Continuity mistake: When Celie tries on one of Shug's dresses a record is playing. While the song is still on we see the record player again and the label has changed. Then Shug turns the record around, and now the label is the one from the beginning. (01:09:30 - 01:12:10)
NancyFelix
22nd Apr 2004
The Color Purple (1985)
22nd Apr 2004
The Color Purple (1985)
Continuity mistake: Before Squeak hits Sofia she hands a tray with a bottle to Harpo. He hardly catches the bottle before it falls down, but when the camera angle changes he is holding the bottle upright. (01:07:50)
22nd Apr 2004
The Color Purple (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Sofia comes to her in-laws' house for the first time Celie offers her a glass of lemonade. She empties it completely, but when she gives it back to Celie it's almost full again. (00:37:55)
22nd Apr 2004
The Color Purple (1985)
Continuity mistake: Mister's tie changes from red to blue when he asks for Nettie, and back to red when he inspects Celie. (00:07:25)
19th Apr 2004
Falling Down (1993)
Continuity mistake: When D-Fens puts the phone booth out of order, a boy in the background is obviously shocked so deeply that he falls off his bike twice. (00:50:10)
19th Apr 2004
Falling Down (1993)
Audio problem: At the beginning when D-Fens is bothered by a fly while he is sitting in his car, the fly sounds as if it is held in a closed box, not flying around freely. (00:03:20)
19th Apr 2004
Matchstick Men (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Angela runs away crying and Roy follows her her tears dry up between shots while they are talking in the street. (00:50:00)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Factual error: When Chino douses his house with petrol before he sets it on fire he uses a modern plastic canister. (01:31:20)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Chino ambushes Morrel's men in the mountains he is waiting on a pointy rock. When the camera angle changes there are bushes behind him that weren't there before. (01:27:05)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Chino gets whipped there are no traces of the nasty bite Black hat had given him not too long ago. (00:36:20 - 01:18:30)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Factual error: Jamie unloads rectangular, machine-tied, modern-day straw bales from his cart. (00:41:00)
Suggested correction: This type of hay balers have been in use since the 1850's. There's nothing "modern" about them.
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Revealing mistake: When Chino does some rodeo riding when he breaks in one of his horses we get a good view of the stuntman's face. (00:33:50)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Factual error: The newly born foal is too dry and too steady on its legs. (00:22:25)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Revealing mistake: Two different horses play the role of Chino's stud, one with and one without a white spot on the nose. One of them is darker too. (00:21:55)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Factual error: Chino's wild mustang stud displays shiny horseshoes when he is after one of his mares. (00:21:50)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Jamie is about to leave and Chino suggests that his horse may need another day's rest Jamie's horse turns around twice in successive shots. (00:19:25)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Continuity mistake: After Chino throws one of the bad guys through the window his hat miraculously appears on the windowsill so that the sheriff can pick it up and hand it back to him. (00:17:00)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Revealing mistake: The Eagle Bar fight begins with Chino hitting a guy in the crotch with a bottle. The guy collapses in pain even though the bottle doesn't even come near where it's supposed to hurt. (00:16:35)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Continuity mistake: When the four bad guys come into the Eagle Bar to hassle Chino the barkeeper puts his sandwich in the shelf behind him. When the camera angle changes the sandwich is back in his hand. (00:16:25)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Jamie rides Buck for the first time a huge round leather bottle appears on the left side of the saddle when we see him galloping along, which wasn't there when he mounted the horse. When he returns the bottle is again gone. (00:10:25)
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