In Braveheart, William Wallace wears kilts. But?
William Wallace lived around the year 1300. Kilts weren?t worn in Scotland until the 16th century.
In The Aviator, Howard Hughes orders 10 chocolate chip cookies in a scene set in 1928. But?
?chocolate chip cookies weren?t even invented until the 1930s. Ruth Graves Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn, came up with the recipe.
In Django Unchained, Django wears cool sunglasses. But?
sunglasses were not widespread in the U.S. until 1929. Prior to that, they were used as medical devices and were fairly rare. If you asked director Quentin Tarantino, though, we?re sure he?d have an explanation.
In Titanic, Jack says he and his father used to ice fish on Lake Wissota. But?Lake Wissota was actually formed by a dam in 1917. Jack died when the Titanic sank (spoiler), which was in 1912.
In Forrest Gump, Forrest receives a letter from Apple thanking him for investing in the company. But?
?the letter is dated 1975. Apple wasn?t publicly traded until 1981.
In Panic Room, the intruders flood the panic room with propane. Jodie Foster?s character sets the propane on fire, and crouches down with her daughter near the floor to avoid the flames. But?
?propane is heavier than air, so it would sink to the floor and burn them.
In Gladiator, Russell Crowe?s character is named ?The Spaniard? by the people who capture him. But?
?the term ?Spaniard? comes from an Old French word, ?espaignart,? which wasn?t in use until the 14th century. Gladiator is set in the year 180.
In Back to the Future, the license plate of the DeLorean reads OUTATIME. But?
?California license plates can only have 7 characters.
LOL i dont think this is a giant mistake it's a fucking movie :lol:
In Independence Day, the Empire State Building explodes and there is a cool shot of it in the center of the street. But?
?the Empire State Building is on a corner. There is no street that goes directly up to it as seen in this shot.
In The Goonies, one of the kids finds a 1973 Topps baseball card in the wallet of the dead body they find. But?
?the dead body had supposedly been there since 1930.
In Halloween, the movie is set in a fictional Illinois town. But?
?you can see palm trees in the background proving that it, like many other films, was made in California.
In The Hurt Locker, one of the characters says that an Iraqi with a video camera is going to put something on YouTube. But??the scene in the movie takes place in 2004. YouTube launched in 2005.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Dr. Jones rushes to Berlin to make sure his father?s book isn?t burned in the Nazis? book burning. But?
?Nazi book burnings took place, for the most part, in 1933. The movie is set in 1938, when the Nazis were already in power and had burned all the books they deemed inappropriate already.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the idol that Indy gets in the beginning is guarded by an absurd number of traps. But??somewhere in the ceiling above it, there is a hole letting sunlight in.
:shrug: help me out here guys what was this giant mistake :shrug:
In Malcolm X, Malcolm?s house is firebombed and he shouts for someone to call 911. But?
?the 911 service in the United States wasn?t established until 1968, which is three years after Malcolm X was assassinated.
HOW did they know about 911 3 years before it was made up????
as in other mistakes so far ????
In The Patriot, Mel Gibson?s character has a bunch of children who are played by the same young actors throughout the whole film. But?
The movie begins vaguely at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and ends sometime around the end of the war. The kids don?t age at all?even though at least 5 years have gone by.
In Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Barbossa has a Granny Smith apple. But?
?Granny Smith apples didn?t exist until 1868. They originated in Australia and were named for the person who helped propagate the variety, Maria Ann Smith (who was 69 at the time).
In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World?s End, the characters go to Singapore. But?
?Singapore didn?t exist until 1819. A British statesman named Sir Stamford Raffles founded it as a trading post of the East India Company.
Im leaving the pics out for rest of this thread because most are not relevant to the mistake
BUT if they show the actual shot then i post it
In Public Enemies, ?Pretty Boy? Floyd (as well as ?Baby Face? Nelson) are killed before John Dillinger. But?
?both Floyd and Nelson outlived Dillinger in real life.
In Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks? character, Captain Miller, leans up against a motorcycle after he?s injured. But?
?this model of motorcycle, the Ural M-63, was first produced in 1963, almost 20 years after the movie is set.
SURE ENOUGH soon as i said NO Pics will be posted the 1st one after is showing the bike!
In The Green Mile, John Coffey is sentenced to execution by electric chair. But?
?Louisiana, where the story takes place, didn?t start using the electric chair for executions until 1940?five years after the movie is set.
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne covers up his escape hole with a poster of Raquel Welch from One Million Years B.C.. But..
?the movie One Million Years B.C. was released in 1967. Andy Dufresne escapes Shawshank State Penitentiary in 1966.
In Sherlock Holmes, the chase scene at the end starts in the sewers under Parliament and ends on top of Tower Bridge. But?
?these two things are over two miles apart.
In The Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family crosses the Alps outside of Salzburg to escape Austria and get to neutral Switzerland. But?
?the border of Austria outside Salzburg isn?t the border with Switzerland. It?s the border with Germany.
In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin?s companion Azeem shows him a telescope. But??the movie takes place in 1194. The telescope wasn?t invented until the early 17th century.
In Top Gun, the pilots greet each other through the clear cockpits like this. But?
?if the two cockpits were close enough to say hello in this way, the back wing of the plane below would run into the plane above, causing both planes to crash.
In Troy, Paris uses a beautiful beach umbrella on his chariot. But?
?umbrellas like that would not have been found in Troy at the time. Parasols were introduced to Ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE, at least 800 years after Troy was set.
In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, the kidnapped dolphin makes ?dolphin noises? even though it?s not in the water.
The classic noises we associate with dolphins sound that way underwater ? but not out of the water. They would sound different when the kidnapped dolphin is being carted off.
In Cast Away, everything inside the FedEx packages is totally fine.
Even someone?s card from their grandma is totally legible, even though it was floating around in the ocean in a non-waterproof cardboard box.
:lol:
In Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you can see a sign that makes it clear they?re in Los Angeles
Though the movie is set in New York, during a car chase, you can see a sign that shows they?re actually in LA.
:0002
In Schindler?s List, someone uses a plastic stamp pad.
Stamp pads at the time were metal.
And UM how much does it cost to produce direct these Movies ??? FEW Million Each :shrug:
In Gladiator, you can see a gas canister in the back of the chariot at one point.
Obviously, chariots did not use gas.
In Gone With the Wind, you can see an electrical cord coming out of a ?gas? lamp.
The 1939 classic is set during the Civil War, meaning that electricity was not available in homes yet.
:0corn
In North by Northwest, one of the extras covers his ears before a gun is fired.
A little boy in the background of this scene puts his hands over his ears, anticipating the gunshot before it happens.
In The Wizard of Oz, you can see Dorothy?s shoes are just?shoes.
Although she?s supposed to be wearing the ruby slippers, you can see Judy Garland was taking a break from the (maybe uncomfortable) ruby slippers in this shot.
In Pulp Fiction, the red mark disappears from Uma Thurman?s chest.
In the scene where the guys are going to inject Mia (Uma Thurman) in the chest to revive her after a drug overdose, they draw a big red dot with a marker on her to make sure they don?t miss. When she sits up, it?s gone.
AND I watched this movie a hundred times never noticed that :facepalm:
also this was only couple seconds after what about when Travolta takes her home is it seen again ?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, you can see a guy wearing modern clothes.
During this shot in the 1930s-set movie, you can see a guy wearing a t-shirt and jeans in the background of one of the public shots.
In Reservoir Dogs, a pair of handcuffs moves from the back to the front.
Marvin Nash is at first cuffed behind his back, but in a subsequent shot, his hands are cuffed magically in front of him.
In Pirates of the Caribbean, you can see a crew member in the background.
Although the movie is set in the mid-1700s, you can see a guy rocking a cowboy hat in the background during one of the scenes.
