BaconIsMyBFF

2nd Mar 2024

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Stupidity: The first time they see the bad guy in the Land Rover, Morgan has him in his sights but can't shoot, as he doesn't want to kill him. Clearly, the obvious thing to do is to shoot the car tires, but he doesn't and lets him drive off.

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Suggested correction: Shooting out car tires is not an actual effective strategy to get a vehicle to stop. A 9mm bullet simply doesn't cause enough damage to a tire to get it to go flat immediately. It causes similar damage as running over a nail. It is a movie cliche, similar to using a gun to shoot out a lock or a rope, it just doesn't happen in real life.

BaconIsMyBFF

Corrected entry: In every battle that results in major ship damage getting warp drive back on-line is always a priority. If it was so easy for Spock (in the sense that he did not need any tools and not easy in the sense that he died) to get warp drive back on-line why didn't somebody else (with full protective gear) do exactly what he did a lot earlier? Also, what did he do?

Correction: Spock is faster and more intelligent that anyone else on the ship - what he does to the warp drive is a very quick and dirty fix to get them moving. Had anyone else tried it, they would undoubtedly have got it wrong, resulting in the destruction of the ship - remember that the Enterprise is largely crewed by trainees at this point. The only other person who might have pulled it off, namely Scotty, is out of commission, leaving Spock as the only one left to do the job.

Tailkinker

Correction: Sorry, I kinda disagree with this as Spock's solution/fix is just to open the top of the warp drive, swirl out a load of sparkly, floury gunk, and replace the lid on. How hard would that have been for ANYONE to have done?

Warp drive isn't real. We don't see exactly what Spock does, but we must assume it was a complex repair. The fact that Leonard Nimoy just appears to take the lid off and swish his hands around is due to the fact that the prop is just a plastic bowl with a light bulb and a fog machine inside. Suspension of disbelief. Also, the issue was the entire compartment was flooding with radiation, and there wasn't time to put on a full safety suit AND make the repair.

BaconIsMyBFF

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, when Lorraine is telling her children about the dance, she turned to George and said it was the same night as the terrible storm. At the courthouse, the storm was fierce - wind, thunder, and lightning. At the dance, however, it was a pleasant evening. No evidence of a storm whatsoever.

mikelynch

Correction: "Same night" doesn't mean "at the exact same time". The dance and the storm both happened the same evening.

BaconIsMyBFF

Correction: The school is some distance away from the courthouse, and the storm simply hadn't arrived there yet.

lionhead

26th Sep 2023

Rocky (1976)

Stupidity: There is no way a fighter with a brain would risk serious injury to themselves before a fight by continually punching a frozen rack of meat in a freezer slaughterhouse. There is nothing to gain by doing this, and it would only result in both fists being broken.

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Suggested correction: In fact, Sylvester Stallone permanently damaged his knuckles filming the two scenes. He obviously did not realise how dangerous punching a side of beef would be, and it isn't out of the question that the character Rocky Balboa wouldn't realise this either.

BaconIsMyBFF

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to know that if you punch or hit anything with a bare fist against anything solid, rock hard, you will damage yourself badly.

Absolutely, it shouldn't, but that is not what the "Stupidity" category is for. It is unintelligent for someone to do this, but that is not a movie mistake. Sylvester Stallone really did punch that beef and really did injure himself, so it is not something that is out of the question for a character in a movie to do.

BaconIsMyBFF

No, but it is out of the question for a man with painfully damaged knuckles to go fifteen rounds with a world heavyweight champion boxer. In fact, Rocky would probably have failed the compulsory pre-fight physical and would have been ruled unfit to fight.

Where in the movie is Rocky experiencing "painfully damaged knuckles"? With your logic, the fight would have most likely been called long before the 15th round, due to the very unrealistic and improbable punishment the 2 boxers were inflicting on each other.

10th Aug 2023

Speed (1994)

Corrected entry: When Jack is first running down the bus, trying to get on before the bus hits 50 MPH to arm the bomb, why wouldn't he shoot the tires out?

Correction: Firing a gun at a moving vehicle full of innocent people on a highway, with hundreds of other cars around, is not a viable strategy to get the bus to stop.

