Continuity mistake: In the beginning Professor Lindenbrook places his mountain goat horned ink well out of the way behind some scales, any other scene after that, they are missing.
Noman
17th Aug 2007
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
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25th Feb 2019
Guns of Navarone (1961)
Plot hole: The huge guns are set high up on a cliff face facing out to sea and it is obvious that they cannot be depressed to fire at a downward angle - the massive gun carriages set on rails would prevent that happening. They cannot be elevated to fire at an upward angle, too, because they fit pretty snugly in the hole cut into the cliff face to accommodate them. This means that their maximum and minimum ranges would be quite close together, covering a strip of maybe a few hundred metres either side. Given that the sea is completely open on the side of the island they are protecting, why don't the ships targeted by the guns while passing the island simply sail inside or outside of the narrow stretch of sea the guns can hit?
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Suggested correction: The guns are firing across a strait. A strait is a "narrow passage." Since the targets must appear at a limited range, the guns only need a limited elevation angle.
Watch the film again. The guns are facing the open sea. There is no land visible anywhere behind the ships. If that's a strait, it's a very, very wide one.
Other summaries explain that the strait is only deep enough for the ships at the place which matches the guns' range. So ships could not take advantage of further away or closer in.
Suggested correction: That the gun carriages are supposedly set on rails is not correct. In the novel template, as well as in the film, it is shown that the guns were installed on turntables. And as for their variable angles of fire - it could be due to (fictional) modifications.
6th Feb 2019
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Other mistake: Bemis is happy because he has enough time to read all he wants, but all the food would be poisoned by the radiation and and even if it wasn't, meat and fish it would spoil from not being refrigerated.
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24th Aug 2009
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When Ben and Riley are trying to figure out Abagail's password to enter the room with the Declaration, Riley reads the result "Valley Frog", seen onscreen. Ben says it's "Valley Forge" and that she pressed the E and L twice. This suggests that Riley's password cracking program does not account for the fact that the letters can be used twice. If this is true, then "Valley Frog" should not have been a result in Riley's program because it has two L's.
Correction: This is not a mistake. The program Riley is using displays, "VALEY FROG, " not, "VALLEY FROG." Ben realizes it's Valley Forge because Riley said, "Valley frog, " but didn't spell it over their radio and Ben didn't actually see how it was misspelled. "She pressed the E and the L twice, " is what Ben says as he's figuring it out because of the fact that he knows Riley is reading a misspelled version of Valley because of Frog.
Correction: But Valey is not a word so the program shouldn't have even listed it as a result.
Valey is a last name of about 1000 people in the United States so could be included in a password cracking dictionary. I found it in my password cracking dictionary.
13th Nov 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Factual error: When the T-X is driving the crane and swinging the Terminator around, that is mechanically impossible. All mobile cranes are designed to run only when they are in neutral. The T-X would have burned out the hydraulic pump within seconds. (00:33:50)
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Suggested correction: The TX can control other machines including police cars, it's not far fetched she could control and manipulate the crane truck in anyway she wanted.
Being able to control the crane truck does not alter the fact that the hydraulic pump would burn out. That's the purpose of the safety system.
The T-X is a super robot from the future with machine controlling superpowers. So she presumably overrode the hydraulic systems in some techno magical way. None of the Terminator movies are particularly mechanically realistic so this shouldn't shake our willing suspension of disbelief.
I can't answer for every single model of crane as I imagine they all vary, but we have a Demag AC45, a Bocker AK46 or our Manitou 2150. We can operate the hydraulics whilst in motion and we've never once had a problem. That being said, we're not doing 30MPH at the same time as using them, might very well be a different story if we were.
20th Dec 2018
The Mummy (1999)
Trivia: Because the white nightdress Evelyn wears during the ship attack got wet, it became transparent, and had to be digitally painted white in post production. Otherwise the film would have lost its PG-13 rating.
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Different eras. The movie "The Bounty" with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins features an abundance of topless native island women but retained a PG rating. It would easily receive an R rating today.
4th May 2017
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Trivia: The Predators in this movie were played by Irish basketball players.
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9th Feb 2007
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Factual error: Given that the entire premise of the movie revolves around the melting of the ice caps and the disruption this causes, including a rise in sea-levels, and that at then end of the movie most of the Northern Hemisphere outside the tropics is covered by an enormously enlarged ice cap the sea-level should have lowered significantly enough for the shape of the land masses to appear different from space.
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Suggested correction: Ice that accumulated on land doesn't change sea levels enough to make the continents appear different.
8th Jun 2018
Stargate (1994)
Corrected entry: The premise for Jackson going on the mission is that once on the other side someone would need to be able to re-open the gate using new symbols, but in reality it would just be a matter for earth to re-open the gate from their end at a predetermined time or times.
Correction: The gateway is a one way trip, you can't go back through the wormhole when the gate has been opened from the other side.
Pure assumption. We don't know exactly how the stargate works. It may actually be possible to go back through the stargate, even if you just came through and it was still open. We just don't know.
It has been well established that Stargate travel is one-way.
Since when?
After Jackson says he doesn't know how to dial back, when they are setting up camp, Brown says "if we're not back soon, they'll just turn on the gate from the other side", and Ferretti tells him "no, it doesn't work that way, you see, if you don't turn it on from here, we're screwed." The one way travel is also stated in the later TV series.
Since always.
19th Mar 2014
Time After Time (1979)
Corrected entry: In the epilogue, it reads, "H.G. Wells married Amy Robbins..." He did in fact marry Amy Robbins but not until 1895. In 1893 he was still married to Isabel Mary Wells.
22nd Apr 2004
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Corrected entry: While Adams is wearing the plastic educator machine's sensors on his forehead, he reaches for the creation lever. Morbius stops him and the sensors are suddenly retracted from his head.
27th Jul 2005
How the West Was Won (1962)
Corrected entry: When Linus Rawling's son comes home from the Civil War, his brother shows him their parents' gravestones, and says something to the effect that "Paw isn't really buried here, I just set up a marker." However, the ground in front of Linus Rawling's gravestone is raised into a rectangular mound. If there is just a gravestone with nothing buried under it, the ground in front of it should be flat.
Correction: It is possible that an empty coffin was buried in the grave. This is not unheard of in other cases.
Linus was killed at Shiloh which took place almost exactly 3 years before the end of the war when Zeb obviously comes home. Coffin or no, after 3 years the mound would no longer look fresh if indeed there would be much if any mound left at all.
11th Mar 2013
I Am Legend (2007)
Corrected entry: Hand grenades do not create a massive fireball - even in a lab full of combustible chemicals, the heat from a grenade wouldn't be high enough to ignite them.
Correction: The flash point of acetone is -4 F and the flash point of diethyl ether is -42 F. Both of these could definitely be present. Either of these chemicals could generate a "fireball" above these temperatures. Ether is particularly nasty in this regard. I have personally seen an ether flame appear to "jump" twelve feet. Any flame or spark is all that is necessary.
20th May 2008
The Lost World (1960)
Corrected entry: When Summerlee drops the egg, we see it break. When it splits open, there's no yolk for the baby dino to eat while he's in there and there's no fluid for the tike to swim around in. It looks like they just shoved the lizard into an egg model and threw it on the ground.
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