Revealing mistake: If you look closely at Billy Flynn in the musical number "All I Care About is Love", right at the end when he takes off the boxers, you can see that he is wearing underwear underneath them.
jshy7979
9th Feb 2004
Chicago (2002)
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Suggested correction: Not only is this not clear whatsoever, since we can't see below his waist, but this is happening inside a musical number, not meant to be taken literally. It is just theatrical exaggeration for the performance.
19th Apr 2004
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Corrected entry: If O-Ren can hear so well that she senses the Bride crouched outside the door, throws a dart at her, and sends GoGo to check, how come she can't hear the Bride jump down from her hiding place in the ceiling after GoGo returns? (01:09:25 - 01:10:30)
Correction: The camera never shows how Uma crept in front of the door...she may have made noise that wasn't shown on camera.
And just for discussion purposes, I'll also add that I was under the impression that O-Ren just sensed something wrong. If it was heightened hearing senses, then she arguably would have heard the bride struggling to cling to the ceiling.
13th May 2005
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Corrected entry: Something is seriously wrong with Vernita Green's daughter's age. Nikki would have to be younger than BB (Beatrix's daughter) if you consider that Vernita probably got pregnant after trying to kill Beatrix. This would but BB at least 9 months to a year older than Nikki. Now, if BB is 4, then is Nikki 2 or 3 and going to school? Not to mention that she was played by an actress who was 7 or 8 at the time, Nikki's age was handled incorrectly either way.
Correction: The film states when Beatrix arrives in Tokyo, that it has been one year since she came out of the coma. Since Beatrix kills O-ren before Vernita, she kills Vernita over a year after being out of the coma. So it is assumed that Vernita gave birth one to two years after the beating. And so, BB is older than four when she finally meets her.
The last sentence of this correction I think confused the names of the two girls. Vernita's daughter is Nikki, and it is explicitly stated that she is four. The bride's daughter is BB, and while not explicitly stated, the timeline tells us that she is 4 years old, as it has been 4 years since the massacre on the bride's wedding day, and she was pregnant at the time.
27th Aug 2001
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Corrected entry: On the way to the meeting to find out the job, Roth, Keitel, Buscemi and Penn are discussing a female cop on a TV show. Penn finishes the conversation with, "I'd have to agree with Pink on that one." The very next scene when they know the details of the job is when they are given their colour code names.
Correction: The briefing when they learn their aliases occurs before this in real time (but is shown afterwards in the film) so Penn would have known that Buscemi was called Mr Pink.
I disagree. While there are some parts of the movie that are shot in a non-linear format, I don't believe this is one of them. It's relatively clear that Orange is being picked up from his apartment by the rest of the crew, and they are headed to the meeting where everyone gets their names.
18th Feb 2004
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: Bruce calls his wife and finds out that she should be landing soon. We then see the journalist from the first film making a huge fuss about being moved from first class, where he has been sitting for the entire journey. He hadn't been in Holly's compartment before due to his reaction when he first sees her. Why did they only just move him when the plane was about to land? He was sitting in first class the whole journey with no problem. Surely ten more minutes wouldn't hurt?
Correction: Holly IS in the first class, the left and the right rows have only 2 passanger seats, the middle one has 3. When the journalist goes to his assistant in the other compartment to ask him about the radio, it is clear that the side rows there have 3 seats and the middle one has 4.
Correction: He is not getting moved out of his first-class seat. He went to the first-class cabin to demand the meal that would have been served to him in first class. The seat that we see him in he has had for the entire flight. The flight attendant is just asking him to return to his seat. As for Holly, he just simply didn't see her earlier. Which makes perfect sense; when most of us get on airplanes, we're not looking at every passenger in our section.
Correction: Actually I believe that the section that Holly is in is business class, which can be similarly equipped, seat wise, to first class. Thornburg was moved from first class to this section.
26th Dec 2007
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: On the plane, Holly informs the air hostess that Dick Thornberg filed a restraining order against her. She then goes on to say that this is because she knocked two of his teeth out. In the first "Die Hard" film, Holly punches Dick in the nose, not the mouth.
Correction: Because of the camera angle, we can't see the location of impact of Holly's punch. The fact that Thornburg only holds his nose doesn't preclude the possibility that the injury might've been more extensive. Also, given Thornburg's reputation and character, it wouldn't have been beyond him to have been lying about knocked out teeth when he filed the restraining order. Holly didn't stick around to see the results, so from her perspective that might've been what happened.
Correction: My interpretation here is Holly is just using that as a term for punching Thornburg, not to be taken literally. Like saying that somebody got their ass kicked. We all know what that means; it doesn't mean that someone literally got kicked in their butt.
21st Mar 2002
The Rock (1996)
Corrected entry: When the Thermite Plasma bomb is dropped accidentally and Nicholas Cage is flying through the air because of the detonation, you can see that he (the stuntman) is hung up on the hips. Maybe you can only see this one in the DVD version, frame by frame.
Correction: If it's only visible in slow motion it's not a movie mistake.
