Factual error: Surgical steel, which is used for making all kinds of piercings, is non-magnetic; therefore, the scene where the overcharged MRI instrument is tearing out Erik's piercings from a distance is absolutely fictional.
Dangar
28th Nov 2025
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
27th Nov 2025
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
30th Sep 2025
The Long Walk (2025)
30th Aug 2025
Benji The Hunted (1987)
30th Aug 2025
Benji The Hunted (1987)
Stupidity: First, the hunter ties Benji with a nearly 10-metre-long rope - how did he expect that the dog wouldn't trash his place like that? Second, after the wolf attack, he simply unties Benji and puts him right next to the tied bird, serving the dog the chance to grab and escape with it on a silver platter.
1st Aug 2025
Saw 3D (2010)
Question: Why did John put - or let his apprentices put - Bobby's wife in such a cruel and horrible death trap while she was 100% innocent and wasn't involved in the slightest in her husband's hoaxes (apart from being too naive and possibly blinded by love to see through his lies)? It's totally off-character to me. As far as I can remember, John never placed absolutely innocent people in the harmful end of his traps. So why?
Answer: John has consistently put innocent characters in his traps throughout all of the movies. In the original film, he put Gordon's wife and daughter in danger and told Zepp to kill them if Gordon failed his test. In "Saw II," Daniel - a minor - was placed in a trap (sure he broke a few laws, but he was a child). In "Saw III," Jeff's daughter was captured. In "Saw VI," many of William's innocent co-workers were killed, including a janitor. Etc. Jigsaw may have a certain flimsy moral code, but it's important to remember he's also a psychopath and a hypocrite and breaks his own rules constantly.
21st Jul 2025
Interstella 5555 (2003)
1st Jun 2025
The Substance (2024)
Question: Elisabeth is a rich and famous TV celebrity and former Oscar-winning actress. How come she has to live in an apartment with a such working-class-looking lowlife creep like Oliver? Why does she even have neighbours? She must be a millionaire at a minimum.
Answer: There's a false belief that an Oscar winner automatically becomes a megastar, raking in millions and getting many movie offers. That's true for some, particularly established actors, but many find that their careers did not significantly improve and even diminished. Unfortunately, Oscar awards can be less about acting ability and more about Hollywood political wrangling, a popularity choice, a PC vote, personal bias, or a sympathy win. Some believe in an "Oscar Curse," where winning actually hurts an actor's career.
Answer: M.C. Hammer amassed a multi-million dollar fortune, but within ten years he lost it all. She believed in her own hype. She believed she was on top forever. By the end of the 1980s, the whole fitness craze went the way of the dinosaur.
Answer: In addition to the other answers, it should also be reaffirmed that the movie isn't meant to be 100% realistic. It's purposely written to be very hyperbolic, cartoonish and almost like a "dark fairy tale." And one of the themes is the predatory way women in the entertainment industry (and the world at large) are treated. Even someone as famous as she being forced to stay in an apartment with a creepy, leering neighbour contributes to that theme… she can't escape predation, even at home. (I think it should also be noted that her apartment is fairly large and luxurious, especially for an expensive city like LA. The rent in a place like that is probably about 5X what I'd pay to rent an entire house in my city. So it's not like she has no money.)
10th Apr 2025
The Substance (2024)
Question: Although it's not officially stated or mentioned, the movie definitely takes place in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the time-lapse sequence of Elizabeth's Walk of Fame star, there's a wintery part with snow covering the walkway. Is it realistic to depict snow in Southwest California, especially in LA?
6th Apr 2025
The Substance (2024)
Factual error: When Sue starts losing her teeth, she pulls out incisor and canine teeth. These frontal teeth, however, have a single root apex, not two as it is depicted in the movie.
29th Mar 2025
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Question: A bit morbid one, but there's a broken off - therefore missing - piece of Chip's teacup "body." Shouldn't he miss that part from his human body as well when the curse is gone?
