Jedd Jong

Continuity mistake: Javed and his father are in the car and they need Javed's mother and sisters to help push the car to get it started. There is an ornament that looks like a traffic light hanging from the rear view mirror in the car, which can be seen in exterior shots of the car, but disappears when we are looking through the windscreen from inside the car. In the next scene after the car has successfully started, the rear view mirror ornament vanishes altogether.

Jedd Jong

28th Sep 2016

Suicide Squad (2016)

Trivia: Amanda Waller operates out of the "John F. Ostrander Federal Building." John Ostrander is the comic book writer who reinvented the Suicide Squad using the concept of a supervillain team forced to do the government's bidding. The Suicide Squad title was originally a World War II comic, akin to the Dirty Dozen.

Jedd Jong

28th Sep 2016

Suicide Squad (2016)

Trivia: The bulk of the story takes place in Midway City, which in the comics, is home to Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

Jedd Jong

28th Sep 2016

Suicide Squad (2016)

Trivia: Fleetingly visible on screen among Harley Quinn's bio-data is the phrase "accomplice to the murder of Robin." In the comics, Jason Todd, the second Robin, was killed by the Joker - this took place before the character of Harley Quinn was created.

Jedd Jong

28th Sep 2016

Suicide Squad (2016)

Trivia: While he's only referred to as "Rick Flag", the character is actually Rick Flag Jr. - in the original Suicide Squad comics, Rick Flag Sr. Was the leader of the first Suicide Squad, a Dirty Dozen-style commando team operating during World War II.

Jedd Jong

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ava shoots Damien, she has no bra under her sheer nightgown in one shot and then has one when she goes to the window in the next.

Jedd Jong

7th Jul 2013

The Mummy (1999)

19th Nov 2010

Unstoppable (2010)

Continuity mistake: Colson is blasted in the face with grain when the train car carrying the grain explodes, and his hair is blown about. When he goes back into the cockpit of the locomotive, there is no grain on him and his hair is neat.

Jedd Jong

31st Jul 2010

Inception (2010)

Trivia: The song that is played to wake everyone up is Edith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien". Marion Cottillard (Mal) played Piaf in the biopic La Vie En Rose and won an Oscar for it.

Jedd Jong

25th Jul 2010

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Trivia: Ken is based upon "Animal Lovin' Ken", who came with a pet chimpanzee, and Barbie is based on "Great Shape Barbie", who wore a leotard and leg warmers as a workout outfit. (00:23:15)

Jedd Jong

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Suggested correction: I have looked at every frame of the video. I don't see a pastie. At more than one frame, I see her actual breasts and nipples.

Trivia: Before marrying "Doyle", Marilyn says she wants to erase every suspicion from his mind, a reference to the Elvis song "Suspicious Minds" that is used during the title sequence.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Perry White prepares two headlines, one if Superman dies and one if he survives. The second, "Superman Lives", was also the title for a proposed Superman film that failed to materialise.

Jedd Jong

23rd Jun 2010

Superman Returns (2006)

23rd Jun 2010

Superman Returns (2006)

Trivia: Interior shots of the 777 were filmed in the largest gimbal ever constructed (up to the time). A gimbal rig is like a motion simulator, the platform can pitch and yaw to simulate the movement of the plane.

Jedd Jong

22nd May 2010

Iron Man 2 (2010)

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Trivia: The late DJ Adam Goldstein appears as himself in the movie during Stark's party. The film is dedicated to his memory. (00:53:40)

Jedd Jong

20th May 2010

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Trivia: In the comics, Justin Hammer is an elderly man whose appearance is based on actor Peter Cushing and who is named for the Hammer Horror films in which Cushing appeared. He was aged down for this film to make him more of a contemporary rival to Tony Stark.

Jedd Jong

12th May 2010

Iron Man 2 (2010)

3rd May 2010

Hellboy (2004)

Trivia: Hellboy comics creator Mike Mignola is given a mention several times in the film, including the "Mignola Plaza" apartment complex seen in Liz's flashback, as well as the name "Mike Mignola" in Russian on a tombstone in the cemetery scene.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: The poster outside the elevator in the Louvre advertising the Caravaggio exhibit features Caravaggio's "The Boy in the Well", referencing the incident in Langdon's childhood.

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Trivia: References to supposed Priory of Sion members are scattered throughout the film. For example, Botticelli's Venus graces the cover of Langdon's book "The Sacred Feminine" and there is a poster on the streets of Paris for Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: The film was shot under the fake working title "Rose Line".

