Corrected entry: Drew Barrymore was considered for the role of Mina Harker.
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29th Feb 2020
Dracula (1992)
13th Mar 2020
Titans (2018)
Bruce Wayne - S2-E7
Character mistake: After Jason falls from the skyscraper and is saved by Conner, he suffers some sort of PTSD. It is very hard to believe that a guy who fights crime all the time and fights people wanting to kill him so often (which includes Deathstroke beating and stabbing him like it was nothing) magically starts to suffer from PTSD just because he almost fell from a building. It doesn't make sense and feels forced.
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Suggested correction: There was a lot more to the storyline than "some sort of PTSD." Of course, that kind of psychological trauma often doesn't make sense. Why would one veteran experience it and not another soldier who experienced the same thing. And he didn't "almost fell", he did fall off the building. If Conner wasn't there, he probably wouldn't have survived. He had never experienced failure in that manner either.
9th Feb 2018
Mine (2016)
Factual error: Scout Sniper Mike on a desert mission steps on a mine only to realise he has done so before stepping off it. There is no mine (maybe never was) where someone has to step off it before it explodes. All mechanisms are configured to explode when someone steps on it.
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Suggested correction: Spoiler Alert: He didn't actually step on a mine, so the fact that this type of mine might not exist is irrelevant. Even if he should have known better, psychologically he didn't.
9th Apr 2021
The Infiltrator (2016)
Other mistake: The movie poster shows a reflection of a $100 bill on the lenses. The bill should be flipped.
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Suggested correction: Since this isn't part of a scene in the movie, it's not a mistake. It's just a stylized image. It would be no different from pointing out a group of people superimposed over each other or appearing larger than big objects they're next to.
22nd May 2006
Family Guy: Stewie Griffin The Untold Story (2005)
Corrected entry: Both young and old Stewie don't seem to know how human reproduction works. Yet in the episode where Peter and Lois decided to have another baby Stewie understood the biology well enough to shrink a ship and fly into Peter to destroy his sperm, implying detailed knowledge of the system.
Correction: This episode could have happened after the movie, since it isn't established where the movie fits in the timeline of the series.
The movie is divided into 3 episodes placed at the end of season 4. The episode "Emission Impossible" is S3 E11, which is before the movie.
Whether this episode occurred before or after isn't relevant because that's doesn't explain why old Stewie doesn't know if at some point his younger self knew.
9th Apr 2021
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Corrected entry: The film is supposed to be set in 1959. They are wearing Chuck Taylor All-Stars which didn't come out until 1962.
Correction: Chuck Taylor All Stars came out in 1922. They were even popular in the 50's.
5th Apr 2021
Star Wars (1977)
Continuity mistake: During the fight against the TIE fighters, the interior shot shows the turrets on the Falcon both point straight up and down respectfully, when in other shots the top turret for example is facing forward.
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Suggested correction: There is no objective up or down on a spaceship. The artificial gravity for the turrets are at 90 degree angle to the rest of the ship.
You missed the point of the mistake. Luke and Han are sitting so their backs are parallel to the deck of the Falcon, the guns are then perpendicular to their back, making them perpendicular to the deck of the Falcon. But in exterior shots, the guns are more parallel to the deck than they should be.
5th Apr 2021
Oliver (1968)
Continuity mistake: Just watched the film Oliver, with the scene in the undertakers when Oliver is put in the coffin he is facing right but when the coffin lid is opened again, he is somehow facing the other way round. (00:25:00)
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5th Apr 2021
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
Character mistake: When Alison is stalling Tanley from entering the bedroom where Haru is escaping being discovered, Tanley refers to Alison as "Angela darling." (00:41:33)
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Suggested correction: He says "Oh, aren't you a darling."
7th Aug 2017
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Miracle - S7-E9
Corrected entry: The pharmacist's plan is really stupid. He changes all their meds so they don't work, after drinking from the fountain he changed them back so it appears the fountain healed them. The problem is if they think the fountain healed them they're not going to take their meds, so their pain would come back.
Correction: He didn't just change their medication so it didn't work, he changed it so they actually got sicker or worse. Even if they stopped taking their real medication, they'd still feel better than before when they were worse off and still think it was the fountain. But since he wasn't trying to scam anyone out of any money, he didn't need a long term solution for when their pain came back. Just enough to stop the monastery from digging up the fountain.
15th Mar 2019
The Patriot (2000)
Corrected entry: When Benjamin Martin meets with Cornwallis about the prisoner exchange and brings the dogs in (Great Danes or otherwise), Cornwallis refers to them as "boys." The black dog is female.
Correction: "Boy" for dogs is gender neutral. A lot of owners of female dogs call it a boy. Certainly with 2 dogs you'd never say "come boy and girl."
