Corrected entry: Many times throughout this show, some zombies have been depicted as being burnt to a crisp with barely anything left, but still moving, or having been crushed or have their chests completely destroyed. Some even being that the head is the only thing left. Yet these zombies still growl, hiss and grunt. This is not possible without lungs attached to flow air through the throat and mouth.
Quantom X
10th Aug 2021
The Walking Dead (2010)
9th Oct 2019
Replicas (2018)
Corrected entry: William is taking a scan of his own brain in the bathroom to try to upload into the robot body, about half way through the film. Later in the film to undermine Jones, he uploads this scan into the robot to give himself a strong ally in the fight who turns the tables. However this Robot William had the brain scan taken that was uploaded into it long before William knew that Paul was turning on him and going to kill his cloned family, which caused the real William to have a near mental break down and fall apart. When the robot William comes in, he's already in on the plan and starts kicking but to get the family back and is about to kill Jones. But there's no way this older brain scan would have reacted this way going into this situation.
Correction: It is shown that it is quite trivial for William to change aspects of those scans. As he was rebuilding his algorithm for the robots to function, he could have added something to the brain scan that indicated his family was in danger in the other room. Jones was watching, but obviously not very well as he was not expecting the robot to activate (he was just expecting William to rebuild the code, not upload it). He had the access and the time, and nobody in the room would have known.
5th Apr 2020
Common mistakes
Corrected entry: It's very common for shows, games, or movies that take place after the end of the world to still show people using fossil fuels like gasoline and diesel in vehicles. However, with the production of gas having ended, this could not last very long. Even when properly stored, civilian gas supplies would go bad and be unusable after about a year, diesel a little longer but not by much. Private stashes of gas, like in cans, would only last about 5 months. And the military supplies of gas would, at best, last for 5 years.
Correction: Stored gasoline is typically treated with fuel stabilizer (about 2 ounces of stabilizer will treat 5 gallons of gasoline and prolong its shelf-life by years). All of my stored gasoline is treated with stabilizer, and I've used cans that are 5 years old and older. Even untreated gasoline can have a remarkably long shelf-life: Some years ago, I sold an old Volvo that had been sitting in my garage with a dead battery for 11 years; the buyer brought a fresh battery and installed it just to test the starter, to see if the engine was frozen. To everyone's amazement, the old car immediately started, revved and purred like a kitten, burning the gasoline in its tank from over a decade earlier.
Correction: This all highly depends on the quality of the gasoline and the amount of ethanol and its exposure to oxygen. I've heard about jerrycans of gasoline 25 years old still usable. It's also possible to purify the gasoline again so it's usable by filtering it. Don't need a huge refinery for small amounts.
14th Apr 2020
Better Call Saul (2015)
Corrected entry: When the police officer is arresting the shoplifter at the beginning of the episode, he does not read him his Miranda rights. (00:04:20)
Correction: It's a common myth (propagated by TV shows) that you have to be read your rights while being arrested. This is not true, and in many cases would not be convenient. It could actually put a police officer's life in danger to pause mid-arrest to read out your rights. You simply have to have your rights explained to you prior to being interrogated, because that is the point at which the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present actually matters.
Correction: Officers don't have to read a suspect's Miranda rights at the moment they say "you're under arrest." A suspect's rights only need to be read before questioning. However, the only consequence of rights not being read is that what the suspect says after being arrested can't be used as evidence in court.
28th Aug 2019
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Corrected entry: When Natasha first finds Clint in Japan, and tells them there might be a way, he looks straight at her and says "Don't." He's looking her in the face in that shot, but when it cuts to her face and she asks "don't what?" you can see his face in the foreground but looking down at the ground in front of him. When it cuts back to him again, saying "don't give me hope" he's suddenly looking back up at her again. (00:57:09)
Correction: There is no mistake here, Barton is seen turning his head on both these occasions. After Barton says "Don't", when the camera changes angles to focus on Nat, if you look closely at Barton, he is still looking at her, but then turns his head to face the ground. Then when Nat says "Don't what", Barton can be seen turning his head to face Nat again. So in the following shot where he says "Don't give me hope", he is still facing her and the continuity is correct.
18th May 2019
Aladdin (1992)
Corrected entry: The cave of wonders originally states that "only ONE may enter here" emphasizing the number one. Yet Aladdin is able to enter with Abu. And it's not that it doesn't count because he's he's an animal as it is Abu that sets off the booby traps inside. And if animals didn't matter, then Jafar could have just sent Iago inside to grab the lamp.
Correction: It would seem the cave considers Abu a pet, so he doesn't count as a person. And as is usually the case, you are responsible for the actions of your pet, up to and including stealing magical jewels from a cave of wonders.