Jedd Jong

1st May 2010

Angels & Demons (2009)

Trivia: Guillermo Del Toro originally intended for miniature people to man the ramparts of Cathedral Head, but the budget didn't allow for it.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Filming had to be delayed for two months because Anna Walton, who plays Princess Nuala, was eight months pregnant when filming was scheduled to begin.

Jedd Jong

15th Apr 2010

Die Another Day (2002)

Trivia: Guillermo Del Toro based the Bethmoora royalty on early European monarchy, when white skin was a symbol of purity and signified that they lived in luxury. Del Toro was also intrigued when he read that much of this early European monarchy was haemophiliac, and thus had Prince Nuada and Princess Nuala prone to easy bleeding.

Jedd Jong

7th Apr 2010

Hellboy (2004)

Trivia: The cockroaches that emerge from the manhole cover in the subway system not only homage Guillermo Del Toro's earlier film Mimic, but also reference an incident from the director's childhood where he and his brother encountered a swarm of cockroaches while cleaning the house for five pesos.

Jedd Jong

4th Apr 2010

The Abyss (1989)

Trivia: The crew obtained some of the actual fluid breathing system liquid from Duke University, and in the scene where Hippy's rat is submerged in the fluid, it is really breathing underwater. The rat, named Beany, survived for a year afterwards and died of natural causes.

Jedd Jong

4th Apr 2010

The Abyss (1989)

Trivia: In some scenes, the occupants of the submersibles look like projections on a screen, because they were. Scenes filmed with miniature submersibles had images of the actors projected inside, to give the illusion that they were occupied.

Jedd Jong

4th Apr 2010

The Abyss (1989)

Trivia: The shoot was so torturous that the cast and crew came up with jokish terms such as "life's abyss, and then you dive", "son of abyss" and "The Abuse". There was even a mock movie poster made with the title "The Abuse".

Jedd Jong

1st Apr 2010

The Abyss (1989)

Trivia: The shoot was notoriously rigorous and hard on actors and crew members. Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio stormed off the set after James Cameron told them to urinate in their wetsuits rather than take a bathroom break, and Ed Harris pulled over and broke down while driving home from the shoot.

Jedd Jong

22nd Mar 2010

Chuck (2007)

Trivia: The fire that burns down the opera house after the chandelier crashes was an actual fire. Joel Schumacher, wanting realism, destroyed the opera house set to film that scene.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: In the stage version, the chandelier crash occurs after "All I Ask of You". However, in the film it is pushed back to after "The Point of No Return". This change was reflected in the Las Vegas version of the stage show.

Jedd Jong

16th Feb 2010

Holes (2003)

16th Feb 2010

Holes (2003)

Trivia: The onions that Stanley and Zero eat towards the end of the film are actually apples with an edible covering.

Jedd Jong

16th Feb 2010

The Soloist (2009)

Revealing mistake: When the charity workers are unloading the food in Styrofoam packages at LAMP, the light shining through the packages reveals that they are empty.

Jedd Jong

12th Feb 2010

Star Wars (1977)

Trivia: In concept artist Ralph McQuarrie's original concept art, everyone in the Star Wars universe carried lightsabers, even Stormtroopers and Han Solo. It was only later that George Lucas reserved the weapon for the Jedi.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Ramin Karimloo is the first actor to have played all three of Christine's loves: her father in this film, and both Raoul and the Phantom in the stage version. Karimloo will originate the role of the Phantom in the stage musical sequel, "Love Never Dies".

Jedd Jong

4th Feb 2010

Avatar (2009)

3rd Feb 2010

Evita (1996)

Trivia: Madonna holds the record for the most number of costume changes in a film. The record was previously held by Elizabeth Taylor for the 1963 film Cleopatra (65 costume changes). In Evita, Madonna changed costumes 85 times (which included 39 hats, 45 pairs of shoes and 56 pairs of earrings).

Jedd Jong

3rd Feb 2010

Evita (1996)

Trivia: The director Alan Parker makes a cameo as -who else- the "tormented director" who has to tolerate Eva's bad acting.

Jedd Jong

29th Jan 2010

The Rock (1996)

Trivia: When Stanley introduces himself, Mason replies with "but of course you are". James Bond said the same thing to Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds are Forever, and both Bond and Mason were played by Sean Connery.

