Corrected entry: Professor Frink says he has a machine that will burn through anything but it happens to be on the outside of the dome. Why didn't the Simpsons use this to make a hole in the dome when they found a way out?
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21st May 2016
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Correction: There is nothing to suggest the Simpsons even know how to use Frink's superdrill.
Correction: The EPA came to capture the family so they had to run away. By the time of return, there would have already been the security seen near the end of the film.
23rd Oct 2020
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Corrected entry: When Ed Rooney calls Ferris' mother at work to tell her that about his absenteeism, in the part of the scene where the kids are in the hallway, if you look at the clock, it says it is 1:40pm. There is no way it could be 1:40pm in the afternoon, since it is supposed to be early in the school-day.
Correction: Or the clock is broken. My school had a hallway clock that showed the same time for over two years before it was fixed.
14th Sep 2004
Ever After (1998)
Corrected entry: When the prince saves the painting, it turns out to be the Mona Lisa. But this story takes place around 1516 or later because Leonardo da Vinci is in France. The Mona Lisa was painted in 1502, at least 14 years before this event.
Correction: First, Leonardo didn't start the Mona Lisa until 1503 and it took him several years to actually finish it. Second, many great masters did more than one version so it is not impossible that this is an unknown copy. Third, just because LdV was not working for the King of France until 1516 doesn't mean that he couldn't have visited France at an earlier date (especially in this fictional universe).
Leonardo actually used to carry this painting with him a lot. Which added to the mystery of the Mona Lisa.
The painting is actually a reference to the study La Scapigliata. La Scapigliata is done in oils, umber and white lead in monochrome. Whereas the Mona Lisa is a finished work.
The Mona Lisa was painted on wood, not canvas.
Correction: It isn't the Mona Lisa, at least not the famous version. The version in the Louvre is painted on wood, not canvas.
9th Oct 2020
The Core (2003)
Corrected entry: Why wouldn't they try to use DESTINI again before sending Virgil down? The Earth is already screwed, and it would've been a lot easier, cheaper, and faster. If it didn't work, then they could still go ahead with Virgil. What did they really have to lose? They knew it was the cause at the very beginning.
Correction: For exactly the reason Dr. Keyes suggested: using DESTINI again would permanently destabilize the core instead of just stalling it. Besides, when it comes to actual permanent annihilation of the Earth, cheaper doesn't really mean anything.
1st Dec 2007
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: In the first scene with the Omnibot thing, Bob is cut by the robot's claw thing through his suit, you can even see where the blood was on the cut. But every other scene with the same cut on his clothes, the cut itself has disappeared only showing the rip in the suit.
Correction: Since Mr. Incredible is listed as an indestructible type superhero, it is likely that he has a sort of accelerated healing ability.
He is never shown as indestructible. Also his only power is super strength.
Given that he's shown to suffer numerous blows that would definitely kill an ordinary man, he at least has superhuman durability.
31st Aug 2020
50 First Dates (2004)
Corrected entry: Lucy's dad brings up the idea for her to paint his shed. The script should have had Lucy wanting to do that on her own - without that prompting there'd be no need for them to bother repainting it every night, which they clearly don't enjoy doing.
Correction: Lucy's dad and brother go to great lengths to re-enact everything that happened the day of the accident, including having Lucy paint the garage. They don't really want to do any of the things they do on that day, including eating the cake and watching The Sixth Sense.
But why wouldn't they just go and pick the pineapple instead of dad prompting her to paint the shed? Then he wouldn't have to paint over it every night.
Because painting the shed makes her happy. They are sacrificing their time and effort, at great exhaustion, to keep her happy.
Going to pick the pineapple puts them in public and gives a much greater chance of her finding out the secret and having a bad day.
It absolutely does, and it does lead to some issues when she gets pulled over for expired tags. Dad and brother's plan was not very well planned out and certainly wasn't smart, but that doesn't constitute a mistake in the film. People make poor decisions all the time.
8th Oct 2020
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Corrected entry: When the team is playing day games, the sun is in right field. This is against MLB rules as the sun must not be in the batter's eyes. Other baseball movies have shown this same mistake as well.