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William Wallace lived around the year 1300. Kilts weren?t worn in Scotland until the 16th century.
In The Aviator, Howard Hughes orders 10 chocolate chip cookies in a scene set in 1928. But?
?chocolate chip cookies weren?t even invented until the 1930s. Ruth Graves Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn, came up with the recipe.
In Django Unchained, Django wears cool sunglasses. But?
sunglasses were not widespread in the U.S. until 1929. Prior to that, they were used as medical devices and were fairly rare. If you asked director Quentin Tarantino, though, we?re sure he?d have an explanation.
In Titanic, Jack says he and his father used to ice fish on Lake Wissota. But?Lake Wissota was actually formed by a dam in 1917. Jack died when the Titanic sank (spoiler), which was in 1912.
In Forrest Gump, Forrest receives a letter from Apple thanking him for investing in the company. But?
?the letter is dated 1975. Apple wasn?t publicly traded until 1981.
In Panic Room, the intruders flood the panic room with propane. Jodie Foster?s character sets the propane on fire, and crouches down with her daughter near the floor to avoid the flames. But?
?propane is heavier than air, so it would sink to the floor and burn them.
In Gladiator, Russell Crowe?s character is named ?The Spaniard? by the people who capture him. But?
?the term ?Spaniard? comes from an Old French word, ?espaignart,? which wasn?t in use until the 14th century. Gladiator is set in the year 180.
In Back to the Future, the license plate of the DeLorean reads OUTATIME. But?
?California license plates can only have 7 characters.
LOL i dont think this is a giant mistake it's a fucking movie :lol:
In Independence Day, the Empire State Building explodes and there is a cool shot of it in the center of the street. But?
?the Empire State Building is on a corner. There is no street that goes directly up to it as seen in this shot.
In The Goonies, one of the kids finds a 1973 Topps baseball card in the wallet of the dead body they find. But?
?the dead body had supposedly been there since 1930.
In Halloween, the movie is set in a fictional Illinois town. But?
?you can see palm trees in the background proving that it, like many other films, was made in California.
In The Hurt Locker, one of the characters says that an Iraqi with a video camera is going to put something on YouTube. But??the scene in the movie takes place in 2004. YouTube launched in 2005.
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Dr. Jones rushes to Berlin to make sure his father?s book isn?t burned in the Nazis? book burning. But?
?Nazi book burnings took place, for the most part, in 1933. The movie is set in 1938, when the Nazis were already in power and had burned all the books they deemed inappropriate already.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the idol that Indy gets in the beginning is guarded by an absurd number of traps. But??somewhere in the ceiling above it, there is a hole letting sunlight in.
:shrug: help me out here guys what was this giant mistake :shrug:
In Malcolm X, Malcolm?s house is firebombed and he shouts for someone to call 911. But?
?the 911 service in the United States wasn?t established until 1968, which is three years after Malcolm X was assassinated.
HOW did they know about 911 3 years before it was made up???? as in other mistakes so far ????
In The Patriot, Mel Gibson?s character has a bunch of children who are played by the same young actors throughout the whole film. But?
The movie begins vaguely at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and ends sometime around the end of the war. The kids don?t age at all?even though at least 5 years have gone by.
In Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Barbossa has a Granny Smith apple. But?
?Granny Smith apples didn?t exist until 1868. They originated in Australia and were named for the person who helped propagate the variety, Maria Ann Smith (who was 69 at the time).
In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World?s End, the characters go to Singapore. But?
?Singapore didn?t exist until 1819. A British statesman named Sir Stamford Raffles founded it as a trading post of the East India Company.
Im leaving the pics out for rest of this thread because most are not relevant to the mistake
BUT if they show the actual shot then i post it
In Public Enemies, ?Pretty Boy? Floyd (as well as ?Baby Face? Nelson) are killed before John Dillinger. But?
?both Floyd and Nelson outlived Dillinger in real life.
In Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks? character, Captain Miller, leans up against a motorcycle after he?s injured. But?
?this model of motorcycle, the Ural M-63, was first produced in 1963, almost 20 years after the movie is set.
SURE ENOUGH soon as i said NO Pics will be posted the 1st one after is showing the bike!
In The Green Mile, John Coffey is sentenced to execution by electric chair. But?
?Louisiana, where the story takes place, didn?t start using the electric chair for executions until 1940?five years after the movie is set.
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne covers up his escape hole with a poster of Raquel Welch from One Million Years B.C.. But..
?the movie One Million Years B.C. was released in 1967. Andy Dufresne escapes Shawshank State Penitentiary in 1966.
In Sherlock Holmes, the chase scene at the end starts in the sewers under Parliament and ends on top of Tower Bridge. But?
?these two things are over two miles apart.
In The Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family crosses the Alps outside of Salzburg to escape Austria and get to neutral Switzerland. But?
?the border of Austria outside Salzburg isn?t the border with Switzerland. It?s the border with Germany.
In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin?s companion Azeem shows him a telescope. But??the movie takes place in 1194. The telescope wasn?t invented until the early 17th century.
In Top Gun, the pilots greet each other through the clear cockpits like this. But?
?if the two cockpits were close enough to say hello in this way, the back wing of the plane below would run into the plane above, causing both planes to crash.
In Troy, Paris uses a beautiful beach umbrella on his chariot. But?
?umbrellas like that would not have been found in Troy at the time. Parasols were introduced to Ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE, at least 800 years after Troy was set.
In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, the kidnapped dolphin makes ?dolphin noises? even though it?s not in the water.
The classic noises we associate with dolphins sound that way underwater ? but not out of the water. They would sound different when the kidnapped dolphin is being carted off.
In Cast Away, everything inside the FedEx packages is totally fine.
Even someone?s card from their grandma is totally legible, even though it was floating around in the ocean in a non-waterproof cardboard box.
:lol:
In Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you can see a sign that makes it clear they?re in Los Angeles
Though the movie is set in New York, during a car chase, you can see a sign that shows they?re actually in LA.
:0002
In Schindler?s List, someone uses a plastic stamp pad.
Stamp pads at the time were metal.
And UM how much does it cost to produce direct these Movies ??? FEW Million Each :shrug:
In Gladiator, you can see a gas canister in the back of the chariot at one point.
Obviously, chariots did not use gas.
In Gone With the Wind, you can see an electrical cord coming out of a ?gas? lamp.
The 1939 classic is set during the Civil War, meaning that electricity was not available in homes yet.
:0corn
In North by Northwest, one of the extras covers his ears before a gun is fired.
A little boy in the background of this scene puts his hands over his ears, anticipating the gunshot before it happens.
In The Wizard of Oz, you can see Dorothy?s shoes are just?shoes.
Although she?s supposed to be wearing the ruby slippers, you can see Judy Garland was taking a break from the (maybe uncomfortable) ruby slippers in this shot.
In Pulp Fiction, the red mark disappears from Uma Thurman?s chest.
In the scene where the guys are going to inject Mia (Uma Thurman) in the chest to revive her after a drug overdose, they draw a big red dot with a marker on her to make sure they don?t miss. When she sits up, it?s gone.
AND I watched this movie a hundred times never noticed that :facepalm:
also this was only couple seconds after what about when Travolta takes her home is it seen again ?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, you can see a guy wearing modern clothes.
During this shot in the 1930s-set movie, you can see a guy wearing a t-shirt and jeans in the background of one of the public shots.
In Reservoir Dogs, a pair of handcuffs moves from the back to the front.
Marvin Nash is at first cuffed behind his back, but in a subsequent shot, his hands are cuffed magically in front of him.
In Pirates of the Caribbean, you can see a crew member in the background.
Although the movie is set in the mid-1700s, you can see a guy rocking a cowboy hat in the background during one of the scenes.
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