Sacha

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

Continuity mistake: When the movie ends, Rachel runs to hug her mother and a strong wind blows large amounts of leaves a meter up. A frame later, from a different angle, the wind is milder and the leaves barely move.

Sacha

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

Continuity mistake: When Rachel is watching the floating corpses in the river, the shots alternate back and forth between a wide angle where she is standing still and wind is not blowing, to a close-up where she is sobbing, moving her shoulders up and down rhythmically and her hair is moving rapidly.

Sacha

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

Revealing mistake: After the ferry scene, CGI clothes fall off from the sky, but manage to go through the branches of the trees, without becoming entangled in them, or without the branches affecting the falling path of the fabric.

Sacha

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

21st Nov 2010

Philadelphia (1993)

Visible crew/equipment: Boom mic visible on the upper right side of the screen when Andy's family kisses him goodbye the night he passes away.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the girl meets the mini dinosaur she is standing on the sand, parallel to the edge of the grass. A frame later she's half a meter away, perpendicular to the grass. (00:02:50)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie starts and the little girl is surrounded by mini dinosaurs, her father lowers his Financial Times newspaper twice. First in the closeup he lowers it to his lap, and then at the start of the next wideshot the newspaper is back up in front of his face when he lowers it again before it drops onto the sand. (00:02:40)

Sacha

15th Nov 2010

Poltergeist (1982)

Continuity mistake: After Carol Ann's been abducted, her family walks upstairs and places one mattress on top of another. A few seconds later they are arranged in a different way.

Sacha

15th Nov 2010

The Goonies (1985)

Trivia: When the movie was released in Spain, all Spanish dialogue and references were changed to Italian. However, despite the fact that the map shows the name 'Guille el Tuerto', the Spanish dubbing referred to him as 'Willy el Tuerto'.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While in the zeppelin, the German officer extends his baton and lowers Dr. Jones's newspaper, wrinkling it. From the opposite angle, the newspaper is still raised and the officer repeats the previous movements, though this time he doesn't wrinkle the newspaper.

Sacha

12th Nov 2010

The Goonies (1985)

Continuity mistake: While the Fratelli's carry the corpse bag, the hood on Mike's yellow raincoat changes positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the leak falls on the toy phone there's a close-up of Carol Ann's feet surrounded by a bunch of toys. When the angle changes half of the toys are gone.

Sacha

12th Nov 2010

The Goonies (1985)

Continuity mistake: Before Chunk opens the Fratellis's door, Data looks at Mouth, and then turns his head at Chunk while smiling. A frame later, from a new angle, he is still looking at Chunk and repeating the previous movements.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the leak scene, the toy phone cord swaps from being shaped like a number 8, to shaped like a loop between the first and second shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the slug moves around the parents' bedroom it leaves no slime trail. However, right after it exits, Steve opens the door and reveals a huge puddle of slime on the floor and a trail of slime along the corridor.

Sacha

11th Nov 2010

The Goonies (1985)

Continuity mistake: When Jake Fratelli is in jail, the position of the sign on his chest changes between the first and second shot. The right tip is first touching his chin, and a frame later it's 15 cm below.

Sacha

Other mistake: Taylor parks his car in Cuesta Verde, next to a couple of crates next to the pilot's door. He steps down and walks straight without looking down, which is impossible for he should have tripped.

Sacha

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