Phaneron

26th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Reunion: Part 1 - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: When Morph, Jean, and Cyclops are all knocked unconscious by Ruckus' scream, Morph falls to his right, and Jean and Cyclops fall forward. A couple of shots later when their bodies are shown on the ground, Morph is suddenly between Jean and Cyclops, despite falling the opposite direction of them. (00:11:30)

Phaneron

26th Feb 2021

Clerks (1994)

Question: Regarding the scene with the highly offended customer, is the actor deliberately hamming it up, or is he just a bad actor?

Phaneron

Answer: I think it's a combination of both of those. He's played by Walt Flanagan, who also plays three other characters in the movie. Flanagan was a friend of Kevin Smith who filled in for several roles. He's definitely playing the part a little hammy... but I also think some of his reactions are a little off because it was (obviously) his first film, and he was inexperienced. (Though to be fair, he appeared in similar small roles in several other Smith films, and his acting improved over time).

TedStixon

25th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

25th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

25th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Reunion: Part 1 - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: When the lone sky-rider is flying towards Magneto, Magneto is grasping the cliff with his right arm. When the shot changes, Magneto is suddenly swinging from a tree branch growing out of the cliff in order to kick the rider off his pterodactyl. (00:03:22)

Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

Reunion: Part 1 - S2-E12

Character mistake: When wondering how close they are to the top of the cliff, Xavier asks Magneto "How much further?" The word "further" is used for non-measurable or figurative advancement. He should have asked how much farther, as that refers to actual distance between objects. An educated man like Xavier would certainly know the difference between the two. (00:02:44)

Phaneron

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Suggested correction: While "farther" is used for physical distance, further can be too, especially in British English. Farther also tends to be used for a measured physical distance, so if the actual distance isn't known, further can be used. What Charles said is grammatically correct.

Bishop73

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Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: When Wolverine is climbing the building, his upper body is shown as being higher than the top story windows. When he calls out to Jean after she gets attacked by the Punisher robot, he is now three floors down. (00:16:03)

Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

Mojovision - S2-E11

Revealing mistake: When Mojo's studio audience is cheering after he says "I give it two flippers up," you can tell by each character's celebratory movements that it is just a reverse of the shot where the audience was first shown earlier in the episode. (00:07:50 - 00:15:23)

Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: After Rogue and Beast have been shuffled out of the cube and into their television program, Jean is shown sitting down and leaning back on her elbows, while Wolverine is on his knees. When the shot changes, both are now standing upright. (00:13:08)

Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: The cube that Mojo has the X-Men captive inside is transparent on all sides, except for when Cyclops is saying "The X-Men don't fight without a reason." In this shot and the following one, the wall behind them, as well as the ceiling, are now paneled. (00:09:36)

Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men trivia picture

Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: When the camera is panning across Mojo's studio audience after he has abducted the X-Men, you can see an older man in the middle of the crowd. This man is a caricature of Marvel Comics legend Jack Kirby. Coincidentally, Kirby died the day after this episode originally aired. (00:07:52)

Phaneron

22nd Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Mojovision - S2-E11

Other mistake: When Jean is trying to dodge Spiral's teleporting blast, she ends up tripping on a power cord running across the floor. An electronics store wouldn't have a power cord running across its floor for this very reason. They would be begging for a lawsuit if they did. Her foot is also closer to the wall in the first shot than in the second shot. (00:07:30)

Phaneron

19th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

Beauty and the Beast - S2-E10

Character mistake: When Carly expresses her relief to Beast that he is fine after he was attacked by the anti-mutant group, he incredulously asks her how she knew he was a mutant. Aside from the fact that the Friends of Humanity were openly calling him a mutant in her presence when they accosted him, Carly was shown touching Beast's hand earlier in the episode. Despite being blind, she would also know that Beast's fur-covered hands would be quite different from the hands of regular people she might have touched. Given these facts, Beast should not have been surprised that Carly knew he was a mutant. (00:03:25 - 00:08:40)

Phaneron

19th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

19th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

Trivia: A few weeks into the show's production, the staff was informed by Marvel that their character designs had to be changed. This is because the characters were modelled on artist Jim Lee's redesigns in the comics, and he, along with some other artists, were in the process of leaving Marvel Comics to found Image Comics. To convince Marvel to change their minds, storyboard artist Will Meugniot submitted a deliberately awful looking model sheet that looked reminiscent of 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Phaneron

19th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

Repo Man - S2-E5

Trivia: Snowbird wasn't in the original script for this episode because they couldn't afford any more speaking parts. Larry Houston decided to add her to the episode and just not give her any lines, so that the full Alpha Flight team would appear.

Phaneron

19th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

X-Men mistake picture

Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: When Mojo first starts talking to Cyclops through the television screen, Jean is standing next to Cyclops on his right. She then disappears and reappears for the next several shots, and when Mojo is telling Cyclops that he's offering the X-Men a lifetime television contract, she walks up to Cyclops. (00:04:59 - 00:05:48)

Phaneron

19th Feb 2021

X-Men (1992)

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