Continuity mistake: When Lucy is at the lamppost the first time, in one shot she has her right hand on the post, in the next overhead shot, her left hand is on the post. The next shot, her right hand is back on the post. There is no time for her to switch hands. (00:13:35)
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30th Jun 2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Continuity mistake: Spoiler! When Victoria's head is popped off by Edward, who has killed her, her eyes are open. Seconds later, from another angle, her eyes are closed. (01:42:30)
13th Oct 2003
End of Days (1999)
Continuity mistake: After the baby is born, the nurse puts a blue towel on her, completely covering her chest. The next shot, the baby's chest isn't covered. (00:06:00)
29th May 2008
Turistas (2006)
Continuity mistake: In the scene after the bus rolls down (when they are at the beach), one of the girls is wearing a red bikini, but when she gets in the water it's black. (00:13:40)
28th Jun 2009
Year One (2009)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end after the high priest has been "sacrificed" in Sodom, Z is talking to the crowd and as the shot changes between facing forwards and turning round to talk to O (after the first burst of rain) his hair changes from soaking wet to virtually dry depending on the view. (01:30:00)
20th Feb 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Teddy's kids are lying dead on the grass, the position of the girl's arms keeps changing between shots.
8th Apr 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: After Teddy takes his dead daughter's shoe off, its position changes between angles.
3rd Jan 2010
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Trivia: In the opening scene when Charlotte and Tiana are children, the camera scans Charlotte's bedroom. The tea set on the floor has 'Mrs. Potts & Chip' from "Beauty & the Beast" sitting on a tray. (00:01:25)
4th Jul 2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Revealing mistake: In the last scene where Edward and Bella are sitting in the sunny field, Edward is not sparkling. (01:52:55)
29th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: In the hospital wing, as Madame Pomfrey removes the skull bottle top of the Skele-Gro and sets it down, she says, "But it'll be painful," and Harry actually smirks at her. In the next close-up, as she pours some Skele-Gro into a glass and places the bottle down, the skull top now faces the opposite way. In the following shot as she hands Harry the glass, the position of both the skull top and the bottle of Skele-Gro are quite obviously different than the previous close-up. (00:58:55)
29th Dec 2010
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
29th Dec 2010
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Continuity mistake: During the conversation between Jackson and Ziva, a $20 bill is dropped, face down. When Ziva bends down to pick it up, the bill is now face up.
25th Aug 2009
House, M.D. (2004)
Here Kitty - S5-E18
Continuity mistake: Series 5, Episode 18, "Here Kitty": When Judy (the patient) holds the tape out for House before her bronchial attack, the way she holds it changes instantly. (00:13:45)
19th Sep 2010
Inception (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ariadne finds out that the only way Cobb can dream is by being hooked up to the machine. When she first walks in and sees him sleeping on the chair she has a purse over her left arm. But in the next shot, she has no purse on either shoulder and there's no shot showing her putting the purse down. (00:54:20)
15th Jun 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Continuity mistake: During Teddy's interrogation of Bridget Kearns, she takes Teddy's notebook and writes something on the page to the left. Yet, when he shows the notebook to Chuck Aule, all of Bridget's writing is on the page to the right.
27th Aug 2001
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Trivia: Just after Buzz, Potato Head, and the others enter Al's Toy Barn (before they get hold of a car or split up), if you look in the background, you can see a rack of toys from "A Bug's Life". (00:38:40)
Continuity mistake: When Peter, Susan, Lucy and the Beavers arrive to Aslan's camp and see Oreius, his body is all black. In the battle you can see that Oreius has black legs up to his knees, but then his body is brown. It's easy to see just when the Minotaur drops from Oreius's back: the stomach is brown.
24th Jan 2011
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Continuity mistake: Tiana wears a pair of gold earrings during Charlotte's ball. They disappear when she's watching Charlotte dance with the prince and reappear later. (00:23:55)
24th Jan 2011
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Other mistake: Charlotte's dad buys a newspaper in the beginning of the film. The same two paragraphs about Prince Naveen are repeated all over the front page, including under the headline 'Annual Goosenhoper State Gumbo Faire Is Smashing Success.' (00:08:45)
13th Oct 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Gordon gives Batman the Joker card, which is in a small, sealed, tight evidence bag, the card switches position in the bag between the shots of Batman taking it and him turning the card around. (02:05:05)
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