Corrected entry: At the end it is in the middle of the day when Eddie enters Mrs Chen's store, but when he exits the store only a few minutes later after Venom eats the robber, it is suddenly night.
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15th Oct 2018
Venom (2018)
25th Feb 2019
Venom (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Dan explains to Eddie what Venom is doing to his body, Venom grabs Dan with his left hand. In the next shot, it's his right hand.
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Suggested correction: Venom always has Dan in his left hand. You can especially tell by the position of Venom's thumb.
25th Jan 2019
Venom (2018)
Continuity mistake: Before Eddie gets into Mrs. Chen's store he grabs a newspaper that disappears when he's inside.
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Suggested correction: He has the newspaper in his hand the whole time he's in the store. It's in his hand when he points at Mrs. Chen, you see it when he's hiding behind the shelves, and even at the end when he puts the items on the counter.
27th Sep 2004
Twister (1996)
Factual error: When they are at Aunt Meg's the first time, they get word that a tornado has been spotted and somehow they already know its rating. Tornadoes get their ratings from the amount of damage they do. This is determined after the tornado is gone.
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Suggested correction: The scale back then was based on the size of the tornado, it's only more recently it is based on damage. So during the time of the movie, the scale was being used correctly for size not damage.
The Fujita scale was introduced in 1971 and was in use during the 90's when this film came out. The Fujita scale measured the damage caused by a tornado to man-made structures after ground or aerial surveys, it was not a measurement of tornado size (an F5 tornado is a tornado that's rated on the Fujita scale). It is true the Fujita scale was replaced by the enhanced Fujita scale in 2007, but that was only to align the ratings to the damage better, it did not change rating tornadoes from size to destructive powers.
26th Mar 2019
Project Blue Book (2019)
The Washington Merry-Go Round - S1-E10
Corrected entry: A Frisbee is shown being tossed near the Washington monument. The Frisbee (nee Pluto Platter) did not exist in 1952. (00:39:00)
Correction: While a Frisbee-like disc is seen, we don't actually see the brand name. Prior to being called Frisbee (and Pluto Platter), Southern California Plastics started manufacturing plastic flying discs for pipco in March 1948, which were labeled and sold as "Flying-Saucer."
13th Jan 2003
Dr. No (1962)
Factual error: When Professor Dent tries to shoot Bond at Miss Taro's and Bond is waiting for him in the darkened room, the 'Walther PPK' that Bond is busily screwing the silencer onto, at the beginning of the scene, does not have an external hammer, and is therefore not a Walther at all. It's a Browning 1910 .32 calibre. (00:55:10 - 00:56:35)
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Suggested correction: Correct to say it's not a PPK, but it's not a Browning either - in a close up one can see the Beretta logo on the grip.
First off, it is certainly not a Beretta. That's not the Beretta logo (3 arrows), but it's the Fabrique Nationale logo (stylized FN). Plus the Beretta has an external hammer and the gun in question does not. It is indeed a Browning 1910 (which is manufactured by Fabrique Nationale. Finally, it is not necessary to submit a correction for mistakes that are accurate but have one or two words wrong (not that this mistake had any words wrong).
27th Aug 2001
The Mask (1994)
Corrected entry: After Dorian absorbs the bullets that Nico shot at him, he opens his mouth and we can see that the bullets have their shells again instead of just the projectiles.
Correction: This falls under the "cartoon law" category that governs most other things that happen in this movie. Dorian's imagination allowed the bullets to be fired in whatever manner he wishes.
This most likely shouldn't be corrected under the blanket statement that anything can happen. The bullets he fires back represent the bullets that were fired at him and thus shouldn't have their casings (shells). There's no need for him to "imagine" the bullets are back in their casings since he doesn't need the primer and gunpowder to "fire" them (firing bullets without gunpowder, etc. would be an example of "cartoon law" and not a valid mistake since it's already impossible to fire intact ammunition from ones mouth.) Even in the realm of fantasy, there are valid mistakes like these (due to filming limitations, bad writing, etc). It all has to do with intent of the writers or the scene (which is why mistakes are often debated about). Here, the intent is to fire back used bullets, not create new ones. Otherwise, we would see Dorian just create more deadly ammunition.
By wearing the mask Dorian has the ability to create new ones.
So what's the point of him shooting them out of his mouth and not a gun he created? The scene is meant to show he is spitting out the bullets that were fired at him, not him creating new ammunition in his mouth.
Correction: The mask gives its wearer unlimited power so that not only was he able to recreate the bullets but, also fire off as many as necessary.
12th Mar 2019
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Factual error: Whenever Ivan the Terrible summons his guards he says "streltsy" which actually translates to "archers".
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Suggested correction: Streltsy translates to "shooter", but they were an elite unit of the military and part of their duties included being personal bodyguards of the tsar.
