Revealing mistake: During the battle of Ramelle, when two men of the 101st prepare to firebomb a Marder tank destroyer from above, one of its German crew is looking up, spotting them. For that instant, you can see the pasty fireproof mask covering the German's face. (02:15:34)
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29th Mar 2024
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
2nd Sep 2023
Kick-Ass (2010)
Trivia: When Frank D'Amico and Red Mist assume that their chief bodyguard (called Huge Goon in the movie's credits) has finished Hit-Girl, Frank calls for him with the name "Stu," the actor's real name. Not necessarily a mistake, given the bodyguard is otherwise unnamed.
2nd Jul 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Factual error: The Siege of Syracuse occurred in 212 BC, during the Second Punic War, when Rome was still a republic. Some of the equipment the Romans are using in the movie, however, particularly their swords and helmets, are replicas of weapons dating to the later Imperial era.
15th Oct 2022
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Revealing mistake: In a brief shot during the Hong Kong harbor car chase, just before Douvier's limo crashes into some fishing boats at the quay, a flexible rope can be seen connecting the car with the Hong Kong Police vehicle. (01:30:31)
15th May 2022
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Revealing mistake: When Sonic and Tails arrive in Green Hills on the biplane, Tom and Maddie are looking up at them, but not focused on the same point. Instead, Maddie is looking to the left, and Tom to the right.
27th Oct 2021
The Longest Day (1962)
Character mistake: When Rommel leaves his French headquarters for Germany on June 5th for his wife's birthday on the next day, he erroneously states that date as 6th of July (pronounced yoo-lee), not June (pronounced yoo-nee). (00:29:30)
28th Jan 2021
Out of Reach (2004)
Continuity mistake: During the showdown's sword fight between Lansing and Faisal in the palace hall, there is a far-off shot in which the blade of Lansing's sword can just barely be seen bending off at an unnatural angle, revealing it as a prop. For the rest of the duel, the sword is shown intact. (01:16:44)
27th Sep 2019
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Indiana is confronted by the Cairo swordsman, he already has his left shoulder pointing towards his opponent in the shot where the crowd scatters. But in the following shot, where the swordsman is first seen, Indiana has his right shoulder pointing forward and is just turning around to his left side. (00:40:14)
27th Dec 2018
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Revealing mistake: The rattlesnake Hogan kills in the mission's ruin is fake: Its frontal part moves unnaturally stiffly, and its tongue does not flicker. (00:16:40)
27th Dec 2018
The Alamo (1960)
Visible crew/equipment: During the initial phase of the final assault, a row of men with their backs to the camera is shown. One of these men (right of the center, with a bandaged head) is actually a dummy positioned at the spot where the wall is blasted a few seconds later. (02:29:35)
10th Mar 2018
Twin Dragons (1992)
Revealing mistake: During the standoff scene in the shipyard, Crazy Kung drops Tarzan (Tyson) from a magnet crane before reactivating the electromagnet, hoisting him up again. At the points where Tarzan starts dropping and where his fall is halted, you see a hole in the electromagnet and wires connected to the actor's back. (01:06:35)
3rd Jan 2017
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Factual error: At the end of the fight between Pai Chang Tien (the Old Man) and Shu Chin (the fan-wielder), Pai catches his opponent with his pipe on the larynx and strangles him to death. In his death-throes Shu Chin groans until he dies; but with a piece of wood pressing down on his windpipe, he realistically wouldn't be able to make such a pronounced sound. (01:19:10)
6th Nov 2016
Airplane (1980)
Trivia: The coffee scene with the two children is a parody of a similar scene from the 1958 film Crash Landing.
7th Jun 2016
Police Academy (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Mahoney first meets Larvelle Jones at the police precinct, Jones demonstrates his vocal imitation skills by simulating machine gun fire. In the shot with the unwitting crowd, look at the police man to the far left talking to the lady with the hat. That officer ducks down a split second before Jones lets loose with his gunfire sound.
17th Sep 2014
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Trivia: The movie's plot was largely adapted for the episode "A Chinatown Ghost Story" of the 2012 CGI series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with James Hong reprising his role as the main antagonist Ho Chan (who is patterned after Lo Pan) and with appearances by the Storms Thunder and Lightning (Rain being replaced by an entity named Wind).