Jedd Jong

26th Jan 2010

The Rock (1996)

Trivia: The line "I'll take pleasure in guttin' you, boy" is from another Alcatraz-related film, "Escape From Alcatraz" starring Clint Eastwood.

Jedd Jong

22nd Jan 2010

Iron Man (2008)

Trivia: The call sign of the lead F-22 Raptor pilot is "Whiplash One". Whiplash is the name of the main villain in Iron Man 2.

Jedd Jong

13th Jan 2010

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Trivia: To create the distinct sound of the film's soundtrack, Hans Zimmer used a broken piano.

Jedd Jong

4th Jan 2010

Avatar (2009)

Trivia: James Cameron wrote the script for Avatar in 1995 but could not begin filming because of technological limitations. Cameron felt he could begin after seeing the technology used to create Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films and returned to the project in 2005.

Jedd Jong

6th Dec 2009

2012 (2009)

Continuity mistake: Nima says that Tenzin will meet them at the West Gate of Cho Ming valley, but a sign at the gate says it is the East Gate.

Jedd Jong

6th Dec 2009

2012 (2009)

Trivia: "Farewell Atlantis" was the fake working title of the film, the same name as the book written by Jackson Curtis in the story.

Jedd Jong

2nd Dec 2009

The Dark Knight (2008)

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Suggested correction: He does; he is wearing one during the restaurant scene.

No, he's wearing a regular suit in the restaurant scene, if you're talking about the one where he and his ballerina date sit down with Harvey and Rachel.

jshy7979

I don't know what you think the definition of a tuxedo is, but it's equivalent to a dress suit or dinner suit (or even black tie). So basically, dress shirt, dress shoes, trousers and a jacket.

lionhead

There's a distinction between a tuxedo and a suit, and what Bruce is wearing isn't a tuxedo. There's also a difference between a dress suit and a dinner suit, also known as a black tie, so dress suits and dinner suits are not equivalent. What British refer to as a dinner suit is what Americans refer to as a tuxedo. Wearing a suit at dinner or a black tie doesn't make it a tuxedo.

Bishop73

So what makes a tuxedo?

lionhead

The type of jacket and pants (or trousers), and often the shirt, shoes and accessories. Satin on the jacket lapel and side of the pants and pants without belt loops. Usually a tux comes with a pleated shirt with studs instead of buttons. Often you wear a bow tie and cummerbund, but it's not necessary. A casual or dress suit is made out of all the same material with acrylic and uncovered buttons.

Bishop73

2nd Dec 2009

The Dark Knight (2008)

2nd Dec 2009

The Dark Knight (2008)

20th Nov 2009

Pocahontas (1995)

22nd Sep 2009

Small Soldiers (1998)

Trivia: The voices of the Commando Elite, except for Chip Hazard and Link Static, are provided by the actors of The Dirty Dozen and the voices of the Gorgonites, except for Archer and Ocula, are played by the actors of This Is Spinal Tap.

Jedd Jong

21st Sep 2009

Pandorum (2009)

2nd Sep 2009

Smallville (2001)

Action - S7-E5

Trivia: When the comics store is shown, one can see on display figurines of several other DC Comics characters, including Hawkman, Hourman, Doctor Mid-Nite, Starman, Mr. Freeze, Parallax, Black Canary, Robin, and others.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: During filming, Samuel L. Jackson did not come into contact with any live snakes, because a contract clause prevented snakes from being within 25 feet (8 m) of the actor.

Jedd Jong

28th Aug 2009

Smallville (2001)

22nd Aug 2009

Up (2009)

Trivia: Jordan Nagai, who eventually got the part of Russell, showed up to an audition with his brother, who was actually the one auditioning. However, the director realized Nagai behaved and spoke non-stop like Russell and chose him for the part. A similar situation happened with the casting of Short Round for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, whereby Jonathan Ke Quan was cast when it was actually his brother auditioning for the part.

Jedd Jong

12th Aug 2009

Flyboys (2006)

Trivia: Blaine is given a small bear which he carries as a good luck charm. This is a reference to the 1927 movie Wings, the first ever film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, in which a pilot also carries a small bear as a good luck charm.

Jedd Jong

11th Aug 2009

Flyboys (2006)

Factual error: In many of the CGI flying scenes, it is obvious that the engines are not moving. The rotary engines of early aircraft rotated along with the propeller at the same speed.

