Revealing mistake: During the dogfight scenes, they show the pilots of the F-14. In the visor, you can see the reflection of an A-6 instead of an F-14 being used. Turns out, they dressed up some A-6 aviators as F-14 aviators for the shots.
Movie Medic
18th Dec 2023
The Final Countdown (1980)
21st Nov 2023
World War Z (2013)
Deliberate mistake: After the AN-12 launches from the carrier, you see U.S. Navy near the nose of the craft, and MG on the tail code (MG=McGuire Air Force Base). Also, during the flight shots, the plane transforms between a C-130 and AN-12 multiple times.
25th Sep 2023
Man of Steel (2013)
Factual error: During the air-to-ground fight in Smallville, the 1st A-10 destroyed had DM on its rudder. DM is Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. There is no way they could have made it to Kansas in time for the fight.
22nd May 2023
Nobody (2021)
Hutch: You brought a lot of shotguns.
Dad: You brought a lot of Russians. (01:16:25)
30th Mar 2023
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Continuity mistake: Wick takes the lapel pin off and places it in his right front jacket pocket. Shortly afterwards he takes it out of his front left jacket pocket. (00:49:10 - 00:56:20)
27th Mar 2023
Den of Thieves (2018)
Factual error: O'Brien ask the uniformed officers to "push back the perimeter" because it's too small. When a crime scene perimeter is established you can always shrink but never enlarge a perimeter because everything outside of it has all ready contaminated by other people, officers, press, etc. (00:18:45)
21st Mar 2023
2 Guns (2013)
Other mistake: When Stig shoots the helo and kills the co-pilot it still crashes. He killed the co-pilot, the pilot sits on the right side. (01:36:30)
21st Mar 2023
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Factual error: The parachute flare was not invented till 1922. This film takes place in 1918 but features one. (00:21:15)
20th Mar 2023
Tag (2018)
Continuity mistake: On Hoagies golf cart, the plexiglass shield is sometimes down and then back up. (00:50:18 - 00:51:48)
16th Mar 2023
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Revealing mistake: Tom Cruise is placing his right hand on the cockpit canopy during an ACM training. The Rhino takes 2 hands to fly at all times unless you are in a straight and level flight. Since they were in ACM and his hands were on the canopy, this tells you that Tom Cruise was actually in the RIO position of the aircraft.
Suggested correction: It does not take two hands at all times. The throttle can be set for short periods, allowing the aircrew to brace themselves against the canopy to turn around and look behind them.
True IF you are in straight/level flight. They were in ACM at the time which would require both hands on stick and throttle.
There's a former Navy pilot on YT that confirms this.
Confirms that a pilot can or can't fly one handed like that scene?
Cannot. The channel is called Mover Ruins Movies.
1st Mar 2023
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2022)
Factual error: When Danny and Sarah cut in front of the truck to take another route, there were at least 14-17 bullet holes through the rear window alone. Glass on that year of Mustang was not laminated and the bullets would have struck them. (01:27:35)
1st Mar 2023
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2022)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah fires at the jeep chasing them she brings the weapon back in with the slide in the normal position, in the next shot it is in the locked back empty position. (01:26:50)
26th Feb 2023
Birds of Prey (2020)
Factual error: When "some Frida Kahlo-looking asshole" is chasing Harley across the bridge during her close-up you can see that the cartridges are loaded backwards into the cylinder. (00:54:05)
21st Feb 2023
Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Factual error: When Hattie is firing at Brixton she only fires 4 shots before weapon stops. She is using a Glock 26 which carries 10+1 rounds and the slides doesn't lock back yet she still pulls the trigger and you can hear the "click'. (00:02:35)
29th Jan 2023
The A-Team (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the pan around scene Face is shown with the 5th tire being put on him, on the ground scene he only has 4. (00:05:22)
20th Nov 2022
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Revealing mistake: During the bathroom fight and Ethan is starting to stand up from a urinal, you see his knee go into the foam padding that was used in the room.
13th May 2022
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Factual error: During real-world training exercises, aviators are told to keep a 500 to a 1000 ft safety bubble around them at all times. In multiple scenes you can see where they are almost flying in a wingtip formation.
4th Apr 2022
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Deliberate mistake: During the scenes where Maverick is flying the Darkstar spy plane, his helmet is lit up on the inside, so we can see his face. In reality the light would be reflecting off the plexiglass, meaning we would not be able to see his face, and he would not be able to see at all.
1st Apr 2022
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Factual error: When Jonathan Groff picks up the .50ae, with a maximum capacity of 8 rounds, he fires more than 8 times. (00:35:00 - 00:35:45)
25th Oct 2021
The Protégé (2021)
Continuity mistake: When Jackson is shot with shotgun he "flies" across the bathroom, hits the wall, and falls into the tub on his right side with his left leg on top of the tub and leaning to right. Next shot he is on his back. (00:26:25)
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