Other mistake: After the ghost "possesses" the building and blows out the windows, no shards of glass or debris land on the Ghostbusters as they get up to escape, even though there was plenty of time for the glass and debris to rain down on them.
TedStixon
4th Apr 2017
Ghostbusters (2016)
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Suggested correction: You can plainly see that the debris is actually flowing upwards in defiance of gravity. Spectral energy is running amok and the laws of physics are all over the place.
27th Aug 2001
Scream (1996)
Trivia: Look closely towards the end of the movie when Randy is explaining the rules look at the videos on top of the TV. One of them is clearly the UK version of the Scream video cover under a different name. (01:10:10)
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Suggested correction: Sadly, that's actually just a VHS copy of the 1995 film "Smoke" starring William Hurt, a different Miramax-released film. It has a similar font and spine-design as the UK "Scream" VHS... but it's a different movie.
9th May 2023
The Conjuring (2013)
Corrected entry: In the movie, Ed and Lorraine Warren are depicted as a younger middle-aged couple when the real Warrens were retirees who died before this film was made.
Correction: This isn't a documentary. It's a highly fictionalized retelling of their cases, which themselves are just dubious claims. This film also takes place in 1971 when the Warrens would have been in their mid-40s, and Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga weren't far off in age at the time of filming. Also, Lorraine Warren didn't die until 6 years after this film came out.
Documentary or film, makes little difference. The fact is that images of the real Warrens in the 1970s were an older couple as mentioned, while the actors in the films are considerably younger in their late 30s to 40s, where respectively age consideration should have lined up but did not.
Ed and Lorraine Warren were both around 45 in 1971 when the film takes place. Both of the actors were around 40 when the film was made and released. That's not a big difference in age. Just because they look a little bit younger doesn't make it a mistake. You're not going to be able to find actors who look EXACTLY like the real people. Also, how does the date the Warrens died have any impact on the movie? The movie takes place in 1971... not the present day.
Correction: It actually does make a difference when it comes to documentary vs. fiction, because this film isn't intended to be a true-to-life depiction, particularly as the real Warrens were con artists. This falls under artistic license. This film also features unequivocal evidence for the supernatural, including ghosts, demonic possession, and violations of laws of physics, none of which are true to the real world. Given all that, the fact that the Warrens look more youthful here isn't a movie mistake.
2nd Mar 2024
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Corrected entry: In the finals, when White eliminates Peter but was over the line, wouldn't being over the line cause White to be kicked out of the game and thus giving Average Joe's the win, and not force a sudden death?
Correction: As explained earlier in the film, a double-fault results in Sudden Death. Dwight had already illegally hit Kate with a ball, so stepping over the line was his second offense.
Correction: I feel like this is more of a question than a plot hole. Regardless, the referee called for sudden death... so it went to sudden death.
27th Feb 2024
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Plot hole: When Harry's pumpkin bomb exploded, disfiguring his face, there were also more pumpkin bombs around him. This explosion should have caused them all to explode, which would have killed Harry.
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Suggested correction: It's entirely dependent on how the pumpkin bombs function and how they're built. They're likely built to be able to withstand a certain degree of outside force and heat so they wouldn't just randomly explode during a superhero/villain battle. They also don't seem to function like regular grenades... there seems to be electronic components to them. So it's entirely possible they can't go off until they're activated because certain components inside haven't mixed or been armed. Their rules are just too vaguely defined for this to be a valid mistake.
20th Feb 2018
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Trivia: Early in the movie, when George is speaking to John, he says, "Me Tarzan, you Jane." Even though this line has been synonymous with the character Tarzan, it has actually never been said by Tarzan at all in any movie or any stories written about Tarzan's adventures. This is officially the first time the line is used.
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Suggested correction: Johnny Weissmuller said it in his Tarzan movies.
This is actually a popular misconception. Johnny Weissmuller never actually said it in any of his Tarzan movies. He said it during an interview where he was describing the character. But he never actually said it onscreen during any of the movies. So the trivia is 100% correct.
28th Mar 2005
Child's Play (1988)
Plot hole: Andy is suspected of having killed Eddie Caputo, because he was at the scene when Eddie's house blew up and Eddie was killed. But there are glaring things that go unquestioned: None of the cops seem to think it's strange that a six-year-old kid would travel by himself so far to some random house in order to blow it up. The South Side neighborhood where Eddie lives is halfway across the city from Andy's apartment. How did Andy know where Eddie lived? How do the cops think he even knew Eddie at all? None of them address this most puzzling problem.
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Suggested correction: The police believe Andy to be insane (hence why he is sent to a mental institution instead of juvenile hall), and thus do not believe his choice of victims to be in any way rational.
Also, as unlikely as it is that a six-year-old child could (or would) travel halfway across the city to murder a random person, the possibility that a child's doll came to life and carried out the act was considered far too outlandish at that point in the plot.
