Factual error: The impact wave hitting the east coast is said to be faster than sound. Despite that, you still can hear the wave coming before it arrives in multiple scenes. If it actually was faster than sound, you would not hear the wave before arrival.
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28th Nov 2025
Deep Impact (1998)
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Suggested correction: The president claims the wave will be going at the speed of sound at first, but as it reaches the coast, it will slow down whilst rising in height. So it will not be going faster than the speed of sound anymore.
28th Nov 2025
Commando (1985)
Plot hole: There's no way nobody could have heard the ruckus when John brutally slams the guy and knocks him out with his elbow on the plane, especially the people sitting right in front of him. (00:22:15)
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Suggested correction: You are making an assumption. The plane was taxiing; there is a lot of ruckus. As for the people in front of him, one was reading and the other sleeping, so quite distracted. The sound could have been some luggage falling.
14th May 2003
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: While they are in the German camp around the well of souls, Sallah is trying to blend in with the other native workers. As he passes a long table of Germans eating, a few call out in German for water (Wasser) yet he replies in English "I'll go and get you some water" a number of times. Not very undercover.
Correction: The scene is set in Egypt, and Sallah is Egyptian, so when the German soldiers want water, he is not going to reply to them in German. He would reply to them in Arabic, but for the sake of expediency with the dialogue, Sallah is speaking in English. Since he is also native to the area, he is also dressed accordingly.
It would not be conspicuous for an Egyptian digger to speak a few words in another language (here English), as they would have worked with foreign archaeologists in the past.
Or the fact that Egypt was then still a British protectorate, so natives learning that language was probably not uncommon.
21st Oct 2025
Stripes (1981)
Stupidity: When Capt. Stillman orders the soldier to launch the live mortar shell without verifying the coordinates, it lands way off course where Sgt. Hulka and his platoon are training, almost killing them. This would have been a court-martial offense for Capt. Stillman, not to mention the national media coverage it would have generated. But Capt. Stillman retains his position without any consequences.
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Suggested correction: Realistically, of course. But this is a comedy. Stupid things are supposed to happen to add to the humour. I mean later in the movie, they steal a top secret military vehicle and use it to cross into Eastern Europe. They should all go to jail for life. But of course, that would be a really bad ending for a comedy.
21st Oct 2025
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Just before they swing over the chasm to retrieve the statue, the man accompanying Indiana Jones (Satipo) is holding a flame torch. When they swing over the chasm, Satipo is no longer holding the torch.
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Suggested correction: That's because he simply discarded the torch. He probably dropped it when he saw the corpse come out of the wall or did it later as they were walking further. It's also not "just before they swing"; there is a long time passing between him holding the torch and seeing him without it.
17th Oct 2025
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Plot hole: Why does the T-800 break the fire door of the mall and walk up the emergency exit corridor? This only makes any sense when he knows that John and the T-1000 are on the way to bump into him there. But he cannot possibly know, nor expect it.
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17th Oct 2025
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Other mistake: When K wipes little James' memory at Cape Canaveral, he uses a small neuralyzer, but we've seen at the beginning that in 1969 the MiB only have the big tubes, and K doesn't have J's future neuralyzer anymore; he gave it back already after their mono-wheels chase.
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Suggested correction: What K has is probably their first and only portable neuralyzer, maybe even a prototype. The big one is their main neuralyzer. You may notice there are no dials on this one, so he has no ability to wipe a specific amount of memory.
15th Oct 2025
The Exorcist (1973)
Other mistake: When Karras throws himself out of the window, why is a man who needs a cane running full speed down those steep steps? It makes no sense since people use canes for balance.
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Suggested correction: Some people have a cane as a fashion statement. Also, it's possible the cane helps but is not totally necessary, certainly able to be ignored when rushing to an emergency.
16th Oct 2025
Alien: Earth (2025)
Factual error: After the spaceship collides with another craft in orbit, it crashes through multiple buildings before coming to a stop embedded in a large structure. Despite this violent descent and impact, scenes inside the wreck show delicate objects, like equipment, containers, and tools, still neatly resting on tables and shelves instead of being thrown around by the crash. (00:48:55)
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Suggested correction: It is a spaceship built and controlled by advanced future technology; there could be several systems on that ship preventing items from being thrown about. A popular technology in sci-fi is inertia dampers or null fields that can hold items in place.
