Trivia: During the opening credits at the beginning, a readout reads "Gamma Quadrant" this is a reference to Star Trek. The Alpha Quadrant is Federation space and the Delta Quadrant is where Star Trek: Voyager takes place. (00:01:05)
A nameless member
5th Dec 2010
Toy Story 2 (1999)
5th Dec 2010
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Trivia: When Buzz lands on the planet and is surrounded by Zurg's robots, they bear a resemblance to Maximilian from The Black Hole, the first Disney movie to NOT get a G rating. (00:02:10)
26th Nov 2010
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Factual error: When Woody is looking at Andy's high school graduation picture in his room, there is a concert ticket in the upper left corner of the screen and another one just below it for a band called "Humble Beginnings" both with a date of Saturday, November 17, 2009. This date fell on a Tuesday. (00:11:15)
19th Nov 2010
Airplane (1980)
Trivia: The credits list "generally in charge of a lot of things" as one of the job titles. (01:26:00)
8th Nov 2010
Men in Black II (2002)
7th Nov 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Other mistake: There is a mistake in the French subtitle translation. In the diner when the cook asks Edgar the Bug, "where's Ivan?" Edgar responds, "[I] gave him a break". The translator writing the subtitles must have thought he was saying "GIVE him a break" because the subtitle reads, "laisse-le tranquille" which means, "leave him alone". (00:42:10)
19th Jul 2010
My Favorite Martian (1999)
Factual error: The TV station in the movie is KGSC channel 10, and the building shown at the beginning for the exterior shots is in fact Santa Barbara's TV station, but it's channel 3 and its call sign is KEYT. There is no channel 10 in Santa Barbara. In fact, the only channel 10 in Southern California is in San Diego. (00:01:45 - 00:34:45)
16th Jul 2010
Predator 2 (1990)
Question: Right after the Jamaicans kill Ramon Vega and the predator slaughters all of them, Jerry Lambert says, "she (Ramon's girlfriend) never made it". What could she have died of? She was seen walking with Leona Cantrell and didn't seem wounded, and the predator would not have hurt her because she was unarmed. If she were wounded, she would have been checked out by paramedics right away. (00:31:20)
27th Jun 2010
Airplane (1980)
Trivia: One of the special thanks in the end credits is to the Argon Oil Company, a fictional company in another ZAZ movie, "Kentucky Fried Movie". Argon is actually an elemental gas. (01:26:50)
22nd Jun 2010
Traffic (2000)
Factual error: Javier Rodriguez and the assassin light up a cigarette in a bar in San Diego. Smoking has been illegal in bars in California since 1998. This movie was released in 2001. (00:32:55)
15th Jun 2010
Wagons East (1994)
Factual error: In the saloon at night, Ben Wheeler says, "I can't afford another Workers Comp claim". Workers compensation wasn't started in the United States until 1902. (00:10:25)
15th Jun 2010
10 to Midnight (1983)
Trivia: When Warren Stacy is in the dorm he picks up a police radio and the dispatcher can be heard saying Code 6 (Code 6 Stay out of area - http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html) at Florence And Normandie. This is the intersection where the Rodney King Riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots) would break out nine years later. (01:33:05)
4th Jun 2010
Valley Girl (1983)
Trivia: The name that appears on the credit card is Wayne Crawford, one of the writers. (00:01:50)
30th May 2010
Bad Boys II (2003)
Trivia: The surveillance van is disguised as Coachman Tile with a phone number 305-688-1315. That is a real business in Miami and that is their actual phone number. (01:11:40)
23rd Feb 2010
Uncle Buck (1989)
Question: When Uncle Buck is going to the party to get Bug, he is stopped at a red light and there are two parents in the car next to him. The father says, "don't go in there with that hat on, they'll kill you". Why would someone be killed for wearing a hat?
Chosen answer: He's being sarcastic, as Buck says in the beginning some of his hats anger a lot of people, which probably connects to when his hat gets taken by one of the teenagers at the party.
Buck is actually referring to his aviator style hat in the earlier scene about people being angered by it. He's wearing the fedora style hat in the scene en route to the party. But I agree the guy was being sarcastic about teenagers.
The black purse bedside to the possible 'pile of bunched-up blankets' looks like Chanice's from later scenes; suggesting the writers or Hughes changed the script after the bedroom scene was shot to Buck's simpler but delightfully funny half-conversation with her on the phone.
Answer: The Uncle Buck movie was made in the late 80s, near the end of the Cold War. And Because the hat resembles the Russian ushanka worn by Russian soldiers in that time, it can be said that wearing it might anger some, especially young Americans opposed to world events at the time.
30th Nov 2009
Trading Places (1983)
Continuity mistake: A woman is seen dancing next to a portrait on the wall, and is immediately afterwards sitting on a couch next to Billy Ray. (00:41:40)
20th Sep 2009
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Continuity mistake: Big Ray Walston screams that his nose was broken, and has blood coming out of it, despite the fact that Jimmy Dix blatantly hit him in the forehead with a football. (00:12:00 - 01:25:10)
14th Sep 2009
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Trivia: The fictional country that General Esperanza is from is Val Verde, which was the same country where Arius had been a dictator in the 1985 film, Commando, also produced by Joel Silver. (00:02:30)
7th Sep 2009
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Chosen answer: Scotty spent the best years of his career as the chief engineer of the flagship of the Federation: the Enterprise. His time has passed, however and the Federation is rumored to be planning on the Excelsior becoming the new flagship. It is a larger ship with a new, experimental warp drive. Scotty hates the Excelsior primarily due to his pride in the Enterprise but also because he is unimpressed by the design of the Excelsior. The trans-warp drive is easily sabotaged.
28th Aug 2009
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Audio problem: When Gilliam slams on the brakes, the tires make a screeching sound, but the wheels come rolling to a stop, ergo do not skid. (00:56:50)
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Chosen answer: Jerry means she never made it to the hospital. Keyes' goon squad intercepted the ambulance and snatched her to interrogate her about the Predator.
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