Character mistake: At the trial, the witness said that "With the first shot, we lost our gravitational field. I found myself weightless, and unable to function." However, the first shot caused the ship to start listing to port. It was the second shot that caused the gravitational failure.
Movie Nut
12th Dec 2018
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
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Suggested correction: People misremember events all the time, especially if the events are unexpected and chaotic. At best a character mistake.
I called it a character mistake.
He could also simply be lying in order to explain why he did not do whatever he should have after the 1st shot, since he was an easy target for the intruders and did not die in battle, which would have been honorable. Klingons are not the most honest of people.
16th Nov 2018
Ironside (1967)
Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 2 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When originally interviewed, Ironside holds up the police sketch. It is evident that it still is a bit rough as it has a line across the eyebrows. Later in the televised broadcast, the picture is completed, no roughness at all.
15th Oct 2018
M*A*S*H (1972)
Revealing mistake: There is a lag between the interior lights going out and the exterior stage lights going on.
5th Oct 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Continuity mistake: The second time McCoy is shown in the Sickbay, he is first shown sitting and writing. A moment later, he's standing bent over the terminal.
20th Sep 2018
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Visible crew/equipment: As Carrie is facing backwards before Bandit gives her the handle Frog, the shadow of the rack the camera is hanging from is seen on the back of the seats.
18th Aug 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Continuity mistake: When the "evil" Kirk appears, the Enterprise emblem is missing from his shirt. Then later, when he gets the brandy, the insignia is there. (00:04:45 - 00:06:20)
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Suggested correction: When Kirk and Sulu are on the planet, they're shown not wearing the insignia. When "good" Kirk beams up, he too doesn't have the insignia. We just don't know where it came from, it could have been in their pocket.
The insignia is not removable, it's permanently attached. They wouldn't be able to remove it. The idea of a removable insignia wasn't introduced until STTNG.
While it might have been sewn on for production purposes, I saw this episode as indicating it was removable given the fact that they weren't wearing one on the planet. Plus, there have been other officers whose insignia is not sewn on in TOS.
26th Jul 2018
M*A*S*H (1972)
Other mistake: Hawkeye reads the propaganda flyer, he says. "Give yourselves up, you can't win. Douglas MacArthur." Trouble is, the papers are all advertising for a flying company called Ace Eli.
26th Jul 2018
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Hawkeye holds the tail assembly, Trapper cuts the wires. In the closeup, he cuts the wires a few inches from the connectors. In the wide shot, the wires were cut closer to the bomb's body.
12th Jul 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Trivia: When Kirk is donning the Gestapo uniform, Spock says, "You should make a very convincing Nazi." Although the look Kirk gives him is funny, it should be remembered that both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were both Jewish.
12th Jul 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Revealing mistake: After being put in the cell, when the camera is in a closeup of Spock, you can see the lines in the prosthetic ears, and can easily tell where the makeup is blended into his real ear.
6th Jul 2018
Star Trek (1966)
The Return of the Archons - S1-E22
Audio problem: In the transporter room, as Kirk is talking to Sulu, the door opens, McCoy comes in, and the door shuts. Trouble is that the characteristic sound of the door is missing.
3rd Jul 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Continuity mistake: In the finale of the fight between Kirk and Finney, Kirk's shirt is torn, exposing his right shoulder and arm. As Kirk (the stunt double) goes for the knock out blow, the shirt is only a little torn in the front. Then the close up on Kirk catching Finney, his shoulder is exposed again.
1st Jul 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Continuity mistake: In the opening, the crewman gets a few drops of the infectant on his hand, but the reddish mass on the wall remains. On the ship, when the spectral view is shown, the red mass is nowhere to be seen.
30th Jun 2018
Dinosaurs (1991)
Visible crew/equipment: When Baby tries to walk, and he falls over, as he falls you can see the black sleeve covering the puppeteer's arm.
23rd Jun 2018
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Continuity mistake: Decker's hair is parted on the left, but flips to the right when entering the wormhole, then flips back.
15th Jun 2018
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
10th Jun 2018
They Live (1988)
10th Jun 2018
They Live (1988)
9th Jun 2018
They Live (1988)
Audio problem: When Nada first sees the police helicopter, the only sound is a very muted whooshing of the blades. Any other time, the noises are normal.
9th Jun 2018
They Live (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: After Nada opens the box and looks at the shades, if you look carefully, you can see the filming equipment reflected in the lenses.
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