17th Sep 2014
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Trivia: When King Théoden rallies his men before the first charge into the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, he rides along the first rank of his army brushing their lances with his sword. This scene was apparently inspired by the Japanese historic drama Kagemusha (1980), where the titular character performs a similar feat before he unceremoniously falls off his horse.
14th Jul 2014
Commando (1985)
Revealing mistake: When Matrix reaches Arius' mansion (in actuality the Harold Lloyd Estate), he is rushed at by several soldiers of Arius' private army and starts shooting at them with his RPK. In one shot from Matrix's rear we can see him shooting four soldiers at the same time. However, the two soldiers on the far left drop dead even though Matrix is aiming his weapon to the right. (01:11:40)
18th Jun 2014
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Revealing mistake: When Jake reactivates the old biplane at Daley's Airport and Wilson mounts it as it takes off to pursue Olympus, you can see the wires from which the skeletal plane is hanging. (01:29:20)
10th Jun 2014
Them! (1954)
Factual error: Grandpa Johnson's .30-30 Winchester rifle was apparently bent by the giant ants during their attack on his store. But as we can see later, the ants' mandibles are too thin and too curved to provide enough gripping and leverage area for bending a metal rifle barrel that severely.
Suggested correction: Impossible. When Ben Peterson is killed near the film's end, you can see that the ant's mandibles leave too much space even as they clamp shut. And their slender form is made for grabbing bites, not sturdy enough for crushing jobs.
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29th May 2014
Them! (1954)
Factual error: In order to keep the giant ants inside the New Mexico nest, the protagonists bombard the entrance hole with phosphorus shells. Phosphorus burns at an average temperature of 5,000° Farenheit. At this temperature, the heat from the shells should have fused the sand around the entrance hole to glass (the threshold for this process is about 4,200° Farenheit), yet the sand remains unchanged.
22nd May 2014
Thunderball (1965)
20th May 2014
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Trivia: The device Bond uses in the final part of the film to reach Atlantis is known as a Wetbike. This device would not be introduced for public use until 1978, one year after The Spy Who Loved Me was cinematically released.
21st Apr 2014
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Continuity mistake: When Smith fires at the last German Kübelwagen chasing his team on the Oberhausen airfield runway, the scene alternates between two perspectives of Smith firing from the bus's engine cover: One from the front, the other from his backside. In each of these alternating shots, Smith holds the front part of his MP40 in a different grip. (02:20:55)
17th Feb 2014
The Paleface (1948)
Revealing mistake: During the film's climactic end scene, just before the dentist wagon Potter and Jane used to escape the Indian camp blows up, the two protagonists jump off the released horse team to take cover behind a tree trunk on the ground. In that instance, you can briefly see the tall frame and definitely male face of the stuntman playing Jane's part in the scene. (01:30:50)
17th Feb 2014
The Paleface (1948)
Revealing mistake: When Potter starts shaving at the morning of the Indian attack on the wagon train, his mirror falls off the post, and as he bends down to retrieve it, an arrow embeds itself right above his head. If you look closely in that scene, you can see a length of targeting wire used to guide the arrow sticking to the post above Potter's head. (00:37:10)
7th Feb 2014
The Living Daylights (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Bond has his final confrontation with Whitaker, he empties his PPK at him in an attempt to take him down. In the process, he hits the gunshield on Whitaker's weapon five times and it remains clean. But when Whitaker rounds the corner a few seconds later, the impacts from the PPK bullets are suddenly visible on the shield's surface.
14th Jan 2014
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Question: In the scene where the American 82nd Airborne is storming the river bank at Nijmegen, there is a brief shot of one of the German defenders, who looks quite startingly like a puberescent boy. Anyone know whether this assumption is correct, and if so, what's the background to this story?
Chosen answer: The Germans did use some Hitler youth movement in the war.