Correction: First: They aren't playing in Major League Baseball. They are playing in Nippon Professional Baseball. Different league, different rules. Second: it's not a rule. The MLB rulebook only states that it is "desirable" for an orientation of that type. It's not required. Https://medium.com/@kevin_bullock/losing-baseballs-in-the-sun-860e81601b25.
6th Oct 2020
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Corrected entry: Louis is wearing Egon's ghostbusters uniform. The uniform shouldn't fit, because Egon is much taller than Louis.
Correction: You can see while Janine is zipping it up and when he runs out of the firehouse, that the suit is extremely baggy on him, as would be expected because of the height difference.
12th Sep 2002
The Beach (2000)
Corrected entry: Thai is a tonal language, which means that each syllable must be stressed in a specific way in order for the word to make sense. In the scene where Richard demonstrates his knowledge of Thai, several people repeat the same sentence, but each person stresses it differently. Only one person actually gets it right.
Correction: It doesn't matter at all Croatian or Serbian, the language is almost identical and this sentence is pronounced equally in both languages.
Correction: In the scene where everyone repeats the same sentence, they aren't speaking Thai, they are speaking Serbo-Croatian. It is true that not everyone pronounces it right but Richard says it most accurately.
It's either Serbian or Croatian, Serbo-Croatian is not a language.
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian Yes it is.
It's Serbian, not Serbo-Croatian.
He is speaking Croatian.
23rd Nov 2002
Spaceballs (1987)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, when Princess Vespa runs away from her wedding, she gets into a white vehicle. The next shot of the vehicle it is pink, then the next shot it is white again.
Correction: The vehicle is never pink. It's always the same white vehicle. Maybe the light and shadows makes it look pink to you, but it's white.
It's never pink, but it isn't the light and shadows. It's the blue screen effect.
21st Sep 2020
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: Klinger has a rash from his uniform. However, in earlier and later episodes, he wears uniforms without a problem.
Correction: As mentioned, Klinger's rash is psychosomatic. It wasn't necessarily the uniform that caused it. It was being forced into it by Colonel Potter. Hawkeye says women's clothes are Klinger's personal defense against the Army and lack of that defense is causing him to break out.
I stand corrected, I had forgotten that angle.
Stupidity: When the Turtles are leaving the junkyard they rescued Raphael from, the incredibly agile ninjas of the enemy clan can't simply jump over a van, or just slide over the hood. (00:54:00)
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Suggested correction: Remember at the beginning of the film, one of the clan members is angry that so many of their members were arrested. They have been looking hard for new recruits. The new recruits won't be as good right away.
9th Sep 2020
Twister (1996)
Corrected entry: The volume of Jo and Bill's voices changes in the scene where he tries to stop picking up the Dorothy sensors that a tornado has already destroyed. When they're in the truck, they're loud probably because their dialogue was recorded in a studio later. When they're outside their voices aren't as loud because they were in the location.
Correction: It's common in movies for audio - especially dialogue - to be boosted or lowered depending on the needs of the scene. (Ex. In this case, the voice-over audio being boosted while they're in the car so the audience can hear them when they wouldn't otherwise be able to - we're basically hearing the conversation in the car from outside.) A filmmaking tactic such as this can't really be counted as a mistake because it's a common and necessary requirement in filmmaking in order to convey the dialogue, and is used countless times in just about every film. Nothing about it is technically a "mistake" per se.
Correction: People's voices changing volume isn't really a mistake because it can easily just be that they stopped speaking as loudly for any reason.
10th Sep 2020
Passengers (2016)
Corrected entry: The Medway has a full array of antibiotics/inoculations in an unrefrigerated drawer that is easily accessible and not protected from time. Then the Auto-doc prescribes painkillers and spits them out. Both pills and vials would deteriorate over time, to such a degree that 150 years worth of travel would make them absolutely impotent. They have no reason to be out and available to a non-existent populous for 150 years and should have been stored in cryo.
Correction: Given that the world is advanced enough for interstellar travel and suspended animation, we cannot judge their medicines or storage technology by our standards.