Suggested correction: We don't see the entire investigation. We just see the cops holding Andy then taking him to a psychiatric clinic. Chances are they were asking those questions and we just didn't see it because it's not important to the plot. Regardless, the cops have every reason to believe Andy either knows about or was partly responsible for the murders considering he keeps showing up at murder scenes. There's only so many conclusions you can draw, even if they don't make sense.
9th Feb 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Corrected entry: Buffalo Bill covets the skin on the back of Catherine Martin (as revealed when he first knocked her out, he caresses/inspects her back with satisfaction), but he wants her to put lotion on it when she's down in the well. It's a physical impossibility, especially for a larger woman.
Correction: I'm significantly heavier than she is, and I can touch almost my entire back with my hands... there's only a couple of inches I can't reach. I seriously doubt it's "physically impossible" for her not to be able to get lotion over most of her back.
20th Nov 2020
Cult of Chucky (2017)
Visible crew/equipment: When the patient throws Chucky into the hole outside, when he rises up, you can see someone's hand give her the doll.
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Suggested correction: That's the character Malcolm's hands. He's in the grave. He handed the doll up to her, and then, literally seconds later, the nurses help him out of the grave. I genuinely don't understand how that could be mistaken for a crew member's hand when it's so obviously a character in the film.
25th Mar 2018
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Chucky pushes Nica over the balcony, the camera shows her falling to the floor on her back but when the camera zooms out on her, it shows her lying on her stomach.
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Suggested correction: You don't see her land, and she's off-screen for a solid 15 seconds. It's entirely possible she hit the ground and rolled onto her stomach.
14th Jul 2014
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Revealing mistake: When the pastor is beheaded you can see a clear tube inside his neck that is squirting blood.
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Suggested correction: That's actually supposed to be the top of his spinal cord. The blood is noticeably coming from behind it if you look closely.
27th Apr 2006
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the box containing Glen/Glenda is in the SFX room, as Glen/Glenda crawls out of the box, a shadow of the boom mic and the pole is very apparent on the wall behind the box.
Correction: There is no such shadow in the scene, nor would there be - there's no actors in the scene, just the dolls playing pre-recorded dialogue. There's no voices for the mic to pick up. It'd be superfluous.
11th Jun 2005
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Audio problem: Joan is already screaming when Glenda burns her, but the scream effect doesn't kick in until a second afterward.
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Suggested correction: She's opened her mouth to scream. Usually, people open their mouths, inhale, and then scream. It's not a mistake.
12th Jul 2013
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Continuity mistake: Joan falls from the banister face up, but when the police see her, she's face down.
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Suggested correction: She very obviously falls and lands face down.
12th Jan 2004
Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
Factual error: When the hovercraft is stopped after Jackie cuts the side open, it isn't slanted to one side(from the outside view), it is straight.
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Suggested correction: It is slightly slanted... it's just hard to see with the camera angles, since it's mostly shot from the side once it crashes.
5th Jan 2024
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Other mistake: Dive boat interior, as the tablet is unboxed, there is a clear lens distortion as Indi looks round to his diver friend and the focus follows - giving a disturbing jolt to the image. (01:08:27)
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Suggested correction: It just appears to be the result of the movie doing a slightly unconventional rack focus. I don't think that really qualifies as a mistake. If it does count, it opens far too big a can of worms in terms of various camera techniques being considered "mistakes."
16th Aug 2023
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Other mistake: Five pancakes are made and shot onto the kitchen ceiling, yet only one is on Pee-Wee's plate.
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Suggested correction: I think it's reasonable to presume that one simply fell down onto the plate while the others remained stuck to the ceiling.
29th Sep 2004
Ringu (1998)
Revealing mistake: Near the end (DVD), when Sadako comes out of the TV, you can see where her finger extensions have been placed (you can see the join between her real finger and the fake one). (01:22:50)
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Suggested correction: She's not wearing finger extensions. There are small prosthetics to make it look like her fingernails are missing, but her fingers are normal length.
3rd Mar 2004
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: After the Death star, the stick that is used to move the Millennium Falcon is visible when the first TIE fighter attacks it.
Correction: Just loaded up the scene on YouTube. That's literally just a part of the TIE fighter. It's not attached to the Falcon at all, and moves with the camera. I feel like this had to have been uploaded as a joke, because if you watch the scene, it's laughably obvious that it's not attached to the Falcon.
Correction: That's the stick used to control the Tie Fighter, not to move the Falcon.
20th Nov 2023
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Factual error: At the very beginning, while Frederick is telling us about the party, he says, "There will be food and drink and ghosts etc..." Throughout the movie, there isn't a single morsel of food ever seen or offered.
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Suggested correction: Around thirteen minutes into the film, when Frederick starts to pour drinks for his guests, you can see a table with food on it behind them. Appears to be sort-of of a small, buffet style selection of hors d'oeuvres, albeit it's out of focus in the background. (It's very easy to miss.)
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