Corrected entry: General Hoyt is shown as a five star General, and he makes reference to it. However, this rank did not exist in 1962. The last person to hold this rank was Omar Bradley in 1950.
wizard_of_gore
1st Feb 2018
The Shape of Water (2017)
11th Jan 2018
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Corrected entry: Peter Quill uses an old Mattel electronic football game that he has modified to be some sort of tracking/radar device. Where did he get it? When he was abducted, all he has was his Walkman and mix tapes. Not only that, but with access to advanced technology, why would he even need such a device?
Correction: You know, just because Starlord does some crazy stuff to a device to make it do something else than it was originally intended for without it actually making sense does not make it a plot hole. He just made the decision to do that, and it was possible to do it. Its not a mistake at all. He also could have gotten the device from anywhere, he's been around. Some other aliens could have stolen things from Earth and he bought it from them (or stole it).
Or he had it in his backpack at the time when he was abducted, since he did have a backpack.
11th Jan 2018
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Corrected entry: Before he dies, Taserface sends the Sovereign the coordinates for Yondu's ship before the bulk of it explodes. But, they then do over 700 jumps to get to Ego's planet. How could the Sovereign possibly track them there?
Correction: They had the coordinates for the ship, so presumably they could lock on and track it or be able to find it with deep-space scans.
11th Jan 2018
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Corrected entry: The Sovereign Priestess states that the Guardians were hired to kill the monster at the beginning of the film because they "could not risk the lives of their own", but later, it's shown that they pilot all of their ships remotely, thereby not risking any of their own lives.
Correction: The plan to kill the Abilisk did not involve using ships. It involved people on the ground fighting it. This would have put their people at risk.
21st Dec 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Corrected entry: During the bombing run on the Dreadnaught, Paige is on her back, kicking to try to get the bomb bay door trigger to fall down to her. When it finally does, and her arm shoots out to grab it, it is clear that she is now on her stomach, despite having no time to flip over. (About a second of time passes from when the trigger falls to when she grabs it).
Correction: You can roll over in less than a second.
Correction: In a life-or-death situation, and with heroic effort, she managed to roll over and make the saving catch just in the nick time-a heroic trope, sure, but potentially possible.
Correction: The trigger is falling in slow motion when she grabs it, giving her enough time to roll over onto her stomach.
18th Dec 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the film, when Angel dumps Charles into the meat grinder in Poppy's Diner, there should have been bits of bone and clothing in the ground meat that comes out.
Correction: If you watch closely, shredded clothes are ejected from a separate part of the machine.
27th Jul 2017
Wonder Woman (2017)
Corrected entry: When Diana and Steve sail from Themyscira to London, the sails on the boat just hang there, indicating that there is no wind. Sailboats need wind to move and the sails need periodic adjustment depending on from which direction the wind is coming.
Correction: In the sequence at night there's no wind, but nor are they moving much - that's sailing for you - if there's no wind you just need to wait and hope. After another scene we then see them arriving in London, with a taught rope off the bow, a steamboat in front clearly towing them, and Steve says "we got lucky, we caught a ride and made some good time".
Correction: The sailboat is attached to a steamship or similar in front. That's why Steve said they made some good time.
I just watched the film again. There is no steamship. Where would it have come from?
As they sail into London they're being towed by a steamship.
21st Nov 2017
Justice League (2017)
Corrected entry: Spoiler: At the end of the film, Clark Kent gets his old home back, and he's shown walking the streets of Metropolis. It's one thing for Superman, an alien to "come back from the dead", but Clark Kent had an obituary, funeral and a tombstone. How is his resurrection explained away?
Correction: This isn't a mistake since we haven't been told he reentered society as Clark Kent, just shown that he is back in Metropolis. The sequels will need to explain his return, or alternatively, his creation of a new life and persona. Mostly likely they will claim the dead body that was buried was misidentified, but that plot device needs to wait for a future movie.
9th Nov 2017
The Walking Dead (2010)
Corrected entry: In Season 6, it is revealed that Maggie is pregnant. In Season 8, she's not even showing, suggesting that not much time has passed, but in that time, Judith has grown from an infant into a toddler.
9th Nov 2016
The Flash (2014)
Fast Enough - S1-E23
Corrected entry: At one point near the end of the episode, Professor Stein says to Barry, "That event has an energy level of at least 6.7 teraelectron volts. It cannot be stopped." One TeV is a measurement used in particle physics and is a very small amount of energy, approximately that of a very small flying insect. Hardly a proper measurement for a huge, catastrophic event.
