Corrected entry: A jaded Ray Stantz tells Phoebe on the phone that the old Ghostbusters' HQ was turned into a Starbucks. However, the post-credits scene shows the old building untouched.
Sacha
3rd Dec 2021
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2020)
23rd Jan 2013
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the Judge states his sentence, from Stantz's POV of the front of the table the pink goo in the jar starts bubbling with a tag hanging on its right side. From a wider angle of the front of the table not only is the tag not visible, but the ghost trap next to it is different (check the number of dials and looks of the box), plus the trap is now slightly skewed as to how it was positioned before. (00:31:45)
Suggested correction: I believe the tag is visible at all times, at least the string of it (the tag itself in the wider angle from the defence's table is hidden by the jar itself). Not sure about the mentioned box, you mean the ghost trap? My impression is that the different angle accounts for a perceived different placement, but it's just my perception.
17th Sep 2009
Goodfellas (1990)
Trivia: The entire "How am I funny?" scene was improvised by Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta.
Suggested correction: False. Joe Pesci told the anecdote to Scorsese in the earliest stages of the movie. Scorsese asked him to add it during previous script readings and further rehearsals while notes were being taken by crew members. Then it was finally shot following those rehearsals and notes. In this video all the actors involved tell how Scorsese works and even he himself says he rewrote that scene 4 times. Minute 13:04: https://youtu.be/_bbzUZuxEB8.
I have actually seen interviews where they admitted it was improvised. The reactions from the other actors was genuine.
6th Dec 2020
Goldfinger (1964)
Continuity mistake: When Goldfinger shoots and breaks the plane window, chaos runs havoc: curtains flutter wildly and a strong wind hurling inside makes objects fly around. Yet right when Goldfinger is lifted up the air (an obvious chroma effect) the curtains and even Bond's hair stop moving. This happens between one frame and another, it has nothing to do with physics or pressure inside the plane.
Suggested correction: If we remember that the cabins of these types of jets are pressurized, the continuity makes sense. When the window is shot out, explosive decompression occurs with the higher pressure in the cabin causing violent gusts as it flows toward the hole in the window. As Goldfinger is lifted toward the window and blocks it with his body, the flow suddenly stops. By the time Goldfinger is sucked through the window, the pressure has equalized and the cabin, though drafty because of the open window, is near normal again. In reality, the pressure difference would not be enough to suck a corpulent man through a small window, but that's another issue.
The curtains stop fluttering before Goldfinger is sucked-out. They are fluttering yet a shot later they are still.
28th Nov 2020
Sister Act (1992)
Corrected entry: The number of nuns in the choir changes between when Mary Clarence joins, the later casino scenes, and the end concert for the Pope. At the start, there are over 20, and by the ending, there are about 12-15.
8th Mar 2005
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Other mistake: Merlin says, "Man will fly someday". For a few frames after he says this, his thumb on his pipe is painted blue, then returns to its normal color. This causes a blinking effect.
11th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the Ghostbusters are heading for the building, there's a wide view of New York bathed in a sunset light with a red and blue sky. In further close-up shots, there is a clear sunny light everywhere. (01:15:20)
Suggested correction: Most likely the result of the supernatural clouds forming around the building.
20th Aug 2020
Ghostbusters (1984)
Corrected entry: When Dana returns from dog form she has no foam in her hair. When she emerges from the building at the bottom with Bill Murray she does.
Correction: She had to walk down the stairs through the entire building with a group of people covered in marshmallow. It wouldn't be hard to get some on her on the way down.
27th Aug 2001
Poltergeist (1982)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when Diane falls down the stairs and runs towards the door, she grabs the door knob. When she gets thrown backwards, you can see the cable that is attached to her shirt, pulling her back, in the first couple of frames in slo-mo.
13th Sep 2003
Gangs of New York (2002)
Revealing mistake: In the beginning of the Five Points battle it happens very often that people get hit badly with a sharp weapon but don't receive any wound. Watch for example in slow-motion how Bill sets out to mow down victim after victim with his cleaver. Later into the fight it becomes a lot bloodier, and sometimes the blood seems to come out of the weapon (e.g Monk's club seems to have a generous blood reservoir). (00:08:15)
19th Jun 2003
Thunderball (1965)
Revealing mistake: During the fight at the beginning of the film, if watch it slow motion, you can see that the poker that is being used to strike Bond is not made of metal, it bends when the blows are being aimed at Bond. (00:03:10)
14th Aug 2005
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the film when, Dom knocks the Chinese guy off of his motorbike. In the previous shot if you slow it down you can see that it's a street full of houses to the left and right, but these suddenly vanish and are replaced by a big hill which the Chinese guy rolls down. (01:29:55)
23rd Apr 2002
Commando (1985)
Revealing mistake: The scene with the shack has many mistakes, but only if you play it in slow-mo. First, he throws the circular saw at the guy in the window, the saw is moving on wires and he has a hairpiece someone just pulls off with a wire. The next guy he stabs with a pitchfork, and Arnie just lightly stabs him and the guy falls forward holding onto the pitchfork to make it look as though he was stabbed. Arnie then throws a saw at a guy hitting him in the chest. The guy actually just catches the saw in his arms in a way to make you think he got hit. Then Arnie swings some sort of gardening tool into the genitles of a man, but he actually stops it before it hits the guy and the thug just holds onto the handle. Finally, Arnie hacks off the forearm of a another man. You can tell that his arm was fake from the elbow on. (01:15:15)
29th Jul 2005
The Glimmer Man (1996)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the film, when the bad guy is trying to escape by going out the front door of the motel, if you slow it down, you can see that the door is slightly open, but in the following shot there is no gap in the door. (01:19:45)
1st Aug 2005
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Corrected entry: Close to the beginning when Blade blows up the factory, if you slow it down and watch closely just before Blade jumps over the car the scenery behind changes, there is a burnt out car to the left no telephone nothing, but when he lands the burnt out car is a lot further away and the telephone pole appears suddenly. (00:07:15)
2nd Aug 2005
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Continuity mistake: In the interrogation room scene where Hannibal King rescues Blade, when Blade kicks Triple H through the wall, Blade says " Go " to Hannibal he grabs his gun, if you slow it down, the bag with the syringes has gone in one shot and reappeared on the table in another. (00:35:25)
4th Aug 2005
Ronin (1998)
Corrected entry: In the Nice chase scene, when the two cars come to construction work on the road, in the far shots the Audi S8 is quite close to the Peugeot, yet when the Peugeot swerves to avoid a crash with the construction lorry, if you slow it down you can see the Audi has completely disappeared. (00:45:20)
24th Jul 2005
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Corrected entry: When Bruce Willis is outside the bar waiting for Halle Berry, and he gets hit over the head with a baton. If you slow the shot down, you can see that the baton bends when clashing with his head. (00:25:20)
27th Jul 2005
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Corrected entry: When the three bad guys throw Jimmy Dix off of the road onto the car below, if you slow it down, you can see, it is not the actor but a stunt double. (00:56:50)
5th Aug 2005
The Hitcher (1986)
Revealing mistake: When Jim is at the first gas station trying to reach a phone, he walks outside and John crashes through the garage at the side, if you slow it down you can see that the door to the garage is made with cardboard or paper, or some other soft material. (00:21:20)
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Correction: Ray was probably being sarcastic and making a general comment about gentrification.