Revealing mistake: Clearly not Vince Vaughn during the opening kills as the Butcher seems leaner than Vaughn.
Andrew Upton
6th Apr 2022
Freaky (2020)
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Suggested correction: Seems leaner" is just far too vague to be a mistake, and I didn't see anything that made me immediately think he was "clearly not Vince Vaughn.
2nd Jan 2022
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Corrected entry: Dr. Braveheart had just died from the RPG. On spawn, he shrugs, both forearms are visible but the stripe-tattoo indicating his lives is missing. (01:02:41)
Correction: It is established that the lives-remaining stripes are not continuously visible when one of the characters rolls up their sleeve and the stripes are shown to appear.
22nd Oct 2008
Ghost Ship (2002)
Factual error: The wire which cuts the dancing characters in half severs their torsos in a neat line a few inches below their armpits - but their arms remain intact. They should have been severed too, a few inches below the shoulder, and should fall away from their bodies separately.
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Suggested correction: The dancers for the most part have their arms extended roughly horizontally around their partner, hence the wire generally passing below and leaving them attached.
6th Jan 2014
Ghost Ship (2002)
Plot hole: After the tugboat is sunk, the crew try to repair a very old ocean liner - the ghost ship - using equipment that could only have come from the tugboat, which had the latest scuba gear and welding gear, but they are all at the bottom of the ocean in the blown-up tugboat.
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Suggested correction: The salvage crew are shown very early on bringing a variety of equipment onto the liner long before their own ship is sunk. It is obviously intended to insinuate where the salvage gear required later came from.
4th Nov 2004
Ghost Ship (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Munder goes through the floor, we get a shot from beneath seeing him dangling down the hole from his waist. But when it cuts, we see Epps reaching for Munder down the hole. The upper half of his body should be sticking up from the hole. (00:20:30)
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Suggested correction: As Munder is pulled back up we get shown that there is a large space between the ceiling of the room he almost falls into and the rotten floor of the deck above it. The upper half of his torso would be in this space, hence not being visible.
11th Dec 2020
Ghosts of War (2020)
Corrected entry: During the movie, which is set during World War II, an American soldier says he always liked scary movies and gives Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy and I was a Teenage Werewolf as examples. The problem is, those movies did not come out until 1955 and 1957. (00:48:00)
Correction: As a spoiler, this movie isn't actually set in WW2. The WW2 part of this movie is a simulation with soldiers from modern times. It's shown that the simulation is imperfect and breaking down, so things like mentioning those movies from a future year fits in with what's going on.
11th May 2017
Platoon (1986)
Corrected entry: When the platoon find the enemy bunker complex, the maps in the booby trapped box are of Wales and Ireland.
Correction: The NVA are deliberately trying to lure someone into setting off the booby trap, but it would be foolish of them to use anything of actual intelligence value. Some genuine but otherwise useless maps of somewhere completely different in the world when seen at a glance would fit that perfectly.
27th Jul 2015
Mr. Holmes (2015)
Continuity mistake: SPOILER: The boy, Roger, finds a glove in a secret drawer in Mr. Holmes' room. The glove is lying perfectly flat in the drawer. It had supposedly been there for years unknown to Mr. Holmes. Later, in a flashback scene, it shows Dr. Watson putting the glove in the drawer. When he puts the glove in the secret drawer, it is not laid flat in the drawer - it has an obvious upward bend in the glove. Since the glove had been in the drawer, untouched, for years, it should have still had that upward bend.
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Suggested correction: Although we are only shown Watson putting the glove in the drawer once there is no reason to suggest he may not have looked at it again before he left for good. More compellingly, Watson placed the glove in the drawer whilst the bureau was in place in Holmes' quarters in London, and it was not discovered until a quarter of a century later having been moved at some point to Holmes' house in Sussex. This journey could also easily have displaced the gloves position to some degree. The weight of papers contained in the drawer above may have also aided in flattening the glove out over the years.
26th Dec 2003
Copycat (1995)
Corrected entry: In the beginning when Helen asked the boys to stand up, you can see Peter Kurten standing in the front row.
Correction: This isn't trivia - it's a key plot point the murderer attended one of the doctors lectures and was copying them in the order she mentioned them.
21st Sep 2002
Copycat (1995)
Corrected entry: When Helen Hudson is emailing Peter Kurten, how did she get his e-mail address when she and Inspector Monahan couldn't even find out who sent the warning before the hippie girl's murder?
Correction: She doesn't - if you watch, she sends a message out to everyone on her circle of online chat friends. Since the copy-cat has already infiltrated it somehow, he should (and does) get the message that way.
20th Jan 2009
Hancock (2008)
Corrected entry: When Embrey is talking with Hancock in jail via the telephone intercom, they're facing each other through wire mesh reinforced glass. Hancock uses his fingernail to score a circle in the glass and then taps it out as a perfect circle. This type of glass would not tap out with scoring, since there's a wire mesh bonded between two layers of glass. At most he would've dislodged the interior pane and shattered the exterior pane.
Correction: Hancock has nails that with the lightest pressure have cut through the glass - I'm sure with this and his strength cutting through the metal wire beneath at the same time would be no problem.
28th Nov 2006
Saw III (2006)
Corrected entry: When Lynn is opening John's skull, the amount of blood in the cavity changes drastically between shots. The cavity goes from full to nearly completely devoid of blood with no evidence that Lynn had washed it out.
Correction: This isn't correct - they show Lynn washing out the blood with alcohol, and then using forceps to close off the blood supply to the area, leaving it relatively clean thereafter.
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