22nd Jul 2013
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Factual error: The film starts in the year 1936, and just like the RPG Indy uses to threaten Belloq with, the MP40s (or at the earliest, MP38s) are an arms-historical anachronism in this movie. As the numbers in their names imply, the MP38 was first produced in 1938. The weapons in the movie are not the similar-looking ERMA MP-36, you can see the ribbed, vertically angled magazine holders typical for the MP40 - its predecessors had either a 30°-canted, smooth magazine holder (MP36) or a round viewing port for checking the ammo (MP38). (01:31:45)
11th Mar 2013
El Dorado (1966)
Continuity mistake: During the final showdown, when Jim Purvis is shot, he slumps onto the saloon porch face-up, with his left hand on his chest. But when Bart Jason is shot and falls right afterwards, Purvis is suddenly lying face-down on the porch.
11th Mar 2013
El Dorado (1966)
Continuity mistake: When Mississippi and Maudie return to the jail to deliver the news of Thornton's capture, and when Maudie begins to tell her part of the story, part of the veil she is wearing slides off her left shoulder. In the close-ups on the actress, the veil stays down, but in the far-off shots the veil is again draped over her shoulder.
19th Feb 2013
Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
Continuity mistake: Before and after the Beetle's battle armor is fried by May Parker activating the jet engine, the appearance and arrangement of the building in the background changes between shots.
12th Sep 2012
Moonraker (1979)
Revealing mistake: When Bond stops to study the map at the beginning of the Amazon chase sequence, you can catch some brief glimpses of a black object floating in the water. This is actually the explosive charge used to simulate the initial mortar fire's impacts from his adversaries' boats. Keep a close eye on those 'shell impact' locations to spot them proper.
21st May 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Factual error: The Königsstraße in Stuttgart is located in the city's main shopping area, not its cultural center as the film would suggest. (00:37:20)
28th Apr 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Factual error: In the scene in Stuttgart, we see a "reserved parking" sign written as "Reservierten Parken". First of all, this is grammatically wrong - if used at all, it should be "Reserviertes Parken". But you wouldn't find a sign in Germany saying that. They say "Reservierter Parkplatz".
28th Apr 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Factual error: In Stuttgart, the German police cars use the wrong lights (they should be blue instead of orange-yellow) and license plate marking arrangements. (00:39:40)
15th Oct 2011
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Factual error: The German Stielgranaten - as well as other traditional German WW II hand grenades - did not have a ring and pin like the ones the Allies used, but had a string which had to be pulled hard in order to arm them. Thus they wouldn't make such a distinct 'ping' as they do in the movie.
15th Oct 2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
The Real World: Part 1 - S3-E22
Other mistake: When Hebi learns of the Mogura (mole) Ninja's failed attempt to capture their prime target, Lord Noriyuki, the Ninja leader who delivers Tomoe Ame to him speaks only of "interference". But when Chizu is called forth, Hebi commands her to deal with the kame Ninja (meaning Leonardo) even though his presence was not verbally mentioned beforehand.
4th Sep 2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Continuity mistake: When they first enter the Y'Lyntian city and are attacked by the Lava Wraiths, Raphael gets his sai melted by them. But after taking their goodbyes from Versallia, Raphael has his sai stuck back in his belt.
25th May 2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Turtles in Space (4): The Arena - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: Before the Turtles were carted off to the arena in the previous episode, they were disarmed. But once they have been confined to the gladiators' quarters, when Ralph asks about Traximus ("Who's Mister Sunshine?"), at that very moment he has his sai back in his belt.
24th Apr 2011
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Lois recovers in her apartment from the knock-out gas and starts swinging, Batman pushes her against her nightstand. But once she calms down and the camera makes a wide shot from the ceiling of the room, Lois and Batman suddenly crouch quite a distance away from the nightstand.
24th Jan 2011
Justice League (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Flash plays tag with Faust ("Now you see me, now you don't"), there is a brief shot in which he rushes at Faust - but not inside Hyppolita's palace, but in some high-tech laboratory. Obviously a shot from some earlier series, since the coloring and style are different from the Justice League's.
2nd Jan 2011
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
Monkey Fun - S2-E13
Other mistake: Season 2 episode 13 "Monkey Fun": Just before the enlarged Titano appears at the zoo, there is a family watching normal-sized monkeys in a cage. The family father (farthest on the right) has a drawing disorder with his eyes: their pupils look up and down, respectively, giving him a rather goofy expression.
