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19th Jul 2022

The Nice Guys (2016)

Factual error: To show how March was plenty wrong in his deduction about airport traffic, a big plane flies above his head. The plane has the trademark modern South West bright blue livery, but in 1977 it would have the Desert Gold colors. Or no colors at all, since South West didn't serve Los Angeles until 1982. (01:07:20)

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The Serene Squall - S1-E7

Other mistake: The episode begins with the Enterprise unable to contact in timely fashion the Federation, because there are 2 days of delay in communications, which puts Pike in a bind since apparently he needs authorization to get in non-Federation space (which kinda undermines the premise of the show). However, later in the episode, the Enterprise contacts the Vulcan facility on Omicron Lyrae without the slightest difficulty or delay.

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19th Jul 2022

The Nice Guys (2016)

Factual error: March is already wasted at the party, and tells the barman that "it's the killer bees." In the background as he says those lines (and even better when the dancer gets on her knees) you can see a bottle with half its label torn. That's because you can still make out from the bottom (and the shape of the bottle) that it's a bottle of the premium variety of Beefeater gin, Beefeater 24, which was launched only in October 2008, a good three decades after the supposed year of the movie. (00:38:20)

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19th Jul 2022

The Nice Guys (2016)

Factual error: Holland and Jackson drive in 1977 from the protest to the next hint to Amelia's whereabouts, passing through the Chinatown Gateway Monument, which was built in 2001. (00:29:10)

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19th Jul 2022

Lust Academy

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Character mistake: When the player fails to perform one of the initial 'rune' minigames for Victoria's lesson, he apologizes saying "Sorry, I've probably got disctracted."

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19th Jul 2022

Crush Crush

Character mistake: One of Claudia's lines is "You're making it difficult maintaining a nihilistic pastiche." Not sure which fancy French word they were aiming for, but it does not appear to make sense in the context.

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Other mistake: The scene in the semi-underground wrestling match features some old time territory wrestlers, namely Professor Toru Tanaka and one of the many evil Russians (he was Canadian, really) of pro wrestling, Alexis Smirnoff. In the end credits though, his name gets feminized as Alexia Smirnoff. (01:27:55)

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Other mistake: When the alligator crawls in the sewers after the helicopter scene, the footage is directly ported from the previous movie. (01:22:15)

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Revealing mistake: Brown grabs the contracts and runs away. He and his trusted henchman spot the alligator; in the shot just before the one where Brown gives the ever useful order "Kill him", the alligator is visible in all its fakery. (01:14:15)

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Revealing mistake: The alligator emerges from the lake and after knocking back a Carrot Top clone, he begins scuttling through the crowd. In the orgy of poor special effects, it's of particular note a shot where people supposedly are running away from the beast but half the extras are giggling and one guy doesn't even bother to run, just glances bored at the 'monster' less than 2 meters away from him. (01:13:10)

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Continuity mistake: Christine throws Hawkins' cigarette in the manhole and runs back to the truck; David in the first shot does not have his hand on his chest, but he does in the next. (01:08:20)

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Continuity mistake: After the alligator eats the bomb, the three hunters decide to split. When David suggests it, the strap goes across his chest a different way in the two shots. (01:07:05)

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Continuity mistake: Vinny Brown visits his realtor, who tells him to "tell those lowlives to shut up." Cut, and both Steve Railsback and Elkanah Burns' hands are in a different position (the realtor put already down the papers, but now he still has to, and Brown moved the hand away from the railing but it's back fully on it). (01:03:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Hodges, Harmon and Hawk put together the 6 sticks of dynamite, Hawk's thumb is below or above Hodges', depending on the angle. (01:03:35)

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Stupidity: The bad guys attack the chief of police that is driving a patrol car; their plan works because the man doesn't use the radio to call HQ, and there's no reason why he wouldn't do that.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Brown's limo leaves the scene following Speed's police car, set lights and camera crew are reflected in the side of the vehicle. (00:59:25)

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Other mistake: David and the others help out of the sewers one of the alligator hunters. David asks him "who's still down there" and he says "Hawk", but there were other 3 people (relatives and friends, even) besides him; Hawk is the last one alive, sure, but he can't know that. (00:56:55)

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Revealing mistake: When the alligator breaks the wall after David failed to kill him with the grenade, the fake jaws are strikingly obvious and completely different from the alligator's look in the part that follows. (00:49:45)

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Continuity mistake: When David talks with his wife, the rest of the team and then also Chief Speed outside the manhole, the natural light (quantity of light behind the SUV) changes depending on the camera angle. (00:51:00)

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