22nd Oct 2002
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Other mistake: In the scene when Mark Ratner asks for Stacy's phone number, there is a customer paying for a slice of pizza. Stacy tells the customer to pay $1.10. The customer gives her a dollar and change. She then gives him five cents back. The only way this could be right is if the customer gave her $1.15. If he could do that, why not the exact $1.10?
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Suggested correction: In this scene, when Stacy says "$1.10, and you get 5 cents back", the price is actually $1.05 and the customer gives her $1.10 and she gives him his change, which would be 5 cents. When she says "$1.10", she was only confirming the amount the customer gave to her, not how much she wanted from him.
Pause the movie. The total on the register is $1.10 then it shows .05 change. The guy paid $1.15.
Who does that? - who pays an extra nickel just to get the same nickel back? Normally when a person overpays (and this is "normally") the cashier usually says "oops - you gave me too much."
Suggested correction: She types in what the customer gives her and the register gives the change amount back. The total bill was 1.05, not 1.10.
The register show $1.10 (as well as $0.05) before he gives her any money.
6th Mar 2019
Early Man (2018)
Corrected entry: Dug scales the wall of the Bronze Age castle using a home-made grappling hook and line. Just before his head appears over the parapet both hands appear, and both are raised, clear of the parapet. If he let go of the rope with both hands without first gripping the top of the parapet, why didn't he fall? There is nothing on the other side of the wall for him to stand on - and if there was why did he need the grappling hook and line? (00:36:30)
Correction: I watched the scene and I see him grab first with his right hand, then he grabs with his left, so that his left hand could be holding the rope still.
I watched the scene, too, and not only is the correcter correct about Dug's hands, there are plenty of projections and decorations on the outside of the wall that Dug might be standing on. Obviously the Bronze Age people don't know much about defensive structural design.
17th Nov 2006
Made (2001)
Corrected entry: The movie is called "Made," yet the boys *weren't* "made," nor was there any mention of that concept throughout the whole movie. In fact, the movie didn't even seem to be about that kind of "organized crime."
Correction: In the film, Max is a local mafia boss. Bobby has connections with Max, although he does honest work. But he decides to do a money laundering deal for Max. The film is indeed about organized crime. While it's open for interpretation, at the end Bobby cuts ties with Max and the mafia and his girlfriend and thus becomes a "made" man through honest work. Plus, Bobby is working for "made" men.
Correction: There are no reservoirs, nor are there dogs in the movie Reservoir Dogs. Monster's Ball is not about a bunch of monsters attending a party. Man on Fire is not about a man who is on fire. Sometimes movie titles are not directly related to the plot of the movie, and that is not a movie mistake.
22nd Feb 2019
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Corrected entry: So the Indoraptor is engineered in such a way that you take a laser pointer, aim it at the object you want to have destroyed and push a button. At the auction, people are willing to pay tens of millions for such a "killing machine." but in terms of practicability, if you need to point at your target and push a button, resorting to a rifle and a 50-cent-bullet seems more logical.
Correction: Additionally, there's more cost than just a bullet to kill a target. First, you have to find someone willing to kill for you, train them, and even then it's not a guarantee they could kill their target. Plus, you can use airplanes, helicopters, or drones to pinpoint targets and the Indoraptor can attack several targets, including fleeing targets that a sniper might not be able to target once the targets start to flee or hide.
That would make sense if the indoraptor wasn't portrayed as being hilariously inept at killing small, unarmed children.
That's a completely different topic regarding plot convenience. We saw the I-Rex kill 8 people and even more dinosaurs.
Correction: It might be more practical, but people are bidding for the Indoraptor on the basis that people are going to be more afraid and terrified by this unique killing machine. If you've got a man with a rifle, several men could fire at him and kill him. If that man has got the Indoraptor with him, they will more likely run from the target. Making the attacker safer for lack of a better word.
The movie demonstrates quite ironically that the indoraptor is practically useless in a combat situation. It can't seem to kill an unarmed 8 year old girl. The idea that a trained soldier would be so terrified of the dinosaur they wouldn't shoot at it seems ludicrous. People hunt deadly creatures that could easily kill a man all over the world for fun.
Correction: Remember from Jurassic World, one of the points made about using raptors was drones can't clear caves, hard to safely do with a gun. Pitch dark, unknown layout, unknown enemy. But marking a bad guy who ran in there and sending in vicious monster that can see thermal and has a superb sense of smell (part T-rex), plus marking a specific target in a crowded area could lessen collateral damage. Theoretically if the indoraptor doesn't try to kill everyone in sight after killing the target. But we have to remember the auction wasn't exactly US Army R&D, it was warlords, weapons dealers, and terrorists. People who may just use it to intimidate others or use it as an execution device for propaganda (Like ISIS beheading people and filming it).
15th Feb 2019
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Factual error: Caswell acts surprised at the sight of the lighter, but lighters were around in his time.