Agreed, but this is visible without the slow-mo or pause.
12th Oct 2003
The Rock (1996)
Corrected entry: Data on John Mason in FBI database doesn't show his name when Stanley Goodspeed's colleague searches in it [just a string of X's], in order to hide his identity [as remarked by FBI director Womack]. However, there is a full name and address of nearest relative [his daughter Jade]which is would make him easy to identify in any case.
Correction: It was not easy to find. It took a trained FBI researcher who knew what he was looking for to find it.
I think what the entry is pointing out is the fact that Mason's name has been erased to protect his identity, but it still has his next of kin listed with a full name, relation, and address. If somebody came across this record and wanted to know who this mystery person was, they would simply need to research who Jade's father is.
28th Feb 2011
The Town (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the scene in the laundry room Claire thinks back to the bank robbery when she would have gotten blood on her blouse. The recall shot shows her standing in the bank wearing the blouse. In the original shot during the robbery she was laying on the floor wearing a black jacket and would not have gotten blood on the blouse under the jacket. (00:06:00 - 00:20:00)
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Suggested correction: Blood could have seeped through her jacket to her blouse.
This entry is pointing out how Claire was lying on her chest when the manager got assaulted. The blood stains are on the front of Claire's shirt in this laundry scene. There's just no way blood could have gone on it, considering the fact that she was lying face down.
13th Jun 2007
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Trivia: The scene where Tess is imprisoned with two prostitutes is a reference to "Pretty Woman", also starring Julia Roberts.
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Suggested correction: This feels like a stretch. The movie never says those women are prostitutes, and there's nothing in the scene that even suggests it's a nod to Pretty Woman.
2nd Apr 2010
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Corrected entry: Franklin is on the $100 bill, not Adams as Reuben and the others say.
Correction: The characters all say different names, like "Grant" and "Jefferson", and Reuben simply says "right!" It's meant to be a joke: that nobody knows who is actually on the $100 bill, even though they've stolen stacks of them.
Completely agree with this, and I'll add a funny tidbit: if you listen closely, you can hear Danny say "John Travolta." Confirmed if you turn subtitles on.
4th Aug 2017
Baby Driver (2017)
Trivia: During the second heist, all of the crew are wearing Austin powers masks. Kevin Spacey who co-starred in this had a cameo appearance in the third Austin Powers film, playing himself.
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Suggested correction: I think this is more coincidence than anything. Spacey's Austin Powers cameo is about 5 seconds, and he's playing himself as Dr. Evil, not Austin. Maybe there'd be a connection if he played Austin or was even in this Baby Driver scene, but this was just a workaround after they were denied the rights to Halloween's Michael Myers.
2nd May 2004
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Riggs and Murtaugh kick Murtaugh's front door open they must have damaged the lock, but when the door falls closed the lock sounds as if it is perfectly OK. (01:09:15)
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Suggested correction: Roger has keys to his house. It would make much more sense for him to unlock the door, turn the handle, and then kick the door in for quick entry.
27th Aug 2001
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Riggs and Murtaugh walk toward Dixie's house before it blows up, they're wearing large clear glasses, almost like the safety glasses they were wearing at the firing range. After the house blows up they aren't wearing them anymore or even seen taking them off. (00:56:20)
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Suggested correction: Roger and Martin are off screen for plenty of time to take the glasses off. Most likely, this happens when we see the kids getting on top of the car.
19th Mar 2021
Executive Decision (1996)
Plot hole: The entire movie is a major plot hole. It's revealed early that Naji Hassan himself organized Jaffa's capture and so it follows that Hassan has no interest in the latter's release. With the nerve gas already smuggled on board the plane and the willingly suicidal Demou in place, the hijack was totally unnecessary. Demou could have set off the bomb as the plane came into land. Rather than draw attention by the hijack, Hassan could've stayed behind and made propaganda from a safe place minutes before.
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Suggested correction: Hassan says to his man (right before he kills him): "Allah has chosen a mission for us far greater than Jaffa's freedom. We are the true soldiers of Islam." He believes he and his team were divinely chosen by a higher power to strike the U.S., and is determined to be there personally. Knowing not all would agree to a suicide mission, he arranges Jaffa's capture to unite them. They think they're taking hostages to free Jaffa, but only Hassan and Demou know the real goal: to detonate the bomb.
24th May 2019
The Town (2010)
Visible crew/equipment: The boom mic is visible in the bus' windshield when Ben Affleck gets off near the end.
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Suggested correction: I think that is actually a reflection of one of the street lights. You can see a very similar street light behind him for a split second as soon as he gets off the bus. They likely would not have used a boom mic in the scene anyway, as there are no speaking lines.
24th Aug 2009
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: When Waingro kills the prostitute at the hotel, the girl he kills is a fair-skinned African American, but when Vincent Hanna is called out to the crime scene, the dead girl under the sheet is a darker skinned African American with braided hair, obviously not the same person. (00:54:45 - 00:58:10)
Correction: The coroner at the scene mentions there were a series of murders with the same MO, and would probably find evidence of "the same guy" in this girl. The different girls were shown to show the first girl wasn't Waingro's only victim.
