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Continuity mistake: Yamcha falls on his butt once Muten hops up from the pit and faces him. He holds on to the car's fender and pulls himself up in the reverse shot, when Chow Yun-Fat says "Send down a net." Cut to Goku and then he's again down and holding on to the fender. (00:41:10)

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9th Oct 2019

Common mistakes

Factual error: In recent years, blood tends to be represented with a certain degree of realism, but in past eras especially before the 80s, the industry standard for fake blood appeared to be a much brighter red that often looks odd to a contemporary eye, and distinctly fake. In general, every movie sorta has its own 'blood' not necessarily factually accurate.

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8th Oct 2019

Common mistakes

Plot hole: Minuscule towns where you'd expect even a robbery at the local diner would be big news and horrify the local community for months, somehow end up having a crime rate worse than a Mad Max dystopia. Examples; Cabot Cove, Maine (where Jessica Fletcher lives), or the "This is the police" videogame series, where a small town in the mountains ends up having in just a couple months hostage situations, bomb threats, several murders, armed robberies and about half a dozen of violent crimes every day.

Sammo

7th Oct 2019

Criminal (2016)

Continuity mistake: Jerico turns his back to Jill in the basement, telling her to go feed her daughter. She has second thoughts and points the gun at him. Costner is shown leaning on the column to his right, but he's leaning on the left one in the next shot. (01:11:55)

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7th Oct 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

Continuity mistake: Monica is showing Carol some photos from the past. The first one is a Halloween one; you can see in the wide shot how her two hands move together on the corner of the picture, but in the close-up she is holding it on both opposite sides. (01:01:15)

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Continuity mistake: Bulma asks the others to let her handle the talk with the handsome stranger at the top of the hole. When she says "I'd be uh, so grateful..." you can see the backpack Roshi was salvaging, perfectly propped against the bike. But in the previous shot it was just lying around on the ground. Inconsistencies between different angles keep repeating during the whole bit. (00:38:35)

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Factual error: The Dragonball gang falls into Yamcha's trap. The bike nosedives into the hole, with Bulma driving (Muten and Goku should by every mean have been able then to jump to safety, but let's forget about that a moment). Goku and Muten somehow land first, and Bulma comes down last after a couple seconds, screaming. Not really making sense from a physical standpoint. (00:38:05)

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Dragonball Evolution mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Bulma and her passengers are driving through a fairly horrid-looking green screen. They are proceeding along a street coasted with a fence. She takes a sharp left turn, Goku loses his balance, but the view shown has the fence already at distance. (00:37:55)

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Continuity mistake: At the very crowded secret training spot, Chi Chi and Goku are interrupted in their chat by Muten yelling his name. The trainees are turned facing away from the camera and some guy with a jumpsuit similar to Goku's in the anime is kinda wandering by Muten. Cut to Goku and Chi Chi, the wandering guy vanished and all the students are shadow punching towards them, and they'll stay that way for the rest of the scene. (00:36:50)

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Continuity mistake: Chi Chi asks Goku to take a walk with her. They do, and end up standing in a gorge; depending on the angle of the take, Chi Chi's hair is windblown or not. Especially obviously at the beginning when a big wisp of hair gets blown across her face as she says "Before you suddenly took off", and then everything is completely quiet with no wild hair in the close-up that follows. It keeps happening. (00:36:20)

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Continuity mistake: While Chi Chi is sparring with the guy who hits her with not much fair play, some guy is doing kung fu forms on a tall pillar. Chi Chi disposes of the opponent, jumps off to greet Goku, and the guy suddenly vanishes from that peak. (00:36:10)

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Plot hole: Muten sees Goku perform the technique his Grandpa used, and says "Shadow Crane Strike. I'd recognize that anywhere. How's Gohan?" A few scenes later he goes "Shadow Crane strike is the most basic of all the air-bending techniques." Which is it, Gohan's technique or a generic level 1 airbending spell? (00:30:55 - 00:34:50)

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Plot hole: During the lesson at school, Goku learned that the eclipse is due to occur "in two weeks' time." The same night he goes to Chi Chi's party and Grandpa gets killed. The day after, he departs with Bulma for Paozu, which is pretty close to where he is (they go by motorbike). But in Paozu, Muten tells them that they have "seven days." (00:10:25 - 00:33:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Muten starts doing his silly posing saying his name, Emmy Rossum has in a close-up her wisp of hair comically looped across one eye. When she was seen earlier as the posing started, the hair was okay; it was messed up when she was getting up earlier. (00:30:36)

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Other mistake: Bulma and Goku enter Roshi's house during the night, but through the windows of the room sunlight appears to be present throughout the whole fight, as well as nearby constructions, while the house was on an island with the skyscrapers far away. (00:29:20)

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Continuity mistake: Bulma approaches Master Muten's home moving along the right side of the stairs in the faraway shot, but saunters along the left in the closer take. When it's time to enter, she opens the door, left hand close to her body and not popping out...but in the next shot, the hand holds the dragon radar and is placed on the external wall. (00:28:20)

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Continuity mistake: Bulma is browsing in search for Roshi, while Goku eats a massive piece of meat. Right at the first cut, the extras that were walking around have completely disappeared, and throughout the scene, cars in the background never carry over from the previous time they were in frame, they just vanish between shots. (00:27:10 - 00:27:45)

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Plot hole: Bulma tells Goku about "the little machine I invented. This can detect and locate the signature wavelengths emitted by the Dragonballs." Literally a minute earlier she was not aware of the existence of other dragonballs (which she called by another name she never uses again). She does not live far, since the theft happened only a few hours before, so if she believed already that other "Prometheus spheres" existed, how would she have never detected Gohan's sphere so close nearby when she built that radar of hers? Unless her radar has a ridiculously short range, and then it wouldn't be useful at all during the rest of the movie either.

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The Cornish Mystery - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When Japp does the comical fistwave at Poirot at the end, Poirot's carriage is passing by a line of people (woman with red coat, young woman with greenish one) that already passed by when the constable was giving the 'bad news' to Japp. (00:48:20)

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7th Oct 2019

Escape Plan (2013)

Character mistake: Schwarzenegger welcomes Portos saying "Your name. The fourth Musketeer. It's a good name." Port (h) os was one of the original three musketeers in the eponymous novel. To be "the fourth", his name should have been D'Artagnan. (00:31:55)

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