Corrected entry: For an alleged spectator sport, the Triwizard Tournament is remarkably unfriendly to spectators, with the First Task the only one of the three in which they are able to witness the action going on (since the second task takes place at the bottom of the school lake and the third in an overgrown maze of hedges). Watching the three tasks is presumably the whole point of the tournament, and the justification for cancelling an entire year of Quidditch, a much more spectator-friendly game.
Cubs Fan
12th Dec 2014
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
21st Sep 2005
The Great Escape (1963)
Corrected entry: Most of the film is based on true events. The only fabricated events were the Fourth of July celebration, the motorcycle scenes (which were added at the request of Steve McQueen), and the theft of a German airplane by Hendley and Blythe.
Correction: ARE YOU KIDDING? This film is fiction, almost from start to finish. There were no Americans in Stalag Luft III at the time of the escape. The fifty murdered escapees were shot in small, isolated batches, not taken into a muddy field and machine gunned, and the murders were carried out by the Gestapo - civilians - not uniformed troops. The three successful escapees were Norwegian and Dutch - no New Zealand or other Allied servicemen made it out. Need I go on? This film, entertaining though it is, is full of "fabricated events"!
Respectfully disagree. My father was a B-17 pilot who was shot down and went to Stalag Luft Three with many other American prisoners. (he wore dirt suspenders and dropped the dirt in gardens as seen in the movie). He was in the camp for two years. I have, and read, his POW diary. I'll grant the Mcqueen motorcycle chase was questionable wanna be drama. But, there were three tunnels and our POWs were "shot by the Goons." (his quote).
All Americans were transferred to a different compound before the escape. There were none in the escape.
Correction: Though some were involved in the initial planning and of the escape and the start of the excavation of the tunnels, the last American POW was transferred out of Luft Stalag III seven months before the night of the escape. There were no escapes by motorcycle (and certainly not by a 1960 Triumph 650) or by stolen aircraft and the escape took place in heavy snow. There were no British, Polish, or Australian/New Zealander (hard to tell from that shonky accent) escapees. They were Norwegian - Jens Müller and Per Bergsland - and Dutch - Bram van der Stok. The fifty murdered escapees were shot in ones and twos, not in a single group, and they were murdered by the Gestapo, not the German military. The film omits the involvement of the Canadian prisoners (there were hundreds)... and... like I said, why go on?
24th May 2011
JAG (1995)
Corrected entry: When Lt. Carter is relieved of duty, and threatens to throw Kate off the ship, Bud refers to Carter as "Sergeant" instead of "Lieutenant".
Correction: Bud doesn't refer to Lt. Carter. He refers to the marine sergeant.
24th Aug 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Corrected entry: When Harry stuns Umbridge and Yaxley in the courtroom, he "whirls around" to see dementors approaching Mrs. Cattermole. But Harry was already facing her, having been seated behind Umbridge, Yaxley, and Hermione.
Correction: The dementors are behind Harry and are also facing Mrs. Cattermole. When he turns around to face them he turns his back on her.
18th Jun 2014
Maleficent (2014)
Corrected entry: When Aurora tells Knotgrass, Flittle, and Thistlewit that she is moving out of the cottage, the blue flour that Flittle threw into Knotgrass's face a few moments earlier vanishes almost instantaneously.
7th Jul 2008
Get Smart (2008)
Corrected entry: The photo of Agent 99 before her surgery is of Barbara Feldon, who played 99 in the TV series.
Correction: The girl in the photograph is Crystal Allen.
15th May 2009
Fringe (2008)
Corrected entry: Peter tells Olivia that the brain-melting computer program is being downloaded at her apartment "right now", which suggests a computer is already on and the program is running. But the next scene is Olivia's niece Ella turning her computer on for the first time.
Correction: There's no evidence that the two shots are sequential. It's not a continuity error, the scene in Olivia's apartment just doesn't begin after the scene where Olivia talks to Peter, it starts just before.
21st Jul 2013
Once Upon a Time (2011)
The Thing You Love Most - S1-E2
Corrected entry: Emma is evicted from Granny's inn because of a 'no felons' policy. But since Emma was only arrested, and not convicted, she's not a felon.
Correction: Granny wasn't talking about her being a felon because of getting arrested in Storybrook, Emma was arrested and convicted as a felon roughly 11 years ago.
30th Sep 2011
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Corrected entry: When Steve arrives in Hawaii and is waiting for the Governor, he is not wearing his cover, later replacing it when he ends the meeting. Members of the military always wear their covers while outside. They only remove them upon entering a building.
Correction: The Governor met McGarrett at the Arizona Memorial Site at Pearl Harbour, as Steve says in order to sway him emotionally. This memorial is also the grave of his grandfather. Therefore, Steve McGarrett has every reason to be uncovered here, as it is a military memorial and his grandfather's grave.
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Correction: For one thing, at no point is it ever stated to any degree that the Triwizard Tournament is a spectator sport. Quidditch is cancelled so the champions can focus on the tournament instead of the Quidditch season, and so the maze can be grown on the pitch. For another, the audience for the third task is sitting in bleachers a hundred feet up; they can see everything just fine.
Phixius ★
If they could see everything in the maze, Moody would have been caught helping, Krum would have been arrested for using unforgivable curses and everybody would have freaked when Harry and Cedric disappeared for a few hours.
This is quite a good plot hole IMHO. They ship several years' worth of students from two schools to Hogwarts for the Tournament and cancel Quiddich etc. for everyone, for the purposes of the tournament. It's not like they share classes or anything - the Ball and that's about it. If not a spectator sport - and what sport isn't? - why not just send the champions off by themselves and not disrupt anyone else. And why have the crowds at the lake, staring at the surface of the lake for hour?
It's not a sport. It's a brutal competition between the 3 best students of 3 schools. All year around the students of 1 year of the other 2 schools are at Hogwarts and the tournament is going on. There are still classes, since only 3 students are supposed to participate anyway but if they don't allow students to go watch the 3 tasks when they happen they'd probably refuse to follow classes and riot. So they let them watch, even though they can't see anything of it.
lionhead