I have 3 dogs, 1 male, 2 female. No one in the family calls them boys. Sorry but I don't buy that explanation. I think it was just a miss.
1 example, an example where the females are the majority. Not really a good example I'd say. Again, "boys" is gender neutral. Also, he says it once, just once. Are you saying it is not possible for someone to call a male and female dog "boys"? It's not a movie mistake.
It is entirely possible that the film-makers chose to have a female dog play a male dog. For example, in the TV show Lassie, Lassie is played by a male collie even though it is well-established that Lassie is a female. A more recent example is the reverse, where on the CBS show Seal Team, there is a dog on there named Cerberus who is male, but is in fact played by a female named Dita.
It should be noted that people have submitted mistakes for the wrong sexed animal being used (i.e. a male dog playing a female). But really to be considered a character mistake, it would have to be out of character for the person calling a female (or male) animal "boy" (or "girl"). Calling a male and female dog "boys" doesn't seem out of character enough to be a mistake.
8th Jan 2021
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Genius - S7-E2
Corrected entry: It's never explained why Patrick would want to kill his second wife, or how he switched headstones without being caught or having some assistance.
Correction: Just because something isn't explained doesn't make it a plot hole. But his wife said Patrick took a $10M life insurance policy out on her, so that's one reason.
23rd Mar 2008
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk Is on the Run (2) - S6-E16
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Dale Biederbeck is screaming at Monk, Dale is sitting in his wheelchair with both his hands down in his lap. The shot cuts in the middle of his sentence, and suddenly he has one hand up on the cell bars. (00:40:30)
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Suggested correction: When he says Adrian is trapped in a worse prison, you see him put his hands on the bar. They're not in his lap.
27th Jan 2018
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk Paints His Masterpiece - S6-E14
Factual error: When Stottlemeyer and Randy are at the painter's daughter's home they find a picture showing him in front of Carson papers, which leads the Captain to say: they have a contract with the treasury, they are producing the paper for the U.S. currency. This is wrong: the treasury is not in charge of printing the Federal Reserve Notes. Rather it is the privately owned Fed that prints the Federal Reserve Notes and then lends it to the treasury at interest. And the interest added is the reason why there will never be enough money to pay the interest, i.e. the state debt.
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Suggested correction: While the Federal Reserve is in charge of maintaining our currency (through the creation or destruction of currency, real or digital), the U.S. Department of Treasury is in fact responsible for printing money, through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
30th Mar 2021
Wonder Woman (1976)
Factual error: In the opening sequence, a man placing dynamite on the truck is dressed in a camo-type uniform. This type of clothing was not introduced until 1981, and the episode was set in World War II.
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Suggested correction: The camo type/color seen was around during WWII. It should also be pointed out the mistake claims it wasn't introduced until 1981, but the real life filming occurred in 1976. So they can't have been using camo type during filming that wouldn't even be introduced for another 5 years.
29th Dec 2018
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Wrong Man - S6-E8
Stupidity: Instead of Monk pounding on the church's inner glass door for someone to let him in, he could have simply used the door handle on the outside which is the same as on the inside. (00:27:30)
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16th Mar 2021
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Red Herring - S3-E10
Continuity mistake: In the pet store, the bird's cage has a plastic covering on the sides. But in various shots, either one or both coverings are missing.
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Suggested correction: This is wrong, it was just the way the camera angle made the cage appear where I couldn't differentiate the space between the bars, so it looked like there must have been a covering.
24th Mar 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Corrected entry: In this version, Queen Hippolyta whispers "Return to me, Diana" as she shoots the arrow, as opposed to "Listen to me, Diana" in Whedon's version. Whedon's line made sense, since it was a warning, this does not, since Diana never comes back to Themyscira nor she is supposed to, being busy thwarting the invasion in the Land of Men. There's no reason why the Queen would say that line. (00:43:10)
Correction: It wasn't the Queen telling Diana to come home at that moment, but a way of saying "survive the war." This would be like a mother telling her soldier son as he goes to war to return home.
Under normal circumstances yes, but in the WW movie (forgetting comic book canon) the Queen herself bids her farewell on the beach telling her that she can't come back if she leaves, and by every indication she has not in a century even if she was unhappy here. Ironically in the movie itself she "returns home" only when we see her dead! I know it's splitting hairs though, and I am swayed by the fact that in the other version this unnecessary contradiction was changed, for the better.
