Continuity mistake: Ray runs out of the house looking for Rachel and moves away some weeds blocking the door. When the angle changes the door is spotless.
Sacha
21st Nov 2010
War of the Worlds (2005)
21st Nov 2010
War of the Worlds (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Rachel is watching the floating corpses in the river, the shots alternate back and forth between a wide angle where she is standing still and wind is not blowing, to a close-up where she is sobbing, moving her shoulders up and down rhythmically and her hair is moving rapidly.
21st Nov 2010
War of the Worlds (2005)
Revealing mistake: After the ferry scene, CGI clothes fall off from the sky, but manage to go through the branches of the trees, without becoming entangled in them, or without the branches affecting the falling path of the fabric.
21st Nov 2010
War of the Worlds (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the movie ends and Ray meets his family, the street keeps swapping from sunny to shadowy back and forth.
21st Nov 2010
Philadelphia (1993)
Visible crew/equipment: Boom mic visible on the upper right side of the screen when Andy's family kisses him goodbye the night he passes away.
17th Nov 2010
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the girl meets the mini dinosaur she is standing on the sand, parallel to the edge of the grass. A frame later she's half a meter away, perpendicular to the grass. (00:02:50)
16th Nov 2010
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the movie starts and the little girl is surrounded by mini dinosaurs, her father lowers his Financial Times newspaper twice. First in the closeup he lowers it to his lap, and then at the start of the next wideshot the newspaper is back up in front of his face when he lowers it again before it drops onto the sand. (00:02:40)
15th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After Carol Ann's been abducted, her family walks upstairs and places one mattress on top of another. A few seconds later they are arranged in a different way.
15th Nov 2010
The Goonies (1985)
15th Nov 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Revealing mistake: When the tank shoots-up the jeep the interior is revealed to be empty and such a prop.
15th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Visible crew/equipment: When Lenny lets the guards in you can see filming equipment reflected in the rear-view mirror of Lenny's car.
15th Nov 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: While in the zeppelin, the German officer extends his baton and lowers Dr. Jones's newspaper, wrinkling it. From the opposite angle, the newspaper is still raised and the officer repeats the previous movements, though this time he doesn't wrinkle the newspaper.
12th Nov 2010
The Goonies (1985)
Continuity mistake: While the Fratelli's carry the corpse bag, the hood on Mike's yellow raincoat changes positions between shots.
12th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Continuity mistake: When the leak falls on the toy phone there's a close-up of Carol Ann's feet surrounded by a bunch of toys. When the angle changes half of the toys are gone.
12th Nov 2010
The Goonies (1985)
Continuity mistake: Before Chunk opens the Fratellis's door, Data looks at Mouth, and then turns his head at Chunk while smiling. A frame later, from a new angle, he is still looking at Chunk and repeating the previous movements.
12th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Continuity mistake: During the leak scene, the toy phone cord swaps from being shaped like a number 8, to shaped like a loop between the first and second shot.
11th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Continuity mistake: When the slug moves around the parents' bedroom it leaves no slime trail. However, right after it exits, Steve opens the door and reveals a huge puddle of slime on the floor and a trail of slime along the corridor.
11th Nov 2010
The Goonies (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Jake Fratelli is in jail, the position of the sign on his chest changes between the first and second shot. The right tip is first touching his chin, and a frame later it's 15 cm below.
11th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Other mistake: Taylor parks his car in Cuesta Verde, next to a couple of crates next to the pilot's door. He steps down and walks straight without looking down, which is impossible for he should have tripped.
11th Nov 2010
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Continuity mistake: After the slug grins at the parents, his face becomes slimier and with two long dripping bits of slime by his mouth.
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