Revealing mistake: When Treat Williams and Famke Janssen are escaping on the jet ski look closely. You can see it's a male stunt double for Famke due to the nose size.
Rob245
15th Mar 2020
Deep Rising (1998)
15th Mar 2020
Three's Company (1977)
Question: Who decided to make Chrissy stupid? Watch an early episode like "Roper's Niece" then a later one like "Jack's Pie", So who decided to make her stupid? Some network executive?
14th Mar 2020
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Question: Why don't Nicholas' two goons wait for Harry and Lloyd to come back to their apartment? The woman said they'd have to come back sometime, so why not wait, instead of killing their bird as a message?
Answer: At this point, Shay and Mental think that Harry and Lloyd are professional criminals who have been following them secretly for long enough to know about the entire kidnapping operation. They don't want to wait because it could leave them as sitting ducks if Harry and Lloyd were violent. In addition, waiting simply puts them for a long time and in front of many witnesses at the scene of what could be a murder (if they killed Harry and Lloyd).
Answer: Plus, Nicholas' cronies think that Harry and Lloyd work for someone who's trying to stop them retrieving the briefcase, which is shown when they go to confront them the second time and find the note on the apartment door. It's not until later on, that they realise that Lloyd and Harry aren't the pros that they think they are, and it's then that they try to kill them at Dante's Inferno.
Answer: Because if they had, the movie would be over in 20 minutes, and on a very violent note. It's a common film convention: To advance the plot, and to fit the tone of the film (here, a goofy comedy rather than a gangster thriller), characters behave in ways that real people in their position would not. There is no in-universe explanation.
13th Mar 2020
Miami Hustle (1996)
Trivia: Kathy Ireland took the role of Marsha Thomas after Pamela Anderson dropped out. She quit after being told of the sex scenes.
13th Mar 2020
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Stupidity: Sister Margaret should've tried taking Billy to a psychiatrist and checked on him during December knowing what happens in toy stores. She should've gotten him a job in a grocery.
13th Mar 2020
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
13th Mar 2020
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Revealing mistake: The robber who kills Billy's mother is shown cutting her throat but with the flat side of the blade. Moreover real blood doesn't ooze out so thickly, indicating it was makeup.
12th Mar 2020
It (1990)
Continuity mistake: Pay attention during Bill and Audra's bike ride. She starts out wearing hot pink shoes yet when going down one street they've suddenly turned black or brown. A shot later they're back to hot pink.
12th Mar 2020
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
And All Through the House - S1-E2
Stupidity: The woman could've blamed her husband's death on the maniac, she didn't need to go outside to retrieve his body.
12th Mar 2020
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Character mistake: Andy speaks of Billy changing in the two months after he was hired when he was hired in the spring months ago.
11th Mar 2020
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Trivia: Barbara Carrera was brought on as the witch's daughter and to replace Bette Davis who left the production.
6th Mar 2020
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
6th Mar 2020
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Veracity Elasticity - S10-E7
Answer: She wanted room for her own things. The apartment was cluttered with so many collectables that Leonard never looked at, that he never noticed when she put some in storage.
Well if they're a couple why not talk to him about it? After all couples are supposed to compromise on things, imagine if he'd done this to her.
6th Mar 2020
Problem Child (1990)
Character mistake: Big Ben is loaded feet first into the ambulance, he should've been loaded head first.
6th Mar 2020
Goddess of Love (1988)
6th Mar 2020
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Question: Why does Rosemary change her hairstyle in the movie and why did Terry die?
Answer: Terry was murdered by the the Castevets (pushing her out the window). Terry became suspicious about Roman and Minnie and why they had taken her into their home. It may also be that once they met Rosemary and Guy, they found Rosemary to be a more suitable "mother." Regarding Rosemary's hair. When she became pregnant, she experienced severe and constant pain keeping her housebound. She finally decided not to give into it anymore and made an effort to go about her normal life, having lunch with Hutch, getting a new haircut, planning a party for her and Guy's old friends that they never saw anymore, and so on. It was only after she threatened Guy to go back to her original doctor that a spell was apparently put on her to stop the pain.
Terry may have actually committed suicide (with a little 'help') because she couldn't face the fact that she was to be used to procreate with Satan. This is indicated if you listen to Ruth Gordon's voice as the nun in Rosemary's "dream" when Rosemary was actually overhearing Minnie through the wall, chastising Roman with "If you had listened to me we wouldn't have to do this! We would have been all set to go instead of having to start from scratch! I told you not to tell her in advance. I told you she wouldn't be open-minded!"
Answer: I read this book as a kid and so did my mom. She said she cut her hair because she was tired of them clipping pieces for their spells. I don't remember that part in the book. I might have to read it again.
Answer: They may have found out that Terry was not healthy-or fertile-enough, is my guess.
29th Feb 2020
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Factual error: Nobody can fall onto a car and come away with few injuries. Yet Colleen Camp does with a sore back and briefly wears a neck brace.
29th Feb 2020
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Continuity mistake: Barbara Carrera's Priscilla has shoulder long hair most of the time yet at one point she's sporting a ponytail that reaches her waist.
29th Feb 2020
Miami Hustle (1996)
Other mistake: During a serious conversation between Kathy Ireland and John Enos she covers her mouth and it's obvious she's laughing.
27th Feb 2020
Joker (2019)
Question: Why does Arthur kill his mother? Does he feel she lied to him about his father? Maybe his madness going further? Perhaps even he wanted to end her suffering?
Answer: I'd probably rule out of the last reason you mentioned, on the first one you have to consider that the lie goes deeper than just the father's identity, if that is a lie at all. Through the information he saw on the medical record - and he kills her after seeing that record - it turns out that she had let him be abused and beaten up since a tender age, which would probably be the cause of his mental and physical issues. In his line before the murder, he mentions her full name, and how he has not been happy a minute of his whole life, so the terrible childhood, which maybe now came back to him, is a real factor. Mentioning the comedy, so a play, might also imply a sort of detachment now that he understands that it was all a lie from the beginning and she's not even his real mother (if that's what he believes).
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Answer: It's also likely a case of "Flanderization", where as the show progresses, the writers zero in on a single aspect of a character that they get the most material out of, and think is the funniest, and expand it at the expense of realism or development, to the point where it is the character's entire personality.