Continuity mistake: Shaft gets tipped by an informant about his case. He says "Stay loose, baby!" and gives him a raised fist salute walking away. But in the next shot he's still awkwardly giving him another raised fist, which then turns into a high-five. (00:30:45)
Sammo
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
Continuity mistake: When Shaft accepts Bumpy's case, Bumpy tosses the envelope on the desk and it lands on top of Shaft's playing cards. When Bumpy gets up, the envelope suddenly changes position. (00:26:15)
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
Continuity mistake: When the gangster with the plaid coat is strangling Shaft, the supposedly first-person shot shows him with his thumbs all the way up as if he were crushing his temples in a head vice - he is instead choking him, thumbs under the chin. (00:11:00)
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
Continuity mistake: During the brawl in his office, Shaft sends the plaid coated man flying all over the table to the left of the window, right where there's a white paper bag. A moment later in the fight, that flimsy paper bag is still where it was, totally uncrushed by his butt. (00:10:40)
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
Continuity mistake: A fight happens inside Shaft's office: a shattered glass noise can be heard, but the door is intact. That is, until the fight is over and the plaid coat man flies off the window. At that point the front door glass is shattered as well. Moreso, a shattered glass noise is heard when someone ends up against the wall, but the frames don't appear broken at any point. (00:10:35 - 00:11:10)
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
Continuity mistake: Shaft gets approached during the credits by some bootlegger trying to sell him a watch. He flashes him a badge, which is held differently in closeup (finger up) compared to the full shot (just cupped in his palm). (00:02:30)
23rd Aug 2019
Shaft (1971)
Continuity mistake: During Bumpy's visit to Shaft's office, the crime boss is sometimes wearing his hat with the buckle on the left, other times with the buckle on the opposite side. (00:19:20 - 00:26:30)
22nd Aug 2019
One Punch Man (2015)
Continuity mistake: The quantity of super-steroid in Fukegao (the mad scientist) 's test tube changes continuously between shots. (00:11:00)
22nd Aug 2019
Wu Assassins (2019)
Continuity mistake: Kai, in the kitchen, is putting the finishing touches to the dish, sprinkling it with peanuts. The peanuts bowl changes position and then disappears completely from the prep station between shots. (00:04:15)
22nd Aug 2019
Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (2019)
22nd Aug 2019
The Scalphunters (1968)
Continuity mistake: Joe Bass, freshly robbed by the Indians, is asking the slave "You come a long way from home, you ran away?" In his hand is a bottle of liquor with the cork on. Change shot, the bottle is open. New change, and now the bottle is closed again. (00:08:00)
22nd Aug 2019
20th Century Women (2016)
Continuity mistake: When the Ford Galaxy burns in the parking lot shots, it does not have scorch marks on the car doors. The shot from inside the store, behind Jamie and Dorothea, shows the car with heavier damage and marks under both the front and backseat window. (00:01:30)
22nd Aug 2019
20th Century Women (2016)
Continuity mistake: Mother and son run towards the store window as the Ford Galaxy is burning in the parking lot. At the end of the shot from behind, a woman with a lilac top and long brown hair comes into frame and leans against the vegetable stand. After the cut, with Jamie and the mom by the window, the same woman walks in again. (00:01:30)
22nd Aug 2019
Sextuplets (2019)
Continuity mistake: Alan and Marie are chatting with the doctor after the initial sonogram. Marie's hands change position few times between shots - for instance right after the "crack" joke, she lowers her hand but it's on top of her pregnant belly at the cut. (00:03:30)
22nd Aug 2019
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Continuity mistake: In the back of the limo at the beginning of the movie, the woman with Mr. Amafi blows cigar smoke in his face. She does so opening her mouth at the end of the first shot, but has her lip still puckered in the one that follows. (00:01:40)
22nd Aug 2019
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Continuity mistake: The mafioso with the rainbow scarf hands his boss a drink, extending his arm. The next shot begins with his arm bent, and the third mafioso acting as barista is also in a position inconsistent with the previous shot. (00:15:00)
22nd Aug 2019
Men in Black: International (2019)
Continuity mistake: When agent H is being chased by the MIB agents through the market streets of Marrakesh, he runs past the same extra twice in two separate streets: a young guy with a goatee, wearing a brown robe with red collar and a backpack. (01:02:00)
21st Aug 2019
Shaft (2019)
Continuity mistake: Young Shaft is meeting his friend at the bar: he has just his solitary drink before him when Karim arrives, but the drinks are now 2 with Sasha's arrival - only for a single shot, though, as just a single glass is afterwards. (00:11:40)
21st Aug 2019
Shazam! (2019)
Continuity mistake: When Billy finally finds his mom and talks to her in front of her apartment, the door behind her changes from (almost) fully closed to much more open, to an intermediate state, and fully closed again at the end. (01:25:30 - 01:28:00)
21st Aug 2019
Aladdin (2019)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, a woman with a mustard colored robe approaches Aladdin about his monkey, attempting to distract him. In the shot from behind, Aladdin lowers his arms, but he's seen in the following shot with both arms raised examining a trinket hanging from the market stall. (00:04:50)
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