9th Sep 2020
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Corrected entry: Given the flimsy evidence of her husband's 'murder', (for a victim uttering his final words, he would not have been able to so state the exact coordinates of the boat). Any competent lawyer would have got her off. Also, her son Maddy then lives with daddy and his new girlfriend, aware that mummy is in prison for murdering him having visited her there. Surely he would have mentioned this to someone like his teacher etc?
Correction: After receiving the fake message, the police found her alone on the blood-covered boat with the murder weapon. That kind of evidence is hard to shake off. As for Matty, he may have visited her in prison but it's highly unlikely that he knows why she is there or even remembers at his age. Later, he reveals that his dad told him that she was dead. If she died in prison, that isn't something that he would likely want to tell teachers or classmates.
31st Aug 2020
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Corrected entry: When Dunbar is leaving for his assignment, the officer holds a gun to his head to commit suicide. He's facing the camera with the gun screen left and a window screen right. If he shoots himself in the head from that position as implied, the bullet would have gone through his head and blown out the window, which the viewer sees intact after the shot when Dunbar looks back at the sound.
Correction: The bullet could easily have ricocheted off either side of his skull and gone another direction.
31st Aug 2020
The Cable Guy (1996)
Continuity mistake: During the basketball scene, the goals switch from having support stands to being freestanding.
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Suggested correction: The hoops are floor based at all times. The freestanding hoops are also visible still rotated to the ceiling.
20th Aug 2020
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Factual error: Characters sometimes talk to one another on video calls, and a character (A) often watches these from an angle rather than face on, allowing the viewer to see both character A and the character on the call (B). When this happens, character B is shown turned a little to one side, to give the impression that they are looking directly at character A (as they would be if they were present in the same room). In reality, this means that character B is looking off to one side of their monitor and not at the image of character A, something that it makes no sense to do. No matter what angle the laptop is shown from, provided character B is visible, they should appear to be facing the viewer.
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Suggested correction: Since we almost always see these video calls using full-screen, people sitting side-by-side would be on different sides of the screen. You wouldn't look into the webcam itself to see them. You would look at the screen, and move your head slightly to look at the left part versus the right.
27th Aug 2001
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Corrected entry: In the scene at the Japanese themed party, when Cameron Diaz' character (Natalie) first meets the bartender, the bartender greets her in Japanese, ("konichiwa"), but she responds "Ni Hao" which is Chinese, not Japanese.
Correction: Ms. Diaz actually responded "Nihongo no shaberu no sugoi ne!" which IS Japanese for "You speak Japanese very well!"
I just rewatched this scene, and she unfortunately does say nihao, the rest is Japanese however slurred, it may have been intended to be Nihongo but she said Nihao. Doesn't help that the scene itself, in all the versions I've found, there is no provided subtitles for that scene in English or Japanese.
Correction: Just watched it. She does say "nihongo", she just doesn't say it well.
17th Jan 2005
Tin Cup (1996)
Corrected entry: In the final round Roy hits an errant second shot and his ball lands near a portaloo. He then hits the ball and purposely ricochets the ball off it. The rules states that if an object is not a permanent fixture on the course you can get relief, such as grandstands and camera towers. It's highly implausible that a professional golfer would not take advantage of that rule.
Correction: Roy is a professional golfer. It is his profession. He is not a 'Tour Professional'. He runs a driving range, giving out lessons and thus gets paid. There are many references to him being a 'pro' during the film. Professional golfers don't always play on golf tours. There are club professionals, coaching professionals etc etc. All have professional status and registered with the applicable governing body such as the uspga or the PGA. And, if they qualify for (in this case) the U.S. Open, they would play as professionals against the 'Tour Professionals' and anyone else who has qualified such as Amateurs, other qualifiers, wild cards and invitees etc.
Correction: Roy is NOT a professional golfer. That is his problem, he is reckless and takes absurd risks which often get him into trouble.
It's possible the port a potty is a permanent structure, being on the course at all times for golfers to use.
Correction: Either way, the port-a-potty isn't in his way. Roy's ball is stuck right behind a tree and he is using the port-a-potty to ricochet the ball. If he had it moved and went that way, he'd just be deeper into the woods.
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Correction: Even if the drill was still there for the using, there is nothing in the movie that suggests if they even remembered it was there. They could have easily forgotten about it.
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