Corrected entry: As Mac is kissing Valerie and the space-ship lifts off, you can briefly see through Mac's head.
Bishop73
23rd Oct 2005
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
16th Apr 2009
The King of Queens (1998)
Corrected entry: Doug and Carrie leave the kitchen to go to the garage and are arguing. When they leave, Arthur is sat at the table reading his paper. However when Doug and Carrie return, 13 seconds later, Arthur has got two pieces of toast in front of him and is buttering one piece already. Yet there was no knife or butter on the table when Doug goes through. (00:04:20)
Correction: Before walking out, Doug tells Arthur his toast is ready. We see the smoke coming from the toaster. Arthur had enough time to get the toast and a knife. He's not buttering the toast, he's scrapping the burnt parts off.
30th Aug 2003
About Schmidt (2002)
Corrected entry: In the deleted scenes section of the DVD, Warren lets himself out of the back of a police car when he's being dropped off back at the supermarket after his shoplifting arrest. Most police cars are modified so that the backseat doors must be opened from the outside. (00:17:00)
Correction: Yes, most police cars are modified to prevent the backseat doors from being opened from inside. But this is by using the child lock on the door frame, not some grand modification that can't be undone. The officer simply has to slide the child lock off before closing the door, letting Warren open the backseat door from the inside.
19th Feb 2013
Tower Heist (2011)
Corrected entry: Leaving aside the absurdity of a full sized car in a penthouse with no means of entry or exit other than taking out the window, the car is a very obvious plot device. Mr. Shaw has swindled $2B and once he is convicted all of this possessions will be sold off. That car sold in 2010 for about $500,000 so it would be one of the first things sold making it a terrible place to hide the missing loot AND the ledger that finally convicts him for life. Even if he gets off on the charges good luck explaining to the FBI who are watching him like a hawk what happened to the car once he decides to melt it down.
Correction: Several reasons this isn't a plot hole. One, Shaw explains how he got it in, piece by piece. If it's just Steve McQueen's Ferrari, Shaw would treat it like art and never drive it, so reassembling it wouldn't be out of the norm for an eccentric billionaire. But given it's actually from the money he stole, he would most assuredly keep it in his apartment. Two, Agent Claire directly states the car will be sold off once Shaw's convicted (so no grand surprise), but Shaw maintains his innocence (and stubbornly thinks he'll be found not guilty). Three, part of Shaw's arrogance is not only will the FBI not look for the ledger in the Ferrari, but that they wouldn't know what it is. And fourth, once Shaw is found not guilty (as he plans), it won't matter if the FBI is watching him when he turns the gold into cash (or whatever he wants) since he can't be tried again. He would simply take the car apart piece by piece (which is actually what the employees end up doing anyways).
1st Sep 2014
Divergent (2014)
Corrected entry: When Eric first introduces himself to the Dauntless initiates, there is a guy to the right of Eric leaning against the brick wall. In the next shot, the leaning guy has suddenly moved closer to Eric. (00:23:45)
15th Sep 2014
Divergent (2014)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Four and Tris climb the ladder on the ferris wheel, the ladder breaks, and Tris nearly falls, but in the next shot as the camera pans backwards, the ladder looks intact.
8th Aug 2014
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Corrected entry: At the end when the train goes over the bridge we can tell the carriages and the wagons are going over the edge. When the one with the bad guy goes over, the shot changes to looking up and the carriages and wagons are going off the end again.
Correction: This isn't a mistake, just a filming choice. Since they can't show both shots at once (without a split screen), they showed Cole going over first to build suspense, but then showed the whole train going over to show the audience what had happened.
6th Jul 2014
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Corrected entry: When the railroad official is claiming the treaties invalid, the flag behind him has all 50 stars, even though some states hadn't been become part of the United States yet.
Correction: You can tell it doesn't have 50 stars as there are only 5 rows of stars, instead of 9 offset rows. There are only 37 stars (the flag used from 1867-1877).
30th May 2011
Bridesmaids (2011)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, Kristen Wiig is leaving Jon Hamm's house. When the gate won't open, she tosses her purse over the wall before trying to climb over herself. The gate opens when she's halfway over, cutting to an exterior shot, and the purse is nowhere to be seen. (00:04:10)
Correction: You can see the purse on the ground, it's not in the original spot because it gets pushed by the opening gate.
15th Feb 2005
Secret Window (2004)
Corrected entry: When Mort throws the ashtray into the wall the hole looks a lot like a broken heart, but when we see the hole again it's more rectangular.
Correction: When we first see the hole, it is rectangular in shape, just like we see later when Amy sees the hole. The heart shape (possible foreshadowing) only occurs after the wall starts to crack. This cracking though is just Mort's hallucination, so the hole reverts back to the rectangle shape.
10th Mar 2011
Bones (2005)
The Bikini in the Soup - S6-E14
Corrected entry: At the very end when Brennen brings the machine guns to Booth at the shooting range, Brennen puts on ear protection, but Booth does not, and he starts shooting. This would never happen. Booth, as an FBI agent who frequents the range, knows that one rule of any shooting range is that you must wear ear protection.
