Factual error: During the highway chase scene, the cars crash through the barriers on the highway, but they are filled with water. In areas like New York these are filled with sand, because the water would freeze in the winter.
pross79
2nd Jan 2006
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
3rd Dec 2005
Law & Order (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Lt. Van Buren and the victims mother are talking in the kitchen, the cabinet behind Van Buren changes from opened to closed several times.
26th Sep 2005
Bones (2005)
Factual error: In the opening shot of the episode they show a plane landing at an airport, and it says Dulles International Airport on the screen. There is even a nice shot of the US Capitol building in the background, the problem is that Dulles Airport is about 25 miles from Washington, if the shot is real it was filmed at Reagan National Airport. (00:00:10)
27th Jul 2005
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Factual error: Without getting into the physics of the whole thing, there is no way a shotgun, and especially a shotgun with the kind of shells they were using, could knock a full grown man down like that. At worst he would be bruised from the re-coil, or the weapon would fly out of his hand, depending on how he was holding it at the time he fired.
18th Jul 2005
Killing Emmett Young (2002)
Audio problem: When Det. Middlestat is searching the body of Stephen Bracken she says something to the effect of, "He has no wallet, we will need to get his finger prints", buy her lips do not move at all until the last word or 2 of the sentence.
28th Jun 2005
Foolproof (2003)
Other mistake: Sam asks Leo if she can see his gun, then she points it at him. He laughs and says the clip is removed and that he would never have let her have a loaded gun. She shows him the clip she has stolen from his pocket, loads it into the gun, and cocks it. When she cocks it, a round comes out, meaning that there was already a round in the chamber, so he did give her a loaded gun. She only had one shot, but it was still loaded.
24th Apr 2005
Secret Window (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Mort is in Ken's office telling him about John harassing him. Ken punches the right side of the chess clock down to start it. Then Mort punches the left side, his right to stop it. Then when the camera switches back to Mort's point of view the the left side is up and the right side is down, then Ken punches down the left side to start it, when the right side should have been the one he had to press down to start it.
24th Feb 2005
Alias (2001)
Other mistake: Near the end of the show they are supposed to be in a parking garage in Spain, but there are way too many American cars.
24th Jul 2004
The Goonies (1985)
6th Jul 2004
True Lies (1994)
Factual error: When Harry's wife is meeting the used car salesman, he says to meet her under the Key Bridge on K street, that would be hard because the Key Bridge is actually over the Potomac river. If that scene was shot in DC it is on K street, under the Whitehyrst freeway. (00:57:30 - 00:58:50)
24th May 2004
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Factual error: Middleburg,VA is actually a little over 40 miles outside of Washington DC, not 20 miles. (00:06:25)
27th Apr 2004
Half Past Dead (2002)
Visible crew/equipment: In one of the scenes where Nia Peeples is fighting with Ja Rule and Steven Seagal, she jumps down to a lower level corridor, and you can see the pad that she or the stunt woman lands on.
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