Continuity mistake: The handkerchief on Moriarty's chess table changes positions between shots.
Sacha
1st Jan 2012
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
1st Jan 2012
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Continuity mistake: On the wedding day, the bottle under Holmes' car changes positions between shots.
1st Jan 2012
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Continuity mistake: Position of hat changes when Watson wakes up at his wedding.
1st Jan 2012
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Factual error: The cars in the car park scene are left hand drive (specially the ones involving the main action scenes), but the sequence is set in India, where the cars are right hand drive.
1st Jan 2012
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Continuity mistake: The mess around dead Hendricks (glasses, position of suitcase) changes between shots.
1st Jan 2012
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Moreau is brought to the room and sat on the chair, her hair swaps from messy to brushed between shots.
1st Jan 2012
Salt (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Salt escapes from the cop car, the broken windows and damage to the car appear/disappear during the chase, especially when her car jumps off the road and becomes a spotless new vehicle.
1st Jan 2012
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Continuity mistake: Ferris steps out of bed and raises his arms in an 11 O'clock position to open the blinds. From the angle behind the arms are raised in a 3 O'clock position.
1st Jan 2012
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Continuity mistake: After Ferris plays with the synthesizer, the principal is fidgeting with some pages. The way they're folded changes between angles.
1st Jan 2012
Bad Teacher (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth paints on the magazine, the mark on the paper changes from a double circle and a big star, to a single circle and a narrow star, between shots.
1st Jan 2012
Home Alone (1990)
Visible crew/equipment: When Kevin's sleigh flies through the entrance door, the person riding it is an obvious stunt: Bulkier and way bigger than Kevin.
1st Jan 2012
Home Alone (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Marv slips while walking down to the basement, he lands on the right side of the steps. When the angle changes, he is laying on the left side.
29th Dec 2011
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Hartman is showing the doughnut to the Privates, it changes looks depending on the shot: smooth and sugar coated, or wrinkled with barely any sugar.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Revealing mistake: When the apes jump out of the lab windows out to the street, they don't cast a shadow on any of the glass except the ones on the ground floor.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Continuity mistake: Mr Jacobs enters the building invaded by apes. There's a fallen table right behind him. He turns around 180ยบ to watch the apes but in the immediate wide angle the table is still behind him. He should be facing it now.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the apes are about to break into the lab, there's one way ahead of them jumping against the glass. A frame later, when the angle changes from inside the premises, there's suddenly a bunch of apes very close to him.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Dotti sees Mr Franklin dead, his hand is laying on the center of a white stripe on the blanket. In the immediate close-up it has moved several centimeters to the left.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Continuity mistake: After Will tosses the money at a man, his right arm is either on the table or down, depending on the angle.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Will tosses the envelope with money on the table, it moves away/closer to the stack of papers, depending on the angle.
29th Dec 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Revealing mistake: When Will's dad's Alzheimer boosts and he smashes the car driving in reverse, the headlight of the car behind is blatantly loose to increase the drama of the crash.
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