Correction: There is no mistake. You can see he's wearing ear plugs when he's firing his pistol. He never takes them out, so there's no need to put them back in.
23rd Dec 2014
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
Corrected entry: Linus, Sally, and Charlie Brown are talking about Thanksgiving coming up. Sally complains "I haven't even finished my Halloween candy!" Funny thing, considering that Sally sat with Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin in the pumpkin patch, therefore missed out on the candy.
Correction: There's no reason to think the pumpkin patch incident (from a movie made 7 years before this one) happened the same year as this thanksgiving. Even if we assume this, just because Sally missed trick or treating and the party doesn't mean she didn't have Halloween candy (I have Halloween candy each year myself without ever going trick or treating or to parties).
19th May 2006
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Spock wants Uhura to keep her eyes on the monitor every moment. (One fluctuation and Scott could die.) But he calls her name, making her turn away from the monitor and look at him, in order to tell her not to take her eyes off it. (00:35:55)
Correction: Spock only gives her the instructions after Scott opened the access plate. Prior to that he gave no instructions for her to not take her eyes off the readings. Once Scott inserted the probe is when the magnetic readings needed to be monitored, calling Uhura's name and having her take her eyes off the monitor at that moment caused no danger (or plot hole error).
13th Jul 2008
Batman (1966)
Corrected entry: At the end, Batman mentions "Aunt Harriet's home-cooked meals" to Robin while they're well within earshot of Riddler and his henchmen, who are all restrained, but not unconscious. That's dropping a pretty big clue to their secret identities - a mistake Batman would be much too smart to make. (00:22:00)
Correction: Mentioning Aunt Harriet's name would hardly be a clue to Batman's secret identity. First, she isn't even Batman/Bruce Wayne's aunt. Additionally, other non-relatives (like the Commissioner) call her Aunt Harriet. And, even though the audience can hear Batman, there's no reason to think the goons are in "ear-shot".
14th Jun 2010
These Wilder Years (1956)
Corrected entry: Bradford, who has never met Ann before, accepts her invitation to dinner at her home, but leaves without asking where her house is. He nevertheless arrives there without difficulty in the next scene. (00:15:00)
Correction: There's no reason to assume he doesn't ask or find out where she lives off screen. Just because we don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen, especially since the next scene doesn't happen immediately after he accepts the invitation.
5th Jul 2012
Columbo (1971)
Corrected entry: Riley pays hired killer Eddie off with a wad of bills which he says totals a thousand dollars. But just the top note in the cash roll he hands Eddie is a $1000 bill - so obviously, it's more than a thousand dollars. (00:05:00)
Correction: It is not a $1,000 bill, but a $100 bill. The $1,000 bill (last printed in 1945) has either a large portrait of the bald eagle or the words United States of America (depending on the year). The bill seen has neither of these, and in fact you can see part of the Independence Hall portrait that's on the $100 bill. Additional evidence it is a $100 is the way 100 is printed, curving around the border, the $1,000 bill has the numbers flat or curving in the opposite direction.
2nd May 2013
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
The Foxes and Hounds Affair - S2-E4
Corrected entry: Professor Stemmler tells Solo that the hypodermic he's just been injected with contained water rather than the Minus-X drug. He'd have been better off with the drug, or at least a nice, blood-friendly saline solution. An injection of plain water can cause haemolysis (cell membrane rupture), which could be lethal. Absolutely not an urban myth. Professor Stemmler should know better.
Correction: There's nothing in the scene to infer Stemmler was talking about "plain" water. Given Solo's lack of medical expertise, it would be easier to say "water" than "saline solution" (which is still water).
11th Aug 2006
The Kid (2000)
Corrected entry: When Russ, Rusty and Janet are in an underground parking garage, you can see Russ's black Porsche in the very near background and the back very close to a blue dumpster as Russ talks to Janet. As they start to move towards Rusty, the shot shows them all still fairly close together. As Russ finishes saying, "This is me at age eight," the shot switches to them almost in front of Rusty but they are now quite a long way away from the Porsche.
25th Jul 2005
Raising Cain (1992)
Corrected entry: When Carter follows his wife through the trees and stands behind a tree to watch her and her ex, the ex's coat is not hanging on the branch of the tree. But the the next time it pans to him, it magically appears.
Correction: In the first scene where we see his wife Jenny with Jack, we see Jack hang his trench-coat up. Then when actually see the coat hanging on the tree the first time Carter is behind the tree.
21st May 2006
The Waterboy (1998)
Corrected entry: When it shows all the girls around the table, the mascot picks up a bottle of alcohol and drinks from it, even though the bottle cap is obviously still on. (00:25:30)
Correction: Not only is the bottle cap not on, we can see the bottle cap actually on the table. And when the mascot takes a drink, we can see the amount of alcohol in the bottle goes down.
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Correction: You never see through Mac's head. It's just the way his dark hair seems to blend in with the background a bit, but you can still distinctly tell the difference between the hair and background.
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