Corrected entry: When the gang is thinking about baby names, Esther is brought up. We then see Marshall and Barney at the strip club where Esther shoots out a bunch of playing cards and one sticks to Barney's forehead. He peels it off and says "That WAS my card!" But he never looked at the face of the card, so he couldn't possibly have known which card it was.
Bishop73
27th Oct 2013
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
11th Jun 2013
The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Corrected entry: When Will and the girl discover they are siblings, she gets up and walks away. It shows Will look to the right (his left) and contemplate this reality. The very next shot, with no time for position change, shows her with a window behind her. The window is reflecting Will, who is now looking up with his head leaned back.
29th Sep 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Operation -- Annihilate! - S1-E30
Corrected entry: When given the option of using intense light to kill the creatures, McCoy says that he could probably rig a cubicle in the bio lab to test the theory. However, that would require him to know engineering, and one of his caustic quotes is "I'm a doctor, not an engineer!", unless he requisitioned Engineering to help.
Correction: Rigging a cubicle with lights wouldn't require engineering skills. He just meant he can set up some intense lights and focus them on a certain spot, not that he'll have to wire anything or build a special device.
28th Sep 2016
The Nice Guys (2016)
Corrected entry: Holland tells Janet to "Call 911". It is supposed to be 1977 and the first city in California to implement 911 service was San Diego in 1980.
Correction: The first city in California to implement the 9-1-1 system was Gustine, in March 1970, and by 1972, the 9-1-1 system was installed countywide. In 1972, Assembly Bill 515 was passed, mandating that 9-1-1 be implemented statewide. Although it took until 1985 to be statewide, 9-1-1 services were available in 1977.
First and foremost, I can't express enough admiration for the precision. That being said, you do say that it wasn't implemented statewide until 1985, and in fact a quick googling returns reputable sources such as a 1985 article from the LA Times that says that it was implemented in the city only in October 1984. Overall, isn't it fair to say then that in 1977 two Los Angels kids wouldn't just say "call 911" like we do today? I think the entry needs radical rewriting or flat-out reposting, but overall there is some merit.
28th Sep 2016
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Corrected entry: In several tracking shots of the stadium the four-colour Chinese flag is flying from the top stands but China did not send its first Olympic competitor until 1932.
Correction: Although China did not compete in the 1924 Olympics, they were still represented and attended, so it is correct that the flag is flown, as it was in 1924.
28th Sep 2016
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Corrected entry: Libby is in prison for 6 years. Her friend makes a birthday cake for Maddy's 8th birthday. So how is it that Matty is only 2 years old when she gets locked up?
Correction: Matty is 4 years old, not 2, when Libby is locked up.
8th Mar 2016
Zootopia (2016)
Corrected entry: Judy Hopps leaves a pair of earbuds on a table in her room and goes to begin her first day as an officer of the Zootopia Police Department. That evening when she returns to her room, the earbuds are gone.
Correction: The table the earbuds are on is in the dark, making them hard to see, but they are there. The submitter may be thinking the earbuds were on the other table away from the door, which is in the light and no earbuds are seen, but that's the wrong table.
14th Jun 2016
Zootopia (2016)
Corrected entry: When Judy is performing her play about how you can be whatever you want to be, the ketchup from the stage disappears.
Correction: Judy has the ketchup removed as part of cleaning the stage during the performance (a common practice). You see when her box comes down it covers the ketchup and then you see her pull the red streamers into the box as well. When the box is raised, the ketchup and the streamers are gone, she could have easily placed them in a holding area inside the box to get them off stage when the box is raised.
9th Dec 2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Corrected entry: The arrow sticking out of Coin's chest in the overhead shot of her lying dead is obviously larger in diameter than the arrow fired by Katniss.
Correction: No, it's the same sized arrow.
27th Apr 2009
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Corrected entry: On the map Gregory has of the camp, the compass has the points labeled wrong. South and East are the wrong way round. (00:44:40)
Correction: The map was drawn by a kid, showing that even though Gregory acts smart, he's still a kid who doesn't know which ways South and East are.