While "inertial dampeners" exist in other sci-fi, Alien: Earth never establishes such tech. The Alien series is known for grounded, industrial realism; objects always scatter in crashes or turbulence. Given the ship's massive impact through buildings, items staying neatly on tables isn't consistent with the tone or physics of the series.
1) The ships have artificial gravity and faster-than-light drives. This means that they are able to manipulate Newtonian physics. 2) Doesn't the fact that everything isn't smashed establish that they have some kind of "inertial dampers"?
15th Oct 2025
The Boys (2019)
Beware the Jabberwock, My Son - S4-E5
Plot hole: In the barn scene, Butcher and the team escape attacking V'd-up sheep using a corpse injected with the virus as bait. Afterward, Sameer is missing, and only his leg is found. Later, it's revealed that Kessler, who supposedly abducted Sameer, isn't real; he's a hallucination caused by Butcher's tumor. This means Butcher somehow kidnapped Sameer, amputated his leg, and hid him during the chaos without anyone noticing. How did he get Sameer away, unheard and unseen, and then make it back?
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Suggested correction: This is in the form of a question, not an actual plot hole. Butcher's abuse of V and the brain tumor gave him superpowers; besides tentacles, it's possible he possesses more. He was able to do all that using his superpowers.
No, asking the question at the end is framing it to make you think; it doesn't take away that this is submitted as a plot hole. And while I understand what you're saying, it still wouldn't really account for him being able to sneak away with Sameer, cut off his leg without anybody seeing or hearing, hide the leg and stash Sameer somewhere, and then make it back in just seconds unless he had speed like A-Train. A serious retcon or shoehorn will have to be put in season 5 to account for this.
10th Oct 2025
The Boys (2019)
We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here - S4-E3
Stupidity: When Hughie is in the vents above Homelander and Sage and the others, Homelander realises he's there due to sweat dripping. He then proceeds to try and laser eye the vents in random spots, just listening to try and figure out where Hughie is. He completely forgets he has X-ray vision at this point and could just look through the vent to find him.
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Suggested correction: X-rays do not penetrate metal.
While it's true X-rays don't easily pass through thick metal, thin aluminum, like air vents, is partly transparent to them in real life, which is why aluminum filters are used in medical X-ray machines. Homelander's vision is fictional and modelled after Superman's, who can see through almost anything except lead. Since vents aren't lead and he's used this ability before, forgetting to use it here is still a valid mistake.
True, but I'd like to point out that Homelander can't look through zinc. Lead is fine for him. I'm not sure, but it might be possible the vents are made of zinc-coated steel. No idea how to find that out, though. He seems to be struggling more once Hughie leaves the vents, though, so he is further away than it appears. The second time he uses his eyes, he nearly gets Hughie too, probably sees him but misses. I dunno, the scene is dubious.
It seems pretty clear in that scene that the whole time he is just relying on his super hearing and listening to where Hughie is in the vents.
How do you know he is not looking? Like I say, the second time he fires his laser eyes, he nearly hits Hughie. He saw someone but simply misses?
1st Jul 2002
Minority Report (2002)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Anderton arrests the jealous husband, he notes that he is being arrested on April 22 - that day - for the future murder of his wife and her lover. Later, while Anderton is jogging, we see billboards advocating a "Yes" vote on pre-crime on April 22. The next day, Anderton's boss Lamar notes that the vote is in a week, which would make it April 15, making the day that the jealous husband was arrested April 14, not April 22. (00:13:05 - 00:15:15)
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Suggested correction: Chief John Anderton says April 22 is the birthday of the jealous husband, Howard Marks, not the date of the incident.
No, it's about the arrest itself where he says, "I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder that was to take place today, the 22nd at 0800 hours and 4 minutes."
9th May 2011
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Continuity mistake: Lamar's javelin that he's seen running with is flexible in the middle and not very rigid, however when the shot after he throws it, we see a solid normal javelin going through the air and visibly a different one altogether. (01:06:30)
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Suggested correction: It is a specially designed javelin by aerodynamics master Wormser.