Why on earth would they show a different dead girl right after the murder of this young prostitute in the hotel room? That makes no sense whatsoever. They obviously didn't bother to have continuity to the scene by showing the alive girl in the bedroom scene to be dead.
They are intentionally two different girls. Kai Soremekun is credited as "prostitute" and Rainelle Saunders is credited as "dead hooker." The scene is meant to show he's a serial killer, not a continuity mistake.
Thank you! The explanation above, about another victim being shown to show how many other victims Waingro had killed, is so ridiculously inaccurate it shouldn't have even been published. Makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever.
This actually makes perfect sense. The female police officer says that he "beat her head in, same as the others." That, along with the fact that the two girls shown have completely different hairstyles, supports the fact that this was done intentionally.
26th Apr 2021
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: When the SWAT team enters the Cyberdyne office (After Dyson grabs the detonator), they start shooting immediately. It's very unlikely that a specially trained police unit would do that as they didn't know if there are hostages or other innocent people inside. They hit and lethally wounded Dyson who was actually unarmed, he could have been taken as a hostage by the others. Instead of a mindless full scale attack, the SWAT should have secured the scene with flash grenades or tear gas first.
Correction: First off, what the SWAT team "should have done" is not a mistake. Second, police brutality is certainly a problem and was a bigger problem in the 90s. Third, these are cops going after someone who killed 17 police officers. They are going to do whatever they have to to take him down.
Police brutality and trigger happiness are not the same, especially not if we talk about a specially trained enforcer unit. Besides, later on, they faced the guy who they thought did kill those officers but still, they used gas grenades and told him TWICE to lie on the ground, before shooting him.
That part might deserve a spot in the mistakes, but your original point is still correctable. I agree with the correction, plus the Terminator had just unloaded on the entire police force with a massive machine gun. No one was hurt, but the cops wouldn't know he held back. To them, it's the same killer who killed 17 cops in a police station. They'd likely enter with orders to shoot on sight.
I would like to add that Miles Dyson was not unarmed; he was holding the detonator. Someone holding a detonator to a bomb is considered armed and would be taken out.
27th Aug 2001
The Terminator (1984)
Corrected entry: When Arnie is in the gun store he asks for a Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range. Surely this must be an error in the Terminator's computer files. They know enough about the past to know roughly where and when Sarah Connor lives, that he can find a phone book in a public phone booth, how to drive a 1984 car, etc., but not that a plasma rifle wasn't invented until many years later?
Correction: The gun store owner didn't ask the T-800 to pick a weapon off the shelf, he asked if he would like another type of weapon. The T-800 complied with his request and requested the gun that he would like to have: a Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range. The gun owner didn't specify the time period that the gun had to be from, so the T-800 was perfectly justified in requesting it.
This entry is pointing out that it's quite odd that the T-800 is asking for a weapon that won't be invented for years, maybe even decades, considering all the knowledge it has. I think the entry is valid.
27th Aug 2001
The Terminator (1984)
Corrected entry: The Terminator runs his finger down the phone book to look up the Sarah Connors. Why would a cyber with enhanced vision need to do this?
Correction: The Terminators are designed to appear and, more importantly, act, as human as possible. It would look very suspicious if he were to just open the book and pick the names out without using some means of keeping his place on the page.
I think is an overused cop out of the Terminator doing things a machine wouldn't need to do. First off, it would have to be programmed or somehow learn that's how humans look up names in a phonebook. Also, a lot of people can look up names in a phonebook without running their fingers down the page and nothing would be very suspicious if someone just opened it up and started looking for a name using just their eyes. It's done just for the audience.
Correction: He probably does not technically "need" to do this, but he also "wants" to get it right the first time (i.e, not make a mistake). The print in phone books are often quite small. So using a finger reinforces what the eyes are seeing. [The running of his finger down the page might be more for the audience to see what he is doing (looking for), but that wouldn't mean a terminator could not do it to facilitate speed and accuracy, too.].
The idea that a highly advanced machine with targeting systems, etc. needs to use its finger to help it read slightly small print which any human with 20/20 vision would have no problem with is a bit of a stretch. There's zero reason why with a futuristic CPU driving its every action it would need to validate what line it's reading with a finger. Hell, Google Lens on a smartphone can read a page of small text and accurately make the printed words machine readable, and it definitely doesn't need a finger's help to do that.
I wrote, "He probably does not technically 'need' to do this..." Need and want are two different things. Terminator 2 was more advanced. Did he need sunglasses?
As an aside, he did need the sunglasses to hide his exposed robotic eye.
It is possible that seeing so many Sarah Connors (as opposed to just the one he was looking for) caused a problem. If he was programmed to stop at Sarah Connors, using his finger enabled him to override the first and each successive one until he found the one (s) that looked most likely to be the correct Sarah Connors.