27th Jul 2011
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Corrected entry: When Nancy is in the hospital after the drug store scene, after her mother signs the paper work to sedate her, you can see the claw on the actress playing the nurse when she pulls the curtain back to reveal Nancy is no longer there.
Correction: Those are only the actress' long fingers, she never has claws on (although the scene may have been shot to make you think they were Freddy's claws).
15th Sep 2014
Eureka (2006)
What Goes Around, Comes Around - S3-E18
Corrected entry: Even though technology could be made to remotely control a person, they'd still have to have a body tailored for certain activities. Zoe has never trained for diving, and thus her body (and presumable all of the other divers) is not used to performing those kinds of feats.
Correction: It doesn't matter what Zoe's body isn't used to, it only matters what she is capable of (so the device couldn't make Zoe fly, but could certainly make her dive).
22nd Nov 2005
The Medallion (2003)
Corrected entry: Throughout the film all cars have errors in license plates, In Ireland since 1992 all cars start off with last two digits of the car's year, county registered in and order registered in. Example: The first car registered in Dublin this year would be "05 D 1" the 922nd registered in Cork would be "05 C 922" I can't remember the exact format of the plates but remember it's factually incorrect.
Correction: You need to provide a specific example because all the plates I see have the correct format. 2-digit year of registration (new plates are only issued the year they're first registered, so "99" or "01" will be seen, they won't all have the same first 2-digits. Then we see "D" for Dublin followed by a 6-digit number, and all with the hyphens in the correct place.
24th Apr 2003
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Wesley Snipes is arrested and being questioned, when he leans on the table to break the glasses, the lenses smash whilst he pulls one of the arms off, but later on when the man goes to put them on whilst reading in bed, the lenses are intact.
Correction: The lens never break, in fact, when the fall to the floor, both lenses are intact.
19th Oct 2008
8 Crazy Nights (2002)
Corrected entry: Whitey can't read, yet in the first scene we see Whitey and Elenore soak their feet, he is reading a magazine.
Correction: There's nothing to suggest he's reading it, he could just be looking at the pictures, the magazine was called "Shore & Goofy" after all.
10th Jun 2014
A View to a Kill (1985)
Corrected entry: When Bond makes a copy of the check to see the amount, the copy is readable. However, since it was made with a face down copier, the copy should have reversed.
Correction: The image does not appear on the side of the paper that was in contact with the checkbook, which would be a mirror image. Bond flips the paper over to reveal the image (which essentially becomes a mirror image of a mirror image making it appear readable).
28th Feb 2016
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: When Picard is first stripped in the office, there is damage on his left chest. Later, Picard looks down at the damage, as if noticing it for the first time. Damage that bad would have been known after it was done.
Correction: The "damage" he looks at was an incision made when he was drugged where they implanted the device, so he wouldn't have noticed it after it was done.
27th Mar 2006
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Corrected entry: When Starsky and Hutch are watching the cheerleaders, Starsky is drinking out of a coffee mug. In the next shot there is no mug. (00:22:15)
Correction: He's drinking out of a paper cup, not a coffee mug. But he has plenty of time to set it down or toss it when he's off camera as the two cheerleaders are approaching them.
26th Jul 2016
Deadpool (2016)
Corrected entry: At the mutant lab while Angel Dust is drowning Wade into the bathtub, she does with her right hand twice, then in the next shot with her left.
Correction: It's a montage scene and he's being dunked in the goo multiple times. The first time we also see him on his back so his face goes in last, but when he's pulled out, he's on his stomach and he's facing the goo.
12th May 2016
Deadpool (2016)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of Deadpool his drawing shows him using swords to kill the bad guy, later when we see him actually drawing the picture, he is using guns.
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Correction: He said this as a joke. Esther wasn't doing a magic trick and Barney never picked a card in the first place.
Bishop73