Jedd Jong

Character mistake: Scarlett says that since McCullen is from Scotland, he speaks Celtic. Celtic is a group of languages, not a language unto itself (something a genius like Scarlett would most likely know); it would be like saying someone speaks Semitic or Germanic. McCullen would probably speak Scots or Scottish Gaelic, the official languages used in Scotland.

Jedd Jong

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Suggested correction: Scarlett certainly took this into account when she suggested the words for Ripcord to speak. Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language so Scarlett was still correct, she was just simplifying for expediency.

Phixius

No she wasn't correct. There is no such language as "celtic."

Factual error: The valet stand at Planet Hollywood is actually below, not above, ground. (00:50:05)

Jedd Jong

10th Jul 2009

Transformers (2007)

Trivia: Michael Bay makes a cameo as someone flicked away by Megatron during the final battle in Mission City.

Jedd Jong

2nd Jul 2009

Star Trek (2009)

1st Jul 2009

Star Trek (2009)

Trivia: Good friend and oft-collaborator of JJ Abrams Greg Grunberg (who worked with Abrams on Felicity, Alias, What About Brian and Mission Impossible: 3) makes an audio cameo as the voice of James T. Kirk's stepfather, who calls the young Kirk on his car phone. (00:12:15)

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Shia LaBeouf's hand was seriously injured during a car accident. LaBeouf returned to filming, and the injury was written into the film as Sam damaging his hand falling out of the space bridge.

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Trivia: This film holds the Guinness World Record for the largest explosion with actors involved put on screen.

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Trivia: The student in the Marshall College library, that Mutt and Indy almost run over at the end of the chase, is Chester "Chet" Hanks, son of Tom Hanks.

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Continuity mistake: The CCCP emblem on the back of Irina Spalko's uniform appears and disappears between shots, most notably when she is descending off the cliff and we get a clear view of her back-minus the emblem.

Jedd Jong

22nd Jun 2009

Hancock (2008)

Trivia: Producers Akiva Goldsman and Michael Mann cameo as executives in the boardroom during the first Allheart proposal.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: When in the tent and forced to face the Crystal Skull, Indy dismisses the skulls as being from "Saucer Men From Mars". Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars was actually an early title for the film.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Among the artifacts that fall out of the crates Spalko and gang push aside in the warehouse scene is Moses's staff. Property master Douglas Harlocker modelled it after the staff wielded by Charlton Heston as Moses in Ten Commandments. Incidentally, the Indiana Jones videogame, 'Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings', is about Indy's quest for Moses's staff.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: The cast and crew of this film suffered a fair share of mishaps. Christian Bale broke his hand, Sam Worthington injured his back and special effects technician Mike Menardis almost lost his leg filming an explosion.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Arnold Schwarzenneger's face was digitally pasted onto Austrian bodybuilder Roland Kickinger to show the T-800. Roland Kickinger played Schwarzenneger in the made-for-TV biopic See Arnold Run. (01:28:45)

Jedd Jong

27th May 2009

Angels & Demons (2009)

Trivia: During the making of the film, Tom Hanks personally escorted a couple whose wedding party coincided with scheduled filming at the Pantheon.

Jedd Jong

Deliberate mistake: The device that rises out of the Jolly Jack factory and summons the laser beam shatters the decorative head, appearing to do so for the first time. However, we have already seen the destructive beam in action, meaning that device must already have emerged. This was acknowledged on the commentary by the filmmakers who wanted to show the visual metaphor of the Joker driving the young Tim Drake insane.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: For the beginning of the making of this film, Liev Schreiber had the claws he wears as Sabretooth superglued to his fingernails, but he found that to be very uncomfortable and later gloves with the claws bonded to them were developed for him to wear.

Jedd Jong

18th May 2009

Godzilla (1998)

Trivia: The Japanese ship that Godzilla attacks at the start of the film is called the Kobayashi Maru, in reference to the ill-fated starship that features in test scenarios in the Star Trek franchise.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Oceanic Airlines seems to be an airline name often used in action movies and TV series involving ill-fated airplanes. Lost and Turbulence (which reused external shots from this film) both feature Oceanic planes that meet some kind of disaster.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: The filmmakers decided to make the production environmentally-friendly, using hybrid vehicles on set, zero-or-low VOC paint and locally-sourced yellow pine to build the sets, among other measures. As such, it became the first blockbuster film to receive the Environmental Media Association's Green Seal, which is displayed during the end credits.