It's clear that it's two totally different props being used for the scene: one that Wormser desired and the other is a regular javelin that would actually work when thrown.
I don't see why it couldn't be the same javelin in the air; you still see it wobbling, but there is less curve because it's not bouncing around anymore in Lamar's arm. The javelin that touches down is the same too. It's completely the same design too.
Just rewatched the scene. The flexible section that Lamar is holding is close to a foot long where it's flexible in the middle. The airborne javelin has a grip section that's at best half the size of the one seen on the one Lamar is holding. It's two different props by that design alone.
13th Jan 2012
Beetlejuice (1988)
Other mistake: If the Maitlands cannot be seen in a reflection being ghosts, then Lydia would not have seen them in the attic window in her camera, as that uses a mirror to reflect the image through the viewfinder.
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Suggested correction: However, when Lydia moves the camera away from her face to get a better look, she had both eyes open when using the camera (with her right eye looking through the viewfinder). This is a recommended technique to help get a perspective and keep one's focus on the subject. This means she could have seen the Maitlands with her left eye, the one that had a direct view of the window.
This is not how the scene plays out. She first supposedly spots them while looking through her camera, which then causes her to take a better look with the camera away from her face. She would have no reason to do that if she didn't see them in the camera, which, as we know, would not be possible given they do not cast a reflection for the mirror in the camera for Lydia to see.
Or, she just saw the curtain move and thought that was odd, then moved the camera from her face and realised there were 2 faces there. There is no indication at all that she saw them straight away.
A curtain moving from an open window is not odd. You're really reaching here, and her reaction indicates she saw far more than a curtain moving. She literally stops in her tracks and dramatically lowers the camera - the same camera that she had to her face she was looking through. Anyone who has used an SLR camera does not use two eyes open, as it is nearly impossible to focus and see things, given one eye would be zoomed in and the other would be unaided.
20th Jun 2025
The Thing (1982)
Corrected entry: The dogs get left alone in the cage with the new one, 'stirring' follows as it changes to the Thing, and they howl up a storm, as it cuts to Macready and keepers looking puzzled. Then heading to the dog pen to check it out, but seem too calm but concerned hearing the dog's cries as they flip on the light to see it attacking while Mcreedy stalls in firing the torch to kill it.
Correction: What exactly do you think they would be suspecting when hearing the dogs go wild and howl like that? None of the humans are suspect of the not-a-dog. They are huskies, probably not the first time they made a ruckus. When Clark goes to check on them, he is rightfully freaked out by whatever he saw and puts his own life above that of the dogs. Also, some dogs got out.
You are correct to a sense. They are huskies known for hunting/rescuing. But with the situation at hand, it just seemed poor timing in aiding the dog's obvious distress. I've been racing down that hallway in a panic that something awful had happened. And I did not see any proof that any of the dogs had escaped. The one that went chewing on the fence was killed when trying to get away, while the others either coward or got shot at or also maimed in the chaos.
I'd like to add that indeed the dogs do sound very much in distress, but when Clark comes to check it had only been a minute since they started. Adding to that the fact that Clark and the others are probably very tired and ready to go to bed, so a sense of rush probably doesn't come very quickly. But, when Clark reaches the gate of the kennel, the dogs strangely go quiet. Then, when he opens it, two dogs escape, seemingly unassimilated (however they managed that).
Correction: I don't agree with this, and the way it's written doesn't really feel like it's accurate to the movie. The dog seemed perfectly normal, and there's no way the team knew there's a "thing attacking" the other dogs. They were just barking... there could have just been an arctic hare that somehow got inside the kennel for all they knew. Clark shows up to investigate the commotion in less than 60 seconds. And the instant someone else hears it, an alarm is pulled, and things move rather quickly. At best, you could argue that Clark panicked and froze after seeing the creature, but that's not a mistake. Anyone would panic seeing that madness.
