Question: Duke creates a paradox by giving his grandfather the gold coin. Duke gives the coin to his grandfather, who then gives it to Duke's father, who then gives it to Duke. Where did it come from?
brianjr0412
2nd Mar 2024
Haven (2010)
5th Feb 2024
Haven (2010)
Character mistake: Nathan suggests to Dwight and Audrey that maybe he should shut down the meeting of troubled people. As chief, he should know he has no authority to stop citizens from assembling.
29th Apr 2023
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Other mistake: When Jessica first goes to her mother's house after her murder, her friend asks why she didn't tell her about the baby. Jessica says she was going to tell everyone but didn't expect to be back so soon. She just told her mom on the phone she was going to visit the following weekend so yes she did.
14th Apr 2022
Halloween Kills (2021)
Plot hole: Tommy leads the mob after the 2nd escaped patient, thinking it's Michael, but Tommy should have known it wasn't Michael. He saw the patient on the TV at the bar at the beginning of the film.
19th Mar 2021
CSI: Miami (2002)
Other mistake: The hotel manager is charged with negligent homicide because he was using propane without the additive, but the victim was knocked unconscious. The additive wouldn't have made a difference.
10th Mar 2021
CSI: Miami (2002)
Plot hole: The whole scenario is fake and everyone at the bar is an actor, so why would they call the real cops.
Suggested correction: To specifically get the cops involved so Neal feels more in danger. LIVE Corporation basically filed a false police report, which Wendy Colton said the cops can talk to the company's lawyers about.
15th Jun 2020
Urban Legend (1998)
Other mistake: Why would Natalie get probation? She wasn't driving. It wasn't even her idea.
Suggested correction: Lawyer here - Not a mistake at all. She would be liable as an accessory, under aiding and abetting. The exact crime varies between common law jurisdictions, but she is laughing along when Michelle is speeding and terrorizing the other driver. In common law jurisdictions, that would be viewed as encouragement of Michelle's committing a crime (she explicitly says she didn't tell Michelle to stop), which is a form of abetting, and indeed carries criminal charges.
4th Jun 2020
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Factual error: Police do not wait 24 hours to start looking for a possible missing person.
30th May 2020
Charmed (1998)
Other mistake: This entire episode the ghost brothers whine that Leo is responsible for them dying and he left them to die, even Leo believes this. It makes no sense. As we see in the flashback even if Leo stayed to help they were blown up moments later and still would have died.
6th Nov 2019
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Stupidity: The master goes through all the trouble of making Luke the vessel so Luke can go and kill several people and risk getting the attention of the slayer, when all he had to do is have his minions go out and kidnap a bunch of people and bring them to him and he could've fed off them himself.
31st Jul 2019
Evil Dead (2013)
Plot hole: The book says the demon has to devour 5 souls in order for the abomination to return, but it only got 4 since David saved Mia's.
Suggested correction: In the extended version, we see Mia's soul isn't actually saved.
"In the extended version" has no relevance. Bonus content holds no weight when leveling criticism at the theatrical cut of a film.
Suggested correction: Actually, more than five souls were claimed over the course of the film, whether or not you count Mia. Four people died in the cabin, plus the possessed girl in the beginning of the film, in addition to the girl's mother, who is mentioned to have been killed by her. You could also make an argument that the dog counted, technically. You also gotta remember, the book said the souls must be "consumed," and technically, it did possess Mia and she "died" while still possessed before being revived. So by the vague definition of "consumed," she could still possibly count. Either way, definitely more than five souls were claimed over the course of the film.
Brother and friend were also technically cleansed by fire.
13th Jul 2019
Bride of Chucky (1998)
Plot hole: In this film Chucky says they need the heart of dumbbells to transfer their souls into human body. If he knew this why did he even attempt it in the first 3 movies? And he never uses it in the next 3 movies, including "Cult of Chucky," where he is successful at the transfer. (Side Note: The series writer has admitted that this was a ret-con added to the film in order to justify the road-trip. So, while still a mistake, it was purposely done).
Suggested correction: The amulet is necessary to amplify power in order to transfer multiple souls at a time - it's only used in Bride with two souls and Seed with three or four.
10th Jul 2019
Shazam! (2019)
Other mistake: Towards the end of the film when they're at the fair, Mary refers to the Sins as "sins", but there is no way she would know that they are sins.
Suggested correction: If you think about it, Billy shouldn't have known either. However he does posses knowledge of these after he transforms and receives the powers. It is evident that when the other children held the staff and said Shazam to get the powers as well, that it also came with some, at least limited, knowledge of these things.
Agreed, except the scene I'm referring to takes place before the rest of the family get powers.
She called them "sins" before she held the staff.
He does get told they are sins.
Mary may not have known but Billy would, because old Shazam talked to Billy about how a previous champion released the sins into his world.
4th Jun 2019
CSI: Miami (2002)
Death Grip - S2-E4
Plot hole: There is absolutely nothing that would give Horatio any reason to think the severed arm they found was from a previous victim of their suspect. It doesn't make any sense he would pick something as random as the arm that has no connection (other than it being found during the search for the girl) to the case.
