Continuity mistake: Costigan enters the bar and points at a guy with a leather cap. In the background, a waiter is leaning on the bar, who then stands up and starts to walk. In the following close shot he is back in the previous place, leaning.
Sacha
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: After Costigan comes out of jail he visits an old lady. From a front shot she is slightly leaning, her left hand unseen. From a back shot the left hand is standing out over his shoulder with a burning cigarette. It should have been visible from the opposite shot at first.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: After the rugby game, Sullivan turns to his right to insult the other team. From a different angle he is making a left turn.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: While Sullivan is rain drenched in military school, when he says "Sir! Yes sir!" his hair style changes in a nano second.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: After the beach scene, Costello is preaching young Sullivan on loaded guns. His cigarette disappears from his lips between shots.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Visible crew/equipment: When Costello is looking at the dead corpses on the beach, two beams of light get reflected on his glasses.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Sullivan and his pal are watching the golden dome building from a bench, from a back shot his friend has his head faced straight, but from the front shot it's sideways.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: The dead woman on the beach lies with her feet together, but a shot later they are spread apart.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Costello is getting his money in the diner, young Sullivan is first sitting next to some packages on the right of the screen , but a shot later, when he stands up holding a brown paper bag, he is seen sitting next to to an empty seat.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: After the rugby game, when Sullivan turns around to insult the other team, there's a guy with a light blue shirt that steps ahead of another one with a dark blue shirt. A second later their positions swap.
11th Jan 2007
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: When young Sullivan is at Mass, a priest is swinging the smoking incense burning. In the next shot the smoke is gone, and he is away, arriving with the burner and repeating the previous movement.
9th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Evil Superman arrives at the oil tanker, the tower on the deck disappears in the close-up where he opens a hole in the steel.
9th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: From the wide shots, the black stripe on the side of the oil tanker is 12 to 15 meters wide, but on the close-up of evil Superman destroying the tanker shows it's thinned to barely a couple meters wide.
9th Jan 2007
Willow (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Elora is floating down the river, the close shots show her head standing out of the bundle, but the close shots don't.
9th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: After evil Superman makes a hole on the side of the oil tanker, he flies away and we get to see a bird's eye view of the ship. But now the hole is gone.
4th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: Before the truck is about to fall off the bridge, the blue car in the water moves from a 5 o'clock direction, to a 3 o'clock depending on the shot.
4th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: After the truck falls off the bridge, before Superman arrives a red truck passes by a green one and keeps on to the other end of the bridge. When the angle changes, a split second later, the red truck is now several feet back, not running and parked next to the green truck.
2nd Jan 2007
Mystic River (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Sean Penn is being interrogated by the cops, his coffee mug is yellow in the wall angle, and white in the rest of the shots.
2nd Jan 2007
Mystic River (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Boyle is interrogated by the cops, the pencil in front of him swaps from being parallel to him to slightly skewed between shots.
28th Dec 2006
Monster's Ball (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Halle and her son are finishing the visit to Sean, the front shots show a lot of smoke around Halle's head, which disappears in the following back shots.
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