BaconIsMyBFF

Corrected entry: After the Na'vi derail the supply monorail and open the ammunition boxes, one of them says he found RPGs and Stingers. Considering this is a few centuries in the future, it is unlikely that a primitive weapon like RPG or a 1981-era MANPADS like the FIM-92 Stinger would still be found and in use.

tsahi

Correction: Norm says, "We're taking the whole case, the mags, the RPGs, and the Stingers." It is not out of the question that in this future, rocket-propelled grenades still exist and that there is some sort of weapon called a Stinger. The weapon Norm is looking at when he refers to the case does not look like a contemporary RPG or Stinger, but something made up for the film (just like every other military weapon that is used).

BaconIsMyBFF

Stupidity: There is no reason why any person as intelligent as Janet would keep the knowledge of Kang secret from her family. The extended Pym family are the only people in possession of the one thing Kang needs to escape. The brief explanation she gives is that she wanted to protect her family, but this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and she makes no attempt to explain how this secret keeps anyone safe.

BaconIsMyBFF

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Suggested correction: She is obviously scared out of her mind concerning Kang. She, through her fear, had hoped that him being trapped in the Quantum Realm would stay permanent as long as nobody knew about it in the normal universe. In that way, she tried to protect not only her family but the entire universe.

lionhead

Not only does she not say that she is "scared out of her mind", she also doesn't act like it either. There is no indication that she is so frightened by Kang that she has lost her senses - quite the opposite, actually. She appears to function rationally and intelligently in every other area concerning Kang, except of course for simply telling anyone how dangerous the Quantum Realm is because the movie wouldn't have a plot otherwise. It's pretty egregious and wildly ridiculous.

BaconIsMyBFF

Of course, she doesn't say that or act like that. But what she saw of him, when she touched his ship, scared her enough to go to all that trouble to keep him in the quantum realm at all costs. She thought it would be safe to leave, that he was trapped forever. Her judgment was wrong, probably caused by her fear. She is only human.

lionhead

"Fear" is not enough to get past this level of stupidity. My point is that she doesn't act so frightened; she isn't irrational in any other way. It's just a flat-out, stupidly written element of the film that is impossible to believe. There is no way on God's green earth she should keep this secret, even after her family has made it to the quantum realm. I get that the movie is trying to say she is frightened, but this goes well beyond making any kind of sense at all; it's ridiculous.

BaconIsMyBFF

Part of the stupidity also involves Janet's action in the mid-credit scenes of "Ant-Man and the Wasp," where she actively helped send Scott into the Quantum Realm to get quantum energy. If she was so afraid of a signal being sent to the QR, she wouldn't have let Scott go without explaining the dangers of going. This film seems to ignore that and instead seems to focus on Janet simply not wanting to discuss her involvement with Kang and her guilt, thinking no one would go back to the QR.

Bishop73

19th May 2023

Bloodsport (1988)

Stupidity: Amongst the dubious statistics attributed to the real Frank Dux at the end of the film is the claim that he holds the record for "Most Consecutive Knockouts in a Single Tournament - 56." A single tournament with at least 56 rounds would include over 72,000,000,000,000,000 entrants.

BaconIsMyBFF

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Suggested correction: While the entire film could be considered fiction based on Dux's dubious claims, your statement is only valid for a single-elimination style tournament. There are other types of tournaments, such as a round robin which would only require 57 contestant (Dux plus at least 56 guys to knock out).

Bishop73

The kumite is a single elimination tournament. It wouldn't make any sense to have a full-contact tournament, where the action is so (legally) violent that fights routinely end in severe injury or even death, use any other form of bracket.

BaconIsMyBFF

Nothing is stated that every tournament Dux was in was the Kumite as depicted in the film. Just that he retired undefeated in the Kumite.

Bishop73

The records listed at the end of the film are kumite records. The information comes from Frank Dux himself who made the claims on more than one occasion. When it says 56 consecutive knockouts, it is referring to the kumite and not some other, possibly round robin (which honestly would still be a ridiculous claim) tournament. It is likely the makers of the film believed "consecutive knockouts" meant "single tournament."