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Suggested correction: The modern lighter, which use ferrocerium to create a spark, was developed in 1903. Caswell was from 1880. This would have been different then anything he would have seen.
12th May 2010
Hitman (2007)
Corrected entry: The dragon on the girl's face moves from one side to the other in a closeup, when the hitman is questioning her toward the begining of the movie.
Correction: Copy from another correction: It doesn't change sides. The camera view switches from a direct shot of her face, to a shot of a reflection of her face, which of course is a mirror image.
Correction: The tattoo does change sides on her face. It is supposed to be on the left side. Filming a shot in a reflection still doesn't change a tattoo from a left cheek to a right cheek.
The correction is accurate. The tattoo never changes from being on her left cheek. There is a camera shot of her in the mirror in which the tattoo appears on the right side, but because it's her reflection, it's still her left cheek. You can tell because the tattoo is still on the opposite side of the red streak in her hair rather than on the same side.
6th Aug 2018
Den of Thieves (2018)
Corrected entry: The opening title sequence of the film states that LA is "The Bank Robbery Capital of the World", a title it was given in 1963 for a history of infamous bank heists. The titles state that the city has a bank robbery about every 48 minutes. However only in its worst year in 1992 did it even come close to this, with it having 1 robbery every 66 minutes - 2,641 robberies in a seven-county region. (00:00:55)
Correction: Actually the numbers are pretty close to spot on if you figure that banks are only open about 8 hours a day (9a to 5p banker's hours), 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year minus holidays - figure 250 days as a round figure. 250 days x 8 hours per day x 60 minutes per hour = 120,000 minutes then divided by the 48 minutes quoted = about 2500 robberies per year, so not that far off really.
Robbery is the taking of property that involves person-to-person interaction with force, intimidation, or coercion. Burglary is breaking into a property with the intent to commit a theft, which does not involve person-to-person interaction. The statement would suggest banks are robbed during business hours (and burglarized when closed).
11th Feb 2019
Breaking Bad (2008)
Corrected entry: When WW makes the calculation on how much he needs for his family, he gets to $737,000. He explains to his partner they both together make $70,000 a week and tells his partner they have to cook for eleven weeks. But that means his partner will only get $33,000. So they need to cook meth for 22 weeks (double) to get his partner paid as well. (00:05:20)
Correction: He says "you and I both clear about 70 grand a week", meaning both of them each make about $70K a week. He's not saying combined they only make $70K.
The maths is correct, after 11 weeks Walter would have an additional $33k. However, the mistake suggests that the $70k per week is shared between them. They actually earn around $140k per week, which they then divide equally.
6th Feb 2019
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Corrected entry: Ferris was locked up in the box for 484 hours which, according to the show, was the equivalent of going to the moon and 10 orbits and then back to earth, many times the actual time it would take.
Correction: He says "several orbits", not 10. But we don't know the technology of their orbiters, so we don't know how long a trip to the moon would take them (since in 1959 the US hadn't sent a man into space yet, they were using future, fictional, technology).
6th Feb 2019
Homeward Bound (1993)
Corrected entry: Throughout the film, Chance is referred to as a 'pup' namely by Shadow, when he's actually fully grown and around the same height as Shadow.
Correction: Shadow isn't saying Chance is actually a puppy. Chance is just called a "pup" because he's immature like a puppy. It's the same as referring to a young adult as "kid."
5th Feb 2019
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Corrected entry: When Hope is fighting all the guys in the hotel, she has the device that lets her shrink and enlarge things (she enlarged a salt shaker to stop some guys). But she could have just shrunk all the guys rather than engage in hand-to-hand combat. At the very least she could have enlarged the chandelier so that it comes crashing down, flown to the tech she was buying, shrink it and fly away with it.
Correction: Shrinking a living mammal outside of a protective enclosure causes it to turn into goo. This is a major issue in the first Ant-Man film. Hope wanted to escape the men, not kill them. Clearly her tactics were sufficient to get out of the hotel, so it isn't a stupidity that she didn't use every gadget in her arsenal.
I'd hardly call a van a protective enclosure. But even if that's the case, the fact that she had the ability to avoid the fight in the first place and quickly escape and didn't is the stupidity. Just like the various stupidity entries of people having guns, tools, or keys and not using them.
I agree. Since she could shrink herself down, that's all she had to do.
2nd Feb 2019
Safe Haven (2013)
Character mistake: When Katie's husband arrives in town and confronts her on the night of July 4th, he says "I miss you Katie." He does not know her name to be Katie as that is the name she created when she came to town. He is married to Erin.
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Suggested correction: He says "I miss you, baby" and then "I miss you so much, baby."
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Correction: At the end it's only daytime when Venom and Eddie are talking about getting something to eat, but they're not actually next to Mrs. Chen's store and have to walk there. The scene cuts to him then entering the store (rather than showing him walking there and the whole passage of time). When he enters you can tell it's night/dark now because a car is seen driving with its lights on.
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