Continuity mistake: When Jack removes the beating heart from the chest, the way the heart is positioned in his hand changes between shots - note the large arteries. (01:51:00)
Ssiscool
24th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
27th Jul 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: On the Pearl, after Elizabeth tells Norrington that she trusts Jack, when Norrington walks away from the deck rail, in the shots facing Elizabeth, the pretty cumulus clouds behind her change back and forth between shots. (01:28:50)
13th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth questions Jack about his "broken" compass as they stand on deck, her left arm rests on the deck rail and changes position back and forth between shots. (01:36:30)
19th Sep 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After Will challenges Jones he is given five dice - one being considerably smaller than the other four. However, when Will looks under his cup during the game, all five dice are of similar size. (01:22:00)
8th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth, Will and the rest watch from the long boat, as the Kraken takes down the Pearl with Jack aboard, in the shot facing the Pearl Cotton sits directly behind Will, but in the shot facing the long boat Pintel sits behind Will. (02:14:55)
24th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: During the dice game aboard the Flying Dutchman, when Will challenges Davy Jones, the cloth with the key drawing is folded and positioned differently between shots. (01:21:00)
26th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Pintel, Ragetti and the dog are in the boat, the corner of Pintel's collar is folded up when he says, "Aint that right, poochy?" and also when the dog jumps into the water, yet, it is folded down in the other shots. (00:29:15)
17th Sep 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Revealing mistake: The crow pecking on the floating coffin Jack is hiding in has a modern-day identification band on its leg. (00:05:50)
13th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth sits on deck and points out the burning word Tortuga, the wound lines beside her change position between the shot facing her and the next shot, behind her. (01:04:30)
11th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After Will slides down the sail, just as he grabs hold of the mast line, the cut sail is only tied down at its corners. After he puts the knife in his mouth, the sail is also tied down directly under the cut. (01:36:10)
8th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Norrington, Jack and Will bang away at each other on the beach, in the shot facing Elizabeth as she puts her hat back on, behind her Ragetti runs ahead of Pintel (3-4 ft) as they steal the chest. Next shot, it is Pintel in the lead as they run off. (01:49:00)
28th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When everyone is fighting on Isle Cruses, Jack is standing behind Will and he hits Will in the head with an oar. In the shot right after that, Jack is no longer standing behind Will. Will is reacting to getting hit so you know it was right after, and Jack wouldn't have time to move. (01:58:15)
27th Jul 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: On the Dutchman, when Jones holds out the whip for Bill Turner to use on Will, the whip's direction flips between shots, it faces the opposite way when Bill grabs it. (01:14:20)
27th Aug 2001
Deep Impact (1998)
Continuity mistake: During a scene where the boss of the TV station is talking to his staff, when he finishes he takes off his glasses and starts to move off his chair. Yet in the next shot he gets off the chair still wearing his glasses. (00:07:30)
13th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: The cloth with the key drawing changes greatly throughout the film. This includes the actual drawing itself, the tears on the cloth, shape of the cloth, etc. (00:08:05 - 00:43:50)
14th Sep 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Jack sneaks away on the long boat, during the Kraken attack on the Pearl, there is a close-up of Jack looking back at the land, then picking up and dramatically opening the compass. However, in the previous shot showing the Pearl, the compass is actually seen at the bottom of the shot - already being held open. (02:02:45)
12th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Captain Bellamy and his sailors stand on deck, looking at the flaming Tortuga, their positions differ between the shot facing them and the next shot, from behind. (01:07:10)
31st Aug 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: After Bootstrap gives Jack the black mark, when Gibbs shouts, "Back to your stations, the lot o'ya," the cloth round his neck changes position, depending on camera angle. (00:17:00)
30th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Revealing mistake: When Jack, the monkey, runs off with Ragetti's false wooden eye, the pirate's eye socket does not look empty in specific shots, only covered by a contact lens. (00:41:10)
7th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Lord Beckett is trying to convince Will Turner to go after Jack Sparrow, he picks up a red hot poker from the fire and says that they've marked each other. The shot cuts to Will who asks simply "How did he mark you?" at which point the shot cuts back to Beckett and the formerly red-hot poker is already now a much cooler black. Glowing hot iron does not cool that quickly in air. (00:09:30)
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