BaconIsMyBFF

I guess everything I've read on him over the decades never made it clear it was talking about one type of tournament with all the accomplishments he's claimed to have. And I've read the same repeated factoid about how many contestants 56 rounds would have that you read.

Bishop73

11th Oct 2015

Predestination (2014)

Factual error: The picture of the bomb switch shows an Arduino Pro Mini. The Arduino Pro Mini was released in 2008, not in 1975. (01:21:20)

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Suggested correction: SPOILERS: The ending of the film reveals that the Fizzle Bomber is an older version of the Agent, who still has a functioning time machine. This simply shows that he is using parts from the future for his bombs.

BaconIsMyBFF

2nd Jan 2023

Sudden Death (1995)

Stupidity: The secret service officer near the elevator gets shot right in the middle of his head by the Penguin mascot, and she drags his dead body into the elevator. Suddenly he's able to moan and groan and she shoots him again. The guy was very shot in the head, as in graphically. How is he suddenly alive enough to moan?

manthabeat

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Suggested correction: A bullet to the head is not guaranteed to kill someone. Movies and video games have taught us that being shot in the head is instant death, but that just isn't the case.

BaconIsMyBFF

Pretty sure you wouldn't wake up in seconds after a bullet to the head.

manthabeat

Correct. You probably would just lay there stunned while moaning and groaning... exactly like the scene depicts.

He didn't "wake up", he moaned. Which is 100% possible and actually happens quite frequently.

BaconIsMyBFF

25th Aug 2021

Arachnophobia (1990)

Revealing mistake: At the end when the dock 'kicks' the king spider off him into the fire, we hear it scream like a stuck pig. Then additional screams from the 'burning' spiders inside the pulsating nest, and when the doc torches both the king spider afterwards.

eaglegrad16

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Suggested correction: Not sure how this is a mistake. Sure real world spiders don't making squealing noises but real world spiders also don't jump 30 feet or have venom potent enough to kill a human within seconds of being bitten.

It's a mistake because spiders cannot vocalize at all. The film creates a new spider species with exaggerated aspects of real life spiders: extremely potent venom, highly aggressive behavior, jumping ability, etc. What the film can't do is give the spiders traits they couldn't possibly have in real life.

BaconIsMyBFF

2nd Aug 2022

Twins (1988)

Corrected entry: When Julius is first driving the Red mustang on two wheels, when it lands back onto all four wheels on the long shot you see the airbag deploy. It's no longer deployed the next scene of Julius smiling in the car. (00:30:50)

Correction: It's a 1988 Mustang 5.0, they didn't get airbags until 1990. What you are seeing can't be an airbag. Even if the car did have airbags it is unfathomable that a major film production would not disable them during a stunt.

BaconIsMyBFF

Correction: The driver's airbag does not deploy in the long shot, we can see the seat and driver behind the steering wheel. Just as the car lands on all 4 of its tires, a translucent white glaring reflection begins to appear on the right side of the windshield, and as the car fully lands the translucent reflection extends across three quarters of the windshield (could be the reflection of a lighting panel or location lighting).

Super Grover

9th Sep 2022

Ladyhawke (1985)

Factual error: The hawk that Isabeau turns into is a red-tailed hawk. Red-Tailed hawks are a North American Species and wouldn't be found in Europe.

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Suggested correction: There is nothing in the film to suggest that because they live in Europe, Isabeau should only turn into a hawk native to that continent. It's a magical curse. A film can make its own rules how magic works in their universe and in this film Isabeau is cursed to turn into a North-American hawk for whatever reason.

BaconIsMyBFF

Correction: This is incorrect. Casey Jones is a playable character in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, which was released in 1994. In addition, Casey Jones and Splinter are unlockable playable characters in the mobile game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Madness which was released in 2020.

BaconIsMyBFF

Sorry. I didn't know this, my apologies for this error.

Rob245

18th Jun 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Two of One - S2-E6

Stupidity: Adam Soong's daughter is a grown woman who is well aware of her unique critical condition and the outside world, and is homebound because of her health condition that prevents her from being exposed to direct sunlight and pathogens. Apparently, with all the free time she has and awareness and investment in her father's researches who are all about her, she never ever looked at her father's computer (which has all the info about her story right there on the desktop) nor googled him before.

