contact him) that his name was Will Ryker. Will Ryker is the name of the First Officer in Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by Jonathan Frakes, who directed this episode.
26th Jun 2012
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Trivia: In the scene where Hagrid has dropped a "dead" Harry Potter, look quickly at George. He turns his head to the right and yells "Fred!" Fred has already been killed by Bellatrix Lestrange so it seems he may have forgotten this in a moment of grief.
13th Mar 2012
Once Upon a Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: Leroy is walking by and Astrid she accidentally dumps glitter on his head. She wipes his face off; he has glitter on his moustache. It disappears. The camera pans back to him and there is glitter on his moustache again.
22nd Feb 2012
Once Upon a Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: Belle is talking to Rumplestiltskin and sitting on his dining room table. The red rose in the vase he gave her keeps moving. It is leaning to the right, to straight up, then to leaning to the right again. Neither of them touch it, so it should not be shifting around.
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Chosen answer: Popular mechanics wrote an article covering this. In short, inverting a passenger jet is certainly doable, but the specific chain of events seen in the film are more of a stretch. Possible, but...challenging, to say the least!
Jon Sandys ★