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2nd Sep 2023

Kick-Ass (2010)

Trivia: When Frank D'Amico and Red Mist assume that their chief bodyguard (called Huge Goon in the movie's credits) has finished Hit-Girl, Frank calls for him with the name "Stu," the actor's real name. Not necessarily a mistake, given the bodyguard is otherwise unnamed.

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Factual error: The Siege of Syracuse occurred in 212 BC, during the Second Punic War, when Rome was still a republic. Some of the equipment the Romans are using in the movie, however, particularly their swords and helmets, are replicas of weapons dating to the later Imperial era.

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Revealing mistake: In a brief shot during the Hong Kong harbor car chase, just before Douvier's limo crashes into some fishing boats at the quay, a flexible rope can be seen connecting the car with the Hong Kong Police vehicle. (01:30:31)

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Revealing mistake: When Sonic and Tails arrive in Green Hills on the biplane, Tom and Maddie are looking up at them, but not focused on the same point. Instead, Maddie is looking to the left, and Tom to the right.

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27th Oct 2021

The Longest Day (1962)

Character mistake: When Rommel leaves his French headquarters for Germany on June 5th for his wife's birthday on the next day, he erroneously states that date as July 6th, not June.

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Suggested correction: He says 6th of June. He says it in German so it's "sechster Juni" which sounds like July.

lionhead

I happen to be German, and I can easily distinguish that the actor uses an "L" instead of an "N" when he says the month's name.

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Despite being German you can still hear it wrongly. He says Juni to me. And I might not be German but my German is pretty decent.

lionhead

He still pronounces the month with a clear "L", not an "N."

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28th Jan 2021

Out of Reach (2004)

Continuity mistake: During the showdown's sword fight between Lansing and Faisal in the palace hall, there is a far-off shot in which the blade of Lansing's sword can just barely be seen bending off at an unnatural angle, revealing it as a prop. For the rest of the duel, the sword is shown intact. (01:16:44)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Indiana is confronted by the Cairo swordsman, he already has his left shoulder pointing towards his opponent in the shot where the crowd scatters. But in the following shot, where the swordsman is first seen, Indiana has his right shoulder pointing forward and is just turning around to his left side. (00:40:14)

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Revealing mistake: The rattlesnake Hogan kills in the mission's ruin is fake: Its frontal part moves unnaturally stiffly, and its tongue does not flicker. (00:16:40)

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27th Dec 2018

The Alamo (1960)

Visible crew/equipment: During the initial phase of the final assault, a row of men with their backs to the camera is shown. One of these men (right of the center, with a bandaged head) is actually a dummy positioned at the spot where the wall is blasted a few seconds later. (02:29:35)

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10th Mar 2018

Twin Dragons (1992)

Revealing mistake: During the standoff scene in the shipyard, Crazy Kung drops Tarzan (Tyson) from a magnet crane before reactivating the electromagnet, hoisting him up again. At the points where Tarzan starts dropping and where his fall is halted, you see a hole in the electromagnet and wires connected to the actor's back. (01:06:35)

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Factual error: At the end of the fight between Pai Chang Tien (the Old Man) and Shu Chin (the fan-wielder), Pai catches his opponent with his pipe on the larynx and strangles him to death. In his death-throes Shu Chin groans until he dies; but with a piece of wood pressing down on his windpipe, he realistically wouldn't be able to make such a pronounced sound. (01:19:10)

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6th Nov 2016

Airplane (1980)

Trivia: The coffee scene with the two children is a parody of a similar scene from the 1958 film Crash Landing.

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7th Jun 2016

Police Academy (1984)

Revealing mistake: When Mahoney first meets Larvelle Jones at the police precinct, Jones demonstrates his vocal imitation skills by simulating machine gun fire. In the shot with the unwitting crowd, look at the police man to the far left talking to the lady with the hat. That officer ducks down a split second before Jones lets loose with his gunfire sound.

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Trivia: The movie's plot was largely adapted for the episode "A Chinatown Ghost Story" of the 2012 CGI series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with James Hong reprising his role as the main antagonist Ho Chan (who is patterned after Lo Pan) and with appearances by the Storms Thunder and Lightning (Rain being replaced by an entity named Wind).

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Trivia: When King Théoden rallies his men before the first charge into the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, he rides along the first rank of his army brushing their lances with his sword. This scene was apparently inspired by the Japanese historic drama Kagemusha (1980), where the titular character performs a similar feat before he unceremoniously falls off his horse.

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14th Jul 2014

Commando (1985)

Revealing mistake: When Matrix reaches Arius' mansion (in actuality the Harold Lloyd Estate), he is rushed at by several soldiers of Arius' private army and starts shooting at them with his RPK. In one shot from Matrix's rear we can see him shooting four soldiers at the same time. However, the two soldiers on the far left drop dead even though Matrix is aiming his weapon to the right. (01:11:40)

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Revealing mistake: When Jake reactivates the old biplane at Daley's Airport and Wilson mounts it as it takes off to pursue Olympus, you can see the wires from which the skeletal plane is hanging. (01:29:20)

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10th Jun 2014

Them! (1954)

Factual error: Grandpa Johnson's .30-30 Winchester rifle was apparently bent by the giant ants during their attack on his store. But as we can see later, the ants' mandibles are too thin and too curved to provide enough gripping and leverage area for bending a metal rifle barrel that severely.

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Suggested correction: Impossible. When Ben Peterson is killed near the film's end, you can see that the ant's mandibles leave too much space even as they clamp shut. And their slender form is made for grabbing bites, not sturdy enough for crushing jobs.

That's just what I was talking about, if not quite correctly worded.

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29th May 2014

Them! (1954)

Factual error: In order to keep the giant ants inside the New Mexico nest, the protagonists bombard the entrance hole with phosphorus shells. Phosphorus burns at an average temperature of 5,000° Farenheit. At this temperature, the heat from the shells should have fused the sand around the entrance hole to glass (the threshold for this process is about 4,200° Farenheit), yet the sand remains unchanged.

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22nd May 2014

Thunderball (1965)

Trivia: When the blackout hits Palmyra, a henchman of Largo's can be heard shouting something. The sentence is in German and says: "Go to Mr. Largo! Tell him the lights are all broken!" (01:17:00)

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