Sacha

26th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: At the employment office the way papers are arranged on the counter changes from messy to tidy between shots. Also, the blue stamp behind the red one appears and disappears randomly.

Sacha

26th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: Outside the bar, while the people are watching, Superman raises a glass and drinks a shot of whiskey. A frame later, inside the bar, he is already refilling his glass.

Sacha

26th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: Superman saves a drowning man in a car on the middle of the street, but when he takes off he's in a children's playground (the DVD extras show the playground scene was deleted).

Sacha

26th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: In the bowling alley, right before Clark sneezes, the alley on the left has all its bowls standing. Half a second later there are just 5 standing. No sound of them falling was heard in between these two shots.

Sacha

26th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: During the tablecloth scene, while Ross listens to Gus, the coffee pot located a meter to the right appears right behind Ross between one frame and another.

Sacha

25th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: When having a picnic in the wheat field, Clark and Lana's position to the tree and the car nearby changes between shots.

Sacha

25th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: After the blind man walks through the painting, the shape of the broken part changes on the angle behind.

Sacha

25th Nov 2010

Superman III (1983)

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)

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: From behind, Gigi points her gun forward, but from the immediate front angle she is moving it backwards.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Sandra asks if bats grab onto your hair, her hand jumps from resting on her cheek to her nape between shots.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

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.

Sacha

21st Nov 2010

War of the Worlds (2005)

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)

Sacha

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)

Sacha

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