Sammo

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Suggested correction: I'm sorry, but what reason would she have to look at her father's computer or google him prior to becoming suspicious of him? Yes, the information about the experiments is laughably easy to find but that doesn't mean it's stupid that she hasn't stumbled upon it yet. She never looked because she trusted her father. She doesn't have a reason not to, she isn't privy to his shady actions like the audience. It doesn't seem unreasonable that someone who is so isolated from society might be naïve.

BaconIsMyBFF

If she were a pure innocent soul isolated from society in an absolute sense, yes, but if you look at episode 4, she is aware that he is being audited, and she even jokes about the line he actually used "Humanity is at a crossroad" implying it's a bad line that he used before and that, besides being a huge red flag about the unethical experiments she is totally unaware of a couple episodes later, there is contention about what he is doing. If your dad were implied in some public auditing the outcome of which your very life depends on, I think you'd peek at the media coverage. Even worse for the computer, with the data easily accessible from the desktop, in video format - she's home all day and yet she never ever in a lifetime peeked what her dad was up to, which is, and she is aware of that much, finalized to save her life.

Sammo

Factual error: It wouldn't have mattered that Ritter had his "autographed get out of jail free card" given to him by Cutter or authorized by the President, it was still an illegal operation that Congress didn't know about. Anyone involved in it would be going to prison regardless of position.

jbrbbt

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Suggested correction: The point Ritter is making is the operation was personally authorized by the President behind closed doors. If Cutter and Ritter were arrested for their involvement, they would be pardoned by the President. The President of the United States has the authority to pardon someone even before they have been charged with a federal crime, as Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon. Jack doesn't have this protection because he is to be the scapegoat if the scandal is exposed.

BaconIsMyBFF

31st May 2022

The Northman (2022)

Corrected entry: When Amleth is having his vision of the valkyrie near the end, she appears to have dental braces on her teeth when the camera is up on her face as she is screaming.

Correction: These are not braces, they are teeth "tattoos." Vikings would sometimes literally file horizontal grooves into their teeth for decorative purposes. The actress likely has not had her teeth filed for this one role so it seems what you are seeing is some sort of makeup application. But it is definitely not braces that were accidentally left in the shot.

BaconIsMyBFF

I can confirm this. In the film's commentary track, the director mentions that they are grooves carved in her teeth, and how he's seen YouTube comments asking why they have braces.

THGhost

8th Oct 2019

Mortal Engines (2018)

Plot hole: There is no way Anna could know that Hester was going to be at the auction. The circumstances that led to Hester and Tom being captured can't possibly have spread to the Anti-Traction League, they were immediately taken to the slave auction after being captured. Anna also instantly recognizes Hester when she sees her despite the fact that Hester was 8 years old the last time she would have seen her.

BaconIsMyBFF

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Suggested correction: Anna might have very well just been there to do anti-tractionist things, it was an auction made of towns after all a prime target to hit many options at once or hide bombs on for a bigger city to gobble up and go off later. Once she saw Hester her plans simply changed. As for how she recognized her, it is possible Anna had been tracking / keeping an eye on her. It wouldn't be impossible to ask around for a scar faced girl moving from town to town and might have gotten a pic somewhere.

These are all wild guesses that aren't confirmed by the film itself. They do not qualify as corrections.

BaconIsMyBFF

5th Nov 2019

Common mistakes

Corrected entry: Whenever a man goes into the ladies' restroom to talk to a woman, it's always conveniently empty.

Mike Lynch

Correction: This is more of a cliche than a mistake. I have entered hundreds of public restrooms in my life and a good number of them have been empty when I did. It's not a mistake for a movie to show an empty ladies room in a particular scene, no matter how many other films do the same.

BaconIsMyBFF

How Bleen was My Kelly - S10-E5

Continuity mistake: The family assumes Fox Viewing positions suggesting they are using an antenna to get reception. A few episodes earlier, Al changed their cable television channels to all men channels. You don't need antennae if you have cable.

Rebecca Venter

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Suggested correction: Cable and antenna isn't an either/or situation. You can have cable but still use an antenna to get a local channel if your cable provider doesn't offer that station.

BaconIsMyBFF

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