30th Oct 2018
Mario VS Sonic (Nintendo VS Sega) - S5-E13
Continuity mistake: As Mario is walking up to his lawn chair on the beach, you get a clear look at the stripe pattern on the cloth. In the shot after Sonic sneaks onto the lawn chair, the pattern of the stripes has changed. And there is much more blue area between the bottom most stripe and the wood of the chair than previously. (00:15:15)
30th Oct 2018
Top 11 Strangest (Yet Best) Couples - S7-E5
Continuity mistake: After Nostalgia Critic jerks his hand away from Little Kuriboh when he realises it's him next to him, there is a jump cut to a closer up of them and his left hand changes positions between shots. And also his right hand is pointing at Kuriboh but then not. (00:00:40)
30th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: After the monsters are introduced and Nostalgia Critic mentions their accountant, it shows the accountant sitting at a computer with the monsters behind him. Jason Voorhees is directly behind the accountant and his arms are down at his sides. But each time the camera cuts to a close up of the monsters, he's hands are up with his machete, but then down again each time the accountant is shown. Also between each shot, Hannibal Lecter moves closer and further away from Jason, and Jigsaw keeps vanishing from in front of Hannibal each time. (00:02:25)
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: Any time characters are underwater with no eye protection, they still always seem to have clear and perfect vision to see the world around them, other people and even small objects submerged with them. But to anybody who has ever tried opening their eyes under water, you know this isn't true. It's all a massively blurry mess where you can only make out fuzzy shapes and colors at best.
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: Impacts from firearms don't throw people back when they get shot.
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: Often a person on the run will scale a fence quickly and get over it with little problem. And usually this fence has coils of razor wire or barbed wire at the top, and yet they show no sign of injury. This razor wire would cut you and your clothes to shreds. That's the whole point of it.
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: People often jump from great heights into bodies of water and avoid fall damage. But the surface tension of water is great enough it would be no different than hitting concrete if you're high enough up.
Suggested correction: If you jump in feet first you can survive a jump into water from a very great height without injuries.
About the max distance you can fall into water without injury is 65 feet, even at feet first. Professional high divers even struggle to control themselves from that height without doing actions they can control like flips. An untrained individual leaping from a bridge down into water would most certainly kill them in real life.
To dive for up to 90 feet is an official sport, while daredevils dive from up 120 feet. And "dive" means head first. Normal people can and do jump feet first without injury, although is a coin toss. Certainly fatal bridge jumps are from very high ones (The Golden Gate is something like 250 feet).
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: Wild animals are depicted to be much more violent and vicious than in reality. Truth be told, most wild animals will avoid and run from humans. Even wolf packs, snakes, and jungle cats will avoid humans out of fear.
Suggested correction: This is only a common mistake if this always happens in a situation where there is absolutely no way the animal can be aggressive. It can happen, especially with a wolf or snake, so in that movie it just happened. Not a common mistake then.
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: People are often watching or staring at the explosion of a nuclear bomb as it goes off, and witness the mushroom cloud form. In reality, the flash from this explosion would be so bright that it would cause instant, and usually permanent blindness. True Lies is a notable exception to this rule where Arnie specifically protects their eyes as the bomb goes off.
29th Oct 2018
Deliberate mistake: In fight scenes, it's often one person against a small army. Despite having the person greatly outnumbered, the enemies proceed to attack them one at a time, allowing each to be easily dispatched. The whole point of having so many is to overwhelm your enemy... not take turns getting punched out.
29th Oct 2018
Factual error: In almost every sci-fi feature, things like explosions, laser blasts, ships colliding, asteroids hitting, and planets exploding, can all be heard. However in reality sound can not travel though empty space. So almost all of that would really be completely silent.