24th Mar 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Factual error: In Part Two, as Diana explains to Bruce Wayne the history of the Mother Boxes on Earth, we see an extended flashback of Earthly gods and warriors in an epic battle against Darkseid. When Diana says, "A golden age of heroes fighting together," we see a close-up of an Amazon archer drawing back an arrow right-handed, leaning right, and releasing it. However, the arrow is unsupported on the bow, so she couldn't possibly aim or control the arrow. (01:03:59)
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Suggested correction: It's not even a matter of how good you are. Placing the arrow on the opposite side of your dominant hand is very much a Western style draw, popularized often times in Hollywood movies. Ancient and Eastern methods used a same side draw. It's mostly determined by the grip used and type of archery you're performing.
Nonsense. The physics of the draw demand that the arrow is supported on the riser. Even ancient Roman archers and American Indians supported their arrows on the bow. Again, go try it yourself. You can't hit diddly releasing an unsupported arrow on the wrong side of the bow.
Not that this is the forum for it, but here's just 1 example. Https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGSpYLdH8s.
Yes, it's possible to shoot same-side, as long as you're supporting the arrow with the bow. However, in the Justice League shot that I cited, the Amazon archer is holding the bow right-handed hunter style, with the bow tilted to the right, which means the arrow is totally unsupported and uncontrollable. There's this inconvenient force known as GRAVITY that pulls the arrow away from your intended trajectory when the arrow is unsupported.
Suggested correction: Incorrect. You can place the arrow either side of the bow. It depends on how good of an archer you are.
I've been an archer for over 40 years, and you don't load your arrow on the outside of your bow. I don't care "how good an archer" you THINK you are, you can't aim or control an unsupported arrow on the wrong side of the bow. Try it. Make a video of it. You'll be embarrassed to find you can't hit the broad side of a barn with the arrow on the wrong side of the bow.
Firstly, it's clearly possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n5M2KHVyWI. Secondly, given the multiple "impossible" feats achieved by the Amazons given their super-physiology, "being able to accurately fire an arrow on the 'wrong' side of a bow" obviously falls under suspension of disbelief, and doesn't warrant either a mistake or the level of anger you're showing to people here.
Both videos state explicitly (especially Lars Andersen's) that yes, you CAN shoot from 'the wrong side', IF and only IF you use a particular, Eastern based grip, the thumb one. Watch the movie. She uses (which makes sense, for someone from the Greek mythology, I guess!) the 'Western style' so, left side as stated. I personally love over-analyzing this sort of things that give you so much insight and fun tidbits, rather than "Ah it's magic, who cares."
26th Feb 2021
WandaVision (2021)
Breaking the Fourth Wall - S1-E7
Corrected entry: A trunk of a car opens while everything is supposed to be frozen. In the first shot it is closed, but in the second shot, it is fully open. (00:24:27 - 00:25:10)
Correction: The trunk of the grey car is open in both shots.
The mistake is correct. There were 3 shots of the car and you're referring to the last 2 shots where they were both open. The first shot of the car is after we see Anges watching through the window and the trunk is cracked open, but still down. The 2nd shot is after Anges says "run along dear", but everything else is still suppose to be frozen.
Okay, but they are not "frozen", they are watching. You can even see the woman move, so she is in the process of opening the trunk. So not a mistake regardless.
I submitted a mistake of her moving because they are meant to be frozen.
Who says they are supposed to be frozen?
I guess that would be a matter of debate. You do see the wind blowing the skirt of a woman, but other than that (and the slight moment of another girl), no-one is moving. It's one thing to say they're watching, but if they're not frozen, they're playing a great game of statue, and then they all start moving again at the same time.
Everyone else in the city of mind-controlled slaves is obviously characterized as being a little more than simply engrossed in their own curiosity; the hand movement of that woman is out of place and kinda the 'real' mistake IMHO, more like the extra adjusting her position than anything. If she opened the trunk deliberately while on camera, it would have undermined completely the tension of the scene.
Please let's just stick to the facts. No endless debates, perhaps use the discord server for that. The fact of the matter is as soon as they come out of the house everybody around them stops what they are doing and starts watching, nobody "freezes" in the middle of an action. Their roles have probably temporarily been suspended because Wanda is otherwise occupied, but that doesn't mean they stop moving altogether.
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Correction: This seems unlikely, given the film's adult content and Drew Barrymore's young age at the time, and the fact that Winona Ryder was selected for the role of Mina even before pre-production began: As stated on page 9 of the 1992 official behind the scenes book "Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend", she had read the screenplay and was interested in playing the role even before director Francis Ford Coppola became involved. She then gave the script to Coppola, who agreed to direct and to cast her in the role of Mina.
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There's a few articles/sites that make this claim, although none seem original (like they're just repeating what's online) and there's no source cited. Another article says she auditioned, which is more likely. But just because she auditioned didn't mean she was "considered." Most of these trivia entries where they say "considered" usually don't mean the person was seriously in contention to get the role.
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