Audio problem: When the T-X steals the car in the beginning, she's driving with both hands on the steering wheel. The car appears to be a 2001-2003 Lexus SC which has a 5-speed automatic transmission (without steering-mounted paddle shifters). However, the sound from the transmission indicates it's a manual transmission rather than an automatic transmission. Therefore, she cannot be shifting gears while having both hands on the steering wheel. (00:07:15)
Dr. Thomas
31st Aug 2020
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
10th Jul 2020
Imposters (2017)
The World Needs Heroes. Over. - S2-E9
Other mistake: The Doctor, coming up from the basement of his house, is locking both deadbolt locks using a key held in his right hand. He logically would use the same hand to put the key in his upper left pocket. Richard who is watching through binoculars uses a walkie talkie to inform both Ezra and Jules that the Doctor has put the keys in his upper left pocket. However, the next scene shows the Doctor with keys now in his left hand placing the keys in his upper right pocket. This doesn't match what Richard says he observed. (00:24:42)
29th Jun 2020
The Crown (2016)
Factual error: During the intro, the pilot is talking to a British Air Traffic Controller (ATC) as he's lining up his aircraft for landing at Benson (RAF Airport) in South Oxfordshire, England. The pilot reports "We're passing through flight level one-seven, for 2,500." Flight Level (FL) one-seven is 1,700 feet. In English (no pun intended), the pilot is saying he is passing through altitude 1,700 feet to his desired altitude of 2,500 feet. This may make sense if they were increasing their altitude, but since the pilot is preparing to land, it doesn't. (00:00:25)
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Suggested correction: Flight level 1 7 refers to 17000 feet.
Flight Levels are in increments of hundred feet, not thousand feet. FL one-seven is 17 hundred feet (1,700). 17,000 feet would be FL one-seven-zero.
4th Nov 2019
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
Continuity mistake: As the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela is being evacuated, the ambassador steps into a Black Hawk helicopter with markings 33 and 3016. After her Black Hawk arrives at the Aeropuerto Francisco de Miranda Airport in Caracas, it has markings 60 and 2065. (00:25:48 - 00:29:20)
22nd Oct 2019
The Crown (2016)
Factual error: Once the Queen has given Mr. Churchill his "dressing down", he simply turns to leave the room. However, he had not been dismissed. The Queen always pushes a button positioned on a side table to call her equerry who enters the room to escort guests out. With Mr. Churchill, she did not request her equerry. (00:54:00)
29th Dec 2018
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Question: When Andy and Karen are competing at the skeet shoot, Andy fires his last shot and Barney states "he missed." If you look closely, several pieces of the skeet actually break off the skeet, but the primary skeet is missed. Not knowing the details of skeet shooting, how much of the skeet must be destroyed for a successful "hit"? (00:19:50)
Answer: Even a chip, if it's visible to the scorer, is a broken target. There are no minimums.
20th Dec 2018
The West Wing (1999)
Character mistake: While in the Situation Room Leo says twice "we need the calvary." According to Webster, calvary is a proper noun that refers to the hillside on which Jesus was crucified. Cavalry is a group of highly mobile army troops. Leo meant to say "cavalry" but mispronounced it. The subtitle is correct with the spelling "cavalry." Leo would definitely know better. (00:19:00)
8th Dec 2018
House of Cards (2013)
Chapter 43 - S4-E4
Revealing mistake: After Underwood and Meechum are both shot, other agents pick up the president to transport him to a hospital. Agent Meechum is lying on his back with eyes open. Another agent takes his firearm and checks his carotid artery. Since the agent walks away from Meechum, it's assumed Meechum is dead. However, Meechum is still breathing. (00:21:40)
16th Nov 2018
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: After Roy fills their kitchen with shrubs, bricks, soil, and chicken wire, Ronnie takes their three kids out of the house and into their station wagon. She tells her kids to lock the doors, but the driver's side door lock is up (unlocked). When Roy walks around the driver's side to speak with Ronnie, the driver's side door lock is now down (locked). (01:10:05)
30th Oct 2018
The Crown (2016)
Continuity mistake: On the morning of King George VI's death, the King's valet is in the dumbwaiter lift bringing up the King's tea and breakfast. Inside the lift shows the valet pulling the rope as it raises to the King's sleeping floor. The waiters are facing front and away from the valet, and the covered wall light is located closest to the main door with the rope in the left-rear corner. As the lift stops, the waiters are now facing the valet to the left, and the covered wall light is now located closest to the rear of the lift with the main rope now located in the left-front corner. These two scenes were filmed in two separate sets. (00:23:05)
30th Oct 2018
The Crown (2016)
Continuity mistake: After the wedding between Elizabeth and Phillip, the royal family walks to the Buckingham Palace balcony to greet the British citizens. Peter gives a lit cigarette to King George VI who takes a few puffs, hands it back to Peter, then walks toward the balcony. He stops for a moment, attempts to straighten his jacket and inadvertently pulls his tie down about half an inch, making it look disheveled. A few seconds later, the Queen Mother turns to help walk the king outside. Now, the king's tie is straightened up as it was about five seconds earlier. (00:17:35)
29th Oct 2018
Bodyguard (2018)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Audio problem: When Julia Montague and her bodyguard David enter the elevator to go down, the pre-recorded elevator message says "going up." Subtitles show "going down." (00:22:15)
7th Sep 2018
Ozark (2017)
Kaleidoscope - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Roy and Scotty pull up in their truck just as Roy's mom Barb is carrying a coffee table down concrete stairs from a house (not sure if it's Barb's house). After Roy and Scotty load it in their truck and ready to drive off, Barb asks them to "hang on" for a minute. Barb appears to jog a few paces on the sidewalk before running up the concrete stairs. When she reaches step five or six, she collapses. The next scene shows Roy racing to help Barb, but now she's on the sidewalk just starting step one. (00:20:10)
2nd Aug 2018
Stranger Things (2016)
Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Will is being chased by the monster and runs into his garage, he pulls down his .22 rifle hanging on a wall rack. After he loads a few rounds aiming it at the door, the monster appears behind him. After Will and the monster disappear, the scene shows his rifle is back on the wall rack in its original spot. Did Will or the monster place it back on the wall rack while Will was being abducted? (00:07:25 - 00:08:10)
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