2nd Jan 2011
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
Heavy Metal - S2-E23
Continuity mistake: Season 2 episode 23 "Heavy Metal": In the beginning, when Metallo and the Intergang goons raid the bank, the goons use conventional sub machine guns. But when they start tearing through Irons' neighborhood looking for Superman, the goons use the same guns, which have, however, suddenly become laser blasters.
2nd Jan 2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Other mistake: In the scene where Raphael and Michelangelo report from their ceiling vantage point, we see a hallway full of Foot ninjas. Strangely, we can see a brief shot of an Earth Protection Force trooper walking peacefully among amongst the Foot even though they are hostile to them. (00:07:50)
2nd Jan 2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Continuity mistake: Nano fells the statue of Zippy Lad during his fight with the Justice Force. When the statue topples, the area before it is empty until it shatters. But in the next cut, we see Zippy Lad sitting in his wheelchair right before his own statue, with no debris lying around. It's simply the re-insertion of a previous cut, when Zippy Lad is criticizing the three failed applicants.
19th Nov 2010
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Turtles in Space (4): The Arena - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: When the Turtles and the rest of the gladiators are to be ferried up to the arena, Gruel the overseer refuses to give back the Turtles' weapons. But once the Turtles are on the elevator platform, Raphael and Donatello have their weapons stuck in their belts; then the scene switches, and the weapons are gone again just before Traximus unpacks them for the Turtles to take.
20th Sep 2010
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)
Plot hole: In the first film, Toulon fled to America and, when the Nazis found him, committed suicide in 1939. But this movie, effectively the prequel to the franchise, opens in 1941.
20th Sep 2010
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)
Other mistake: When Major Kraus and his substitute driver inspect Lt. Stein's corpse, look closely at Stein's chin and collar. Despite the fact that he should be a corpse by now, Stein is still breathing. (00:37:20)
2nd Sep 2010
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Worlds Collide: Part 3 - S3-E6
Plot hole: In their previous encounters with the Triceratons, the Turtles had to learn the hard way that the Triceratons breathe not oxygen but a combination of nitrogen and sulfur, which is detrimental to most Earth lifeforms, and thus had to wear special rebreathers. When the Turtles, Splinter, April and Casey enter Zanramon's throne room along with Traximus, none of them wear any breathing equipment to protect themselves from the hostile atmosphere.
21st Jul 2010
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Trivia: The approximate wording of the German Hitler rally fragments used for the 'Pre-War Joke' is as follows: Hilter: Particularly, since none will evermore be living in Germany. Nazi: We are the young fellowship of the Reich! Hitler: Your education.
30th May 2010
Teen Titans (2003)
Trivia: The Red Chef who frequently appears on TV is a parody of Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai, one of the two chief cooks in the discontinued Japanese cook show Iron Chef, which specialized in French cuisine.
29th May 2010
Total Recall (1990)
Trivia: The burly miner Quaid encounters on the train to the Mars hotelstry is Mickey Jones, who performed Michael Ironside's partner Chris Farber in the series "V". Ironside also wears the same kind of clothes he did as Ham Tyler in that series. (00:48:00)
1st Apr 2010
Justice League (2001)
Other mistake: When Lex finally manages to open Batman's utility belt and spills out its contents, we see several hand grenades dropping out of the pouches. However, these grenades are standard military egg grenades, and with their size and bulk they should have bulged out the square pouches in which they had been kept - if they had ever fitted inside in the first place.
1st Apr 2010
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
Character mistake: In the third instance where Superman manages to get rid of Mxyzptlk, he uses an article full of typos which spell the latter's name backwards as KLTPZYXM. Among the incorrect words is the word "citrimes", in which Superman has included an I and a T, so the correct word in context with the rest of the text should read "crimes" and thus the errors would spell KL-I-TPZYXM. Since there are no vowels in MXYZPTLK, however, what is the additional I doing here - and why didn't Mxyzptlk bother to mark it as a mistake, either?
1st Apr 2010
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
Double Dose - S2-E10
Factual error: Season 2 episode 10 "Double Dose": When Superman snatches Parasite's escape boat and hauls it back to Stryker's, Parasite attempts to blast him with a shotgun found aboard. But somehow the animators appeared unable to decide whether the gun should be a double-barrel or a pump-action type; and building a double-barrel pump gun would be impractical due to additional weight and bulk.
