Continuity mistake: Venkman meets Dana by a fountain. When he says goodbye to her, first a man with a hat passes behind him and disappears in the next angle; then, in a close-up, Venkman is surrounded by dozens of people who vanish half a second later in the wide angle, where the place appears empty. (00:44:45)
Sacha
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: At the hotel, when the Ghostbusters blast the cleaning lady's trolley, the stuff on the floor changes between shots. Watch the toilet paper on the far left, for example. (00:31:50)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Venkman is doing the tests trying to flirt with the blonde student, when she says that the figure on the card is a star, Venkman is first holding the card with his thumb and two fingers. But from the back angle, four fingers are seen extended. (00:03:20)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the flying eggs scene, the lettuce on the right changes shape and position between angles. (00:19:20)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the Ghostbusters run out of the library, an old woman in a blue coat is seen on the left side by the bottom of the steps. A second later she is all the way up and coming from the right side instead. (00:12:20)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: After the library scene, while the three scientists are walking and talking, a woman in a striped blue and yellow sweater passes by Egon, but disappears in the immediate next angle. (00:21:35)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Venkman walks down to the library's basement, his tie changes from skewed to straight. (00:08:35)
6th Feb 2010
Avatar (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Quaritch is scolding Jake for making out with a Na'vi, Jake moves his head to the right. In the immediate next angle, his head is straight. (01:31:25)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the guys blast the glass lamp in the hotel, it falls on a table and messes up the table and chairs around. In the following angle the area, which was dark half a second ago is now perfectly lit. (00:35:30)
3rd Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Dana gives her shopping bags to Frank the doorman, the lettuce is either hidden or coming out depending on the shot, and a long brown bag appears and disappears depending on the angle focusing. (00:01:10)
3rd Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Dana is watching the couple arguing she has her arms crossed. A frame later, from a different angle, they are not.
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the statue starts to walk it has irons and cables attached to the sole of its sandals. When it's walking downtown the shoe is clean and like new (most likely the first miniature has been replaced by a human in disguise). (01:28:20 - 01:30:15)
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the slime is covering the museum an aerial view shows its surroundings empty. At the end of the movie, thousands of people gather around the place, yet the aerial view when the (superimposed) slime explodes is the earlier one, making it look as if the crowd had vanished, only to reappear a second later in close-ups. (01:37:50)
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the ghostbusters are yelling at the jar filled with plasma, on the close-up Venkman's hand is around a metal thing, but on the wide angles it is just by its side. This keeps changing back and forth. (00:39:20)
1st Feb 2010
Nine (2009)
Continuity mistake: During the Folies Bergere song there's a close-up of Judy Dench and behind her is the vedette walking down the steps one leg forward. The angle immediately swaps to a wider one and the position of the legs has swapped.
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the judge tells the men to stand up, the position of the books in front of them on the table changes position between shots. (00:31:40)
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the dancing toaster scene, the pool balls' position differ depending on if the wide or close angle focuses. (00:41:25)
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the doctors are testing the baby, the stethoscope to his right disappears on the back shots. (00:16:50)
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Revealing mistake: When Oscar is standing backwards on the ledge, he moves frame by frame like a robot, revealing it's a stop motion effect and not a real baby. (01:15:00)
1st Feb 2010
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Visible crew/equipment: When they're yelling at the pink slime, one of them places a toaster next to the slime. A big lighting screen gets reflected on the metal structure. (00:40:40)
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