Corrected entry: Sarah throughout most of the movie wears her hair in a ponytail. In the scene prior to using the time machine her hair is loose because she can't wear any clothing. However her hair is somehow back in its ponytail prior to her stepping into the time machine.
Bishop73
16th Jul 2015
Terminator Genisys (2015)
15th Feb 2017
Home Alone (1990)
Stupidity: When a cop goes to Kevin's house after being requested by police, he simply knocks on the door and after a few seconds walks away assuming no ones home. Had he actually bothered to announce himself as a cop, Kevin would have opened the door and he would have been found safe.
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Suggested correction: Some people just aren't good at their job or are too lazy. The cop didn't like the idea of being sent on a possible fake call and didn't put in the extra effort. Or he was simply waiting for someone to ask who it was before identifying himself. Plus the cop would have had no idea Kevin was hiding and not answering the door because he was scared nor that saying he was the police would get him to answer the door, he could have simply thought a kid left alone would answer the door to anyone.
Even if he thought it was a fake call, he still should have identified himself. By doing this, he could have confirmed that Kevin was indeed left alone.
And the script could have been written a 100 different ways to prevent Kevin from being left home alone, but that doesn't mean there's a plot hole or movie mistake.
Creating series of silly explanations for obvious mistakes/plotholes never resolves them. He should have identified himself regardless of the circumstances.
Exactly.
Perhaps the officer's failure to identify himself (as well as other deficiencies in the way he responded to the call) would more accurately be classified as a "character mistake"? This may result in fewer criticisms (corrections) while not negating the "stupidity."
Maybe it should be. Because he acted much too unprofessionally for a police officer.
30th Nov 2016
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
The Thing That Wouldn't Die (2) - S6-E20
Corrected entry: At the end of the show the aliens leave and Dick chops Mary's neck to supposedly help her forget he ever existed. However, what about all the others? It makes no sense to make Mary forget them when everyone else would still remember them. How could she explain not knowing Dick when she would invariably have his stuff around or hear others talking about them?
23rd Mar 2013
The Cleveland Show (2009)
You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown - S1-E21
Corrected entry: Cookie states to Freight Train that Cleveland is his only son. But in "Our Gang", we find out that Cleveland has a brother called Roderick. (00:09:40)
Correction: First, his name is Broderick. However, he's simply not LeVar's (Freight Train) son. Since Broderick and Cleveland have the same mother, they're still brothers.
19th Oct 2015
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
Corrected entry: When the pirate is reading the book about Bikini Bottom, he's saying what SpongeBob loves, when SpongeBob is looking at a snow globe of him running to the Krusty Krab, it's raining krabby patties. If you look closely, some of the raining krabby patties don't land on the ground.
Correction: While some don't land on the ground there's no mistake. At first, the ones that we don't see land on the ground are because they land off camera. Then when it's the snow globe, part of the ground is blocked by the red ring. And the rest that don't are "floating" in the water in the snow globe, just as the "snow" would float in a normal snow globe.
13th Apr 2016
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
Corrected entry: Patrick hits his face against his house, causing his teeth to fall out. Two shots later, his teeth are back in his mouth and none are on the ground.
Correction: This is a gag and is something that's done quite frequently in the show, characters getting servery injured and then appearing normal.
23rd Jan 2017
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: In this episode, Mr. Copper was played by Clive Swift. To those who are familiar with British television, among other works, he played the long-suffering husband Richard Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) to his over-bearing wife Hyacinth in the sit-com Keeping Up Appearances.
Correction: Naming an actor who is credited for the show is not trivia unless there's some connection with his or her former work.
3rd Jan 2017
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When Ben and company finally find the national treasure, among the artifacts present are what appear to be Egyptian statues. America was not involved in Egyptology at the time of the Founding Fathers. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt introduced Egyptology to Europe in the early 1800's, but there is no record of the United States acquiring Egyptian treasures at that time.
Correction: The whole movie is based on secrets and conspiracies. In this vein, the treasures the US got were kept secret.
This treasure traded hands between many groups, including Egyptians, and I believe this was also shown in the opening scene.
11th May 2010
The Spy Next Door (2010)
Corrected entry: When Bob is playing the recording to the other spy, he is holding the phones and puts them together at the wrong end. This is wrong because it would mean that the speaker of the phone is talking into the other speaker and not to the microphone.
9th Nov 2003
Seinfeld (1990)
Corrected entry: In the scene after "Man Hands" crushes Jerry's hand, Jerry is wearing a bandage around his hand. But in the next scene on the street, the bandage is gone.
Correction: The key phrase is "in the next scene". Plenty of time has passed since we saw Jerry, in his apartment, with the bandage on. He had ample time and opportunity to take it off such that it's not a continuity mistake. George had come from wherever he was to meet them. The scene starts with them on the street, and Jerry is wearing a jacket that he wasn't wearing in his apartment.
28th Jun 2016
American Dad (2005)
Stan Goes on the Pill - S9-E14
Corrected entry: Bullock cuts Stan's hair because he said he drew it a little short, but when Francine, Stan and Hayley are in the bar, Stan's hair is back to its normal length.
Correction: We don't know how the pill works. Female Stan's hair obviously grew longer than regular Stan's hair, and in no time at all, so it's reasonable to think it grew to a specific length and if it's cut it would grow back to that length, in no time at all.
1st Sep 2015
American Dad (2005)
Weiner of Our Discontent - S4-E18
Corrected entry: In this episode Akiko is older than she is in 2-11 "American Dream Factory".
Correction: This episode also occurs later and thus she would be older. While most characters don't age, time still passes (such as when Jeff is away in space) and some characters do age (such as Greg and Terry's daughter). It's not considered a mistake, it's just how the show moves along.
