kh1616

7th Sep 2017

Octopussy (1983)

Question: How did Bond win the game of backgammon, with Kamal Khan, when he didn't get all his chips off the board? Even the two sixes he rolled wouldn't have done it.

kh1616

Answer: Bond (taking over for the Major) had 1 piece on point 2, 1 piece on point 3, and 2 pieces on point 6. Rolling doubles in Backgammon means you get to make 4 moves instead of just 2, so he was able to remove all 4 pieces. If you have a piece on point 2, you don't have to roll a 2 to remove it. Anything higher than a 2 can be used to remove the piece. Kahn even says Bond has to roll a double 6 in order to win, which he does.

Bishop73

Answer: Not knowing anything about backgammon so this is perhaps wrong. But I thought that Bond didn't win. And the fact that he produced the Faberge egg is what ended the game. (I'm more than likely wrong tho).

Alan Keddie

31st May 2017

Plaza Suite (1971)

Continuity mistake: Roy climbs out the window and walks along the edge, to try to get his daughter out of the bathroom. It starts to rain so his wife puts her head out the window to try and see her husband and gets soaked from the rain. Her was wet, her "hat" was wet and floppy, but after a few minutes, there is no trace of the rain; she is completely dry. And then, suddenly, she's wet again, right to the end.

kh1616

5th May 2017

Poltergeist (1982)

Stupidity: The family ask 3 so-called ghost experts into the house. After seeing flying objects in the kids' room, they are suitably impressed. But later on, the female expert is sleeping, one of the men is in the kitchen wanting to cook a steak, and the second man has his back to the monitors, his head buried in a crossword puzzle and he has headphones on with music on, so he can't see, hear or see what is going on.

kh1616

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Suggested correction: The only one acting stupid in this scene is the guy at the monitors. They have to eat and sleep sometime; if anything, having two people awake and one asleep at a time is the cautious route. The one guy goes into the kitchen to cook a steak, but the guy at the monitors, despite being told he'll be the only one watching them, doesn't put down his drawing or take off his headphones, depriving him of sight and sound.

Anson Gordon-Creed

3rd May 2017

Salt (2010)

Stupidity: When Salt is handcuffed, there is a long chain between the handcuffs. Why would they let a trained killer wear those handcuffs?

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Salt (2010)

Continuity mistake: When Salt is arrested by the police, she is covered in a white powder. But, later, there is hardly any white powder to be seen.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Salt (2010)

Other mistake: When Salt is arrested and in the back seat of a police car, somehow she takes control and causes a lot of smashed up cars, and hits about ten large yellow bins. The problem is: Those bins are there because they have water in them, to lessen the impact of crashes, but there was no water to be seen.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Outbreak (1995)

Stupidity: The 4th/5th person to be infected is a technician who stupidly puts his hand into a just-turned-off centrifuge without looking.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Drowning Mona (2000)

Other mistake: At the beginning, the police say, "Mona Deary is dead." But how do they know that? The car isn't hers, it's her son's, and it's in the water. It's only when the car has been dragged out of the water that they can see the true picture.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Silent Witness (1996)

Show generally

Plot hole: When Nicky goes into prison in Mexico to give a criminal a shot of insulin, two errors are seen. 1) The needle and syringe are far too big for an insulin shot, which takes a one ml syringe and a small sub-cutaneous needle. 2) When we first see the syringe, there is a small amount of insulin in it, but it grows the more times we see it, until a large syringe is two-thirds full - insulin is enough in a one ml syringe.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Dragonfly (2002)

Factual error: A young boy is brought into a paediatric emergency room, where after trying measures to save him fail and he dies - he has no heartbeat. So they use a defibrillator on him, but that's the problem: You can not use the defibrillator on someone with no heart beat, who has flatlined. The heart is an electric pump; with no spark, there is nothing to jump.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

The Women (2008)

Continuity mistake: When Mary is putting her foot covers on so she can go and see Eadie who is having a baby, she puts them on three times.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

The Women (2008)

Continuity mistake: When Sylvie talks to Molly on a bench in a park, Sylvie's hair keeps changing - behind her ear, in front of her ear, etc.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Capturing Mary (2007)

Trivia: In the opening scene, we see a long row of women's shoes. All the shoes have matching pairs, except two, near the beginning, which are very different.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Skyfall (2012)

Question: When Bond finally emerges from hanging onto the underside of the elevator that the villain was in, how does Bond know which way the villain went, right or left; I mean the elevator would have blocked the light?

kh1616

Chosen answer: It's not really clear - Bond saw the shadow of him stepping out but not which way he went. I suspect Bond just took a 50/50 chance that he went right, and guessed correctly.

Sierra1

3rd May 2017

Skyfall (2012)

Question: Moneypenny is ordered to shoot Bond, to get to the man Bond is fighting on the train, so why does Bond, later, in MI6, dig the fragments of the bullet out of his shoulder and ask them to be analysed, which does reveal that the bullet is very odd?

kh1616

Chosen answer: The bullet fragments are not from Moneypenny's shot - earlier on Bond is shot in the shoulder by the assassin Patrice when he is in the cabin of the excavator.

Sierra1

3rd May 2017

The Transporter (2002)

Question: Frank is fighting a lot of bad men in oil, so everything is slippery. My question is: What are the things Frank puts on the front of his feet, to fight the slippery oil, they are like half-rollerskates?

kh1616

Chosen answer: You notice that Frank removes those items from a bicycle frame. Those are stirrup-style rat trap bicycle pedals. They have serrated metallic edges which supposedly give Frank traction on the concrete floor, despite the oily mess.

Charles Austin Miller

3rd May 2017

Stargate (1994)

Trivia: The producers, the casting agents, really wanted Jaye Davidson, from "The Crying Game", to play the head bad guy, but Jaye said, "No more movies", so they kept upping the money they would pay him - this is before actors nowadays get phenomenal money - and it was only when they got to a million dollars that he said yes.

kh1616

3rd May 2017

Ladyhawke (1985)

Other mistake: After Phillipe escapes from the dungeons of Aquila, the head of the guards demands 10 men to go with him, to recapture Phillipe. But as they leave, we can see only 6 men accompany him.

kh1616

28th Apr 2017

Casino Royale (2006)

Plot hole: When Bond leaves the hotel room in Venice, getting supplies, how does he manage to conceal his gun with its long silencer?

kh1616

Tom: What is the Maltese Falcon made of, to make it so special?
Spade: The stuff that dreams are made of.

kh1616

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