Corrected entry: Felix' corpse is in rigor mortis. When the men lift it from the casket, his arms joggle a bit, and the legs bend easily at the knees. (01:40:00 - 01:42:35)
pgsgrad16
20th Sep 2021
S.O.B. (1981)
14th Sep 2021
Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
Corrected entry: They've been stranded for 15 years. So this takes place during the mid-late 70s after Watergate. Yet the Howell's and MaryAnn are the only ones who haven't aged or changed their look a bit, while the others look appropriate for the time gap.
Correction: The actors did not go into suspended animation after the show ended. The show began in 1964. The movie was shown in 1978. All the actors are fourteen years older just like their characters. The fact that some of them aged better than others is definitely not a mistake.
Correction: The actors who played the Howells were in their 50s and 60s during the shows original run. Most people after 50 (or definitely 60) don't look too much different if they age 10-15 years. Mary Ann DID look a bit older but was still only 40 during this movie and Ginger was played by a different actress Judith Baldwin (who was younger than the original Ginger Tina Louise explaining that). Others were more middle-aged so you can tell the difference easier.
25th Aug 2021
Arachnophobia (1990)
Corrected entry: Every time the fake king spider is in a scene, the tech department adds a hissing sound for dramatic effect.
25th Aug 2021
Arachnophobia (1990)
Corrected entry: Toward the end when the doctor climbs up and throws the alcohol on the pulsating egg sack to torch it, the fake king spider suddenly "pops' up on its hind legs, like a Halloween special effect.
19th Aug 2021
Downton Abbey (2010)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Corrected entry: The new ladies' maid calls Anna "Miss Daisy" as she leaves the kitchen. (00:36:00 - 00:37:00)
Correction: She said "I'll go ask Daisy."
19th Aug 2021
Downton Abbey (2010)
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Corrected entry: During discussion in the servants quarters, John's estranged wife remarks "as if!" which is a noted 80s verbiage. Not at all early European nor American. (00:42:26)
Correction: Yes, it was used heavily in the 80's, but that's not when it originated. One of the earliest written use of the phrase comes from 1903 in the book "The Pit" by Frank Norris. And usually words and phrases that appear in print originated verbally before that (unless the author is credited with creating the word or phrase).
And usually words and phrases that appear in print originated verbally before that (unless the author is credited with creating the word or phrase Can you provide an example perhaps, outside the "The Pit"? Sometimes there is assumed history in wording or verbiage from a certain period, that never is actually found or proven.
19th Jul 2021
The Beastmaster (1982)
Corrected entry: Throughout most of the film the male characters wear leather underwear beneath their sheaths, for censorship purposes. When in actuality there would be no such thing. As the sheath was merely a coverup for the male privates in primitive cultures.
Correction: The movie is set in a fantasy world. We have no idea what their traditions are concerning clothing.
19th Aug 2019
Road House (1989)
Corrected entry: Dalton exits his car and tosses the keys to the African American wino, saying 'keep it, it's yours', then walks away. The wino uncovers the car and gets in, but the hand that puts the key in the ignition is caucasian.
Correction: It's not the wino that uncovers the car, it's Dalton. The wino is wearing a denim jacket. Dalton is wearing white jacket and white trousers. The wino gets the keys to the old junker car, that's not covered. Then it cuts to the covered car, which is Dalton's actual 'non-junker' Mercedes-Benz, parked inside the parking garage. It is Dalton's hand that turns the key to his Mercedes-Benz, henceforth, Caucasian.
22nd Mar 2021
The Karate Kid (1984)
Corrected entry: Daniel and his mother supposedly moved from Jersey to LA, but the opening travel scenes are desert, palms, and tumbleweed, nowhere near Jersey.
Correction: They first show them leaving the city in New Jersey, crossing middle American farmland, a desert area (likely the Chihuahuan Desert in southern Texas and New Mexico), the Canyon Portal Hotel (which was a real hotel in Arizona before being torn down), a mountainous desert (likely the Mohave in southeast California) and finally the apartment complex in Reseda. They travelled across the country by car. They were bound to see multiple types of landscapes, including the American deserts.
Again, this is the very opening of the film when they are DEPARTING New Jersey. Not the traveling parts following minutes later.
Here is the opening scenes for the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK1xslvKteE&ab_channel=LightningBoyXXX You can see them traveling exactly how I described: city, farmland, sand desert, motel, mountainous desert, apartment complex.
31st Jan 2021
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Corrected entry: When Loretta hears a caller from outside and then heads out to the front porch to see who's calling her name, the man coming up the hill is wearing coal mining gear. However, in the next shot, it is a different man dressed in a navy sweater and freshman's cap.
Correction: This is not a mistake. Loretta and Doolittle did not have a phone and would use their neighbor's as needed (he complained about it). Loretta hears her name being called and, going outside, sees someone in the distance who looks and sounds like her coal miner father coming toward the house. The image changes as she realises it is actually the neighbor, who is coming to relay the news that her father passed away. Loretta was having a premonition/vision of her father's death moments before learning he died. He had been ill with a lung disease (from coal dust), and she was likely expecting the bad news at some point.
28th Nov 2020
Sister Act (1992)
Corrected entry: The number of nuns in the choir changes between when Mary Clarence joins, the later casino scenes, and the end concert for the Pope. At the start, there are over 20, and by the ending, there are about 12-15.
6th Oct 2020
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Corrected entry: It's obvious the 3 blind witches have cloths covering their eyes.
Correction: Yes, they do, but what does that have to do with them being actually blind and how is it a mistake? It's like real blind people wearing dark glasses.
No it is not, as the cloths should have been better camouflaged or better makeup. But forgiveness granted for a cult film of its time.
26th Jan 2019
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Corrected entry: Jenny Lind is portrayed here as an accomplished concert performer. But she was actually a European opera star, who later traveled to America and toured with PT.
Correction: Apparently she was both. According to Encyclopedia.Com; Jenny Lind retired as an opera singer in 1849, and toured the United States as a concert singer, from 1850 to 1852.
3rd Aug 2019
Halloween 4 (1988)
Corrected entry: Michael's look changes several times throughout the movie, from the brownish wig to a white one and back.
Correction: Already listed in another mistake, along with an explanation of why it happened.
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Correction: Rigor mortis wears off within forty-eight hours, and Felix has been dead for much longer than that.