Answer: Not necessarily. There's no indication in the film that every part, feature, or molecule of their furniture bodies is equivalent to one on their human bodies. When they're changed back to their human form, they don't need to "match."
24th Mar 2025
Spaceballs (1987)
Question: Why didn't Yogurt just tell Lone Starr the meaning of his medallion earlier?
Answer: He tells Lone Starr he can only know what it means at the "proper time." Which, of course, ends up being right before the ending, conveniently at just the right moment for him to be able to marry the princess. It's a borderline meta-joke; he finally is told what it means, but only when it's super convenient for the plot. It's kind of poking fun at the idea of tropes and clichés like this, where a last-minute revelation saves the day.
10th Apr 2024
The IT Crowd (2006)
Trivia: During the musical montage, there's a scene with dancing men wearing white shirts and jeans. During one move - when they kick in the air - you can see that the dancer in the center has ripped his jeans in the middle.
21st Oct 2023
Jigsaw (2017)
Factual error: The depiction of lasers is completely off in the movie. While surgical laser is indeed a real thing, such a highly concentrated beam with enormous cutting power seen in the film would take industrial size instruments and an extremely high power supply. Also, a laser beam simply doesn't look that way. Those scenes are way off into science fiction for an otherwise raw and realistic-looking thriller.
21st Oct 2023
Jigsaw (2017)
21st Oct 2023
Jigsaw (2017)
Continuity mistake: As Anna and Mitch get trapped in the silo, various sharp and pointy tools begin to fall on them (a pitchfork, circular saw blades, nails, etc.), but when Ryan finally pulls the lever and the silo door bursts open, they all disappear. Only the wheat and the trapped duo can be seen "flowing" out.
12th Sep 2023
Transcendence (2014)
Continuity mistake: The car the hybrid man pushes is in OK shape at first, then he lifts and flips it through the copper fence, and now its whole front side is gone. They might used an already wrecked "car double" for the scene when it crashes and explodes. (01:40:50)
10th Apr 2023
My Name Is Earl (2005)
Other mistake: When Earl meets with Kimmi in her room, she's supposed to watch "You've Got Mail" - her TV, however, is switched off.
23rd Mar 2023
The Last of Us (2023)
Please Hold to My Hand - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Joel tries to drive through the rebel trap, the bad guy throws a big rock/brick on the pickup that creates a reasonably sized crack on its windshield - as we can see it from inside the car. However, during all the next outside shots, the windshield is intact - actually, it looks brand-new.
6th Mar 2023
My Name Is Earl (2005)
Character mistake: While filming the cheerleader performance, Jasper refers to his inability of using computers ("We're gonna put this on YouTube as soon as one of us figures out how to use a computer!"). Earlier in the series, however, Jasper ordered himself a Russian wife online, so this statement is definitely off-character.
Answer: Yes, it's possible. People with a neurological disorder called narcolepsy can fall asleep while standing or walking. Some can even engage in complex activities like driving a car.
raywest ★
But what if you aren't narcoleptic? Can a normal person fall asleep while walking just because of general fatigue?
Dangar
Yes, it is possible for a person to fall into a state of semi-sleep or "doze" while walking without having narcolepsy, especially under extreme conditions like those shown. When the brain is severely deprived of sleep, it can involuntarily enter microsleeps. These are brief, uncontrolled episodes of sleep lasting from a fraction of a second up to about 30 seconds.
No, there would have to be some underlying neurological issue that caused it. Normal people cannot fall asleep for an extended time period while walking and remain upright and mobile. Microsleep only lasts a few seconds, but a person has to have been extremely sleep deprived for many hours and they cannot function normally during an episode like with narcolepsy or sleepwalking.
raywest ★
Yes, they can. When the brain is severely deprived of sleep, it can involuntarily enter microsleeps. These are brief, uncontrolled episodes of sleep lasting from a fraction of a second up to about 30 seconds.