Factual error: Examine the axe (not the armor, the axe) in the hallway. The description says it was crafted by Doge Guiseppe Minelli. Besides the fact that there has never been a doge by that name or family (and he probably wouldn't be making his own weapons), "Guiseppe" is a misspelling of the Italian name Giuseppe. The text mentions also "Antonio Fermaccelli the bologna merchant." Bologna should be capitalized, being a city, unless we're talking about an aristocrat who sold baloney, who wouldn't be called that way in the XIV century anyway. Finally, "Fermaccelli" is not a legit Italian last name.
Sammo
19th Feb 2022
The Colonel's Bequest
16th Feb 2022
Scream 2 (1997)
Factual error: The part of the play Sidney stars in begins with "All, behold the dreaded fate of Troy, that once stood proud and light upon the hills of Sparta." Please, what? There is a correlation between Sparta and Troy (the bride of the king of Sparta ran off with the prince of Troy, that was the casus belli), but phrased this way it does not make sense. (00:57:00)
16th Feb 2022
Curious Expedition
Factual error: You can get idols depicting lamas not just from tribes in South America, but also Africa. Not exactly a part of the local fauna.
15th Feb 2022
Eternals (2021)
Factual error: It can be argued that the MCU is not quite our world, but certainly mirrors it closely - after all, the movie makes a point to feature real life dates and events such as Hiroshima, showing that even Cap America's actions in Europe didn't alter the outcome of WW2. It's then quite puzzling to see then Sersi gifting the savages in Mesopotamia a golden dagger that reproduces with precision one of the golden daggers in the tombs from Ur; they were Mesopotamian artefacts, sure, but from around 2600 BC and the scene takes place in 5000 BC.
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Factual error: Throughout the movie there is constant reference to the Sheriff; Burke is the sheriff, Dewey works for the sheriff (and he will become the sheriff in Scream 4, with the same mistake happening), but the car Dewey uses is marked "Woodsboro Police."
3rd Feb 2022
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Factual error: A helpful automated voice from Oscorp informs the robbers that "Plutonium-838 is a radioactive material and is highly explosive." No it's not. It is radioactive obviously, but it is not some volatile explosive. (00:09:10)
18th Jan 2022
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns (2014)
The Alchemy Murder Case File 3 - S1-E8
Factual error: The Latin text on the supposedly old tome (which is written with a modern font) displays an alchemist diagram. It is a reproduction of a famous drawing meant to portray the Philosopher Stone in the Sylva Philosophorum, but whoever copied it does not know Latin, because certain words are misspelled ("Merceralia" instead of "Mercurialia", "Humides" instead of "Humidus"). (00:10:10)
18th Jan 2022
Welcome to Free Will
Factual error: The newspaper you find in Chapter 2 with the "Dead body found in the mountains" headline bears the wrong date; "Friday June 17, 2020" never existed, since it was a Wednesday.
7th Jan 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E9
Factual error: The culprit merely drops a chandelier from the ceiling in an unplanned move. From that simple action, the whole building - a huge castle - catches fire so quickly you'd think it's made out of papier-mâche soaked in gasoline, not stone.
23rd Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Factual error: When we see Young Shriek struggling with Young Detective Mulligan, the gunshot explodes when the weapon is pointed up and at distance from her face. Obviously a direct shot to her eye socket would have killed her, but she is blind in that eye and has a scar in two distinct parts of the socket. It's hard to imagine how a wound with that pattern could have occurred even thinking of the bullet ricocheting off the top of the trunk or something. (00:02:55)
16th Dec 2021
Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems
Factual error: The Infinity Gems are the main plot point used in this game, and yet their color is incorrect (for the Marvel canon of the time); the Power gem here is colored magenta, and the Time gem is cherry red. They should be red and orange (and the Reality gem should be a less warm yellow, it practically is orange here).
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Suggested correction: This is a discrepancy between the game and the comics they are based on, which is by site policy, not a mistake. By the same token, Thanos is the final boss of the game, whereas if the game was following the comics storyline, he would have been an earlier boss and then an ally, and the Magus would have been the final boss.
Technically there is not a "War of the Gems" saga in the comics? It IS obvious that the game is an adaptation of Infinty War taking plenty liberties but it's what adaptations do.At the time of the release of the game, the color of the gems was canon and I think a minute difference like this hardly falls under an artistic license like your example; they simply picked poor matches with the original colors making everything confusing. However yes, ultimately it IS a discrepancy, so.
9th Dec 2021
Welcome to Free Will
Factual error: The first day at Rosa's, there's a magazine on the kitchen counter containing some news about the Welcome sign being vandalized. The date is "Monday, June 10 2020." June 10th was a Wednesday.
