Other mistake: How did Anna drive from Maryland to New York, where Dr. Neville was, if all the bridges were blown out?
Cinderdan
7th Jun 2023
I Am Legend (2007)
22nd Dec 2022
Die Hard (1988)
Factual error: Would pulling the alarm call the fire and police departments if the phone lines were disabled?
Suggested correction: While I'm not sure how the alarms contact the fire department, it's also important to note that when Karl cuts the phone lines, his brother is re-routing some of the lines. I believe the implication is that he was bypassing certain lines so that way emergency services and the phone company wouldn't get alerts that their phones lines were down at the plaza and send people to check it out. So it would makes sense to me that a fire alarm could still get a signal through the phone lines in that case. (I'm also presuming that the way the fire alarm sends its signal is different from how a phone call is made, since one is automated and not call-based).
25th Jul 2021
The Mechanic (2011)
Factual error: Lead bullets don't spark to ignite gasoline. Neither do copper jacketed bullets. The shot to the gasoline scene is purely Hollywood (or in this case, New Orleans) theatrics.
27th Feb 2021
Seinfeld (1990)
The Suicide - S3-E15
Other mistake: While George is talking to Elaine and Jerry in Jerry's apartment, Jerry and George talk about how George's mother and father are both bald. We know from later episodes after his parents are introduced that they both have hair.
27th Feb 2021
Seinfeld (1990)
The Nose Job - S3-E9
Revealing mistake: When George is talking to his girlfriend about the possibility of getting a nose job, Elaine is visible in the other room waiting to make her entrance.
4th May 2019
Taken (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Brian takes the picture of Kim at her birthday party the background doesn't match the background of the picture after he gets it developed.
4th Apr 2019
Falling Down (1993)
Continuity mistake: When the gangbangers wreck their car after the drive by shooting, the gun changes position on the ground, the gym bag changes position, and some debris is missing between cuts.
14th Mar 2019
Jack Reacher (2012)
Continuity mistake: In the car chase scene in Jeb's car after Sandy is killed, Jeb's left rear tail light and front right fog light go from working to not working to working again over and over.
27th Mar 2018
Death Wish (2018)
Factual error: When Kersey finds his throw down gun and proceeds to practice with it, a bullet ricochets back at him. Lead will reflect off objects and continue in the same general direction or flatten out on a surface but will not bounce back at you. If it did, indoor shooting ranges would kill all of their patrons on a daily basis.
7th Aug 2017
Road House (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Dalton rips the guy's throat out, he wipes his hand on his pants and no blood is on his hand or pants, the next cut shows him looking at his hand full of blood.
31st Jan 2017
The Notebook (2004)
Factual error: When Allie goes back to see Noah and he asks her if she's hungry, he "catches" dinner. He picks up a crab net with about a half dozen blue crabs in it. Anyone who has ever crabbed, knows you have to pick the net up fast and keep pressure on the crabs or they will exit the net on the way up. Noah picks up the net so slow, there is no way he'd have caught any crabs in it. It is obviously filled with staged crabs.
28th Sep 2016
You Again (2010)
Factual error: When Jamie Lee Curtis drops the earring down the drain, she panics and kicks the pea trap off the drain. This causes water to spew from the pipes which is possible if she accidentally kicked the water pipe but when she replaces the pea trap by hand, the water cuts off which would not happen, as the drain has nothing to do with running water.
25th Feb 2016
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Factual error: The military cannot be used to help execute civilian law except during emergencies. Rambo could, I guess, be considered an emergency however, once the national guard was called out, they would have had jurisdiction over the Podunk police department. When Brian Denehy told them to wait for them, and then subsequently to clean up their mess, he would not have been in charge at that point.
16th Nov 2015
Road House (1989)
Revealing mistake: In the first fight in the entire movie, the first guy Dalton punches is bleeding from the nose before Dalton actually makes contact.
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