Corrected entry: Jigsaw is lying on the ground with a gun in one hand, and a tape recorder in the other; the tape recorder is removed, leaving his hand empty. If both of his hands were occupied/exposed, he would have had no way of depressing the button on the remote control to shock the prisoners. As seen at the end, when he shocks Adam the final time, the control is in his hand, not hidden anywhere else on his body.
Movielover1996
17th Feb 2005
Saw (2004)
27th Aug 2001
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Michael Douglas is listening to a "deposition" (which is really Glenn Close calling him names, etc.) using his ear phones in his new attic home (just before his wife comes up and finds him), the audio tape is not the same one as he was listening to minutes before in the car! The words are almost the same but the inflections are different.
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Suggested correction: It is the same tape, although a mistake does remain - the tape when first being played in the attic is a few sentences before where the tape should start (without him rewinding it at all).
Actually, it's not the same tape. Her tone of voice is completely different, and the words, although the same in the car, are phrased in a different speaking manner.
5th Mar 2022
Robocop (1987)
Corrected entry: Murphy can't arrest OCP Executive, Dick Jones as it's against his Directive. But with the video recording of Boddicker admitting that Dick Jones is the man behind the murder of Bob Morton, any other police officer could have made the arrest anytime.
Correction: Murphy's big mistake was trying to arrest Dick Jones himself (considering he had no idea that it was against his directives). After that fails, Jones has ordered the entire police department to destroy Murphy, which means he has to go into hiding. Even at the end, he still has to take Dick Jones down by himself. Now if Robocop had simply gone back to the police department and showed the evidence, things might have turned out differently. But his self-confidence turned out to be a huge mistake.
Correction: I agree with the above. While it's true that he definitely should have brought backup or a witness to arrest the second-highest ranked member of the organization, it would have gone against everything that the company stood for in creating an unstoppable policeman who "takes out the trash" for personal profit, even if Jones had modified it to his favour. This is more of an intended movie cliché rather than a real lapse of judgment or error to represent the film's tone.
4th May 2008
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Corrected entry: Murtaugh and Riggs believe Joshua is going to Murtaugh's home to kill his family. So they have two uniform officers in a patrol car out front of the house, seemingly guarding Murtaugh's family. Magically, tho, Murtaugh and Riggs have beat Joshua there, and are hiding nearby while the family has been removed. The uniform cops are apparently never told who is coming, what he's capable of, looks like, or is driving, as they are very accommodating when Joshua arrives, and are quickly executed. Considering the events prior, this situation is ludicrously inept. Murtaugh and Riggs wouldn't just sacrifice two officers like that. (01:37:15)
Correction: Murtaugh and Riggs did not beat Joshua there. Joshua entering Murtaugh's house and finding that it was empty indicated that before Riggs and Murtaugh set out on their mission to get Murtaugh's daughter back, they hid his family away as well. They didn't want to show them moving the family because when you think Joshua's about to get the family it increases dramatic effect, but, as I said earlier, they were really already gone. Murtaugh and his family had already been targeted by the drug dealers, so the pair of cops were stationed outside of Murtaugh's house in case the drug dealers came back to it. That all DOES happen: the drug dealer (singular now) came back to the house looking for the family, but they were already gone. Riggs and Murtaugh return not out of desperation to save Murtaugh's family (since they're already safe) but to not let Joshua get away. Riggs and Murtaugh arrive only to find the cops guarding the house very visibly dead, so they set a quick distraction for Joshua and placed him under arrest. Riggs and Murtaugh did NOT sacrifice anyone, and they did NOT arrive before Joshua.
Correction: I don't buy this for a second. There was too little time for them to enter the house, leave the message for Joshua, and lie in wait outside. Not to mention, the cops shouldn't have been so incompetent by making small talk with someone who they should know might be one of the bad guys.
30th Oct 2018
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: There's no reason whatsoever the trio needed to risk telling Hagrid at nighttime that they knew about the Philosopher's Stone, as it ends up in them getting in trouble. They could have told him immediately after Hermione found out about the Philosopher's Stone in the library. Or if they couldn't find time between classes, they could have waited until tomorrow.
Correction: They are kids, they got excited. It's not a stupidity for a movie to have kids do stupid things. Kids do stupid things, that's why they are kids.
I don't necessarily agree with that. In the book, they had a legitimate reason to sneak out during nighttime as they were trying to smuggle Hagrid's dragon out of Hogwarts without it being seen, which isn't in the film, so there is no reason for them to wait until nighttime to talk to Hagrid about what they know, nor does it explain why Malfoy is there suddenly.
Correction: I was under the impression that Zep also had control over the electrocution devices. Jigsaw gave Zep full access to the cameras, so he could see if Lawrence fulfilled his task of killing Adam. It's quite possible that he also gave him access to the electrocution device to ensure that Adam was dead, which it indeed came to.
jshy7979
While this would certainly be a valid explanation, the problem is that Lawrence is only electrocuted after Zep had left the house to kill him and had struggled with Lawrence's wife and Tapp a few minutes before. Not to mention that Lawrence had already "failed" his game, so there's really no reason at all for him to electrocute him. It definitely seems that the movie seems to point that Jigsaw is the one doing the electrocutions, rather than Zep.
Movielover1996
Phenomenal point. Adam getting electrocuted was one thing, but in light of what you just pointed out about Zep, there’s no way he electrocuted Laurence. Good call, I absolutely stand corrected.
jshy7979