Continuity mistake: After the plane starts circling the boat, Helen prepares the harpoon gun. The barb on it is about four inches long, and is tilted about 45 degrees to the left (from the Helen's view). When the shot cuts to the circling plane, the barb is now straight up.
Movie Nut
22nd Jul 2013
Waterworld (1995)
22nd Jul 2013
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Audio problem: When the red shirt kid comes into the classroom and talks about the tickets, in the closeup, he's facing inward. When he says "You've got to buy Wonka bars", and the shot goes wide, he's facing the door, turning to his right to leave. His mouth doesn't appear to be moving.
21st Jul 2013
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Continuity mistake: In the police station, after the Klown squirts Mooney with the yellow flowers, Mooney says "So you wanna play games, eh?" If you look at the bottom of the screen, the flowers are still there, but then the the shot cuts to a wide shot, and the Klown's arm and the flowers are gone.
21st Jul 2013
Dragnet (1987)
Continuity mistake: In the alley, the hoods try to mug Joe. Before the fight, Joe's holding a cigarette. As the fight ensues, he suddenly has no cigarette. As soon as he tosses the nunchucks in the trash can, he picks up the cigarette that he hadn't put down.
21st Jul 2013
Dragnet (1987)
Continuity mistake: When sitting in Pep's "coffee house", the topless dancer faces away from Friday and bends over, and gets in a head down pose. When the shot cuts to a view from behind, her head goes down again into the same pose.
14th Jul 2013
Robocop (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Reed is going to Fredrickson's locker, his left hand is going to the handle. In the next shot, as he is taking the nameplate off, you see his fingers of the left hand by the nameplate.
14th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Continuity mistake: During the "I'm Mean" song, when Bluto is destroying the Oyl's house, Bluto throws something out of the first of a set of three windows. Then, a second later, he smashes out the same window. Then, he smashes out the second window.
14th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Other mistake: As the people are going up the ramp to the Oyl's party, the man in the brown stops by the piling with a paper. As he bends over, there is a sound of the pelican pooping, and the man reacting to poop on his paper. The man and his paper are on one side of the piling, and the bird's tail is on the other. He couldn't have pooped on the paper unless he threw it.
12th Jul 2013
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Revealing mistake: In the arrow contest, as Robin was about to be assassinated, Blinkin grabs the arrow. If you look closely, as his arm reaches out, you see that Blinkin already has the arrow in his hand.
12th Jul 2013
Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
Revealing mistake: When Gilligan is being pulled around in the water after getting on the hut boat, you can see the superstructure of the walls around the lagoon.
12th Jul 2013
Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
Continuity mistake: After the tidal wave hits the island, there is a wide aerial shot of the hut. There is no palm tree tied to the hut, yet after they hear Gilligan yelling, there it is, with Gilligan on it.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Continuity mistake: As the octopus pulls the rowboat under at the end, you catch a glimpse of Olive's legs, although the octopus was not near her at the time.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Audio problem: As the group approach Bluto's boat at Scab Island, Pappy is cranking a siren. A couple of seconds later, it sounds again, but he isn't touching it.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Revealing mistake: After knocking Castor out, Oxheart kicks the unconscious form out of the ring. As the body flies past the camera, the dummy used must have bumped the camera because it shakes for a second or two.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Revealing mistake: At the end, in the fight with Bluto, Popeye is facing Bluto on one side, goes underwater, and pops up on the other side. If you watch closely, the figure that goes under is the stunt double. Nobody can move 15 to 20 feet underwater in three seconds. Also, before Popeye comes up, you can see him underwater while the other figure goes under.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the races, Wimpy has Swee'pea at the line up board, asking which horse to bet on. As Castor walks in, the shot cuts to Wimpy at the board. The number 7 slot is empty, and no attendant is there. As the shots alternate between Wimpy and Castor, there is an attendant behind Wimpy erasing slot 7, starting to write, then gone again after Castor goes by. In the next moment, Wimpy is directly in front of the board asking Swee'pea. After picking Holy Moley, the next wide shot has the attendant back again with a name in slot 7.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the Oyls' house during the engagement party, Nana Oyl gives Bluto a cup of tea and moves off across the room. A few moments later, after he drinks the tea, he starts to eat the teacup, and we see Nana's hands in frame on the right side where she served from. In the next shot, she's all the way across the room. She couldn't have made it that quickly.
12th Jul 2013
Popeye (1980)
Audio problem: At the beginning of the fight at Rough House's, after Popeye says "Enough is enough", it looks like he elbows the two nearest guys. If you look closely, they react a split second before the elbows get them, and the sound completes the illusion. Also, the last guy Popeye is punching in the face is moving just out of sync with the punches. The sound is like a punching bag, but his head is recoiling just a split second out of time.
5th Jul 2013
The Love Guru (2008)
Continuity mistake: In the first game, before Darren goes on the ice, Guru Pitka hits him on the head with the flowers. The sprig loses most of the blossoms after the hit, but in the next shot the sprig is whole again.
4th Jul 2013
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Plot hole: While it is essential to the story, there is a problem with apes in the space ship. While it is the one that took Taylor to the future, there is no way the chimps could have salvaged the ship from the water (plus there wasn't enough time for such a salvage operation. Kira and Cornelius were living in the ape city we see in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" never mentioning to Brent that they found a spaceship he could travel back with). They didn't have the technology for such an operation, no diving suits, and chimps are scared of water. Also, the water would have destroyed the power systems of the ship when it sank. (00:00:25)
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