Sammo

13th May 2022

The Nice Guys (2016)

Continuity mistake: A bad guy hiding in Jackson's apartment points a gun at his head when Jackson, carrying a case of Yoo-hoo, is distracted by his accomplice. In close-up the older guy takes his glasses off, but in the next wider shot he's wearing them. (00:16:25)

Sammo

13th May 2022

The Nice Guys (2016)

Other mistake: Misty's car at the beginning of the movie crashes into the house presumably breaking through the perimeter wall, certainly does smash through interior walls and furniture, but in the living room it still has every single light, including the side ones, completely whole and undamaged.

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Continuity mistake: Joanne's dad hits Tuba up with the baseball bat after he tried to fix his zipper; between shots Sammo Hung's hand is in a different position, as you can tell by the writing on the bat that suddenly in the second shot is in view and not covered by the hand anymore, and even further uncovered in the next. (01:29:15)

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Continuity mistake: Jeong-lee Hwang is fighting Tuba in front of a metal cage. He sends him against several boxes of fruit, and you can see Sammo Hung reeling against a brown box of apples. Out of nowhere, in the next shot a box of oranges appeared on top of it. (01:20:40)

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Other mistake: Tuba is back home after Rambo completely ruined the dinner at his fiancée's. During the scene, the clock on the wall has all hands still, including the seconds. (01:11:00)

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Continuity mistake: Ghost Rambo eats the apple, then puts it quickly back on the plate. The apple is lying on the side in close-up, but when Tuba looks around puzzled, it is sitting on the plate with the stalk up. (00:55:00)

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Continuity mistake: Tuba jumps out of the supermarket in joy after asking Joanne out. The people around him when he leaps are different from the ones around him when he lands; in particular you can notice behind him in the second shot there's a lady with frizzly hair and a white sweater that already sped way past him in the first one. (00:52:30)

Sammo

13th May 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Hide and Seek - S2-E9

Stupidity: Towards the end of the season, the Borg Queen uses Soong to get control of the ship. When asked by the heroes who gained back control, she says that her plan is to get back to the Delta Quadrant and prepare for the Confederation that she already fought in her 'future'. If that's her plan, it's quite silly; she prepares for a conflict she might lose, when she has in her grasp the man who, as she knows, will originate the Confederation itself; Soong, not to mention that she can assimilate (or destroy) the whole Earth already. No reason is given why she'd let 'us' live and thrive.

Sammo

13th May 2022

Being a DIK

Character mistake: During Act 1, Steve invites the romantic interest of the protagonist to ride his (dad's) Mustang. Prominently featured amongst the merchandise they sell at the store, packages of Fruit Blast cereals advertised as having "DELICOUS taste."

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Black Butterfly Murder Case: File 1 - S3-E1

Stupidity: Since "Touno" was prominently featured on the photo of a lengthy article about the butterfly crypto-entomologist Shimon Madarame, it's quite strange to say the least that Kindaichi and his journalist friend wouldn't have the slightest clue about his name or generic occupation. Generally a magazine does not put a person in 1/3 of a double page spread without at least hinting the reader about a person's identity, especially when they are not doing anything in the picture.

Sammo

13th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Continuity mistake: The old lady grabs a knife and throws it at Jack Deth. In the wide angle he lets go of the stove, but in the next shot he's still clinging to it with his left hand. (00:05:05)

Sammo

13th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Revealing mistake: When Jack punches the old lady, he swings way off target, and also 'she' (the stuntwoman, really) turns towards the counter and uses her arms to push herself to the other side. (00:04:45)

Sammo

13th May 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

13th May 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Hide and Seek - S2-E9

Character mistake: Seven of Nine asks Tallinn to lay down suppressing fire, so they "split up." She explains "We have twice as many chances to get to the ship if we divide and conquer." 'Divide and conquer' (Divide et impera, for the Romans) means to keep the opposition weak by favouring the conflict between their different factions. It is not used to describe splitting up your own forces to have better chances to make it out of a trap alive.

Sammo

13th May 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Hide and Seek - S2-E9

Plot hole: Adam Soong tosses the phaser before it explodes. The explosion is an underwhelming bang in the air that does not hurt anyone. Soong is a chubby old dude, with no access to teleport technology or any tech, no allies left in the area, inside Picard's home in France, and all he did was run out of the door, unarmed. All Rios (or anyone else, really, arguably even Picard-bot) has to do to catch him is comfortably jogged through the corridor, but somehow since he went out of the camera view and the plot doesn't want them to look for him, he ceased to exist, and he can stir trouble later after he gets (somehow) back to California.

Sammo

13th May 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Farewell - S2-E10

Other mistake: When Tallinn dies, not only she is killed through a neurotoxin made in 2024 by a human, for humans, through a patch that the killer carelessly touches himself (we have to be generous and assume he developed some antidote to it) and somehow they can't cure with their advanced tech, but her eyes become bloodshot with visible red blood vessels. Romulan blood is green.

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Continuity mistake: When Christine and the groom have a look at the battle on the nearby building, in the shot from the front you can see to the left a very excited guy hop from foot to foot with his mouth open. In the angle with the camera behind Christine, the guy is directly next to her, but there were a couple more people between him and the bride.

Sammo

13th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Revealing mistake: When he old lady jumps over the counter to attack Jack with a cleaver, she is replaced for the physical struggle by a younger person; you can see her face when the two struggle against the table. (00:04:55)

Sammo

13th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Character mistake: In the opening credits, the actor Art LaFleur, correctly credited as such in the end credits, appears as "Art Le Fleur" (00:01:00 - 01:15:50)

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