29th Oct 2018
Deliberate mistake: Where as its not as common in modern movies, the 80's and 90's movies were really bad about vehicles exploding into huge balls of fire over the littlest things. Cars would hit each other and explode. One would flip over and explode. They would hit walls and boom! Or hilarious ones like Escape from LA, a motorcycle runs into a metal barrel and explodes instantly. As if the cars were filled with nitroglycerin or something.
29th Oct 2018
Deliberate mistake: In almost every movie with shootouts, highly trained soldiers, or experienced mercenaries or thugs suddenly get "Storm Trooper Aim" when shooting at the heroes. Even cops do this where they have clear shots of people running away from them, often times multiple of them with fully automatic weapons firing rapidly at a semi close target and somehow just hit all around them and even the ground.
29th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: Constantine is thrown out of a bar and onto the street. The sidewalk is very wide and there is a trashcan by a light pole close to the edge of the sidewalk by the street. In the next shot as Constantine is getting up, the sidewalk is suddenly smaller and the trashcan is right next to the building. (01:08:50)
29th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: When they head to the church, Chas trips over a large rock and almost spills the jugs of holy water. In the next shots, the rock he tripped over has vanished. (00:58:25)
29th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: After they find each other, Chas and Constantine are driving along and Chas asks is Constantine working for Beroul now, and is he crazy? He looks over to his right towards Constantine when he asks that, but in the next shot when he says never mind, suddenly he's facing forward watching the road again instantly. (00:35:50)
29th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: Constantine drives to where Beroul had teleported Chas, and Chas angrily gets into the car and slams the door shut. He does not put on his seatbelt and places his hands on the steering wheel before lowering his head a bit. It cuts to a close up before he turns to look at Constantine again, and suddenly he has his seatbelt on. (00:35:40)
29th Oct 2018
Other mistake: Constantine is driving along a road and an big rig truck is heading for him head on. The truck honks and they both hit the brakes, stopping just a foot away from each other. But at the speed the truck was moving it could not have possibly stopped so quickly. It would have skidded into Constantine's car. (00:35:00)
29th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: After leaving Beroul's, Constantine is driving along a road weaving through traffic. There are cars beside and behind him, and he gets in the far left lane with no other road to his left. It's buildings and sidewalk. But suddenly in the next shot when a big rig is coming head on towards him, the cars around him vanish and there is now a whole other road to his left. (00:34:55)
29th Oct 2018
Continuity mistake: Once Constantine and Chas make it to the address given to them by the demon, Constantine knocks on the door with the knocker ring. Between shots the ring suddenly becomes larger after he stops knocking. (00:26:00)
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Suggested correction: I don't agree it's common to see people jump barbed wire fences without injuries. Its more common to actually show cuts and torn clothes, as that adds drama.
lionhead
I'm referring to the countless times these are not shown.
Quantom X ★
The problem with "common" mistakes is that they are supposed to be easy to recall. From the top of my head I can't think of a movie scene where someone jumped over a barbed wire fence and got off without injuries. How common is it really?
lionhead
Have the same problem with the nuclear explosion one, can't think of any movie where people looked at a nuclear explosion without properly guarding their eyes.
lionhead
I can see what you mean about the barbed wire fence then. I know I've seen it in several films and even CinemaSins has pointed it out a few times... but I can't recall specific titles. As far as the atomic explosions one... The Wolverine, Dark Night Rises, Sum of all Fears, Godzilla 2014 (There's even a dumbass watching the explosion through binoculars), The Crazies, and The Divide to name a few.
Quantom X ★
Alright for the nuclear explosion, although in some of the movies you gave an example it's simply not true (Dark Knight Rises, Sum of All Fears and Godzilla nobody is watching the flash, Godzilla is even historical footage), it does happen often. So I'll thumb it up.
lionhead
In Dark Knight Rises, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's is standing on the bridge watching Batman fly away. He's staring out at the ocean and watches as the explosion goes off.
Quantom X ★
No, in the next scene you see he actually fully turned his head to cover his eyes. A group of people are seen ducking too but you don't know they can see the flash directly.
lionhead