Continuity mistake: The camera follows Connor from behind as he is driving his car in an attempt to leave the parking lot before the police get there, you can see his hair is quite fluffy and dry. When he gets stopped by the police, his hair is now wet and slicked back.
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20th Mar 2009
Highlander (1986)
18th Mar 2009
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Ashley goes to talk to Father Marks, in many shots where the camera switches from Ashley to Father Marks, his left arm keeps moving up and down with no time between shots for this to occur.
16th Mar 2009
A View to a Kill (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Bond grabs Stacey after the Zorin Airship blows up, you can see the fireaxe resting between them. The camera shot changes to one above them and the fireaxe has now gone. (02:01:00)
18th Feb 2009
Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Marcus is being chastised for the clothing he is wearing in the dance room, you can see a reflected shot of him looking down toward his feet. In the next shot, he looks down again.
9th Feb 2009
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Rafe's Spitfire crashes into the water, the preceding shot shows it to be diving nose first, In the next shot however, it lands virtually flat.
7th Feb 2009
The Mummy (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Henderson gets killed by Imhotep in his hotel room, the shadow of his corpse being thrown shows it to be thrown quite a distance across the room, yet when Imhotep appears, and then walks off, Henderson's corpse is right by his feet. It was thrown much further than that.
10th Jan 2009
The Shadow (1994)
Continuity mistake: When the the old Asian guy is about to draw a picture of an atomic bomb on his blackboard, he clears a small section at the top of the board, and you can see some diagrams uncleared in the centre of the board. Yet when the camera shows his picture, the diagrams in the centre have now magically disappeared.
28th Dec 2008
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Continuity mistake: During 'Winner Takes it All', at the start of the song, Donna has her hands up near her chest, in the next shot they are down by her side.
27th Dec 2008
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Continuity mistake: When Charlie's grandad falls on him soon after getting news of his Golden Ticket win, one of the other old guys in the bed has a shocked look on his face. In the next shot however, the old guy now has his hand over his face and not enough time has passed for this to occur.
24th Dec 2008
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Continuity mistake: When ET is walking with Elliot and his brother trick-or-treating, we see several shots from ET's point of view of people walking toward him. In all of the following shots however, none of the people that were walking toward him can now be seen behind him as they should be. It's not a montage either, these scenes are to be taken that they are occurring in real time.
21st Dec 2008
Cliffhanger (1993)
Continuity mistake: When the Government plane explodes, the cable that linked both planes is no longer visible anywhere in the shot where it shows both planes.
9th Dec 2008
The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Continuity mistake: The whole car lands in the swimming pool, with the back end stuck up in the air and the front end down because of the weight of the engine. A couple of shots later with Darian and the pool owner on the phone, the car is now sat up on its front end, which is now propped up on the side of the pool. (01:18:55 - 01:19:45)
9th Dec 2008
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Continuity mistake: When Mike's white car gets blown up, it spins in the air and lands the opposite way around, but in a following shot the car has now moved back to facing the same way it did before it blew up. (00:18:00)
6th Dec 2008
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Continuity mistake: After Bond pours himself a glass of Mathis' wine, what is left in the bottle is not consistent with how much Bond, Mathis and his girlfriend poured out. More should be missing.
30th Nov 2008
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
Continuity mistake: When the last guy dies as he tries to escape out the swimming pool window, a large amount of blood lands on the window. The shot cuts to Ricky looking worried, then the next shot shows Ricky leaving. In the background you can see that the blood on the window is now missing. (00:51:10)
29th Nov 2008
Starcrash (1978)
Continuity mistake: Count Zarth Arn discovers Simon, Stella and Akton in the computer room, and he stands in the doorway. In the next two shots, it shows soldiers on both sides of the room, and in both shots, the doorway is now empty.
29th Nov 2008
Starcrash (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Stella is put into the machine to revive her after being frozen, her head is tilted to the right when she goes in, but is tilted to the left when the shot changes.
27th Nov 2008
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Shad and Nanelia are kissing, her right ear is covered by her hair, in the next shot her hair is now tucked behind her ear, and in the next shot, her ear is now covered again.
22nd Nov 2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
Continuity mistake: On the firing range when John Connor fixes the stoppage on the rifle, his shooting glasses are on his head, when he hands the rifle back, the glasses are now over his eyes, and in the next shot they are on his head again. Not enough time has occurred between shots for this to happen.
19th Nov 2008
K-9 (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the Lyman realises that Dooley's bomb detonator is a fake, he starts running away. He must be some sprinter, because in the first shot he's at the end of the semi trailer, and in the next shot he's a good 400m away. He simply could never have gotten that far away in a split second. (01:27:30)
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