Best movie factual errors of 2014

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Factual error: Newgate makes a reference to Mickey Finn's name being the same as that of a Chicago bartender who used to drug his patrons with knockout drops. However, the film is set in 1899, but the real Mickey Finn wasn't caught until 1903.

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Factual error: The film is based during the Battle of the Bulge which took place from December 16th 1944 to January 25th 1945. However throughout the entire film the area appears to be mid-summer. No snow in sight. (00:07:50)

Ssiscool

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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: 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: There are actually no dinosaur remains at the British Museum. There used to be, many many years back, but they were removed to the Natural History Museum, which is about 3 miles from the British Museum.

David Dillon

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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.

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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: Roland enters the train to go to the war, in 1914, with "Spanish Flu", but that was the (wrong) name given to the 1918 flu pandemic, which lasted from spring 1918 through spring or early summer 1919.

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Factual error: When Nick, Kurt, and Dale are in Rex's closet, Dale appears to be turning on the gas. What he is turning is actually the screw to secure the regulator onto the gas cylinder. You can see the valve to release the gas at the top end of the cylinder. (00:46:30)

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Factual error: During the Hungnam evacuation scene in December 1950, a U.S. Army Captain is using a radio handset. The model he uses is the H-250, which was introduced in 1987, over 30 years after the Korean War.

Matdan97

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Factual error: The three panzers that ambushed the Hellcats are supposed to be Mk. III's with the 50mm gun, but they only had 5 bogie wheels, instead of 6, and no driver or radio operator's hatches.

goofyfoot

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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: The alien drops the video camera out of the UFO from outer space and it falls to earth landing on the ground. This very far drop would certainly have busted it to pieces, if not ignited it on reentry, but when the guy picks it up off the ground, it appears only the screen is cracked.

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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: 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: Declan takes a gun from his glove compartment and nothing else. I counted that he fired 22 shots before being put down. There is no way that gun had a 22+ round magazine.

toroscan

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Factual error: Ryan Reynolds has an entire trailer of evergreen trees that he is going to plant in the middle of the winter. No landscaper would plant trees at this time because the ground is frozen, and if planted they would die.

observantwatcher

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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: 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: 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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