Continuity mistake: When Elliot's mom leaves to school and Gertie says ET can talk, the cupboard behind her swaps from lit to unlit between shots.
Sacha
3rd Oct 2012
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
3rd Oct 2012
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Continuity mistake: After Elliot frees the frog, notice a group of kids in the background with a blonde girl in a blue dress on the left: they're either watching Elliot in awe, or looking down at their books. This changes back and forth several times.
3rd Oct 2012
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Elliot grabs the jar to free the frog, the frog stretches up and climbs the side, yet a frame later, from a different angle, it's sitting on the bottom of the jar.
3rd Oct 2012
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Continuity mistake: When the final bike chase starts, the kid with the blue ski mask who cries "We made it!" changes positions 3 times in less than 2 seconds: 1) To the left of a kid with a red hat, both behind the one with a cap. 2) To the right of the one with a cap, riding parallel to him. 3) Behind everyone, completely alone.
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the Apollo rocket launch platform, J calls Boris the Animal twice, who lifts J up and launches him away. J glances at K, who's got both arms stretched out trying to save himself. A shot later, in the close-up, only his right arm is stretched out. (01:28:40)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J steals the blue car keys, a nerdy looking guy with an orange and white striped shirt and glasses is walking towards the hotel. After J drives zooming through New York, the same guy is seen crossing the street walking the opposite way. (00:39:15)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When the 60's cops stop J by the billboard sign, he pulls over by the left end of the sign. In the close-up, the car is parked right by the middle of it. (00:40:20)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Boris shoots spikes at the door that K and J are holding, one of them gets stabbed on the upper part of the glass. When the angle changes it's stuck on the center part. (00:17:40)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: After O delivers her eulogy for Z, J and K are in the car talking. The amount of cars and the style of the streets they pass-by have no continuity whatsoever between front and side angles. (00:09:40)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the Chinese restaurant, when K and J are eating, J's white napkin keeps moving around between shots, as do some of the saucers and cups on the table. (00:13:45)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When K slaps the Chinese man with the alien crab his hair gets messy. When the shot changes it's back to brushed. (00:12:45)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Revealing mistake: When the movie starts and J is about to neuralyze the people, the skyline on the background is a blatant backdrop. (00:06:10)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: After the bug in the cake kills the cops, it runs to free Boris. The amount of strawberry cake on the sewer lid changes between shots. (00:03:25)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: In the lunar prison, when the guard puts his hand inside the cake, his sleeve is by his wrist or rolled up to the elbow, depending on the shot. (00:03:10)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: After K is falling with J from the rooftop, big chunks of concrete start to fall, yet disappear in some shots. When they land, the ground is clean, yet in one of the close-ups of K a chunk magically reappears next to his head. (00:17:50)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J shows Jeffrey the alien invasion on TV, the notebook on the counter swaps from open to closed, and then back to open between shots. (00:32:25)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the electronic store, when J arrives, the headphones on the counter keep changing position between shots. (00:31:35)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Jeffrey places the time-remote control on the counter it lays next to a notebook. In the close-up it's gone. (00:33:05)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J peeks out The Factory window the broken glass around the frame change amount and shape between shots. (01:01:25)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the 1960s HQs, K places his hand on a notebook. A shot later it has jumped next to a typewriter. (00:44:40)
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