4th Jun 2019
CSI: Miami (2002)
Death Grip - S2-E4
Other mistake: While irrigating the alligator's stomach a human foot falls out, there is no way a foot that size could fit through that PVC pipe.
6th May 2019
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Plot hole: At the end of Apocalypse the Umbrella corporation bombs raccoon City. It doesn't make any sense that they would do this with the entire Umbrella high command underneath the city, as we learn it is in this movie.
Suggested correction: The Umbrella high command is far underground and safe from the surface bombing. There's no mistake here.
Really? The whole point of the bomb was to destroy any evidence of what happened. That includes the hive.
The point of the bomb was to remove any trace of the virus. Meaning all the inhabitants, dead or alive. Not necessarily the Hive.
Yes but literally the head of company in Dr. Isaac's is located there. It makes no sense that they would bomb Raccoon City because according to Final Chapter they wanted the virus to spread anyway. This film franchise is filled with bad writing, crappy continuity, and plot holes.
4th May 2019
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Question: In the beginning of the movie Alice says the virus didn't just affect humans, that eventually the rivers dried up. Why would the rivers dry up? The virus doesn't affect the weather.
Answer: The implication is that the virus has began to effect the environment as well. (Presumably by adapting and mutating).
15th Apr 2019
Halloween (2018)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end when Laurie and her daughter are in the basement, they look up to see light coming through the wood floor and see Michael's shadow. But in all the shots from the first floor it is a tile floor with no spaces for light.
14th Apr 2019
Hell Fest (2018)
Continuity mistake: After Asher is separated from Quinn he's looking around a room with a flashlight and finds the killer. We can see the killer's eyes but a few shots later there is mesh over the eye holes of the mask. (00:52:15)
5th Apr 2019
Smallville (2001)
Other mistake: Maddie and her father can control only glass, but when at the Talon he uses his powers to pull the diamonds out of the stained glass. Diamonds aren't glass.
Suggested correction: This may not necessarily be true by the way their powers work. Remember, diamonds are a form of rock that are clear. Glass is made from melted sand, which is a ground up type of rock that becomes clear. The similarities between diamonds and glass are enough that it is possible they could still do this.
Diamonds are compressed carbon, not a form of rock. Glass is melted silicon. They're both clear materials, that doesn't mean they're equivalent, otherwise they'd be able to control clear plastic or any number of other things too.
If more explanations of their powers were discussed in the show, one might be able to conclude they do or do not have power over diamonds. However, the script only states they have power over glass, they show no propensity for power over sand itself, or other rocks and minerals. As scripted, this remains as error as it go against what is established.
13th Mar 2019
Halloween (1978)
Revealing mistake: When Annie is putting her clothes in the wash the door slams shut and she walks over to try and open it, look closely and you can see her turn the deadbolt and lock it so she can't open it. (00:46:45)
31st Oct 2018
Charmed (1998)
Womb Raider - S4-E21
Other mistake: Piper tells Page that her doctor told her she probably wouldn't be able to conceive because of scar tissue from blunt force trauma. But Leo has healed Piper, if there was scar tissue after Leo heals, then all 3 girls should be covered in scars.
Suggested correction: They are thrown around quite a bit before even finding out Leo is a whitelighter. Also, he doesn't heal them every time they get thrown or hit in the abdomen. In fact, we usually don't see him heal them at all if they're just thrown across the room or punched in the gut, unless there's a visible wound.
29th Oct 2018
Critters 2 (1988)
Other mistake: When Cindy's dad steps off the freshly hatched critter he lifts his foot to find a bunch of gooey green slime. Where's the fur, eyes, teeth and internal organs?
15th Oct 2018
Critters 2 (1988)
Revealing mistake: When the bounty hunters are landing the ship, look closely, you can see the wires holding it up. (00:36:30)
12th Oct 2018
Charmed (1998)
Stupidity: The brothers are angry at Leo because they say he's responsible for them dying because he chose to save other soldiers instead of them, Leo also blames himself for the same reason and says he should have stayed and gotten them out. But in the flashback it shows Leo helping them and then running off to help other soldiers, after he runs off the brothers are killed just a few seconds later. Even if Leo had chosen to stay with the brother he couldn't have gotten them out in time, the only difference would have been Leo would have died with them, but Leo dies in the same war so he didn't live much longer. Leo's guilt and the brothers' blame don't make any sense at all.
2nd Oct 2018
Charmed (1998)
Plot hole: Paige is able to use the enchantress' powers, but in "Pardon My Past", Phoebe can't use her past life's fire throwing power and Leo tells her it's because her past life misused it so she lost it. The enchantress misused her powers so Paige should not be able to use them.
2nd Oct 2018
Charmed (1998)
Size Matters - S4-E5
Other mistake: Since when are managers, on a trial basis no less, allowed to renovate and change the name of a club?
Suggested correction: Piper says in the episode that she allowed him creative control because the club wasn't doing well, and he was well-known to be good at what he does. It's made clear throughout the episode, by way of him telling her multiple times that if she doesn't like it that he'll get rid of it, that she still has full veto power on any changes.
2nd Oct 2018
Charmed (1998)
Other mistake: Yenlo explains that he escaped limbo through the water in the clouds. And the yen master says there is no other water around. So why do the girls come in through a cave? If they have to leave through the water in the clouds they should enter through the clouds.
