Continuity mistake: When the volcano erupts, there's suddenly a lot more snow on the crater.
Sacha
15th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
7th Sep 2006
Cold Mountain (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Inman says I'll marry you 3 times, Ada's hair around his ear keeps switching between shots from messy to neat behind his ear.
6th Sep 2006
Jurassic Park (1993)
Continuity mistake: When the baby dinosaur is breaking the egg, the eggshell is almost open on one shot, and starting to break with a different shape, in the next shot. (00:27:35)
6th Sep 2006
Jurassic Park (1993)
Continuity mistake: When the egg is opening, the leaves underneath change from dry and crushed to big and green between shots. (00:27:35)
5th Sep 2006
Capote (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Capote tells Alvin Dewey the title of the novel in the diner, Capote's head positions have no continuity between the back and front shots.
5th Sep 2006
Capote (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Perry is on hunger strike and Capote brings him puree to eat, Perry's head keeps changing positions depending on the back or front shot.
5th Sep 2006
Capote (2005)
Factual error: The Spanish taxi cab has red plates. In that time period plates were white.
31st Aug 2006
Twins (1988)
Continuity mistake: Arnie enters the parking lot driving on two wheels crying "Woooa." The close shots show him with one hand on the wheel and the other outside on the window; but on the wide shots, with the stunt, both hands are inside and his mouth closed but still the cry is heard. This mistake goes on every time angle changes.
23rd Aug 2006
Lost (2004)
Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2 - S2-E24
Continuity mistake: The woman from Desmond's photo is totally different the second time we see it, but Desmond and the background are exactly the same as before.
23rd Aug 2006
Envy (2004)
Visible crew/equipment: A door to door sales woman greets an old lady. When the old lady turns around and announces her, the lighting screens get reflected on her glasses.
21st Aug 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Visible crew/equipment: When Jack opens the compass on the deck, two round lights are reflected on the lid. They are obviously stage lights, since from another point of view neither the sun nor any type of light is seen.
21st Aug 2006
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Continuity mistake: When the kids roll the tyre down the street with Scout in it, the tyre is seen heading straight about to crash against a pole. Shot changes and the tyre has magically moved 6 feet to the left and is now heading to the house.
21st Jul 2006
Marathon Man (1976)
Continuity mistake: When the American guy races against the German's car, the cars in the background have no continuity between the inside and the outside shots for most of the time.
21st Jul 2006
Marathon Man (1976)
Continuity mistake: When the cars crash into the oil truck, the body in the car on the far right keeps changing: Head down against the steering wheel (as we later see it in a close-up), head missing and head up and stiff.
19th Jul 2006
Superman (1978)
Continuity mistake: Before Superman enters Luthor's lair, Teschmacher is laying on the couch and a bottle of Ambre Solaire is facing straight close to the TV. In the next shot the bottle is turned to the left.
18th Jul 2006
Gilda (1946)
Revealing mistake: When Ballin's plane flies and finally crashes, it becomes obvious that the horizon is a still image with the film of the explosion superimposed directly onto it.
18th Jul 2006
Superman (1978)
Continuity mistake: After Lex Luthor opens the box with Kryptonite, Superman leans with both arms on a table. A second later he's leaning with just one arm.
17th Jul 2006
Superman (1978)
Revealing mistake: When Lois is at the heliport, watch the wind flag on the left: when the helicopter arrives, the roaring wind from the vanes makes the flag move up and get stiff. In the close-ups, you keep on hearing the sound but the vanes are off screen. Watch and you'll see the wind flag is down, thus revealing that the engine is off and that the sound we are hearing is fake.
17th Jul 2006
Superman (1978)
Continuity mistake: The morning Clark leaves the home farm, the sky keeps changing throughout the sequence: Dawning, clouds, sunny, dawn again, cloudy, back to sunny.
17th Jul 2006
All the President's Men (1976)
Continuity mistake: When Bernstein is talking with Colson's assistant, her hair is falling in front of her left shoulder, in the following close up shot it's behind.
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