Jedd Jong

9th May 2009

Birth (2004)

Trivia: During the controversial bathtub scene, Cameron Bright was never naked and he and Nicole Kidman were never even in the same room during the filming of the bath scene, apart from one camera shot, and when this shot happened both actors wore special clothes that were not visible to the camera.

Jedd Jong

Factual error: Rescuer and US Marine Jason Thomas is an African-American in real life, but was portrayed in the film as a white man. The film's producers realized the mistake only after production began, and apologized to Thomas, whose identity had not been widely known for years after September 11th.

Jedd Jong

25th Apr 2009

Batman Begins (2005)

15th Apr 2009

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Trivia: The stunt during the final battle when New Goblin knocks Venom through a wall using his sky stick, was achieved using two Venom stunt doubles and filmed in one shot. The first stunt double crashes through the wall while the next is thrown through the second wall.

Jedd Jong

15th Apr 2009

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Trivia: The "sand" that is used when actors need to be buried in sand or attacked by Sandman was actually ground corn.

Jedd Jong

15th Apr 2009

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

15th Apr 2009

W. (2008)

14th Apr 2009

X-Men 3 (2006)

Trivia: The final scene of the school building with Wolverine standing on the balcony was shot in winter-all the foliage on the building and even the leaves on the trees when the camera zooms out were digitally created and added.

Jedd Jong

11th Apr 2009

Titanic (1997)

10th Apr 2009

Coyote Ugly (2000)

Trivia: Michael Bay, a long-time collaborator of the film's producer Jerry Bruckheimer, makes a cameo as a photographer.

Jedd Jong

10th Apr 2009

Coyote Ugly (2000)

Trivia: Although Piper Perabo was able to sing for her character, it was decided that LeAnn Rimes would provide Violet's singing voice, albeit with a deliberate deviation from her natural vocal range. This means that during LeAnn's cameo in the movie, she is effectively duetting with herself.

Jedd Jong

10th Apr 2009

Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Trivia: For this film, Daniel Craig truly suffered for his art: he had the tip of a finger sliced off, injured his shoulder and got a cut on the face that required 8 stitches to fix.

Jedd Jong

30th Mar 2009

Batman (1989)

Trivia: Willem Dafoe was briefly considered for the role of the Joker. Writer Sam Hamm recalls, "We thought, 'Well, Willem Dafoe looks just like The Joker.'" Coincidentally, Dafoe would go on to play the archenemy of another superhero, the Green Goblin from Spider-Man.

Jedd Jong

20th Mar 2009

Robocop (1987)

Trivia: In the locker room scene, there is a fleeting shot of a topless policewoman putting on her uniform. Director Paul Verhoven said the shot was included to show the gender neutrality of the future, but was so fleeting it went largely unnoticed. The shower scene in Starship Troopers (also directed by Verhoven) was in a similar and more noticeable vein. (00:57:20)

Jedd Jong

18th Mar 2009

V for Vendetta (2005)

Trivia: The flashback in which V escapes from the flaming Larkhill facility was done in-camera with CG only for touchups because of cost issues. Stuntman Chad Stahelski wore only a G-string and cooling gel to protect him from the flames while performing the stunt.

Jedd Jong

18th Mar 2009

V for Vendetta (2005)

Trivia: The scene with the dominoes was achieved completely physically. Weijers Domino Productions from the Netherlands took three days to set up 22 000 dominoes for the scene and actually had to do it twice because of issues with the camera angles the first time around.

Jedd Jong

18th Mar 2009

The Dark Knight (2008)

Trivia: Several sequences in the film were filmed in the IMAX format, including the chase in Lower Wacker. During the chase, a car hit and damaged one of the IMAX cameras, leaving just three in existence. However, the scene was captured with another camera as well and was deemed impressive enough to make it into the final cut of the film.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: Harrison Ford was a Boy Scout in his youth, reaching the level of Life Scout. Steven Spielberg paid homage to this by making young Indy a Life Scout.

Jedd Jong

Trivia: The human excrement into which youngest Jamal jumps in the "toilet escape" sequence was actually chocolate.

Jedd Jong

3rd Mar 2009

Eagle Eye (2008)

2nd Mar 2009

Underworld (2003)

Trivia: Kate Beckinsale plays a vampire and Michael Sheen plays a werewolf, both eternally warring in the film. Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen were formerly romantically involved, and in fact they have a daughter from their long-time romance.

Jedd Jong

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