24th Mar 2010
Justice League (2001)
Injustice For All (2) - S1-E19
Continuity mistake: When Joker comes down to the basement to kill Batman, he finds the empty titanium restraints still fixed on the post. But when Batman gives him the knock-out punch, the restraints have suddenly disappeared.
22nd Feb 2010
Teen Titans (2003)
Lightspeed - S5-E8
Continuity mistake: When Kid Flash intercepts Gizmo's shop-lifting, Gizmo was walking towards the exit with his shopping cart. But after Kid Flash has deposited Gizmo in the cart, he pushes it on towards what would be the back of the shop, away from the entrance. But then Gizmo bursts out of the entrance into the parking lot beyond.
18th Feb 2010
Ben 10 (2005)
Continuity mistake: Season 4, episode 9 "Ben 10 vs. The Negative 10, Part 1": When Charmcaster taunts Gwen about not having "taken off the training wheels", she moves her head upward. Note that the lower part of her ponytail falling over her backside does not move as the upper part does, but remains fixed in place.
5th Jan 2010
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Plot hole: When Lawquane spots the droids in the field, he identifies them instantly as commando droids. But as he had left the Republic Army shortly after the first battle on Geonosis (the one which started the war) and has lived as a farmer ever since, and since the commando droids are relatively new (see "Rookies"), how can he know what they are? With his lack of battlefield experience, he should simply call them battle droids.
27th Oct 2009
X-Men 3 (2006)
Trivia: Like the Sentinels, Angel (Warren Worthington III) was supposed to appear in the second movie in his cybernetic incarnation as the Apocalyptic Archangel, but the idea was scrapped.
25th Oct 2009
X-Men 3 (2006)
Trivia: The combat simulation the X-Men are running on their first appearance in the film features the dread Sentinel robots. Originally, these were meant to appear in the second movie already, but the idea was scrapped. The simulation also bears a close reference to the parallel comic storyline and later movie X-Men: Days of Future Past, where the Sentinels rebelled against humanity, killed most of Earth's superheroes and erected a totalitarian regime in the US.
17th Oct 2009
X-Men 2 (2003)
Trivia: In this movie and its sequel, Hank McCoy (the Beast) is introduced. In X2, in the sequence where Xavier inadvertently attacks the mutants around the world, it was originally decided that McCoy should be shown mutating into the blue-furred form in which he appears in X3. The idea was dropped from the final cut, however.
5th Oct 2009
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000)
Tough Luck - S2-E31
Trivia: One of the applicants in Finn's audition is an obvious pun on martial arts legend Bruce Lee. As a matter of fact, the real-life Jackie Chan used to be Lee's stunt double in Fists of Fury and Enter The Dragon.
5th Oct 2009
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000)
30th Sep 2009
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
Deliberate mistake: Season 2, episode 6 "Identity Crisis": When Bizarro starts decaying into the parody form of Superman, his costume goes with it; the blue fades, and even the 'S' insignia changes. Strange that superhero garments change right alongside their wearers when they suffer from an unstable genetic effect. Were the clothes cloned right onto his body, instead of sewn?
19th Sep 2009
The Court Jester (1955)
Plot hole: Princess Gwendolyn puts the key for the secret passage into her cleavage for safe-keeping, but when her father shakes her with each praise for her supposed loyalty, the key comes loose and falls to the ground. However, since the key is hidden inside her cleavage, it should slip down under her dress and fall to the ground between her feet whilst remaining hidden by her skirt. Instead, upon the clinking, the key is seen right in the open, in front of Gwendolyn's skirt.
25th Jul 2009
Street Fighter (1994)
13th Jul 2009
Ben 10 (2005)
Continuity mistake: Season 4, episode 10 "Ben 10 vs. The Negative 10, Part 2": When the Forever King makes his announcement "Nothing will stop this little home-coming", he stands outside the Mount Rushmore base on bare soil. But in the scene where Max reviews the recording of this speech, all of a sudden we find the Forever King standing on a neatly tiled floor.
5th Jul 2009
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000)
Tale of the Demon Tail - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jackie fights Shendu/Valmont and Ratso (just before Ratso lands in the cookie factory), the spellbook collection the villains have brought up to the tank's top earlier on is nowhere in sight now.
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