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.
Sacha
16th Apr 2010
Goodfellas (1990)
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.
1st Apr 2010
Cyborg (1989)
Continuity mistake: Gibson throws his backpack on the road and hides by some nearby bushes, leaving Nady alone in the middle of the road. In the aerial angles, the Nady is standing on the side of the road. This keeps changing back and forth.
1st Apr 2010
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, Harry is kissing a woman while Sally waits in the car. A couple passes behind the car, but they disappear in the close-up.
1st Apr 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When J is trapped by a tentacle of the alien woman in the car, the first seconds of him being dragged up and down he casts no shadow on the ground. Later on when the tentacle is extended he does cast a small shadow. (00:44:10)
1st Apr 2010
Cyborg (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the abandoned building in the jungle, a man is holding a chain in one hand and an iron ball in the other. The ball appears or disappears depending on the angle.
1st Apr 2010
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the couple exit the first diner they get in the car and start to talk. The stuff on the back seat changes between angles.
1st Apr 2010
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the first deli on the way to New York, Sally slides the menu over the table and places it aligned with the border, very close to her. When the angle changes, it is skewed and several inches away and she is bringing it close again.
1st Apr 2010
Surrogates (2009)
Continuity mistake: During the car chase the damages on the car differ in every angle. The copilot door's glass, for example, swaps from being slightly broken, to totally shattered, then perfect, then it's gone, then it's slightly damaged.
1st Apr 2010
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the fake orgasm scene, the bite on Harry's sandwich increases and decreases between shots.
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