Best movie factual errors of 2014

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Factual error: They travel on a Boeing 777 to Amsterdam. The shots in the airplane are in a much smaller cabin (3 seats/aisle/3 seats). The 777 seating in economy class is 9 or 10 seats across, with two aisles. (01:29:00 - 01:30:00)

Igor Wieler

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Factual error: In the scene where Katniss is being asked to make the first scripted propaganda video, they ask for wind machines to be turned on for effect. The blades on these fans start turning the wrong way (onto suck, not blow).

Tim Johnson

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Factual error: In the third scene, where the woman is being dragged away, you can see the incisions from breast enlargement surgery at the bottom of her breasts, hardly fitting the time period. (00:01:25)

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Factual error: After Batman hits the Manbats with his sonar batterangs and they go nuts trying to escape the sound, some begin chewing at the glass separating them from the ocean in their desperation. This is in the under workings of an oil rig out in the ocean. Hundreds of pounds of pressure is on that glass. The Manbats chew through the glass, and then the water begins rushing in. All logic and laws of physics dictate that the Manbats would be pushed back, down into the oil rig further as water rushes in. However, as the water begins pouring in, 3 Manbats are somehow pushed out of the hole into the water, and are sitting still, long enough for a shark to grab one. Even if they did somehow manage to get out like that despite physics, the water rushing in the hole would have caused a vacuum and sucked them right back in. Yet they remain perfectly still in the water, only a couple feet or so away from the hole they just made.

Quantom X

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Factual error: Scarlett and George use the Rose Key to translate the inscription on the back of Flamel's ancient tombstone, and it translates into a rhyming English lyric puzzle. Problem is, they are translating this lyric puzzle from Aramaic (an ancient and virtually dead Middle Eastern language) to modern English. Aramaic would not and could not translate into rhyming modern English.

Charles Austin Miller

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Factual error: The scene in front of the Sphinx shows the Sphinx without a nose. The nose was not missing until much later - most likely due to vandalism in AD 1378. (The story about Napoleon's soldiers shooting it off is untrue - sketches made in 1738 and published in 1757 show the nose was already missing, long before Napoleon's time).

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Factual error: Though Maverick describes the helicopter he flies when he picks up the Mustang in Utah as an Apache, it is not one. The Apache is an attack helicopter, while the one flown is a cargo model discontinued in the 1970s. Furthermore, the livery of the aircraft has not been used by the Army for decades. Further still, the jets which intercept Maverick fly so close to the helicopter that their wake turbulence should have caused it to crash. A really heinous scene overall.

Texijapi

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Factual error: The first kill in the movie - the king who is dead - has rubber soled boots with modern treads.

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Factual error: Set back in 2004, there is a scene where Shapelle and her friends are looking at an accommodation website. If you look closely at the laptop screen, you can see that they are using the Google Chrome browser, however the first release of Google Chrome wasn't until September 2008. (00:06:30)

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Factual error: Near the end of the helicopter scene Jenko pulls the pin of a grenade with his teeth before he throws it. It is not possible to pull a grenade pin with your teeth as it requires more force than that.

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Factual error: When Joseph Gordon-Levitt is playing poker, they are using Morgan style silver dollars. The stacks of dollars are treated as $100 dollars. But a Morgan dollar is 2.4 mm thick, a hundred dollars would be 9 .44 inches high and the stacks of coins were about half of that. (00:11:00 - 00:12:00)

Frov

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Factual error: In the scene where James Brown receives a new Cadillac from his manager, the scene is marked by a 1965 timeline header, but the Cadillac is actually a 1967 model.

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Factual error: After the introduction, there's a scene supposedly happening near Lausanne on the Lake Geneva, but in fact it's altogether the wrong canton, Ticino and most likely Laggio Majore, a couple of hundred kilometers away. (00:06:00)

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Factual error: When they torch the car by the docks, supposed to be about 15 years in the past, there is a US Navy Independence-class ship in the background, but the first of these was only launched in 2008, at least 9 years after the scene was supposed to depict. (00:35:00)

Josh Baumgartner

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Factual error: In a classroom scene, Mia takes her phone out and checks Instagram. It can be seen that she is on the network "Koodo" - a Canadian mobile operator. The movie takes place in Portland, but is filmed in Vancouver. (01:00:10)

Josso

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Factual error: The streak ended in '04, but at the beginning of the movie the seniors talking about their last game have letter jackets with the year '05 on the sleeve.

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Factual error: A scene shows a 1980's Ford Crown Victoria with New Jersey license plates. They start with QQ which means it's registered as a historic vehicle which means it has to be at least 25 years old. The film is set in 1999.

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Factual error: Just like in the previous movie, Herzog is referred to as "colonel", in particular in the WWII museum where Martin reads about his history. But both in the museum's picture of him, and throughout the movie, Herzog is wearing the uniform of a SS Standartenführer. To hold a title of Oberst (colonel), he would have been a member of the Wehrmacht, regular army, not SS.

Twotall

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Factual error: The British Major is wearing a RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) cap badge (incorrectly mounted). Really, not a British Army Corps known for their sniping skills.

MedicOne

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Factual error: In the scene in the basement during the storm Dale is running the projector on house electricity. The lights go out and he switches to a battery which must be 12 volt. He runs the projector on that current, which is impossible.

aftucci

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