Continuity mistake: When Roy is driving to Devil's Tower he is about to crash against two cars. From the opposite angle the cars are different.
Sacha
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Jillian meet, the redness on Roy's face keeps darkening or lightening randomly between shots.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: Roy meets Jillian and then walks away to look after Barry. In the next shots with the kid, Roy's hair is longer and messed up.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: When Barry walks outside the house and his mother calls him, from the shots inside she is surrounded by curtains moved by strong air. From the opposite angle the curtains are gone.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: The morning Roy sees Devil's Tower on the TV, the beer on top suddenly disappears.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: While the first UFO is blinding Roy, he protects his face. The distance between his hand and his face, and the expression on his face, keep swapping back and forth depending on the angle.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: In India, Claude asks the Guru where the sounds came from, while a huge crowd walks along the desert. When a man in blue addresses the crowd to ask them, the crowd on the right side is gone, and the ones on the left aren't walking but standing perfectly formed like an army.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: When Roy leans towards the steering wheel to watch the UFO, the position of his hands over the wheel changes between shots.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: Before Roy takes the top of the clay-mountain off, the model has smooth sides. When he is about to tear it, it swaps to striped sides.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: In Jillian's house, when the aliens launch the floor vent it lies on the right side, half a meter away from the hole. A frame later it's lying skewed on the hole. Should the aliens have moved it, a sound would've been heard.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: While Roy and a crowd are gathering on the side of the road waiting for the aliens, a group of old men play cards on a table packed with food and drinks. When the angle changes (when Jillian meets Roy) one of the men has vanished and the table is empty.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: In Sonora, a man introduces himself as a cartographer and walks 5 meters away from a crowd. When the angle changes he's barely half a meter away from the crowd.
21st Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Continuity mistake: The mashed potato that Roy serves himself swaps from stiff to creamy between one shot and the other.
21st Sep 2010
The American (2010)
Continuity mistake: After Mathilde's gun explodes, the amount of blood on her face increases and the position of her hair changes from one frame to the other.
21st Sep 2010
The American (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Mathilde is ordering Jack the rifle at the bar, the position of her newspaper and glasses on the table changes between shots.
21st Sep 2010
The American (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Jack is driving to the river, from the front angles his knuckles are covered in blood, from the side angles they are not.
21st Sep 2010
The American (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Jack gives Mathilde the rifle at the bar, the number 4 plastic sign on the table keeps moving around between shots.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the hanging bridge scene, the brown mountain has some white rocks on the right side which sometimes disappear, or even appear on the opposite side as when Mula Ram throws the Thuggee down.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: A man takes the wooden blocks off of Laoche's plane wheels but disappears in the next angle.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The beginning of the bridge scene is really chaotic: Short walks several meters ahead, the wide angle shows he's alone, then a frame later he's several meters back plus with Willie next to him, then it cuts to him and again he's alone.
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