10th Oct 2016
Margin Call (2011)
Corrected entry: About 90 minutes in, at the end of a board room meeting of the major cast, Zachary Quinto rises from the table while Simon Baker addresses him as "Zack", though no cast character is named 'Zack'.
Correction: Baker never addresses anyone by "Zack". When Quinto (Peter) rises, he calls him "Peter" and shortly after he does mention "Eric", the former employee. There is a line before Quinto rises where Baker says "what the f*** is his name", so perhaps an edited for television version put in the word Zach or a similarly sounding word.
17th Nov 2016
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: After all five kids find the golden tickets it's revealed they have to be at the factory on a specific date and time according to the ticket. So what would Wonka have done if all the tickets had not been found by that date? Keep in mind it is also revealed that the "Russian" ticket was a fake which was discovered just before Charlie found the actual remaining ticket. If he had not found that ticket or it was revealed that the Russian ticket was a fake after the specific date had come and passed there would have been only 4 ticket winners to arrive at the factory, so what would have Wonka done then?
Correction: This is a question and not a plot hole. The same scenario is present in the book and original movie. Wonka could have simply proceeded with the tour with the 4 children or pushed the date back. Although the fact that very specific kids, including Charlie, found the tickets means there was more at play than sheer luck and so Wonka knew all 5 real tickets would be found in time.
Correction: Know this: Wonka is a genius. No biased, he just is. He has set the entire day up to see who the "good egg" and the "bad eggs" are. Mike TV was shown the TV room. Verucca was shown animals. Violet was shown the gum room. Wonka most likely knew all the tickets were going to be found. The first movie is better in terms of explaining how everything falls into place, but know that Wonka knew what he was doing.
6th Nov 2016
Life as We Know It (2010)
Corrected entry: In the opening sequence, Katherine Heigel hands the baby to Josh Duhamel, calling him "Josh" when Duhamel's name is Eric Messer.
Correction: No she doesn't. She says "careful, Messer, I just got her."
17th Jul 2012
American Dad (2005)
Corrected entry: While Francine is giving Stan his breakfast in bed, her negligee is solid baby or light pink. Then when Francine approaches Stan, you can see a hot pink bow attached to the negligee, close to her bust. So, basically, her negligee changes. (01:00:45)
Correction: The negligee never changes and the bow is there the whole time, it was just covered up by the anniversary card. In fact, when she says good morning you can see the top part of the bow.
27th Aug 2001
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Corrected entry: When Johnny Depp is axing the Headless Horseman's tree, he is covered in blood. The camera pans to the boy and Christina Ricci, and then back to Johnny Depp, and he is magically clean again.
Correction: There's never a shot of Crane "magically" clean. When the camera first changes to the children and back, you can see the same about of the tree's blood. There is a shot where he's not covered in as much blood when the camera goes to the children and back, when he has removed some limbs, but he's off camera and could easily wiped some blood off his face, so he could see better.
Really obvious the blood was gone from his face. A more realistic scene would have shown at least some blood smears.
27th Jun 2016
Family Guy (1999)
Stewie Goes for a Drive - S10-E4
Corrected entry: As it starts to rain, Stewie gets stabbed by a random stranger. Later on the bus, and when he gets off, there's no evidence of the stabbing.
9th Oct 2016
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Corrected entry: Every time the Hulk appears, the military always open fire on him with different weapons. Considering that tranquilizer darts and bullets bounce off him, the sonic cannon didn't help and getting him angry increases his strength, they would have finally realised he truly is unstoppable and given up.
Correction: Why do you think they would give up? Bulletproof glass can be shot through if you put enough rounds in it, so they think enough rounds could weaken him in a similar manner. Additionally, they may be firing hoping he has a weak spot somewhere.
When in the bottling plant, Blonsky and the other soldiers open fire on the Hulk but when they do, they see that the bullets bounce off. Their weapons didn't work there so it should be quite clear to them that they wouldn't work at all no matter how many times they face the Hulk.
Not only that but, it's been shown at the beginning of the movie that General Ross has been collecting information about Bruce every time he turns into the Hulk. Even though it's never seen, this information could also include being impervious to bullets when he turns into the Hulk.
5th Oct 2016
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Corrected entry: Kirk and McCoy start climbing the turbo shaft then Spock realises he can get them up the shaft faster with his rocket boots so he goes to get them. Then he comes down from above them which means he had to go up to whatever deck his boots were on to retrieve them. But if he was able to get that far up the ship without Sybok's soldiers spotting him, why not just have Kirk and McCoy go with him to the boot level instead of climbing the shaft from the very bottom?
Correction: Spock would have several advantages of going on his own. For one, it would be easier for one man to hide and avoid Sybok's soldiers then it would be for 3 men. And there would be less noise with just Spock going. Additionally, Spock's Vulcan hearing would make it easier for him to avoid the soldiers and he wouldn't have to communicate with the other two when someone is approaching or tell them where to go.
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Correction: We don't know how much time passes between these scenes, and none of the shots of her hair down then in a ponytail are continuous shots. After they're done talking about what year to go to, the next scene they're already in the locker room and her hair is down, and she had plenty of time to do it. She could have taken it down for a number of reasons, such as brushing it or because something got in her hair. After that, the next scene is all 3 at the time machine. She could have put it in a ponytail out of habit or because they had more to do, and again, she had plenty of time to do so. She even covers herself after taking her clothes off even though she's going to be naked in front of Kyle, so no reason to think she couldn't put her hair back up in the meantime. Of course, as she enters the time machine and disrobes she takes her scrunchie off to let her hair down.
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