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Revealing mistake: The French tanks that attack Paul et al. Towards the end of the second act are supposed to be Saint Chamond tanks. There is only one of those left in the world, and it is not on screen: the undercarriage and tracks don't even come close to looking like that of a Saint Chamond, because it's actually a BMP-1 dressed up to look like a Saint Chamond.

Friso94

21st Mar 2022

Common mistakes

Character mistake: Soldiers leaving the foldable stocks of their weapons folded, despite knowing that they are going into a combat situation. Particularly affects the MP-40 wielded by the Germans in WWII movies, but also some modern examples like the MP5 and the G36. Automatic weapons are difficult to control at the best of times, there is no reason a trained soldier would deprive themselves of this extra bit of accuracy.

Friso94

4th Jan 2022

Men in Black (1997)

Trivia: K asks J if he was even alive in 1968. Will smith was born on September 25th, 1968.

Friso94

18th Oct 2021

Common mistakes

Factual error: Whenever an aircraft goes into some kind of nosedive, they will almost always make low-pitched whine that gets louder as the aircraft goes faster. But this is the Jericho Siren that was fitted to the Stuka dive bomber by the Germans in WWII for the purposes of psychological warfare. It's a specific device that has to be fitted, nothing else would make this sound on its own.

Friso94

30th Sep 2019

Common mistakes

Factual error: When pistols are empty, the person holding it is often surprised when it clicks empty. In reality, the slide on semi-automatic pistols lock back when the gun runs empty, making it easy to see that you're out of ammo. Sometimes happens in movies, often doesn't.

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Continuity mistake: When the camera is panning over the entire army on the Avengers' side for the first time, Captain America is standing in front of everyone, and his shield is intact and round again, while Thanos broke it earlier. The next time we see it, it's back to being broken.

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Suggested correction: The top half of his shield was broken off. When he is standing in front of Thanos' army, you can only see the bottom, intact half.

No no, the mistake is about the wide shot where you only see Captain America really small. He has a full shield there (as he is just CGI).

lionhead

26th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Trivia: Spoilers: Captain America being worthy of lifting Thor's hammer Mjölnir is something that is pulled from the pages of the comics directly, most notably in this context the Civil War comics. He'd previously been able to move it fractionally in Age of Ultron - Joss Whedon has implied he was able to lift it the whole time, just pretended he couldn't so as to spare Thor's feelings.

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Trivia: Shooting scenes with Salem proved pretty difficult for Kiernan Shipka, who discovered on set that she's actually allergic to cats.

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Continuity mistake: Spoiler alert: About halfway through the movie, we see Emma Roberts coming out of the shower, and the camera focuses on the gunshot wound on her shoulder, with the round scar of the entry wound on her back, and the much rougher, ragged scar of the exit wound on her front. Then at the end of the movie, where it's revealed that Kiernan Shipka and Emma Roberts were actually playing the same character, just nine years apart, Kiernan Shipka gets shot by the police officer when he finds her in the room with the severed heads. Problem is: she was facing the officer. The scars on Emma Roberts are the wrong way around. (00:31:05 - 01:15:35)

Friso94

18th Dec 2018

Nostalgia Critic (2007)

20th Sep 2018

Game of Thrones (2011)

20th Sep 2018

The Dragon Prince (2018)

Trivia: The book Claudia is reading is titled 'Love Amongst the Dragons', which is a reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender, where it is a play that gets mentioned a few times. Aaron Ehasz, creator of this show, also wrote multiple episodes for that.

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Factual error: Dutch police cars don't look like they do in the movie, with their blue and white checkerboard pattern. They had blue and orange diagonal stripes on the side. In this movie, they look much closer to what British police cars look like.

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Plot hole: If there really was such a high-profile case where a witness went missing during transport after a terrorist attack, there is no way the trial wouldn't have been suspended until that witness turned up, be it dead or alive.

Friso94

14th Mar 2018

Sons of Anarchy (2008)

20th Feb 2018

Justice League (2017)

Bruce Wayne: I wouldn't count of the tribes of men. We tend to act like the doomsday clock has a snooze button.

Friso94

5th Feb 2018

Logan (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Pierce is in the limousine, he pulls out a business card, and holds it out to Logan, who doesn't take it. In one shot, Pierce holds it with the writing facing himself, but in the next shot, it's upside down with the writing facing Logan, and you look closely, it only has print on one side.

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Adrian Toomes: You're young. You don't understand how the world works.
Peter Parker: Yeah, but I understand that selling weapons to criminals is wrong.
Adrian Toomes: How do you think your buddy Stark paid for that tower?

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Trivia: When Batman rams the first car in the big chase scene, a faint Wilhelm scream can be heard as it's flipping over.

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