22nd Sep 2018
Charmed (1998)
Valhalley of the Dolls (1) - S6-E1
Plot hole: Phoebe becomes an empath. But in Primrose Empath (S3:E6) Leo tells the sisters an empath is a mortal who has died and come back as an empath, so it wouldn't be a progression of a witch's powers like it is in this episode. Plus Phoebe isn't dead.
Suggested correction: There is a difference between an Empath and the power of Empathy. A true Empath is a mortal that has died and been reincarnated and they are a separate race of magical beings. But other beings, such as witches, can have the power of empathy. It does get confusing because they refer to a witch with empathy as an empath, but that doesn't mean they are true empaths. In addition, Phoebe developed her empathy powers in her 20's as one of her first powers and her power of empathy is the strongest of any being.
And where is this stated anywhere in the 8 seasons of the show?
22nd Sep 2018
Charmed (1998)
Other mistake: Grams says that if she died the girls would automatically get their powers; but they got their powers 6 months later and Phoebe had to read from the book of shadows first. Not really automatically.
21st Sep 2018
Charmed (1998)
Continuity mistake: In the season 2 finale the council has five members and yellow robes, in this episode they're now called the triad and there are 3 members in red robes (changed to black robes with inverted pentagrams in later seasons).
20th Aug 2018
Charmed (1998)
From Fear to Eternity - S1-E13
Plot hole: Prue finds an entry in the book of shadows about the fear demon written by her mother. How would her mother know anything about this demon when no one has seen him in nearly 1300 years, let alone how to defeat him?
19th Aug 2018
Charmed (1998)
From Fear to Eternity - S1-E13
Other mistake: No one, including the cops, seem to think that all the victims' hair turned white is strange, as if getting scared to death actually turned your hair white.
9th Aug 2018
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Question: Why did the T-1000 kill the officer in the beginning and steal his clothes? Later we see the uniform heal so we know he can create clothing.
Answer: He didn't steal his clothes, but copied them. He can only copy things that he physically touches. He had to touch the cop to take on his look. Also since the cop was a witness to this ruthless killing machine, it needed to kill him to protect itself from being discovered too soon. The Terminator is an infiltration unit on an assassination mission to kill John Connor. As advanced as it is, it needs as little attention drawn to it as possible. Having the entire police force chasing him down would not be ideal for his goal to get Connor and would inevitably slow him down and risk allowing Connor a better chance of escape. The T 1000 also is an emotionless machine programmed by other machines that are intent on killing off all humans in the future. It doesn't value human life, and if anything has been programmed to regard them as a pest to be dealt with. The cop was a means to an ends and an obstacle to take out. As well, the cop did also posses a weapon, and was the T-1000's quickest way to get his hands on a gun.
Answer: While the T-1000 did kill the officer at the beginning (which is pretty much standard behavior for Terminators), it didn't steal the officer's clothes. It merely sampled the officer's appearance as soon as it touched him. However, it did steal the officer's firearm, because the T-1000 could not mimic complex mechanical objects or weapons (it could only mimic stabbing and cutting weapons).
9th Aug 2018
Piranha 3D (2010)
Stupidity: Jake throws Derek overboard to distract the piranha, then swims under the boat and doesn't get attacked, so why couldn't he just go downstairs the normal way and have Kelly swim over to him? They could have escaped a lot more easily.
16th Jul 2018
Charmed (1998)
Factual error: Melinda Warren says that after Matthew turned her in to the council, she was burned at the stake for being a witch, except witches were not burned at the stake, they were hanged.
13th Jul 2018
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
Character mistake: When April and Casey are in the interrogation room April says she wants her phone call. The detective says the phones are down and April reply's with "well hate to break it to you, legally I'm entitled to a phone call." The detective should know that this is not true at all. They can make a call if the detective is OK with it, but it is not a right. (01:04:25)
29th Jun 2018
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Plot hole: After McClane, agent Johnson, and Ferrell leave in the police car, Agent Johnson radios another agent to have DC police clear a path for them. Then on Gabriel's screen it says they have a voice match to Farrell. The problem is Farrell never said a word, so how would they have a voice match to him? Without the voice match they never should have found them.
Suggested correction: The agent says "Ferrell" over the radio which in turn gets picked up as a name match on Gabriel's screen as they were scanning for anyone using that key word. Not Ferrell's actual voice but anyone mentioning his name over the radio.
If it was just looking for anyone saying the word Farrell it would have been a "voice" match. A voice match implies but they got a match to Farrell's voice.
In this context it is a match on the name "Farrell" that was spoken, hence it is a "voice match." It's clunky but still works grammatically.
18th Jun 2018
Wrong Turn 4 (2011)
Continuity mistake: In this film it's stated that Three Finger can't feel any pain, but several times in the previous film when he's stabbed or injured he cries out in pain.
18th Jun 2018
Wrong Turn 4 (2011)
Plot hole: This film takes place in 2003, meaning it takes place right before the original. The cannibals' house in the original looks like its been lived in for years, but this one shows they've been living in the sanitarium.
