Plot hole: George is standing in the small park across from Filby's department store when an atomic weapon detonates. The cars in the street are instantly turned into burned hulks and the building crumbles and bursts into flame. However, George, standing no more than 20 feet away from both, doesn't even break a sweat! While shock waves from a blast can cancel each other out and leave things unhurt, the sheer thermal energy released should have severely burned him at the least.
Grumpy Scot
6th Dec 2009
The Time Machine (1960)
21st Nov 2009
Zombieland (2009)
Revealing mistake: During the opening scenes, just before the "double tap rule" a car hits a zombie in a security guard uniform. The windshield breaks a split second before the zombie hits it.
Suggested correction: The glass breaks at absolutely the right moment just when the zombie hits it.
21st Sep 2009
Eureka (2006)
What Goes Around, Comes Around - S3-E18
Plot hole: Tess sends Jack an airline ticket to visit her in Australia. The ticket reads 'From: Eureka, Oregon, To: Sydney Australia.' Seems odd that a commercial carrier would have a terminal in the most secret town in America. Eureka is a town created by the US government for its top scientists to experiment with new technologies. It is made nearly invisible from the outside by giant holograms. Very few non-residents even know of its existence.
Suggested correction: There's nothing to suggest Eureka has a terminal open to the public or other commercial airlines. In fact, the airline is named CircumGlobal which is probably not a coincidence that it shares part of its name with Global Dynamics. It could be a private airline only for Eureka staff and citizens.
14th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Factual error: In one scene Sarah starts her HMMWV with a key. Military HMMWV's have push-button ignition.
13th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Character mistake: Bud keeps calling Sarah "Ma'am." Sarah is a corporal. Corporals don't get called ma'am or sir in the US Army. Bud has been in the Army for seven months. No soldier would make this mistake after the third week of boot camp. Anytime you call an enlisted man or NCO sir, you are looking at about 20-50 push-ups or sit-ups to correct you. It's conditioned into you.
13th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Continuity mistake: Sarah's corporal insignia are wrong. They are way too large to be Army issue.
13th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Continuity mistake: Sarah is called Cross, but her name is listed as 'Bowman' in the credits.
13th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Factual error: All the soldiers are wearing black t-shirts under their uniform shirt. Air Force wears black t-shirts, Army wears brown.
13th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Factual error: All the soldiers that have rolled up sleeves have them rolled up Marine style (with the inside of the sleeve showing) despite being US Army.
13th Sep 2009
Day of the Dead (2008)
Factual error: Sarah would not be carrying a pistol In the US military during peacetime, only officers and MP's are issued pistols. Her uniform designates no such status. While she might be armed as part of the roadblock detail she'd have an M-16 or an M4 rifle.
25th Aug 2009
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Trivia: Pierce Brosnan wanted a cameo in this film and wanted to have Mike Meyers cameo in The World is Not Enough, but the two couldn't make their shooting schedules match for it. (From an interview with Brosnan in Maxim magazine.).
15th Aug 2009
V (1984)
V: The Final Battle: Part 3 (2 Hrs) - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: When the heroes are trying to blast open the bridge door, Elias knocks the shell of the explosive off with the butt of his laser rifle, bending it. When they rush onto the bridge a moment later, the stock is straight again.
29th Jun 2009
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Factual error: When Cam ambushes Ba'al in 1939, he has two Thompson M1 submachine guns. The M1 version of the Thompson wasn't developed until 1942.
28th Jun 2009
Fido (2006)
Other mistake: When Helen kills the zombie bully she fires 9 shots from a 6 shot revolver.
4th Jan 2009
Bedtime Stories (2008)
7th Dec 2008
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Dudley pops up after Hagrid gives him a pig's tail, his face and hands are clean, even though he was just eating Harry's birthday cake with his hands. (00:16:40)
4th Dec 2008
Battletech (1995)
Factual error: The First Sommerset Strikers upgrade their mechs with Enhanced Imaging technology. EI cannot be used without Clan cybernetic implants that look like luminous tattoos. None of the Strikers have the implants, yet they still use EI.
4th Dec 2008
Battletech (1995)
Factual error: Camelot Command's computer tells Franklin that Aleksandr Kerensky created the Clans before leaving the Inner Sphere. The Clans were created by his son Nicholas decades after the Exodus.
16th Nov 2008
Get Smart (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Max is in the bakery, his gun keeps switching around. From a SIG to a Beretta to a Glock, then back to a SIG.
9th Oct 2008
Sanctuary (2007)
Sanctuary for All: Part 1 - S1-E1
Factual error: When Ashley's Desert Eagle is empty, the slide doesn't lock open.
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