Continuity mistake: When Thornhill watches the road from the crop field, the way he holds the crop and how the leaves bend, differ between the front and back shots. Also, his hands disappear and the leaves swap between dry and green.
Sacha
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: At the field, the first time Thornhill throws himself on the floor there's just a road with gravel. When he stands up there's suddenly hay everywhere.
6th Dec 2022
Commando (1985)
Continuity mistake: After Jenny is abducted and Matrix chases the bad guys, the windshield in his car swaps between very dirty and dusty in the wide angles to spotless in the close-ups. (00:15:10)
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the car park, when Bond activates the car-camera the phone screen shows the car next to Bond and the black and yellow column, but not Bond, despite him being in sight.
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Bond finishes testing the remote car he and Q stand close together in the front angles. In the wide angle from behind they stand half a meter away from each other. This swaps back and forth.
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Bond is about to fire at the car park metal door there's no-one next to it. A shot later two guards can be seen in front of the door, running away.
28th Nov 2022
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Continuity mistake: Bond tells the kid he'll pay him 20,000 bahts if he manages to start the engine, which he does. Shot changes and the kid spreads his arms wide and smiles with joy. Back to the wide shot and his arms are closer together, and he has a worried look. (01:00:30)
28th Nov 2022
A View to a Kill (1985)
Continuity mistake: While Bond is holding the rope attached to the Zeppelin a cop car crashes, its rear window rolled up. A shot later it's rolled down.
27th Nov 2022
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Continuity mistake: After Luke's snowspeeder crashes on the snow, right before he exits, there's no damage on the right window. From the outside shot it's broken all over.
27th Nov 2022
Star Wars (1977)
Continuity mistake: When Leia comforts Luke after Obi-Wan's death, the blanket on his back folds different between shots. (01:30:48)
26th Nov 2022
Ten Commandments (1956)
Continuity mistake: When Bithiah brings the cradle ashore the way the towel on the left is folded changes between shots.
26th Nov 2022
Ten Commandments (1956)
Continuity mistake: When Moses is left alone in the cradle Miriam's left-hand keeps changing positions between shots.
25th Nov 2022
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Bond is about to climb in the raft his hair is soaking wet and brushed forward. When he is inside it's nicely brushed to the right.
25th Nov 2022
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Revealing mistake: When the movie ends and Bond swims towards the raft together with the rest of the baddies, he is very obviously not Sean Connery but his stunt.
25th Nov 2022
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Revealing mistake: The volcano erupting is an obvious composite of at least two images: an explosion on a mountain and lava flowing. The cut-out footage of the lava is blatantly evident for one can see the outline of the pasted film, which has a lighter colour than the mountain's.
25th Nov 2022
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Revealing mistake: When the volcano erupts, the lava (a superimposed image) is flowing frame by frame as a stop-motion film as opposed to the explosion.
25th Nov 2022
The Living Daylights (1987)
Continuity mistake: On the frozen lake, a cottage is blown to pieces, a wheel flies away, and many explosions take place, rising big clouds of black smoke. However, in the wide angle, the place is spotless.
25th Nov 2022
Star Wars (1977)
Revealing mistake: Before Darth kills Obi-Wan, he rises his saber to prepare to die and his face and hands are perfectly visible. Right before Darth kills him, there's a wide shot where his face is missing and a black object is used to hold the saber, thus revealing the actor was replaced by an empty cloak to achieve the vanishing effect.
23rd Nov 2022
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Night of the Headless Horseman - S3-E11
Visible crew/equipment: When Nate and Dorian fight at the bar they are replaced with obvious stunt doubles with totally different hairstyles.
23rd Nov 2022
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Night of the Headless Horseman - S3-E11
Continuity mistake: In the car, when Jessica is told that she has to act like Dorian's mother she covers her face with both hands. A shot later there's just one hand on her face.
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