Continuity mistake: After Rachel tells Ray that Robbie took the car, when Ray runs down the steps long shadows are cast. When Ray turns around to see what everyone is looking at, all shadows are gone, only to reappear in the next shot. Then when Ray runs to his yard, the angle of his shadow is entirely different. (00:13:30)
Continuity mistake: When Ray runs behind his house to have a better view of the sky we can see from behind that his hood is blowing in the wind. When it cuts to a shot in front of him his hood is still. (00:13:40)
Continuity mistake: When Ray is in his backyard and says, "That is so weird," he's standing well away from the fence that is near the female neighbor holding the baby, but in the next shot he's right beside the fence talking to her. (00:14:35)
Continuity mistake: When Ray and Rachel are in the backyard, just before the lightening starts, she says, "I don't wanna go by myself," and there are no leaves on the barbeque. In the next close-up, as they stand near it, there are leaves on it. (Not due to wind.) (00:15:35)
Continuity mistake: When Ray and Rachel crawl under the kitchen table during the lightning strikes, in the first shot Ray's entire body is behind the leg base, yet in the next shot his arms and upper body are in front of it. (00:16:15)
Continuity mistake: When Ray runs out of the house and meets up with Robbie, the cars and pedestrians very noticeably differ between consecutive shots while they talk. (Not due to cars being pushed.) (00:18:15)
Continuity mistake: As Ray says, "Next time you take my car with no driver's licenseĀ " he walks a good distance away from Robbie. Yet in the next close-up of Robbie, Ray's arm is still pointing up near Robbie's face. (00:18:25)
Continuity mistake: After speaking with Robbie, when Ray runs across the street to speak with Manny some are entirely different cars from the previous shots and in one case a car jumps sideways from one lane to the next. Ray also runs beside the crosswalk in the close-up, but in the next shot he's much farther away, and the crowd differs. (00:18:50)
Continuity mistake: When Ray runs across the street shouting, "Manny! Manny!" a guy with a hat and plaid jacket passes by, as the shot ends. At the start of the next shot, the same guy is now near Manny's garage door and air hose. (00:18:55)
Continuity mistake: As Ray heads to the 26 strikes spot, while speaking with the two guys, he passes many stalled cars, some of which change entirely between shots. For example: In the close-ups he passes a red car in front of the restaurant, with a grey double parked car, and a white car at the street corner in front of the red, yet in the overhead shot a red car is at the street corner, with a grey car behind, in front of the restaurant. (00:19:30)
Continuity mistake: When Ray and the two guys head to the spot with 26 strikes, there is a crowd of people walking behind them in all the close-ups, yet, in the overhead shot hardly anyone is behind them as they approach the hole, and there was no time for the crowd to move ahead or disperse. Additionally, some of those people who are already positioned at the center of the crowd, around the hole, were just behind Ray in the previous shots. (00:19:35)
Continuity mistake: When Ray reaches the red church at the beginning of the film, the sun changes positions three or four times behind the tower of the church. (00:20:10)
Continuity mistake: When Ray and others are crouched beside the hole in the asphalt, the guys around him and the way he holds the freezing piece of asphalt, differ between consecutive shots. (00:20:50)
Continuity mistake: As the hole begins to crack in the overhead wideshot the crowd moves back, and the florist is at the top center of the screen with hardly anyone near it. Yet, in the next close-up, suddenly there are dozens of people standing in its path, as the crack dramatically approaches the florist. (00:21:15)
Continuity mistake: When the hole cracks the asphalt in the first shot, the crack makes its way to Santo's Florist cracking the side of the brick building. A few shots later, when the Portuguese restaurant windows shatter, as the camera pans toward the church Santo's is seen on the street corner and the massive damage to the building is gone. The long crack in the asphalt leading from the hole to the florist is gone too. (00:21:20)
Continuity mistake: As the asphalt begins to burst open, the Portuguese restaurant's windows shatter, and when the camera pans to the church there are very few people on the street in front of it. In the next shot, however, there is a huge crowd in front of it. (00:22:10)
Continuity mistake: In the first shot as the church sustains damage, a long massive crack rips up the asphalt and concrete sidewalk under the streetlight then makes its way up the building. However, in the next shot, even as the church receives more damage, the previous damage to the asphalt and concrete is gone and there are actually people standing around that streetlight. (00:22:15)
Continuity mistake: When the asphalt in front of the church starts to crack and move and Ray gets on the sidewalk, his legs are positioned in different ways in two different shots. (00:22:36)
Suggested correction: With the way Ray moves his feet (hopping/dancing quickly from one foot to the other), I don't see a discrepancy.
If you look closely in the first shot he keeps one foot on the asphalt and the other one on the sidewalk, in the other shot he has both of them on the sidewalk, so the discrepancy is very evident.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the film, when the first tripod began to rise from the earth, there is a cut showing two men standing on top of their scissor lift, which is swaying dangerously back and forth because of the earthquake the tripod is causing. In the very next cut, showing the entire area, the scissor lift is very apparent in the foreground, not only is it not swaying (while everything else in the area is shaking dangerously) , but one of the men is suddenly in a kneeling position, whereas he had just been standing up. (00:22:40)
Continuity mistake: When Ray puts his feet on the sidewalk when the intersection moves, there is a blue car in front of him that is on the side of the moving intersection. Three shots later, when we are shown the moving intersection, the blue car disappears. (00:22:40 - 00:23:55)
