Continuity mistake: When Deeds is walking and talking with Chuck and Anderson, Deeds spots Mr. Wetherley slowly walking along the street. Deeds then runs over to him, and offers him a 'lift.' Wetherley is walking past a shop, and there is a bench outside the shop with a little black litter bin beside it. The distance between the bench and the bin changes three/four times between shots. (00:10:05)
Hamster
5th Nov 2004
Mr. Deeds (2002)
1st Nov 2004
Carrie (1976)
Continuity mistake: When Billy and Chris are in the car, driving along, there is no rear-view mirror in the car, yet one appears when they pull up and make out. (00:30:40 - 00:33:15)
30th Oct 2004
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Emilio finds out he is the rightful heir to $40 billion, he is standing at a wooden lectern, and he says to Deeds "And you, Long-Long-Longfellow..." and there is a shot of Emilio from behind, and there is nothing resting on the lectern, yet in the following wideshot, a gavel is laying on the lectern. (01:24:35)
25th Oct 2004
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant, Deeds pushes the opera singer into a table. Between shots the mess around the table changes. In a closeup, there's plates of food/cake surrounding the table that weren't there in the previous wideshot, and the cloth and broken table changes too. (00:33:35)
26th Oct 2004
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Continuity mistake: In Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa, Pam and Deeds stumble across the house with blue shutters and a red door. In a wideshot, the red door has a letterbox and doorknocker, yet when they reach the door the letterbox and doorknocker have vanished! (00:58:40)
30th May 2004
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Continuity mistake: The letters on Chef's apron change place and size between shots. (00:11:58)
16th Oct 2004
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Kyle is searching for 'clitoris' on the computer, the mouse and mousemat next to the keyboard disappears and reappears continually. (00:37:55 - 00:39:00)
16th Oct 2004
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Shelia is singing inside the house, she is looking out the window and there are no curtains, yet in the next shot indoors there are curtains hanging in the window. (00:02:55)
16th Oct 2004
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Continuity mistake: When we first see the boys in the movies, Stan has a green drink in his left hand. Then in a closeup the drink isn't there, then in the following wide shot, it's back again. (00:04:45)
10th Oct 2004
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Continuity mistake: When Alice shrinks after being huge in the forest, you can see both pieces of mushroom in her hands, untouched, although she has taken a bite out of both pieces. (00:36:40)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: In one scene Nancy's mother is pouring herself a drink, then Nancy enters the room and she switches off the TV. Then Nancy and her mother start talking about going to school, and behind Nancy's mother on the worktop, a white alcohol bottle can be seen. But after their conversation when Nancy leaves, the bottle of alcohol is gone. (00:19:40 - 00:20:30)
23rd Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Nancy wakes up from her nightmare in the dream clinic, her mother discovers her arm is scratched. The tape that was on Nancy's chin has gone, but returns in the next shot, only to disappear in the next. (00:48:50)
30th Sep 2004
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Other mistake: After there has been the vote for chief, behind one boy you can see a piece of wood reading "Anthony M," a marker for showing where the actor (Anthony McCall-Judson) should sit. (00:13:25)
26th Aug 2004
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Cindy fights with the possessed cat, the cat picks up a chair, and as he does you can see the chair is a white colour. But when he smashes the chair over Cindy, the chair is brown. (00:33:30)
26th Aug 2004
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Buddy chucks his rugby ball at Cindy, it hits her in the head, and she crashes into a table, smashing the table and vases up. In the next shot of her, the table and vases are much more smashed, and everything is in a much different position. (00:27:20)
24th Aug 2004
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Continuity mistake: When it shows Dwight and Theo together, Dwight goes to the stairs, and starts to climb up on his own, and Theo covers him. In one shot, as it shows Theo holding her gun out, there is a clock by her, and the time is 9:10. But when the shot changes, and Theo asks Dwight "Do you need help" the time has changed to 9:45. (00:55:55)
24th Aug 2004
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Revealing mistake: When the couple split the pole, they get hit by a bus. As the shot cuts to a wide shot, you can see the couple have been replaced by dummies, just before the bus hits them. (00:10:20)
4th Jul 2004
Labyrinth (1986)
Trivia: This is only on the DVD. As Hoggle walks off saying "There's one thing for sure, she'll never get through the labyrinth" look at the top left corner of the screen and you'll see the face of Jareth (David Bowie.) You see his face again, when Sarah and friends are walking through the forest, and Sir Didymus says "We should reach the castle well before day." Look at a tree to the right of the screen and you'll see the face.
20th Aug 2004
Labyrinth (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah shows Hoggle her plastic bracelet in the oubliette, when trying to get him to take her as far as he can to the centre of the labyrinth, in one shot she holds the bracelet between her finger and thumb, then in the next shot it is dangling off her finger. (00:31:05)
13th Aug 2004
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Lucy and George kiss in the street George has his hand down by his side, but when the shot changes, his hand is on Lucy's cheek. (01:31:00)
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