Correction: The emphasis on ONE does not mean just one singular person but rather a particular individual, as the Cave states "one who's rags hide a heart that is pure, a diamond in the rough", meaning Aladdin. Abu was able to enter the cave as well because he was accompanying Aladdin. Iago wouldn't be able to enter because he works for Jafar, who's heart is far from pure. It's the same reason why the cave collapsed on the thief who also worked for Jafar in the opening scene.
6th Aug 2018
Den of Thieves (2018)
Corrected entry: The opening title sequence of the film states that LA is "The Bank Robbery Capital of the World", a title it was given in 1963 for a history of infamous bank heists. The titles state that the city has a bank robbery about every 48 minutes. However only in its worst year in 1992 did it even come close to this, with it having 1 robbery every 66 minutes - 2,641 robberies in a seven-county region. (00:00:55)
Correction: Actually the numbers are pretty close to spot on if you figure that banks are only open about 8 hours a day (9a to 5p banker's hours), 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year minus holidays - figure 250 days as a round figure. 250 days x 8 hours per day x 60 minutes per hour = 120,000 minutes then divided by the 48 minutes quoted = about 2500 robberies per year, so not that far off really.
Robbery is the taking of property that involves person-to-person interaction with force, intimidation, or coercion. Burglary is breaking into a property with the intent to commit a theft, which does not involve person-to-person interaction. The statement would suggest banks are robbed during business hours (and burglarized when closed).
20th Sep 2018
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Corrected entry: When evacuating the underground lab, one of the scientists grabs the vials of blood and stuffs them into a case. However one of them doesn't go into it all the way and as he shuts the case, if you look closely you can see one of the vials still sticking out which gets broken from being shut in it. (01:34:15)
Correction: The scientist was under orders to grab everything quickly due to the dinosaurs getting loose. He simply does not notice the vial is not in properly and breaks it. Not a mistake.
2nd Aug 2018
The Maze Runner (2014)
Corrected entry: Thomas and Minho decide they are going to go check out Section 7 after they find the creature they killed was from there. But Minho states that when the maze changes, a different section is open every night. Section 7 was open the previous night but they decide the next day that they are going to go to Section 7 to check it out. Then when they get there, Minho is surprised to find Section 7 open and states that it's not supposed to be open for another week...but that's why they went there in the first place.
Correction: That they are surprised by the fact it is open is not a plot hole. They had no other plan, all they had was section 7 and the fact the creature that came from it had died. They theorized something must have changed and they went to check that theory. They didn't know what they would find.
11th Oct 2018
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Corrected entry: At the start of the film, when the small submersible is swallowed by the underwater dino, the helicopter tries to contact it. The pilot of the helicopter refers to the submersible as Marine One. They would not have used this call sign, as Marine One is the call sign for any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the US President.
Correction: This wasn't a military operation, they were just mercenaries. They used "marine one" as a simple designation for that submersible, and it wasn't like they registered the call-sign with any agencies.
21st Sep 2018
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Corrected entry: As Jean, Scott, Nightcrawler, and Jubilee are leaving the movie theater in 1983, it shows Return of the Jedi playing and Up the Academy. Up the Academy was released in 1980.
20th Sep 2018
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Corrected entry: The film starts out showing a large pyramid in Egypt and puts the date at 3600 BC. The oldest pyramids weren't built till about 2630 BC, a thousand years later.
Correction: The oldest known pyramids were build then, this one was destroyed and buried beneath the sand completely, lost in time. Basically the entire civilization that worshipped Apocalypse disappeared.
What you're saying would make sense if not for the 1000 year time gap here. The pyramid that Apocalypse and his civilization were building more closely resembled later pyramids like Abu Rawash. The early pyramids were a much different look. The precursors to the pyramids were mastabas which over time were the building blocks to creating the first pyramids, still hundreds of years after the events that we see in the film. This would mean that an entire civilization was wiped out with an advanced pyramid and nothing else dating older than it, and it not be found. And then a thousand years later Egyptians created the mastabas that led to them discovering how to make pyramids just like Apocalypse's. It doesn't add up.
The technology to build the pyramid was lost as well obviously, the builders died no records of it. Perhaps it was only rediscovered 1000 years later. How and Why the civilization that worshipped Apocalypse knew how to build pyramids like that isn't told but I bet it has something to do with Apocalypse and his closest followers being mutants with extraordinary powers that they used to build or make people build it.