11th Jun 2018
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Plot hole: As the island is sinking you can see parts break off, like the island is falling apart, but if it does this every 70 years then there wouldn't be an island. It should have completely fallen apart hundreds of years ago.
6th May 2018
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Other mistake: At the end of the movie Lorraine has to remind Elise that she helped her once, implying they haven't seen, or spoken since. When Elise first meets Josh in the 1st insidious she tells Josh that her and Lorraine have been friends for a long time, implying they talk or see each other regularly.
Suggested correction: That's debatable as the word "friend" does have to do with semantics. I have friends I have not spoken to in a long time, or speak with rarely, but still consider them friends due to our history. Others would say that's not a friend as that's not what they think of when they hear the word "friend." So it does depend on the individual person. It's also quite possible this is what they told Josh as the cover story for why she was contacted since they initially didn't want him to remember his past.
2nd Apr 2018
Runaway Jury (2003)
Plot hole: The whole point of Marley and Nick's plan was to get back at Fitch, it's also revealed they have been doing this for a while in different cities. There is no way they could know what cases Fitch would take.
26th Feb 2018
Jigsaw (2017)
Revealing mistake: At the beginning when the coroner cuts the bucket off the body, the metal is red hot and her pinky touches it. Not only does it not burn the glove but it doesn't burn her.
Suggested correction: The metal is not red hot, it was cut by a laser that gives off a small amount of smoke. Nothing says the metal is hot. So no burn is reasonable.
Your correction suggestion completely contradicts how laser-cutters work. The metal would definitely be hot if cut with a laser cutter. That's how laser cutters work - they essentially melt the material they're pointed at in a very controlled fashion, and they do indeed get quite hot.
Smoke doesn't make the metal glow red, that would be heat. Also for the laser to cut through thr metal it needs to heat it up.
16th Jan 2018
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Other mistake: Buffy freaks out when she's first taken to the hospital. Joyce tells the gang it was because her cousin died when they were young, but in season one episode "Angel" Buffy has no problem being in the hospital, same with later seasons.
16th Jan 2018
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Welcome To The Hellmouth (1) - S1-E1
Plot hole: There was no need for the master wait 60 years for the night of the Harvest, when all he had to do was have his minions kidnap and gather a bunch of humans and bring them down to where he is so he could feed on them himself and escape 60 years earlier.
23rd Dec 2017
Charmed (1998)
Factual error: Phoebe is going to be burned at the stake for witchcraft like they're starting the Salem witch trials again, but witches weren't burned, they were hanged.
20th Dec 2017
Supernatural (2005)
Plot hole: When Sam and Dean realise they need to destroy the hook to stop the Hook Man, they find out that it has been reforged into something else. They state it needs to be set on fire to stop him, but if it was melted down and reforged then it has already been set on fire and the Hook Man shouldn't be latched on to it in the first place.
5th Nov 2017
Bride of Chucky (1998)
Continuity mistake: In the previous 3 films Chucky has painted on eyebrows, in this one they're hair. Since this is the same body he had in part 3 they should be painted.
Other mistake: Jason seems to be able to teleport in this film. Most notably towards the end when Mr. McCulloch is running from him down an ally, Jason is behind him, then in a matter of seconds he's on the top floor of a building, without ever entering it, in time to throw McCulloch out the window.
27th Oct 2017
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Deliberate mistake: If this movie takes place 7 years after the original, how could his daughter be 13? He was part of a government project, I doubt they let them leave for relationships.
Suggested correction: This is a retconned film made after 2 other direct-to-video Universal Soldier movies were made. While the film is considered non-canon in the series, in the film itself, the facts of the original are altered to allow Luc to have a daughter.
Exactly. If this movie changes things that happened in previous films than they don't make sense in context to the series, that's a mistake.
Essential the film can be considered the same as a reboot. Reboots and remakes can alter characters without being considered mistakes because they're not actually part of the film series, just like "Universal Soldier: The Return" is not part of the Universal Soldier film series. However, changes to characters in retconned films, shows, or books, by definition, are not mistakes.
13th Aug 2017
Psych (2006)
Factual error: Cops can't force someone to leave a park because they're male and have no children.
10th Aug 2017
The Marine (2006)
Stupidity: After John's wife is taken he follows them. Four of them spend a good 5-10 minutes shooting the hood and down the side, he pulls right up next to them and they still shoot down the side. Why didn't they just shoot right inside the windows or or windshield? Should have been very easy since all the windows were down and John had knocked out the windshield. John would have been dead and their troubles over.
7th Aug 2017
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: When the red head woman is playing the piano, it's a double. In the close up her hair is back and you can see her face. In the wide shots her hair covers her face so as to conceal the switch.
1st Aug 2017
The Incredible Hulk (1978)
Another Path - S2-E7
Revealing mistake: Mako's hair is obviously a wig, it's most noticeable towards the end, in the close ups when he's fighting the other man.
24th Jul 2017
Lucifer (2015)
Sympathy for the Goddess - S2-E17
Plot hole: Charlotte tells Chloe that she was talking to the man on the phone when she hears gunshots. Being a veteran detective Chloe should have noticed since the man's gun was in his pocket (Chloe comments that his phone was found on him) that he couldn't have been using it when he was shot, therefore Charlotte was lying. Yet she never realised this.
