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1st Feb 2024

The Holdovers (2023)

1st Feb 2024

The Holdovers (2023)

Factual error: When Angus and Mr. Hunham go to the liquor store, the sign on the door shows that they are open on Sundays. In 1970, Massachusetts still had blue laws in effect, and a liquor store would not have been open on a Sunday.

wizard_of_gore

27th Jan 2024

Barbie (2023)

Factual error: Gloria's vehicle is a Chevrolet Blazer SS EV, but during the chase scene, her supposedly electric vehicle makes sounds like a normal gas engine.

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23rd Dec 2023

Napoleon (2023)

Factual error: It is highly unlikely that Napoleon's mother, Letizia, staged a sexual encounter between him and a young woman to prove that he could have children. There was no need for such an experiment, since Napoleon had already fathered several illegitimate children, indicating that it was Josephine who was infertile.

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23rd Dec 2023

Napoleon (2023)

Factual error: Marie Antoinette was not executed at Le Palais des Tuileries, as shown in the film, but rather at Place de la Concorde (formerly Place de la Révolution). Also, Napoleon did not witness the execution; he was on garrison duty in southern France at the time.

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18th Dec 2023

Napoleon (2023)

13th Aug 2023

Oppenheimer (2023)

Factual error: In the film, when Oppenheimer receives the Enrico Fermi award in 1963, Edward Lawrence congratulates him by patting him on the shoulder. Lawrence died in 1958 and could not have been there.

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7th Aug 2023

Oppenheimer (2023)

Factual error: No one would have used the phrase "black hole" in 1939. The term "black hole" was first used in 1963 in "Life" and "Science News" and by Ann Ewing in an article in January of 1964. Princeton physicist John Wheeler popularised the term.

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Suggested correction: Nobody uses the term "black hole" in the movie, only the term "dark star". Oppenheimer once refers to it as a hole in space, but not a black hole.

lionhead

When Oppenheimer walks into the room of cheering people (after he says he'll be in Pasadena), someone says "paper on black holes, it's in!"

Bishop73

Ah, yes, I see. I wonder, though, if it's really that unlikely someone would call it a black hole before it was popularized? It is essentially what they are. Certainly, it's possible somebody before 1963 called it that without it ending up in a paper. Just a coincidence, then.

lionhead

7th Aug 2023

Oppenheimer (2023)

Factual error: When Edward Teller proposed that a fission explosion might ignite the atmosphere in an uncontrollable chain reaction, Oppenheimer did not go to New Jersey to consult with Einstein. He actually went to Michigan to consult with experimentalist Arthur H. Compton.

wizard_of_gore

4th Aug 2023

Oppenheimer (2023)

Factual error: The real Edward Teller walked with a pronounced limp due to his right foot being almost entirely severed in a streetcar accident in 1928. In the film, he walks normally.

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Factual error: The Orient Express is not powered with steam locomotives by any of the respective state railways. All of them are diesel or electric.

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11th Jul 2023

Hellraiser (2022)

Factual error: During the storage unit robbery in the beginning of the film, simply knocking the combination dial off the safe would not have caused the bolts to suddenly retract. It would defeat the entire purpose of having a combination lock. Even inexpensive safes have mechanisms to prevent this from happening.

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Factual error: All of the police cars in New York City are painted in a blue and white livery, but until 1973, NYPD cars were painted black, white, and green.

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Factual error: Basil Shaw is British, but the dates in his notes about the Antikythera are all written in American format (MM-DD-YY), as opposed to DD-MM-YY.

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31st May 2023

Sisu (2022)

Factual error: The tank used by the German platoon is a Soviet T54/55, which didn't come into service until 1948, after the Lapland War had ended.

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Factual error: ***SPOILER ALERT*** When Padraic sets Colm's house on fire, he ignites the fires using a Zippo lighter, which would not be produced until 1933, ten years after the film is set.

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Factual error: On Christmas morning when the Parker's are opening gifts, several Christmas songs can be heard playing in the background. Several of these were released long after when the movie is set (around 1940), particularly Bing Crosby's performance of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," which was released in October of 1951.

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24th Sep 2022

Prey (2022)

Factual error: The movie is set in the Northern Great Plains of the United States, and the tribe is identified as Comanche, but the Comanche were located in the Southern Great Plains, across present-day northwestern Texas, eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma.

wizard_of_gore

19th Jul 2022

Jurassic Park III (2001)

Factual error: When they find the camcorder and discover the battery is dead, Udesky takes the batteries from his Maglite, and they magically work in the camcorder.

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