Continuity mistake: When the Enterprise first leaves space dock, the deflector array is orange until warp speed, then it's blue. Inside V'Ger, it alternates from orange to blue.
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19th May 2015
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
19th May 2015
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Continuity mistake: As the camera goes in on the window of the station, there is no travel pod parked at the airlock. When Kirk and Scotty go to leave, there is one conveniently there, with no announcement of arrival (Corrected in the Director's Edition. The 2022 re-release adds the travel pod to the establishing shot of the station).
13th May 2015
The Black Hole (1979)
Continuity mistake: V.I.N.CENT's pupils are usually round, but when nose to nose with Maximilian, they're square.
13th May 2015
The Black Hole (1979)
Continuity mistake: As the boarding tunnel extends to the Palomino, V.I.N.CENT is seen floating up. In the long shot, he has disappeared, with no evidence of him in the tunnel until the door is opened.
13th May 2015
The Black Hole (1979)
Continuity mistake: As V.I.N.CENT leaves the hatch by tether, his "legs" are extended. In the long shot, they are retracted.
13th May 2015
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Continuity mistake: While watching the Humongous and his horde leave the compound, the Gyro Captain is wiping his mouth, and puts his hankie away. When the camera faces him, he repeats pulling out the hankie, and wipes his mouth again.
19th Apr 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: Private Rich's left boot is totally black when he's put on the chopper. When it goes up, it's worn to the bare leather, and back to new looking during the landing.
13th Apr 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: As Klinger and Margaret are talking about the date, he takes a sip of his drink and goes to put his hand down. After the angle changes and he goes to say his line, he repeats putting the glass down.
11th Apr 2015
Tron (1982)
Continuity mistake: The Acceleration Stick Flynn uses in the Recognizer goes from flat side forward to edge on and back. Also, in a shot from behind, the background appears through the stick just before Flynn crashes.
11th Apr 2015
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Beta takes off his head to adjust his hearing, it alternates between his real read, and an obvious dummy head between shots.
11th Apr 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
The Merchant of Korea - S6-E14
Continuity mistake: After answering a call for help, BJ gets first a right glove on, then as he talks, gets a left glove. After the angle changes, he gets a left glove again.
11th Apr 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: In the last O.R. of the episode, Winchester is wearing a surgical gown with the same blood stain pattern as in the previous episode. This also would be impossible given the cleaning procedures.
11th Apr 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: As the interviewer talks to Hawkeye, his hand alternates from just below the microphone head to just above the bottom end between angles.
10th Apr 2015
CHiPs (1977)
Continuity mistake: Toward the end, the sunglasses that the motorcycle thug is wearing suddenly disappear just before he gets caught by the volleyball net and the cops.
10th Apr 2015
Dick Tracy (1990)
Continuity mistake: The red can that got crushed and was lying ahead of where Tess was tied up disappears after Breathless dies and Tess is freed.
10th Apr 2015
Tank Girl (1995)
Continuity mistake: As Kesslee pops off the cup portion of the collector, a goodly amount of water falls out. When he holds the cup up, there's more water than there should have been.
10th Apr 2015
Tank Girl (1995)
Continuity mistake: As the water is drained out of the man on the floor, you see Kesslee's feet have shoes on. After he gives an assignment to Sgt. Small, he has bare feet without taking off his shoes.
10th Apr 2015
Doctor Who (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Chip/Cassandra finishes the line about being a walking doodle, he's smiling. After the cut, he's straight faced.
9th Apr 2015
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
The Kamikazes Are Coming - S6-E20
Continuity mistake: When Otto and the Russian go to leave there's another man with a blue hat by the door. When the angle changes, there's suddenly a German guard standing behind him.
8th Apr 2015
Futurama (1999)
Anthology of Interest 2 - S4-E3
Continuity mistake: In Leela's "What If" experience, the Cute Witch's wand suddenly goes from clutched in front by both hands to held out to the left side in a split second.
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