Continuity mistake: In the first house, the camera pans toward the mirror. The doll leaning on it changes positions, leaving the crack hidden in the first place, and visible a fraction of a second later. The hair of the doll also changes, covering its forehead first, and combed later on.
Sacha
6th Oct 2008
Red Dragon (2002)
6th Oct 2008
Red Dragon (2002)
Continuity mistake: In the first house Will visits, the first shot of the mirror shows a long drop of blood on the right, which becomes short in a following shot.
5th Oct 2008
Scarface (1983)
Continuity mistake: While Manny and Tony are working at the bar, before starting in the drug business, Tony has a towel over his right shoulder. Depending on the angle the towel covers part of his spine or it doesn't.
5th Oct 2008
Red Dragon (2002)
Continuity mistake: Jack gives Will a picture, by placing it upside down on a table. The first close-up shows the table brightly lit, but from a new angle it's in the shade.
5th Oct 2008
Red Dragon (2002)
Continuity mistake: Jack gives Will a picture upside down, and places a shell on top of it, right in the center of the paper. From a different angle the shell is on the right side.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Escaping from the cops, Eric's on the road, dodging cars. A blue one smashes the back of a car and breaks its own fender and lights; but the damage is already done before the crash.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When all the guys go with Mac to find his family in the mine, the collar on Mac's t-shirt keeps changing from very loose, to slightly loose, to really tight around the neck between shots.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the paperboy throws the newspaper on the runway the van disappears.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Eric is about to arrive to the place where his mum works, and there's a close-up of the cop's car chasing him. A big line of cars is seen behind him, but in the wide angle not only the cars are gone, but the real traffic is running in a perpendicular road to the one he's in.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Mac's in the desert calling his family, an aerial view shows Mike away from the car following him. In the following close shot he's next to the van's hood.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: The chip on the cop's windshield disappears when they arrive at the mall.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Rearview mirror appears and disappears from the cops' car when they're going to McDonald's.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Mac dances on the McDonald's counter, the cash registers are gone.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Rearview mirror appears and disappears randomly from the car Eric's in, when going to McDonald's.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Mac stretches his hand and grabs the cup of Coke, which is tilted sideways. In the following angle it's straight.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: Mike is unpacking his things and puts on his glasses. He stares at the door in awe because he sees Mac standing, but the reflection of the glass shows that there's no one there.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: In McDonald's, Eric holds Mac by the neck, in the next shot he holds him under the armpit, without having had time to make the movement.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When escaping from the cops, while holding onto the truck and zooming down the road, Mac is on Eric's lap, bare chested and with a couple of rags on his lap. Then Eric throws away the rags, but in the next shot Mac is covered in clothes that have appeared from nowhere.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the neighbour and her mum are in the car waiting for Eric to come out of the house, one of the cops behind turns his head and stares at the car, but in the immediate wide angle his head is in a different position.
2nd Oct 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Continuity mistake: The position of the rags that Eric throws on the road, when escaping from the cops, differs between shots.
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