Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Chaney says momentarily goodbye to Speed Weed and Gayleen Schoonover at the New Orleans station, the passengers walking off the train and behind Bronson change with no consistency between shot and reverse angle. (00:12:25)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: At the 'champagne breakfast', Lucy asks Chaney how does he "make money." Her purse's handle is up, then down. It happens again in the same scene when Chaney makes the joke about him "feeling better" than the other guy when he is not the one getting KOd. (00:00:42)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: During the bar fight, the balls change position on the billiard table multiple times depending on the camera angle. (00:00:37)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Wisely Chaney points out that two years in medical school don't make a doctor. James Coburn's hands are out of his pockets in one shot, and abruptly inside the pockets at the cut. (00:24:55)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed goes fetch his friend Poe in the Pentecostal church, and the two walk down the road of the cemetery. Time certainly passed between takes, as shown by the shadows of the tombs, which change greatly in the length. (00:24:20)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Jim Henry mockingly urges the resident samaritans of the dock to 'help the kid up', said kid gets up on his own sporting a bloody lip and nose. Just in that close-up though; he steps in to keep fighting and gets whooped, but his face is clean throughout it. He only gets bloodied again when the dude begins to swing his head at him with the strangest headbutting ever. (00:21:50)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed is on the balcony when he hears someone ringing downstairs. You can see on the table a packet of smokes and matches. Speed then tosses the newspaper on the table, gets the door, and when he returns to the balcony with Chaney those objects change position. (00:17:05)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: In a hint to his gambling habits, we see Speed at home marking on the newspaper some of the races. He is wearing a shirt. Cut, and he's sitting in his tank top, the shirt is on the back of the chair. (00:17:00)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: The not-so-friendly waitress tells Chaney he has to pay a nickel for his third refill of coffee. During this bit, the newspaper on the counter keeps changing position between shots; open, folded one way, folded facing the opposite direction. (00:03:45)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: After the cage fight, Chick Gandil gives Speed the money putting it in his right hand. Next shot and Coburn pulls back...his left hand. (00:53:40)

Sammo

The System - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Grant begins to remove the screws from the vent starting from the right side, but the top row is already missing and unscrewing 2 on a single side already makes the vent wobble significantly before the camera cuts away. (00:14:00)

Sammo

The System - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Jim approaches the secret agent on the usual convoluted way to the mission briefing. The peanut vendor mentions the quarterback, and behind him there is a person walking in the tunnel. Switch to a new shot and there are two. (00:02:40)

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The Killer - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Jim's pupil and successor Copperfield is poisoned at the beginning of the episode. He screams, drawing the attention of the party guests. In the following POV shot, the guests are standing in entirely different spots in the room all of a sudden. (00:02:45)

Sammo

8th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: In the fight at the dock where Robert Tessier makes his first appearance, he repeatedly hurts his young opponent letting him hurt his hands punching his bald dome. He parries a kick and knocks the youngster down with a cross. Pay attention to the guys by the donut on the boat; the guy in the mustard coat has his hands on/off the railing between shots. The group of four by that life preserver changes position even more noticeably a few seconds after when Henry gives a proper beating and yells "Somebody help this kid up." (00:21:30)

Sammo

8th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed is having oysters after the losing effort with his first combatant. He glances back at his table and spots a smiling Charles Bronson suddenly there. Notice the position of the towel; when he gets back to the table with his refill of mussels a moment later, the towel changed position. (00:08:05)

Sammo

8th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Look at Charles Bronson's sideburns in his close-ups on the moving train at the beginning of the beginning of the movie. The hair grows longer when it gets closer to the hat and to the top of his ear. When he hops off the train, his hair appears to have a much closer shave, evened well above the ear. (00:01:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: An Hispanic gang approaches David as he is about to have a smoke. He raises his lighter, the head honcho of the gang picks his cigarette, and David raises again the hand he already raised. (00:32:50)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Smirnoff brutalizes Tanaka's nose, he does it without holding him at first, but he has him in a headlock in the next shot. Even more obvious discontinuity after Hodges' bathroom antics, when Smirnoff has his opponent in a sleeper hold (so he's behind him) but instantly in the next shot he is in front of him and bites his face (all of this with the announcer Count Billy Varga talking continuously). (00:24:20 - 00:24:55)

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