2nd Jan 2007
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Corrected entry: The centurion and the soldiers assisting with the crucifixion stress they are in a hurry because they have one hundred and forty people to crucify. They leave, and there are no more people waiting to be crucified, but there are less than twenty people crucified in the final scene.
Correction: They could well have other people to crucify in another area of the city limits. Just because they did not crucify them there does not mean they did not have more to do elsewhere.
Historically inaccurate. The Romans always reserved one area in each city they occupied for crucifixions. In Jerusalem, that was Golgotha. Crucifixions were highly public executions, and the Romans wanted to make sure they would be seen by as many people as possible, hence limiting them to one relatively small area. The posting is correct.
Golgotha (Calvary) is hardly a historical place, only referenced in the Bible as the place Jesus was crucified. But nobody really knows the location of it, let alone that it was the only or main place Romans crucified people. In a lot of places, the Romans put crucified people along roads, not in one single place, so that's not accurate either. It's a comedy anyway; a lot of things are intentionally wrong.
Watch the film again. The final shot starts wide and pulls back to show the whole scene. There are fewer than thirty crucified people, no more crosses in the ground, and the Roman guards have packed up and gone home. The posting is correct.
Correction: Again, watch the film. The last shot widens out to a huge, panoramic shot of the crucifixion site and the surrounding area. There are less than thirty people on crosses, no other crosses are seen, and there are no Romans in sight. The posting is correct.
24th May 2025
Aliens (1986)
Corrected entry: When Ripley is leaving the Nest with Newt in her arms, she stops to see the Queen laying eggs. Instead of getting out of there, she starts to torch the eggs, provoking the Queen. Why? There are no soldier aliens blocking her exit, and the planet is going to be nuked in minutes. For someone as clued-up as Ripley, it was out of character.
Correction: She was challenging the queen to let them go free or else she would torch the eggs. At first, it looked like the queen obeyed and was going to let them go, but Ripley quickly realised, as an egg was opening up, that agreement would never be honoured, and so she torched the eggs anyway, preventing them from being chased by facehuggers as they escaped.
26th Apr 2021
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: When the SWAT team enters the Cyberdyne office (After Dyson grabs the detonator), they start shooting immediately. It's very unlikely that a specially trained police unit would do that as they didn't know if there are hostages or other innocent people inside. They hit and lethally wounded Dyson who was actually unarmed, he could have been taken as a hostage by the others. Instead of a mindless full scale attack, the SWAT should have secured the scene with flash grenades or tear gas first.
Correction: First off, what the SWAT team "should have done" is not a mistake. Second, police brutality is certainly a problem and was a bigger problem in the 90s. Third, these are cops going after someone who killed 17 police officers. They are going to do whatever they have to to take him down.
Police brutality and trigger happiness are not the same, especially not if we talk about a specially trained enforcer unit. Besides, later on, they faced the guy who they thought did kill those officers but still, they used gas grenades and told him TWICE to lie on the ground, before shooting him.
That part might deserve a spot in the mistakes, but your original point is still correctable. I agree with the correction, plus the Terminator had just unloaded on the entire police force with a massive machine gun. No one was hurt, but the cops wouldn't know he held back. To them, it's the same killer who killed 17 cops in a police station. They'd likely enter with orders to shoot on sight.
I would like to add that Miles Dyson was not unarmed; he was holding the detonator. Someone holding a detonator to a bomb is considered armed and would be taken out.
3rd May 2025
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the Polyjuice Potion wears off, Barty Crouch Jr. resumes his own appearance from impersonating Mad-Eye Moody. It is difficult and painful. Every other time we see this transformation in other characters, it is easy and uneventful.
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Suggested correction: It is probably a strain for him since he has been in the shape of Moody for a year. Or he is trying to prevent it somehow, or it is withdrawal symptoms. It's a magic potion; it could be anything.
3rd May 2025
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Other mistake: When Vincent arrives in Mia's home to pick her up, she states that she is on the intercom and the two of them are conversing back and forth with no problem. So why then does she direct him to the intercom on the wall and tell him to press the "push to talk button" when he goes to speak? They were already speaking just fine when he first walked in.
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Suggested correction: She can't hear him. She anticipates his body language and answers his question without actually hearing him.