Continuity mistake: When Helen is going to place the supersuits in her luggage, there is a few centimeters between the one that she grabs and the others but they are much closer in the next shot. (01:03:55)
Dr Wilson
21st Mar 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
21st Mar 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Helen opens the luggage on the airplane, the zipper's handle keeps switching side. (01:05:25)
18th Mar 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Springfield Connection - S6-E23
Continuity mistake: When Marge is doing her grocery shopping, the boxes of caviar behind her change from green to red.
17th Mar 2005
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Visible crew/equipment: When Tommy and Eddie drive away from the prison at the beginning, the crew is reflected on the car.
17th Mar 2005
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Revealing mistake: At Da Vinci's castle, hit Pause when Eddie steals the crystal. It is actually a little frog statue. The prop was apparently unavailable during the shooting of this scene and they took an object of the same color.
8th Mar 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Revealing mistake: When the robots breaks the walls of the room where Dex is, there is a lot of debris that fall on the floor. A big piece of debris in the middle of the screen passes through another.
8th Mar 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Continuity mistake: When the robots are going to capture Dex, the amount of debris and papers around him changes in each shot.
8th Mar 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Trivia: When Joe is going to shoot the bomb on the robot's legs, you can see King Kong climbing on the Empire State building in the background. (00:14:15)
8th Mar 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Polly stands up while Joe is attacking the robots, she is on the corner of a sidewalk. A few shots later, when Joe flies over her and she says "Joe", she is at a different place on the sidewalk. She was walking really slowly, so it's impossible that she moved that fast.
4th Mar 2005
The Reckoning (2003)
Visible crew/equipment: When they unearth the cadaver, you can see in some shots that he wears a blue string. One of the men even sees it and tries to hide it subtly.
1st Mar 2005
Futurama (1999)
Question: When they pass in front of the library, there are only two books "Fiction" and "Non-fiction". I remember seeing something similar in a science-fiction film when I was a kid. A man says something like "All the knowledge of the Martians is contained in this disc". Is it a reference to this film, and if so, what is its name?
22nd Feb 2005
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Frank Jr. and Sr. are going to the Chase Manhattan Bank, the same white truck drives behind them twice.
20th Feb 2005
The Fifth Element (1997)
12th Feb 2005
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Factual error: When Eddie and Tommy are trying to enter in the security camera room at the beginning of the film, they use real tools but they couldn't unlock a door by using them this way.
1st Feb 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
31st Jan 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Joe and Polly are running on the tree trunk, Joe loses his gun but it is a completely different one when we see it falling.
31st Jan 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Continuity mistake: On the airplane, Joe draws a line on the map to see where they will crash. The line changes place in each following shot.
31st Jan 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Continuity mistake: When the scientist is killed by the electric device in front of Totenkopf's office, he is transformed in to ashes and bones but in the following shot, there are only bones on the floor.
31st Jan 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Continuity mistake: On Totenkopf's rocket, Joe runs to cross the bridge, but Polly looks at the control panel behind her and pushes a button. Even if a few seconds have passed, Joe is still next to her.
30th Jan 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Character mistake: After the robots first attack New York City, a series of newspapers is shown. One of the headlines in the French one reads "La Tour Eiffeil est détruite". The proper spelling is "Eiffel" (00:15:55)
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Chosen answer: I don't know that it is a reference, but it sounds like you are thinking of The Martian Chronicles.
Grumpy Scot