Continuity mistake: In the bowling alley, before Clark sneezes, his hands are covered in talcum powder. A second later he raises his hand to fit his glasses and it's clean.
Sacha
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: Inside the bus to Smallvile, the landscape outside is always an empty and vast wheat field. However, from the shots outside, it swaps to a huge factory. This changes back and forth.
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: The driver's window in the cop car by the burning factory swaps from rolled up to halfway down between shots.
22nd Nov 2010
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Continuity mistake: From behind, Gigi points her gun forward, but from the immediate front angle she is moving it backwards.
22nd Nov 2010
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Pippa wakes up Herb, he sits up and listens. From an angle behind he lays back to rest, but from a front angle he is still sitting up and doesn't lay back until some time later.
22nd Nov 2010
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Sandra asks if bats grab onto your hair, her hand jumps from resting on her cheek to her nape between shots.
22nd Nov 2010
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Pippa and Herb are having dinner, she hits the table with her fist and wine splatters on his shirt. When he stands up and walks to the bedroom the shirt is spotless.
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.
21st Nov 2010
War of the Worlds (2005)
Continuity mistake: Ray runs out of the house looking for Rachel and moves away some weeds blocking the door. When the angle changes the door is spotless.
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.
21st Nov 2010
War of the Worlds (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the movie ends and Ray meets his family, the street keeps swapping from sunny to shadowy back and forth.
17th Nov 2010
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
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)
16th Nov 2010
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
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)
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.
15th Nov 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
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.
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.
12th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
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.
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.
12th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
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.
11th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
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.
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