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21st Jun 2022

Super Robot Wars V

Super Robot Wars V mistake picture

Other mistake: Upon facing AI enemies, one of Tobias' possible opening quotes is "I'm fighting a machine. I just need to read it's patterns." Should be "its".

Sammo

21st Jun 2022

Trancers (1985)

Other mistake: Jack realises that he 'lost' the watch, but luckily Leena shows she wasn't as forgetful and it's in her possession. We saw Jack toss the watch as ordered by the possessed policeman. We saw also Leena show up to save Jack, and leave the scene with him hand in hand - he dragged her with her, actually. She was nowhere near the point where the watch would end up, and she didn't have a chance to get it later, especially without Jack's knowledge.

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21st Jun 2022

Trancers (1985)

Other mistake: The policemen work with Whistler all day long doing his bidding, to the point of shooting an unarmed woman, but they show the big-lipped zombie Trancer look only at the very end, in contrast with everyone else who would fully transform into a Trancer the moment they commit to attempting to kill someone.

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19th Jun 2022

Trancers (1985)

Other mistake: Jack receives a summons from the officers, but he wants to ignore it. He's arguing with his former colleague on the beach. His hair is wet but the suit is dry. (00:08:30)

Sammo

18th Jun 2022

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Watcher - S2-E4

Other mistake: The show is supposed to take place in the same timeline as Next Generation, but the presence of a young Guinan in 2024 who has never met Picard before contradicts the TNG Season 5 finale, Time's Arrow, where Picard met Guinan (looking like Whoopi Goldberg, who also appears here) in the XIX century. When asked about this contradiction, show writer Terry Matalas said that the Federation actually never happened since the 'future' was changed by Q's actions, so Picard never traveled back in TNG meeting her. However, that is never referenced in the actual episode or the season finale, and would create other paradoxes, especially since in the very same episode there is a reference to Star Trek IV. The same punk from back then rubs nervously his neck remembering Spock's nerve pinch; the TOS cast would have not visited XX century Earth in the way shown in the movie if the Federation never came into existence.

Sammo

28th May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Other mistake: Setting up Facebook, Jules asks Ben about his favourite music. He starts answering, and unless she typed "Sam Cooke" twice and added De Niro's initial exclamation "Jeez" as a musician, she started typing too early and pressed too many keys - besides, you can tell that Anne Hathaway is just doing 'the thing' people do in movies when they go all jazz-handsy over the keyboard pretending to type. (00:54:25)

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23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Other mistake: In the scene with De Niro answering the early morning phone call from Becky that tells her that Jules' driver is MIA, the alarm clock is turned off - in other parts of the movie you could see the sweep hand's constant motion, absent here. (00:40:45)

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23rd May 2022

The Intern (2015)

Other mistake: Ben randomly picks one of the laptops at the intern table. He does not even know how to turn it on, and hits the space bar because Lewis tap it on his own, but somehow that laptop he chose out of all the others is properly logged in with his credentials, because his own personal email is there waiting to be read. (00:15:00)

Sammo

20th May 2022

Burning Rival

Other mistake: In the end credits, the voice actress is credited for playing "Aska", but the name of the character is spelled "Asuka" during the game.

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Other mistake: Ron Foster appears in the end credits as "Jiminiz", but his name tag much more logically says "Jimenez." (01:29:50)

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Other mistake: When the two caucasian heroes smile back at their new asian friend at the end of the movie, you can see that Lucinda Dickey's hair looks somewhat blacker and with a thicker front bang. She's wearing a wig, since it was a later reshoot, and she had already cut her hair short for her role in Breakin' (which was shot later despite ending up being released before this movie). (01:29:00)

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Other mistake: During the final fight, the Black Ninja (which confusingly enough is the one wearing green, and the ninja in black is the good guy) in some shots wears pale white cadaver makeup around the eyes, and in other does not. His fingers are also constantly of a healthy color.

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Other mistake: During the movie it had been made clear that Christie would pick up bruises and black spots from the fights, and they wouldn't heal in minutes. However, Lucinda Dickey's face is spotless when Jordan Bennett finds her at the temple, and she had a big shiner and cuts during the earlier scene at her house. (01:23:20)

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Other mistake: If you look at the monks when they're training, there are no twins with a goatee amongst their ranks, but when Sho Kosugi has to fight them because the Black Ninja somehow gained the ability to shoot fireballs that turn evil, you can see that he fights and knocks out the same dude thrice, or at the very least he gets up instantly between shots. Also, they were all together when possessed, but somehow they come at him from different parts of the temple. (00:01:16 - 01:21:05)

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Other mistake: The 4 kids just snuck into a party. Some jocks begin making fun of Ben, calling him "the chinese Jordan." Daric walking off to check on their puking friend bumps into one of them on purpose. During this sequence, notice that one of the guys is holding a paper cup completely empty just for show, and in the reverse shot it even flips suddenly. (00:37:25)

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Other mistake: This is just baffling; in the scene where Christie is wearing a rather sweat-stained pink top and Billy turns the music off asking her "Where have you been?" they are the only ones in the room, but someone out of frame throws what appears to be a puppet on Christie bed (!?). (00:45:45)

Sammo

15th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Other mistake: The watch that the poor man's Q of this movie provided is supposed to buy 10 seconds of time ("1 second stretched to 10, single use", that activates when he presses the wheel), but the power works in a completely different way, since in those "10 seconds" Deth takes his time to assess the situation and watch bullets float, then grabs Helen Hunt, stare his mortal enemy down without doing a thing to him and then carries her from the back parking lot of the store to the car parked in the front. Not even Husain Bolt (at most Dio Brando, with a very similar time-freeze gimmick) would be able to do that, not to mention that flying bullets somehow are slower than liquor pouring from a bottle.

Sammo

15th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Other mistake: When Jack tries to break free from the tanning booth, ramming his shoulder against the wall causes a severe burn that instantly singes the trenchcoat, but in the rest of the scene he keeps leaning against the same section of the booth without getting grilled. (00:29:45)

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15th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Other mistake: Jack glances at the front of the baseball card the Consul gives him, and he says "Hap Ashby, 1963 Angels." He has no idea who that guy from 200 years before is, but the card does not say the year, and he's not a psychic. (00:15:55)

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The Death March of Young Kindaichi File 3 - S2-E3

Other mistake: Kindaichi in this episode watches the footage of the events in the previous episode from Saki's handicam. Saki was running with the camera and the camera was jerking up and down a whole lot in those animations, but here the motion is very subtle. Li also was standing facing straight away from the door, parallel to it, but here he's more turned to the left.

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