19th Jul 2017
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Dom goes to the street race it shows him watching Letty, Letty walks over to her car and the top is down, she starts to walk around the car, the shot cuts and suddenly the top is up.
Suggested correction: Letty first walks over to a car she just won with the top down (a Spyker), then closes the door of that car and then walks to her own car (Jensen Interceptor).
19th Jul 2017
Village of the Damned (1995)
Revealing mistake: When the minister's wife drops the torch it sets her on fire, the camera pans up, showing she's completely engulfed. In the next shot you can see she's behind the flames and not on fire at all.
18th Jul 2017
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Factual error: After the eastern hub explodes from the gas, and after Mathew's rant, McClane looks out over the city as the power goes out and all the lights begin to shut off. But all the headlights of the cars on the streets also begin to turn off, despite not being connected to the grid.
14th Jul 2017
The Hunger Games (2012)
Question: At the end when Cato has Peeta around the neck, in close up shots is Peeta telling Katniss to shoot Cato's hand? It looks like he's pointing to Cato's hand.
14th Jul 2017
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Rendezvous - S14-E24
Revealing mistake: While McGee is bandaging what's left of Dean's arm you can see the arm is way to long to have the hand missing, you can tell the actor's hand is still there.
13th Jul 2017
Twin Peaks (1990)
Plot hole: In the season 1 finale, after they have brought James into the the station Cooper hands Truman a note and asked if he would investigate this. A few minutes later Truman comes back in with the coke that Bobby planted in James' gas tank. Cooper then asks James why he had coke in his gas tank. Cooper shouldn't know where the coke was found, Bobby never mentioned to Lucy where he put it and Truman never told Cooper where he found it.
27th Jun 2017
Psych (2006)
23rd Jun 2017
Charmed (1998)
Pre-Witched - S3-E17
Plot hole: One of the sisters asks why the familiar doesn't just jump in front of a bus 5 times, another responds with "we're the only ones strong enough to kill him." If they are the only ones strong enough to kill him, then how come two scenes later he falls on a knife during a fight with Phoebe and dies? If a knife can kill him then it doesn't make sense that he seeks out the charmed ones.
23rd Jun 2017
Charmed (1998)
Pre-Witched - S3-E17
Other mistake: During a flash back of Grams in the kitchen she puts a rose in a pot, then Piper walks in, they talk and Piper starts to add some salt and a couple other ingredients into the pot. Grams asks how she knows what to add, Piper says says something about mustard - Piper wouldn't know what's in it already, she just walked in. And she never even finds it strange that there's a rose with a stem in it.
7th Jun 2017
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk Is on the Run (1) - S6-E15
Plot hole: The D.A. says that ballistics show that the bullet came from Monk's gun. The simplest thing to do would be to look at the gun, they'd know that it hadn't been fired and was full. With Monk's OCD we know it was cleaned, and the sheriff came in right after, so Monk couldn't have reloaded it. Yet they overlook all of this.
7th Jun 2017
Scream 4 (2011)
Plot hole: In the hospital scene at the end, why does Hicks run in and push Gale out of the way? She had no way of knowing someone was holding a gun on her and was about to be shot, as far as Hicks knew Gale was just standing there talking to someone. (01:40:00)
7th Jun 2017
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Factual error: The person who has the kidney removed would most likely have died since the killer is not a surgeon, he wouldn't know what he's doing.
7th Jun 2017
Halloween 4 (1988)
Plot hole: At the end of Halloween 2 Michael is completely engulfed in fire for several minutes. Even if somehow he was to survive he would be covered in scars. When we see him at the beginning of part 4 he has a few small scars on his arms. Same with Loomis, he has a few small scars on his arms and one on his cheek despite being in a gigantic explosion and fire. Obviously this was done so they could bring the 2 characters back but it still makes no logical sense.
Suggested correction: Michael has the supernatural ability to heal as shown when he's shot in the eyes at the end of Halloween 2 because in this one he can see, as for Loomis it's possible he was blown into another room or into an area into the room where the flames couldn't reach him, no mistake.
Michael does have some scars though. If the excuse that he heals is the reason he doesn't have more than all of them would be healed after 10 years. Also Loomis was in the same room with Michael, even if Loomis was blown into another room he would have been engulfed in flames and would have been either dead from the shock wave or still burned worse than he is in part 4.
Suggested correction: This one's tough. On the one hand, this is intentional and if it were released today I'd chalk it up to being a (very) soft continuity reboot and that in this film the explosion was simply not as severe as it was in Halloween II. On the other hand, in the context of its release era, and just by watching you can sort of tell they were hoping viewers either had a fuzzy memory of Halloween II or were willing to just go with it. I think I'll err on the side of the former, but it's interesting.
The original script contained an opening scene which showed how Dr Loomis was blown out of the hospital. They had no enough money, so that scene was never shot.
4th Jun 2017
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk Is on the Run (2) - S6-E16
Revealing mistake: When Natalie visits Dale in prison you can tell that Dale is wearing a "fat suit". The suit on his arm is folding up on itself like a glove.