Correction: Teraelectron volts measure particle energies, or their acceleration. The power comes from the amount of space the energy is squeezed into. The Large Hadron Collider accelerated protons to 1.18 teraelectron volts, so not much more than a mosquito, but a trillion times smaller than a mosquito, so quite powerful. The energy reading from Stein is over 5.6 times more than the world's most powerful superconducting proton synchrotron, and it's crammed into a very small space, making it nearly unstoppable.
5th Sep 2007
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Corrected entry: When the landing party is on the planet, where they find B4, everyone and everything casts a shadow, except for the shuttle, giving away that it's CGI.
Correction: The shadow is visible to the left of the path which the vehicle that Picard, Worf, and Data are driving. (Since the shuttle is not touching the ground, its shadow will not be touching it).
27th Jul 2017
Wonder Woman (2017)
Corrected entry: Both Diana and Steve go to sleep on the sailboat at the same time. Who is making sure that they stay on course? Navigating a sailboat is vastly different than a power boat, which is why someone is always "on watch" to make sure the boat stays on course. If they're both asleep they could end up anywhere.
10th Aug 2017
Wonder Woman (2017)
Corrected entry: Steve Trevor flies into the German occupation on a German plane and without any sort of identification or documentation or other proof, they all just believe he is one of them and trust him without hesitation.
Correction: We never see him hand over documentation, but he is an embedded spy, it's highly likely that there were forged papers there. Now, even if there weren't any, documentation was far less rigorous back in 1918 then it is today. Flying in on a German plane well behind the front probably would be enough to not raise eyebrows.
27th Jul 2017
Wonder Woman (2017)
Corrected entry: If the "cloaking" dome over Themyscira can be penetrated seemingly by anyone, how is it remotely possible that no one had found it before Steve Trevor?
Correction: Themyscira has been around for thousands of years, protected by the dome. Travel was much more difficult in the centuries before World War One. Steve Trevor needed a plane to get there.
1st Aug 2016
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Corrected entry: During the first battle with Krall's forces, Kirk orders Sulu to "Warp us out of here." The navigational deflector had just been destroyed, so they cannot go to warp speed. The deflector dish prevents tiny particles from destroying the ship at ward speeds.
Correction: This is not a plot hole but a character error. By this point, the drones had been causing damage everywhere on the ship, so damage would not have been easy to track. Plus, Kirk was under immense stress and may not have been fully conscious of the ramifications of losing the deflector. Most importantly, Kirk was trying to get away as quickly as possible. He didn't know if the drones were warp-capable, so warping away in spite of losing the deflector was a necessary risk.
27th Dec 2006
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when Santa's sleigh is stopped over the house, Lucy waves to Comet, who is suddenly on the back of the sleigh, when he wasn't there in the previous shot.
Correction: In the previous shot you can definitely see Comet in the back of the sleigh. You even see his antlers sticking up, behind Santa.
17th Aug 2007
Summer of Sam (1999)
Corrected entry: In one scene there is a POW/MIA flag being flown on a building. This type of POW flag was not flown regularly during this time period. It was first flown on National POW/MIA Recognition Day in 1988.
Correction: The POW/MIA flag flew over the White House in 1982, and was designed (and flown) from 1971. At first it was meant for small groups of people, so it's reasonable to say by 1977 someone in New York had a POW/MIA flag for personal reasons.
28th Sep 2014
Ender's Game (2013)
Corrected entry: At one point, Colonel Graff states that Napoleon "conquered the known world." This is far from true. The British had a sprawling empire, and there were many independent nations that were "known" at the time.
24th Oct 2006
Airwolf (1984)
Airwolf (a.k.a. Shadow of the Hawke) - S1-E1
Corrected entry: Dominic has never flown in Airwolf, and is unfamiliar with the controls, yet when they land in the desert to rescue Gabrielle, he knows exactly where the canteen is stored, and even tells Stringfellow where it is.
Correction: Hawke (who runs ahead to Gabrielle's body lying in the sand) shouts back to Dominic (who's still clambering out of the back of Airwolf) to "get the canteen in the left storage bin".
19th Sep 2006
Ben-Hur (1959)
Corrected entry: There is a Holstein cow in the manger scene near the beginning of the movie. Holsteins were created through cross-breeding in Germany in the 19th century, so its appearance at Jesus' birth is impossible.
Correction: The Holstein breed is in fact over 2,000 years old and originated in parts of the world that would become the Netherlands. It is very conceivable that since dairy cattle were so in demand that a few cunning merchants could easily have traded for these cattle.
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Correction: The rank of General of the Army (5-Star general) still exists, it's simply that no one has been given that rank since General Bradley. But as a fictitious character, there is nothing wrong with General Hoyt obtaining the rank simply because no one else has. Though some may say the rank was retired in the 80's after Bradley's death, there have been a few who were considered for the rank in modern times, such as Powell and Schwarzkopf.
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