Continuity mistake: Robbie watches the tree and gets in bed. Next to him there's a yellow comic book underneath a Darth Vader bust. When his mother arrives the comic book is completely different.
Sacha
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman lifts Lenny and Lex's car up in the air, Lenny's hand is inside the vehicle, but a frame later it's outside and further back.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: Returning from the pool, Diane enters the kids' bedroom and starts to fly, covering the door with mud. A second later the door is clean, only to dirty itself in the following shots.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Nuclear Man breaks through the Daily Planet ceilings but his hair doesn't ruffle, instead it looks much better than when he entered the building. Superman's hair does ruffle and get messy and dirty.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When the big throat is menacing the kids, Carol Anne's position swaps from being left or right to Robbie randomly between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When the ghostbusters team goes upstairs with Steve for the first time, Ryan takes his bag off twice.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie wakes up to cover the clown, his grip on the jacket and the position of his head (crouched neck against breast vs raised neck) changes between one frame and the other.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: The Russian cosmonaut who says, "Sing at home, Sinatra.", is floating relaxed inside the spaceship, a frame later he is crouched fixing some bolts.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: The first night the ghosts come out of the TV, before Carol Ann wakes up, there's a pillow on the background laying on the floor by a basket. When she walks towards the TV the pillow is standing upright by the basket.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie leaves in a taxi, in the close-up Steve is massaging Diane, in the wide angle he is just standing behind. This keeps swapping back and forth.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Carol Ann is about to be abducted, sometimes she is suspended horizontally over the bed, others diagonally.
8th Nov 2010
Fever Pitch (2005)
Continuity mistake: Lindsay falls down on the playing field and covers her dark jacket with sand. When she stands up, the jacket is without any sand at all.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Lenny and Lex do the genetic experiment, the stuff on the table comes much closer together between the first and second shot.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: In the barn Carl looks ahead to see through the walls to check who's coming. His POV shows a cart wheel, but when the angle changes it's been replaced by 4 stables. The wheel is on the far right hand side.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie is trapped by the tree and Carol Ann is about to be abducted, his bed cover keeps changing back and forth from messy to perfectly folded.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After the chair moves, Steve is in awe, his left hand on the counter. A frame later, on the close-up shot, it's on his thigh.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the volcano erupts, the village's main tower keeps swapping form lit to unlit between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: In the pool, Diane is surrounded by at least 4 bodies floating together; however, when she grabs the hose to climb up, half a second later, the overview of the pool shows just 2 bodies quite a distance each away from each other. In the next close-up, the 4 bodies reappear.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman is being buried in the moon, the flag pole behind disappears between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Diane falls in the pool, the distance to the floating corpse on the left increases or decreases randomly depending on the shot.
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