4th Jun 2017
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Factual error: Monk typing the address into his laptop would not affect the trace the agents are doing, it definitely wouldn't pop up on the agent's screen as the result of the trace.
4th Jun 2017
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Revealing mistake: During the fight scene in the restaurant kitchen you can see that the woman is a stuntman, you can even see the horrible wig pop up off the stuntman's head a few times.
22nd May 2017
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Plot hole: How did Jason get the boat from Crystal lake to the open ocean?
11th May 2017
Charmed (1998)
Continuity mistake: When the sisters first see the lady in the lake, the demon off to the side throws a knife into her back, but the knife hits completely straight, as it would if the demon had been directly behind her.
28th Apr 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Plot hole: The pool boy's lawyer brings in the woman suing Fell and tells the judge that Sells saw her earlier and didn't recognize her when he should have. There is absolutely no way she could have known that.
28th Apr 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Stupidity: Throughout the entire series the CSI's on several occasions will describe, in great detail, the procedure they are doing to another CSI. This makes no sense since they have all been CSI 's for years and should already know how it's done. Obviously this was done for the audience so they could follow along.
Suggested correction: While this is obviously the case, and it's a common script technique, I have worked with several people who will explain in great detail what they're doing (or worse yet explain what I should do) despite the fact I've worked there longer and know more than they do. But to avoid contention at the work place I just let them talk and pretend to listen.
28th Apr 2017
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Other mistake: The 3rd movie takes place 5 years after the original, since Kristen is still in high school this one can't take place too long after that. How does Nancy's house get so run down in only 5 or 6 years?
28th Apr 2017
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Other mistake: Why hasn't there been a mention of Freddy having a child in previous films? Couldn't be because they covered it up, as soon as Freddy was discovered to be the Springwood slasher the media would have been all over him and his family.
Suggested correction: Throughout the entire series, it's shown that there's sort a miniature conspiracy going on where the people of Springwood have been trying to make everyone forget about Kruger, including actively suppressing evidence. It's possible that when he was initially caught, the media was aware of his daughter, but not only would it not have been that big a deal (they were focused on him- not his family) in the decades that have passed since his original "death", the information was likely covered up or ignored in favor of trying to make everyone forget about it. (Hence, even Maggie doesn't know Freddy is her father.) Furthermore, the fact he has a daughter has basically no impact whatsoever on the story thus far, so it makes sense it hasn't been brought up before.
It has never been shown in any nightmare film that there is a cover up conspiracy until Freddy vs Jason (which takes place 5 years after this film), and that cover up begins after the events in this film, evidenced by many characters saying it's been quiet for 5 years.
6th Apr 2017
V/H/S/2 (2013)
Continuity mistake: At the end the guy is watching the video of the man that shoots himself in the chin, blood and bone go everywhere, then it shows the guy and girl walk in but there's absolutely no blood. They would have definitely noticed it.
5th Apr 2017
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Stupidity: When the bellhop is in the elevator and it looks like this is where he loses his arm, he spends a few minutes trying to stop the elevator. All he had to do was let go of the luggage and he would have been able to easily bring his arm in.
3rd Apr 2017
Charmed (1998)
Plot hole: When Phoebe and Cole are using the apple peel to find out her true love how does she not recognize that it is Cole? Even with the mask it's very clear that it is him.
Suggested correction: I was thinking the same, but it's possible she thought he was an ancestor/past life of Cole. When she visited her own past life, she recognized everyone there because of their "souls" so maybe she thought the same with him. Although you'd think they'd acknowledge that a little.
31st Mar 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Stupidity: After talking to the bartender, Calleigh goes back the lab and talks to Caine, and he wonders if they got a false positive from the vic's blood alcohol. Calleigh then gives a detailed description of how that could happen; Caine already knows how (obviously this was done for the audience, to explain it, but in the context of the show, it makes no sense).
30th Mar 2017
Charmed (1998)
Other mistake: After Sam uses the powder on the sisters, erasing their memories, they're visited by Leo who starts to say "he must have gotten the powder" and one of the sisters finishes with "our mother." But in a later episode we learn all white lighters have this powder.
30th Mar 2017
Scream (1996)
Trivia: After the guests leave and Randy is alone on the couch watching Halloween, right as the ghost-face walks in, the Halloween theme begins. In Halloween the beginning of the theme means the shape is near.
23rd Mar 2017
The Girl Next Door (2004)
Stupidity: When Matt goes to the bank to close out the account he learns that it's been closed already by Kelly. Matt says he will be expelled, but he never did anything wrong except lie about who Kelly was. The bank teller is the one who was flirting with him and gave him the money with out any proper ID or papers, so if anything the bank would reimburse Matt/the school.
21st Mar 2017
CSI: NY (2004)
Other mistake: Hawks is handed a pretty small container with some of the victims brains in it, and says there is about 50% of the brain still left out there to find. There is no way half of a brain is in that small container, it's not even filled all the way.
8th Mar 2017
Jason X (2001)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning they show a close up of Jason, the skin around his eyes and ears (around the outside of the mask), are flesh colored and looks like normal healthy skin. When Adrianne takes his mask off during the autopsy they skin is grayish like it's decaying.
