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Factual error: Although it's a commonly used movie trope, cutting the brake lines on a bus would not produce the effect seen in the movie. Buses use air brakes, which by design, can operate even with substantial loss of pressure and often engage automatically if there is too much pressure loss.

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Suggested correction: I don't know what air brakes you have used but the very nature of air brakes means that low pressure means they can't work. If you have no pressure in them, how are you supposed to press the brakes? I have personally driven hundreds of vehicles with air brakes (I am a truck driver by trade) and can tell you this is a fact. All that happens when air brakes lose pressure is a warning light on the dash and an alarm sounding in the cab, one must manually slow down the vehicle at that point.

I respect the fact that you drive a truck, but my dad has been a master mechanic for more than 50 years and he is the one who pointed this out to me. Depending on the system, there are various fail-safe systems that will engage the brakes during an emergency loss of pressure. Plus, a simple Google search led me to several examples of these systems.

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Trivia: The iconic song "The Time Warp" was not in the original production of the show. It was added to pad out the the 40 minute play to feature film length, along with allowing a dance number to be added to the film. (Source: The Guardian).

wizard_of_gore

1st Oct 2021

Malignant (2021)

Factual error: It is not possible to have a conjoined twin of the opposite sex. They are similar to identical twins, which are always of the same sex, in that they are formed from a single zygote. In the case of conjoined twins, the zygote fails to divide normally.

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Suggested correction: There are always exceptions to the rules and, although VERY rare, it IS possible for conjoined twins to be - rather, end up being - different sexes. There are about 10 documented cases. In one case, is my understanding the conjoined twins started out as males but a genetic mutation (or something) occurred and one male lost his Y chromosome, thereby developing into a female with no ovaries. (The now-female twin would have so-called Turner Syndrome.) I don't have any sources to quote off-hand.

KeyZOid

The male would have lost his Y chromosome after the zygote "split", but he was a monozygotic male.

KeyZOid

25th Sep 2021

Candyman (2021)

Trivia: At one point, the character of William Burke is reading "Weaveworld", by Clive Barker. The character of Candyman was created by Barker in his short story "The Forbidden."

wizard_of_gore

25th Sep 2021

Candyman (2021)

Other mistake: At the Night Driver gallery showing, Haley is reading from a program that describes Anthony's "Say My Name" piece. The text states that Helen Lyle died from "self-emulation" instead of "self-immolation", immolation meaning death by fire.

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27th Aug 2021

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Trivia: At one point, Amanda Waller says that she is supposed to play golf with Senator Cray. Cray is a notable character in the comics and after he dies, his son, The Atom, joins the Suicide Squad.

wizard_of_gore

27th Aug 2021

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Factual error: When Ed and Lorraine Warren are trying to convince the lawyer to represent Arne, there are is a copy of "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" on the shelf behind them, which was published in 2004. The film is set in 1981.

wizard_of_gore

10th Jun 2021

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Trivia: Director Jared Hess and actor John Heder were college roommates at BYU. Heder didn't consider himself an actor, but he could relate to the character of Napoleon, so he agreed to be in Hess' short film "Peluca" and the rest is history. (Source: BYU Magazine).

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10th Jun 2021

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Trivia: Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) actually nailed John Heder in the face with the steak throw. The impact gave Heder two black eyes that are visible in multiple scenes in the film. (Source: Slashfilm).

wizard_of_gore

10th Jun 2021

Army of the Dead (2021)

Stupidity: In the opening scene with the military convoy, the two soldiers in the lead vehicle never notice the car veer into their lane, even though their faces are bathed in bright light from the car's headlights. They simply ignore it and keep talking to one another.

wizard_of_gore

10th Jun 2021

Radioactive (2019)

Factual error: The film depicts the bombing of Hiroshima, and Colonel Paul Tibbets, commander of the Enola Gay, radioing Washington, DC, requesting permission to drop the bomb. This is inaccurate. To avoid detection, the atomic bomb missions maintained strict radio silence. Colonel Tibbets had permission to drop the weapon from the moment they took off. Not to mention the fact that a radio transmission would never reach the other side of the planet.

wizard_of_gore

10th Jun 2021

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Trivia: Due to the low budget, most of the wardrobe was found at thrift stores. Napoleon's moon boots were 20 years old and borrowed from Jerusha Hess' uncle, and his glasses were a thrift store find and the prescription made John Heder's vision very uncomfortable. (Source: UTV).

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Plot hole: Unless Tanaka is lying, the fact that aircraft cannot fly INTO Las Vegas but can fly OUT of Las Vegas makes absolutely no sense. The whole point of a quarantine zone is to keep people INSIDE.

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Factual error: Another dumb movie trope. In the opening scene, when the car and the army vehicle collide, they both instantly explode into a giant fireball, as if they were both made of dynamite that had been soaked in gasoline.

wizard_of_gore

7th Jun 2021

Radioactive (2019)

Factual error: Eve Curie is shown as having been born before the Curies are nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics, which they eventually won in 1903. However, Even Curie wasn't born until December 6th, 1904.

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