Continuity mistake: To analyse the wooden horse, Dr. Badger has it placed on a scanner, places a plastic container over it, lowers a console onto the container and rolls another piece of equipment up against the container. These pieces of equipment remain on the scanner, but just after K says he wants to know where the horse is from, the console has been raised to its original position, the plastic container has been removed from the scanner, and the other piece of equipment has been rolled back to its original position. The equipment could not have been moved when it was off-screen because there was there would not have been enough time in between shots. (01:34:45)
Casual Person
11th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
11th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Badger has finished analysing the wooden horse, he takes it off the scanner and holds it in both his hands, whilst still facing the scanner. The shot cuts to Dr. Badger giving the horse back to K, and he is suddenly holding the horse with one hand, and is facing K's direction. (01:34:55)
11th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Luv confronts Lieutenant Joshi in her office, in the shot where she switches off the computer monitors, there are a series of files on her desk in front of the monitors. There is a white file, next to it a black file, and next to that a beige file with two files under it. When Joshi stands up, the beige file and the files under it have gone and there is now a gap between the white and black files. Later on in the scene, after Luv picks up Joshi's body after stabbing her, the black file is on the left, the beige file is back and in the middle, but no files under it, and the white file is on the right. (01:38:00 - 01:40:05)
10th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: Just after Luv stabs Lieutenant Joshi, she goes over to her computers and switches on the monitors. She is still looking at the computers at the end of the shot, but in the next shot, she is suddenly looking to the right, at Joshi's body. (01:40:00)
10th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When the three cars are driving through the city back to Wallace Corporation with Deckard, there is a shot shown from behind. In the shot, the car on the left is flying highest, the car on the right is flying lowest, and the car behind is flying in between the two. The shot then cuts to a wide shot, where the car on the right is now higher up than the car in the middle. (02:02:55)
10th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Deckard awakens in Wallace's office, after Wallace's visual aids leave and Deckard hears Wallace, he is lying back in the seat with his arms in the armrests. The shot cuts to an angle behind Deckard, where he is now suddenly hunched forwards. (02:09:15)
10th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Wallace says to Deckard "It was very clever to keep yourself empty of information, and all it cost you was everything. But you can still help me", the light above them begins to shine on Deckard, and his shoulder is covered in light. The shot cuts to a shot in front of Deckard, where his shoulder is suddenly much more shadowed, before being lit a second time. (02:13:20)
10th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Wallace tells Deckard "Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real", Deckard rests against the back of the chair he is sitting in. The light above them moves away from Deckard, leaving him shadowed, but when the shot cuts to an angle behind Deckard, the front of his face is suddenly covered in light. (02:14:15)
10th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When the giant Joi walks over to K, the wide shot shows her stopping in front of the platform he is standing on, directly facing K's direction. The shot cuts to her kneeling down, and she has suddenly turned 90° to the left. (02:17:00)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: In Sapper Morton's garden, when K finds the small plant next to the tree, he sniffs the plant and lowers his hand slightly, with his hand and the plant pointing upwards. The shot then cuts to an angle further away, where his hand and the plant are suddenly pointing to the side. (00:11:50)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When K is at his apartment, Joi lights his cigarette which smokes slightly. The shot cuts to a different angle, and there's much more smoke. (00:18:20)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When K is smoking a cigarette in his apartment, he blows the smoke towards Joi which passes through her. K then lowers the cigarette to his lap, and some additional smoke can be seen emerging from the cigarette at the bottom of the shot. The shot cuts to K beginning to move his legs, and the additional smoke has vanished. (00:18:25)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When K and Joi are talking at the apartment after K returns home, Joi picks up the Pale Fire book and K tells her she hates that book. Behind K's head is some smoke from the cigarette he smoked when he is saying the line. Joi then says she doesn't want to read either, and the smoke behind K's head has disappeared. (00:18:45)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When the LAPD are looking over the bones, there is a shot of the teeth from the skeleton being placed on a table one at a time. The shot cuts to another angle of the table to focus on the hair sample, and the part of the table where the teeth have been placed is still visible in shot, but the teeth are suddenly nowhere in sight. (00:24:05)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Coco is examining the skeleton, the shots of Coco in focus show Lieutenant Joshi in the background leaning her elbow on the medical table, and remains this way until Coco says "Sorry" after referring to Sapper Morton as a sentimental skin job. Joshi then asks where's the kid and she suddenly has her arms crossed and not leaning on the table. This isn't very easy to see when she is asking, but is noticeable when Coco gets up from his seat in the next shot. (00:25:35)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: After examining the skeleton, Coco gets up from his seat and K starts to walk towards the console to examine the skeleton himself. When K begins to walk over to the console, Joshi has her arms by her side, but in the next shot, her arms are suddenly crossed. (00:25:50)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Lieutenant Joshi is instructing K to kill the replicant child, in the shot where Joshi asks if he's telling her no, her whiskey glass is on the windowsill, but when she says "attaboy" a few shots after, the whiskey glass is suddenly in her hand. Joshi wouldn't have picked up the glass in between shots because she was waiting for K to reply. (00:27:55)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When K is getting out of his car after the scavengers break the door open, he struggles to stand, holding onto the side of the car. One of the scavengers then runs up to K, next to the car. K then fights back and he is suddenly standing upright, several meters away from the car. (01:02:45)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When K is cornered by the scavengers, he gets out of the car after they cut the door open. In the shot of one of the scavengers running up to K to attack him, nothing is hanging out of the car door. K then breaks the scavenger's back with his knee and the seat belt is suddenly hanging out of the door. (01:02:45)
6th Aug 2018
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Continuity mistake: When K is ambushed by the scavengers, the first one attacks him and K breaks his back with his knee. A second one then attacks him and K drops the first. When the first is dropped, the body is positioned near the car. Seconds later, when K is blasted back by an explosion, the first scavenger that attacked K has moved more ahead of the car. Also, when Luv is shown watching K from her perspective, the first scavenger's body has now moved again, several meters away from the car. (01:02:50 - 01:03:50)
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