25th Nov 2021
Ghostbusters (1984)
Factual error: Walter Peck in his slimy handshake introduces himself; "I represent the Environmental Protection Agency, the third district." The EPA has no 'districts' (NY's in Region 2). (00:46:15)
6th Nov 2021
Eternals (2021)
Factual error: Druig leads several warriors outside Tenochtitlan as it was sacked by the Spanish conquistadores, and they live peacefully in the nearby forest, for 500 years. The forest is of course the virgin Amazon forest, as captions say. Small problem; Tenochtitlan was in Central Mexico.
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Suggested correction: It never says that the people who live with Druig in the Amazon in the present day are descendants of the people from Tenochtitlan. Nor does it ever say that the forest outside Tenochtitlan is the Amazon. He's probably been moving around for the last five centuries just as the other Eternals have.
Never ever? He literally says "Do you remember this forest? Beautiful. It's the last place we all lived together. I've protected these people for 20 generations." They split after their argument during the sack of the town. If their base of operations exterminating the mutant space dogs in Mexico was in the Amazon forest, their logistic could use some work.
Just because the last time they fought together was in Tenochtitlan doesn't mean that was the last time they lived together. They may have spent some time living peacefully in the Amazon before moving north to do their business in Tenochtitlan. And just because he's protected the people for twenty generations doesn't mean they're descendants of the people from Tenochtitlan. He may have found them later. We don't know every detail of the Eternals' history. You're just making assumptions.
You are assuming the presence of a third party stranded for 500 years that the movie never showed before, different from the people that he led out of the city and that we have then to postulate he let go, in a location far off from the one of their last encounter. It's an assumption on entirely new details that you had to make up. My only assumption is to think that what is shown in the movie had purpose and fits, and someone just borked a caption.
Who says they're stranded? He just said he had protected them for twenty generations. They'd probably always lived there. You're making the assumption that they must be the same people because nobody said they weren't. But nobody said they were either. Nobody in the film ever made a connection between the people in Tenochtitlan and the people in the Amazon. No mistake has therefore been made in either the dialogue or the captions.
I noticed the same problem, the scene indicates the location as "Amazon" (it could be any of the Spanish speaking countries that have part of this forest), but then, Druig comes with the affirmation you pointed. It's obviously a geographical inaccuracy.
They don't speak Spanish in the Amazons.
20th Oct 2021
Il Balordo (1978)
Factual error: Richard Harrison enlists the protagonist in the Allied army. He brings Maestro Bordigoni along on a tour of sorts, performing in several cities freed from the Nazis. But the headlines are just wrong; Bordigoni supposedly plays on "Thursday January 14th 1944" in Rome - it was a Friday and most importantly, Rome had not been liberated yet. Same mistake for Bologna; Bordigoni holds a concert on Friday May 8th 1944, wrong day of the week and in a city still controlled by the Axis. (02:16:40)
2nd Sep 2021
Zorro (1975)
Factual error: In the bar in Cartagena amongst the goods advertised there's a sale of slaves of color ("Negroes"). However the movie is set in the early XIX century and the sale the poster refers to (listing very specific figures) took place in South Carolina in 1769.
11th Aug 2021
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Factual error: During the briefing, Waller shows the map of the island of Corto Maltese. The map positions the fictional island in the Caribbean (it says "Mar Caribe"), but she says it is "off the coast of South America." The map does have also a set of precise coordinates in one of the middle quadrants; 45°43'36.0"S 56°32'58.2"W, which would place it far west of Argentina, surely nowhere near "Mar Caribe." (00:22:10)
27th Apr 2021
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Factual error: Let's go by the movie geography; our planet is a big matrioska. By diagrams shown, this Hollow Earth would be by the Earth's core, thousands of miles deep. They enter from a portal in Antarctica. And yet, Godzilla later in the movie burns a random hole in the ground in HK deep enough to reach it, roars through it and Kong hears it, and the ape easily climbs it to poke back to the surface. Even admitting you can do the magic "1,000 miles in 2 seconds" warp anywhere, the scale is ludicrous.
22nd Apr 2021
Grand Isle (2019)
Factual error: The movie is set in 1988, but the hurricane mentioned ("Jodie") is from 1977. (00:15:20)
21st Apr 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Factual error: The whole "Did the referee blow his whistle because of the goal, or because the match is over" isn't possible; the referee blows his whistle three times for the end of the match, not just a single time. (However, it should be noted that technically it's a universally adopted convention but not a hard-coded rule). (00:05:50)
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