Continuity mistake: When Reece staples the mic under the table, the box of gum on top keeps changing positions between shots.
Sacha
28th Apr 2010
From Paris with Love (2010)
28th Apr 2010
Men in Black II (2002)
Continuity mistake: Before the alien transforms into a woman it flips the pages of magazine located inches away. When the alien starts to transform the magazine disappears. (00:05:10)
27th Apr 2010
True Lies (1994)
Continuity mistake: In Switzerland, after Harry talks to Juno, there's an underwater angle of the huge crack in the ice through which Harry exited. From the guard's point of view, half a second later, the hole is a mere crack. (00:08:50)
27th Apr 2010
True Lies (1994)
Continuity mistake: During Harry's Tango with Juno, she bends backwards twice, the second one a couple is dancing right behind them. In the opposite angle it's a different couple and they're walking. (00:10:30)
27th Apr 2010
True Lies (1994)
Continuity mistake: When Harry dances the Tango with Juno there's a wide shot of the place, in the immediate close-up two guards appear out of nowhere behind Harry.
24th Apr 2010
From Paris with Love (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Reece is in the meeting with the Ambassador his pen points in a 12 o'clock direction, in the following angle it points in a 2 o'clock.
16th Apr 2010
Goodfellas (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Henry is visited in jail by his wife, his daughter turns her face away to the right. From the opposite angle she's in a totally different position and also a toy has appeared in her hand.
16th Apr 2010
Goodfellas (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Henry comes back from the hospital and is watching the helicopter above, the number of cars behind keeps changing from frame to frame. Sometimes it even looks as if there's just one lane, then two lanes filled with cars, then no cars.
16th Apr 2010
Goodfellas (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Henry is in the shower listening to the radio news about the Lufthansa robbery, his hair is brushed backwards. Then he starts to shout and it turns to messy and loose, then back to the first angle and it's pressed and brushed backwards as it was the first time.
11th Apr 2010
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Altobello asks a young boy in Sicily to imitate a donkey, he is served a jar of wine with the handle pointing to the left side. In the close-up it points to the right side.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, Teddy and Chuck are talking by the steps. Teddy's cigarette is in his mouth or away depending on the angle, with no continuity sense whatsoever.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: After Teddy takes his dead daughter's shoe off, its position changes between angles.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Teddy arrives home and sees his wife on the swing, the ducks in the lake appear or disappear depending on the angle.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: When the German officer is dying, his gun has a paper next to it. When Teddy kicks the gun away the paper is gone.
8th Apr 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the earthquake, after the ground swallows the police car, the crowd to the left disappears, only to appear half a second later.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Teddy interrupts the doctors' meeting, the coffee spoon on Dr. Cawley's saucer changes positions between the first and second angle.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: During the dying German scene, the needle on the record player moves backwards between the first and second angle, in barely a couple seconds.
7th Apr 2010
Die Another Day (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Bond and Graves are fencing, the amount of blood on Bond's nose increases or decreases randomly between shots, without any logical order.
1st Apr 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: After doing his recruitment test, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are sitting down on a bench and talking. The distance between them decreases between the first and second shot. (00:31:20)
1st Apr 2010
Surrogates (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Willis's surrogate is lying on the ground with a woman pointing a rifle at him, the collar on his shirt swaps from being away from the face to up and very close, between the wide and close-up angles.
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