13th Aug 2018
Ready Player One (2018)
Corrected entry: When Aech is using the Halo Assault Rifle on Planet DOOM, she blasts through a few enemies, ducks and rolls as she goes through a trench on a large kill streak, firing many rounds. When she comes up and shoots someone behind them in the one long continuous shot, she has not reloaded her weapon at all. Yet the ammo indicator on the weapon shows there to be 32 rounds in the magazine. The Halo Assault rifle only holds a 32 round or 36 round ammo magazine. It is only after that moment that we see the ammo count on the weapon that it starts counting down with her shots. So her weapon is still fully loaded after that stint in a single camera shot without reloading. (00:05:20)
Correction: She could have picked up or bought a temporary upgrade, or powerup, to her weapon that doubles or triples her ammo count once, but that wouldn't show up on the indicator. PvP in the Oasis doesn't follow the rules of the games people adapt their weapons to. Next to that, reloading the assault rifle in Halo is a near invisible act.
1st Aug 2018
The Jackal (1997)
Corrected entry: The Jackal has a clever way of trying to fool any would be pursuers by using a paint on his van that he is shown to easily be able to spray off in about 35 seconds to completely change the color of it. He is shown using a pressure washer to remove this paint, which works when the paint is fresh, as well as when it's been dry for a while later on in the film. It washes off, indicating that it either comes off from water, or high pressure, or both... So what would he have done if it rained? Or he had to go at interstate speeds? (00:21:40 - 00:49:20)
Correction: As a loose re-imagining of Day of the Jackal, I think it can be inherently inferred that screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer would retain most of the Jackal's basic character traits. In both the original film and the novel, the Jackal is highly intelligent and methodical, meticulously planning every aspect of the assassination down to the minutest detail; surely he would anticipate and have contingencies for things like the weather and issues regarding his getaway vehicle.
6th Aug 2018
The Jackal (1997)
Corrected entry: The Jackal did buy a van earlier in the film. But to get to the US with his weapon, he bought a boat and sailed it in the boat race across one of the great lakes. When Declan and him see each other and he gets into a short fire fight with Koslova, he runs to a van sitting there waiting on him and takes off... Where did that van come from? He didn't bring it on his small boat. And it appears to be a slightly different make and model to the one he had before. He only had just arrived at the docks and had about only enough time to change, and put his weapon into the van from his boat. But the van seems to come out of nowhere. (01:12:50)
Correction: Actually quite a lot of time has passed since then, moving from Canada to the US by boat. He simply had rented a similar van as the last in the US to be waiting for him at the dock, he called from the boat.
11th Jun 2013
The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Corrected entry: When Will and the girl discover they are siblings, she gets up and walks away. It shows Will look to the right (his left) and contemplate this reality. The very next shot, with no time for position change, shows her with a window behind her. The window is reflecting Will, who is now looking up with his head leaned back.
10th Oct 2013
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Corrected entry: While J is fighting the fish, and it has him pinned against the wall outside, there is an ATM-like machine beside them. When J rips out the creature's heart, it falls over towards the machine. The fish's shadow is cast on the wall, but as it passes over the ATM, no shadow falls on the machine. (00:16:55)
Correction: The fish does have a shadow as it falls, but it falls about ten feet from the ATM, and the shadow trails accordingly. If you follow the arc of the shadow as it falls, it's on a flat surface, and the ATM sticks out about three feet. Therefore, the shadow would have gone along the side away from the camera's view, and not in front of the machine.
28th Mar 2013
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Corrected entry: Just before the village elder chooses Hiccup as the winner of Dragon Training, Hiccup achieves victory by subduing a Gronckle and making it fall asleep, in such a way it cutely kicks its leg in satisfaction. It is shown that Hiccup's father, Stoick, is watching the entire thing. So how did he not notice that Hiccup used a trick like that to beat the Gronckle and become aware that something was off at that point? (00:50:15)
Correction: Why would it be unusual for him to train dragons in a different way, and considering the fact that everyone was watching this, and said nothing about it, then maybe they were okay with it. The whole point is to teach them how to handle dragons on their own, and Hiccup did it in his own way, so technically, he was still winning control of the dragons. Killing wasn't exactly the only step, especially when the one Viking with the hook didn't kill the dragon that almost killed Hiccup right then and there.
Corrected entry: After Batman hits Joker with a net and pins him to the ground, he gets out of his jet and hops down. There is a chicken leg next to the jet from Joker's previous attack. But when Batman is getting back in while Superman and Robin are talking, the chicken leg has disappeared. (00:13:45)
15th Oct 2014
Tammy (2014)
Corrected entry: They are supposed to be in the state of Illinois when Tammy goes to get Pearl from the nursing home. But all the cars have Kentucky license plates.
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Correction: This is typical in most zombie-lore and shouldn't be considered a mistake given every other aspect of what zombies are shown to do that would otherwise be impossible in real life.
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