8th Mar 2017
Jason X (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Rowan is stabbed by Jason she slides down to the floor and freezes sitting up. She remained undiscovered and undisturbed for over 400 years until the scientists find them. So how did she end up lying on her back covered up by what look like exhaust tubes? Aside from the unlikelihood of no-one stumbling across her for all that time.
26th Feb 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Other mistake: When Boa Vista and Wolfe find the blotch of red marker ink under the tape from the bat it's a solid big red blotch, they determine it was transfer from the killer's hand. Then they show Cody holding the bat and he only has a small red smear on his hand, not even close to the amount needed to leave that kind of stain on the tape.
22nd Feb 2017
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Plot hole: The pipe bomb that Maggie uses to kill Freddy is the same one that was found in Spencer's room earlier in the film. It's already been established that Freddy was erasing the people he's been killing from existence, so that pipe bomb wouldn't be there to use on Freddy.
17th Feb 2017
Haven (2010)
Who, What, Where, Wendigo? - S2-E10
Stupidity: Dwight, Audrey, and Nathan all know Dwight's trouble is that all bullets are attracted to him, so why is he with them when they go looking for the killer, knowing every one is using a gun?
16th Feb 2017
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Plot hole: At the end of this movie, (1988) Kristi and Katie's mother died. In the first Paranormal Activity (2006), when the psychic is visiting he says it feeds off negative energy, and Micha says "I guess we can't have your mother over anymore."
15th Feb 2017
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Plot hole: It appears no one even did the slightest bit of police work in the murder of Jessica's mother, if they had they would have seen evidence that Steve's story was true. Like evidence of someone going out the window and the cop's fingerprints on the knife.
30th Jan 2017
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Continuity mistake: In scenes showing how Letty survived the explosion it shows her crawling out of the car then getting blown down the hill, but in Fast and Furious she is still in the car when Phoenix shoots it, causing the explosion, so she couldn't have been blown down the hill.
24th Jan 2017
Bones (2005)
The Secret in the Service - S11-E17
Plot hole: The chute is supposed to be so narrow that it injured the Secret Service agent's shoulder, but is wide enough for Hodgins to fit down comfortably in a sitting position.
24th Jan 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Plot hole: Alex determines the actress is only about 18 because her wisdom teeth haven't erupted yet. The problem is they don't always erupt, I'm 32 yrs old and mine have never erupted.
23rd Jan 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
See no Evil - S9-E3
Continuity mistake: In the beginning the kidnapper has a large build, like a football player, but later when he's in the van with the girl his build is much smaller.
23rd Jan 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Factual error: After Horatio shoots out a window in the lab everyone starts waking up immediately, it would take much longer than one second for the gas to leave that size of a room and the people's systems.
16th Jan 2017
CSI: NY (2004)
Character mistake: When Flack and Lavoto are in the car he says "I never would have pegged you as an undercover" but he already knew she was, she told him this when they first met in season 9 episode 1.
1st Jan 2017
CSI: NY (2004)
Revealing mistake: Through out the entire series anytime a body has a gunshot wound you can see that there is no actual hole, just makeup painted dark to look like it.
28th Dec 2016
CSI: NY (2004)
Other mistake: Sid tells Stella that the girl in the martini glass died moments before the electrocution, except in the beginning of the episode you can see her dancing as she starts to be electrocuted.
19th Nov 2016
CSI: NY (2004)
Youngblood - S2-E5
Factual error: When they are looking at footage of the suspect leaving the crime scene they notice something in his sleeve and the computer generates an image of a steering wheel lock. There is no way they could come up with that from the outline in the suspect's clothes.
19th Nov 2016
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Revealing mistake: When Angela is pulling the girl up the flag pole you can see that the cable under her hands is being pulled off screen by something else to assist the actress.
16th Aug 2016
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning it says it's 1200AD and all 3 elders are awake, but in the first film viktor tells Selene that they have been jumping through time, one awake, two asleep for over 1000 years.
15th Nov 2015
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Question: What does the ending of the movie mean? It has nothing to do with the 3rd movie like you'd think it would.
Chosen answer: The third movie was a prequel to the first 2. It was done to set up an explanation in case they made another movie that takes place after part 2, so her appearance after she died made sense.
6th Jul 2015
The Hills Run Red (2009)
Revealing mistake: After the 4 have been tied up and babyface has killed their captors, he grabs Alexa by the neck. There is a shot of him from behind and you can see the make up covering the back of his head/neck coming up above his collar.
6th Jul 2015
Scream (2015)
Factual error: There is no way cops would just walk up and open fire on a suspect unannounced, not knowing if he is armed or not, and with an innocent bystander so close.
26th May 2015
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Other mistake: At the beginning of the film, there's no way Angela would possibly have been able to know the exact moment the girl would have been walking down the street and what she'd be wearing so she could be wearing the exact outfit.
19th Feb 2015
CSI: Miami (2002)
Factual error: There is no way the gun in this episode would work, the bullet world be moving way to fast for the shooter to accurately control the bullet to the target.
7th Nov 2014
Black Dog (1998)
Question: Is the whole thing with truckers seeing "a black dog" when they have been on the road too long true, or made up purely for the film?
