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17th Jun 2020

Personal Shopper (2016)

Continuity mistake: Maureen spent the first night in the spooky house, without conclusive results. They are meeting the prospect buyers in a bar. When Lara walks up to them and begins the conversation, the arm position of the man changes wildly between shots several times at every cut. (00:08:40)

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13th Jun 2020

Quantico (2015)

America - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Shelby is talking to Caleb with the sack of garbage in between them. Caleb tells her she has a tissue (possibly a "happy" one) stuck to her arm. Behind her, one of the agents is pacing towards the right, to one of his colleagues and past him. In the close-up of Johanna Braddy saying "They shouldn't have let you back in", the man return in frame, repeating the left to right walk that was already well over, and when the close-up is done he is where he was at the end of the previous wider shot. (00:10:50)

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13th Jun 2020

Quantico (2015)

Run - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: A woman asks to use the restroom. While the owner tries to say that it's out of order, a customer who just finished using it returns it. The keyholder is in different position between shots, with the most noticeable difference being the fact that the key is on one end or the opposite in the reverse shot. (00:03:25)

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13th Jun 2020

Quantico (2015)

Run - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: In the opening scene with Max and Simon, Max looks at Simon go as he holds the coffee cup; he holds it turned in a different direction though, as shown by the blue bottle being visible or not. (00:03:05)

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7th Jun 2020

Stand Up Guys (2012)

Continuity mistake: At the "written by" screen with Al Pacino and Christopher Walken meeting, the shadows of the building run perfectly parallel to the fence and through the whole length as far as it can be seen. The two exchange 30 seconds of dialogue and an awkward hug, and drive off. The shadows have changed entirely; they start about halfway at the gate, with an oblique angle. (00:04:05)

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Continuity mistake: Four suspects are left. To check the noise, Vera insists with Lombard saying "I wanna go with you." Notice that one of the three candles in the candelabrum is not lit - the flame fizzled out when she walked too briskly from the bed to the door. In the corridor though, all three candles are burning. (01:23:10)

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Continuity mistake: Lombard and Vera are in bed together, in a much chaste way (he's wearing a full turtleneck). He tells her that he found the letter in his friends' belongings. Her hand is on her own cheek, but at the cut (happening while she is mid-sentence) her hand is on his arm as he reached down to cope a feel. (01:22:25)

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7th Jun 2020

The Great Wall (2016)

Continuity mistake: Vera gets in her room with the other three 'Indians' outside. She carries no candles or other mean of illumination. Yet in the scene when she strips, starting right past the door, the room is brightly lit and a candelabrum is on her bedstand. Her candles went out during the incident that made her scream, so it makes no sense that there'd be warm light waiting for her in her room. (01:17:00)

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Continuity mistake: Lombard asks the Doctor how would he know what was going through the Judge's mind, and Armstrong answers "I know because he took me into his confidence." Behind him, Blore is hunched over, with both hands together over the table. Armstrong turns his attention to Vera, and Blore now is sitting in a different pose, with his chin over his hand. (01:15:10)

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6th Jun 2020

The Lovebirds (2020)

Continuity mistake: During the diner scene, once Leilani covers the imaginary bodycam and starts talking about his murderous beard, her hand position keeps changing between shots, together with the phone's position, sometimes close to her body, other times closer to the fries. And the phone is in an entirely different spot in the close-up when it starts vibrating. (00:16:35)

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6th Jun 2020

The Lovebirds (2020)

Continuity mistake: Leilani and Jibran are at the diner. No booze is served there, so they get milkshakes instead. In the establishing overhead shot there are no spoons in the shakes, they appear in the next shot. Which would be fine, but Leilani is playing with the spoon in that shot, and once he says that they should go to the police, her hand is gone. A few seconds later, Leilani's shake just moves entirely out of the way and is replaced by a plate of fries. (00:15:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Martino is wandering the desert, delirious from the heat, his shirt is unbuttoned to half his chest or lower. When he is shown dead in a longshot, his shirt appears buttoned up higher than that. (00:51:05 - 00:52:20)

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Continuity mistake: And then there were four. During their tense conversation in the lobby, the Doctor gets close to Lombard, who has his jacket in hand. He holds the jacket in a different way (sideways vs more frontal) in the two different shots. (01:15:00)

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Continuity mistake: Blore is reluctant to admit his guilt. He stands up but the Judge bangs his cane angrily on the floor and Blore sits down again. The candles in front of the Judge have a different length between shots. (01:07:40)

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Continuity mistake: Vera screams "No!" as Martino tries to pour her a drink. The man is holding the bottle with both hands in the next shot, in discontinuity with the pose he had before, leaning with the other hand against the back of the chair. (00:47:30)

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Ten Little Indians mistake picture

Continuity mistake: After the general is killed, there's a close-up on the figurines. Two are broken with just the feet left, the third, the rightmost, at the waist. When the second victim was murdered, we saw the killer break just its head off, the statue to the right of the halved one. The following shot shows the statues in that order, with the addition of third broken one in rightmost position. (00:34:15 - 00:42:15)

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Continuity mistake: During the search, when the General says "Here I am" in the wide shot, Ilona turns around, but the General in the next shot comes from a different direction, which Ilona is already facing. (00:38:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the night search for Elsa, Mr. Martino spots her and starts running towards her. Not even a second passes, and in the same shot Lombard begins the chase too. In the next shot, Martino has such a head start on Lombard that Usain Bolt himself would be impressed. (00:33:15)

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