Chosen answer: It's an old trucker's myth that has been around for a long time. There's no known origin for the story, but supposedly when truckers become drowsy, they can see a demon-like black canine of some sort running along the side of the road. This legend was incorporated into the movie.
28th Oct 2014
American Pie: Beta House (2007)
Continuity mistake: When Erik and Ashley are on their first date and the waitress dumps the soup on his lap, the next shot she is gone, without enough time for her to have gone anywhere.
3rd Oct 2014
Z Nation (2014)
Factual error: In a scene when the group is supposed to be near the east coast a Banner furnace and fuel truck explode, the problem is, Banner Fuel is only in Spokane, WA, on the west coast. Spokane is where the show is filmed.
7th Sep 2014
Haven (2010)
Over My Head - S3-E4
Plot hole: Daphne was able to hurt Duke because his name appears on her cell when he called, but names only show up on a cell phone if the person's number and name are programed into the phone, and Duke has already said he doesn't know her.
6th May 2014
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Other mistake: Towards the end of the film Bill Owen digs out a entire grave in the middle of winter, in frozen ground, in a matter of a few minutes.
6th May 2014
Matilda (1996)
Revealing mistake: When Matilda goes to the Trunchbull's house alone to get the Lissy doll, she's sitting on top of what looks like a garage, Matilda leans forward and presses down on the roofing shingles but they bend in a way that shows they are foam, not real shingles.
6th May 2014
Psych (2006)
Question: This episode aired after the chief was fired and after Juliet found out Shawn wasn't a psychic, but the chief is in it and Juliet doesn't know he's faking, so was this episode shot before season 7, and just aired after?
Chosen answer: "Psych: The Musical" was supposed to air during the regular season 7 schedule, before Chief Vick is suspended and Jules discovers Shawn's lie, but the network decided to push it back to air as a special episode, sort of as a tie in with the holiday season and a lead in to season 8, which was to begin only a couple of months later.
5th May 2014
CSI: NY (2004)
Question: Why in season 9 do so many of the episodes follow many of the characters on their days off?
Chosen answer: Probably to broaden the scope of the show's plot and give the audience a chance to see the characters in a different setting, People act differently at home from the way they do at their workplace. By the ninth season, the characters would have become overly familiar and predictable. It gives the writers a chance to do something different with them.
24th Apr 2014
CSI: NY (2004)
Plot hole: When Sid and Hawks are telling mac that the piece of glass from the girls shoulder is from the window from bar, Sid tells Mac the scar shows it healed in the last month, but it's been established several times earlier in the episode that the bar shooting happened 3 months earlier.
17th Apr 2014
CSI: NY (2004)
Other mistake: The body in the bank has one entry wound because the gun has no kickback, but in the flashback of the manager getting shot the shooter pushes the manager back then shoots him twice, the managers body moving alone would have causes the two bullets to enter at to different points.
17th Apr 2014
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Revealing mistake: When Harold is being attacked by the raccoon you can see the blood is being squirt out of the fake raccoon's mouth and not coming from Harold's neck.
15th Apr 2014
Psych (2006)
15th Apr 2014
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Question: Do the laces being in really make that much of a difference, or is it just Finkle projecting blame?
Chosen answer: Both. Finkle is obviously trying to blame someone else for the missed kick, but kickers do have specific positions, circumstances that help their accuracy. Some kickers kick barefooted, others have a special kicking shoe, others have specific positioning of the ball.
24th Mar 2014
Charmed (1998)
We're Off to See the Wizard - S4-E19
Other mistake: Leo tells Phoebe that fire throwing is an upper level demon power, but we know Phoebe had that power in her past life, Piper even reminds her of this earlier in the episode.
20th Mar 2014
Charmed (1998)
All Hell Breaks Loose - S3-E22
Continuity mistake: When they first bring the doctor to the manor the sisters tell him they're not sure who's trying to kill him, then a few minutes later Prue tells him exactly whose trying to kill him, Shax, the Source's assassin.
20th Mar 2014
Charmed (1998)
Pre-Witched - S3-E17
Revealing mistake: At the beginning of the episode Piper and Leo are in the shower together - at the bottom of the screen you can see Piper has on a flesh colored towel.
20th Mar 2014
Charmed (1998)
Sight Unseen - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: Cole goes to the manor, turns the AC on, knocks a lamp on the ground and opens a window, then shimmers up to the attic. When the sisters come home all the windows are open, but Cole opened only one downstairs.
20th Mar 2014
Charmed (1998)
Sleuthing With the Enemy - S3-E8
Other mistake: Cole is supposed to be one of the most powerful demons alive, but a small cut from Piper weakens him to the point where he can't even shimmer or keep up his "Cole" appearance.
14th Jan 2014
American Reunion (2012)
Continuity mistake: In the movie Band Camp, which takes place in 2005, Jim's dad tells Matt Stifler that Michelle is pregnant, so Jim's son should be 7 years old in this film, not 2.
16th Sep 2003
Scream (1996)
Trivia: Drew Barrymore was cast in a different part and had to drop out, Craven thought about not making the movie without her, when she came up with the idea of her playing Casey and being killed off at the beginning because no-one would expect it.
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