Continuity mistake: The woman next to Slade when he's at the BBQ at the party holds her glass up, down, up in different shots. (01:14:40)
Sammo
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the party, Mr. Slade has a bunch of steak on the grill, but just two of them when he turns towards the mayor with an angry face. (01:14:30)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the sour ending of their 'date', Marisa throws a bunch of bills on the table. David's shadow on the wall moves between shots, but he did not. (01:07:45)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Marisa Kendall talks with her obviously arteriosclerotic mother on the phone, she holds the receiver in different ways between shots. (00:59:45)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: A guy tries to sell a baby alligator to the protagonist. He approaches it holding the lid of the shoebox in his right hand, but in the reverse shot he's holding it in the left hand. (00:49:40)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the kid tries to pry the phone off his drunk mother's hands before leaving to challenge it to a knife fight, the hand position on the cord changes between shots. (00:46:00)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: David is looking at the book about alligators; he holds it with the fingers at the top corner, but in the reverse shot the fingers are not visible in that spot. (00:35:00)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the slimeball reporter is listening to an all-too-chatty nurse, he is leaning against his own hand which is in a different position in the reverse shot. (00:32:20)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: David's boss is driving him after the visit to the herpetologist. In the middle of the conversation the passenger's window goes from all the way up to halfway open and back to closed again. (00:30:50)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: In his first trip in the sewers, Madison picks a brick; in close-up at the beginning Officer Jim Kelly has the flashlight pointed up. David drops the brick in the water; Kelly stepped forward and the flashlight is pointed down. Back to the original camera angle, and he's back holding the torch up. (00:22:35)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: The rookie holds at gunpoint the Mad Bomber; in close-up John Lisbon Wood's shoulder is bare, but in the wider angles the shirt is still up and the collar is in place. (00:19:20)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the scene with the crazy guy and his exploding breast apparatus, the shirt and the position of his hands and the bomb keep changing depending on the camera angle. (00:18:25)
26th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: David helps the coroner put away in the large plastic bag a chewed human arm. A policeman calls him; he places his right hand flat on the railing, gripping it, but in the reverse shot he's leaning the closed fist on it, and tilted at an angle. (00:05:55)
26th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: David asks for advice to the store owner. The man points at him with his hand turned in a different way between shots. (00:05:15)
26th Mar 2022
Lupin the 3rd (1971)
Farewell My Beloved Witch - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Stern falls after Fujiko knocks him out cold, his beard is gone. (00:20:50)
26th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Carbury mentions Wallis Simpson to Lady Westholme, he's holding his baton alternating an overhand grip with an underhand one. (01:26:40)
26th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: Jennifer's house, the door just opened on its own. For some reason, Angelina and Tom don't shout back at Dewey and ask what's up, but rather jumpscare him. With Dewey's gun pointed at him, Tom has both hands in the air. In the same shot he lowers the right hand, but in the next he's with both hands up again. (00:43:20)
26th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: Look at the shirt David Arquette is wearing when he's out at lunch with Gale, heading then to Jennifer's house for the first time. They learn about Sarah's murder and head to the crime scene, and Arquette is wearing a different shirt he'll wear for the party later. Admitted by Wes Craven himself in the DVD commentary track. (00:33:40)
26th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: When at the diner's Gale answers "Well, I have written the definitive book about the Woodsboro murders", her arms are open; her hands were joined earlier. (00:28:30)
26th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: When fake-Gale mentions "your private self-loathing", an extra exits the frame to the left side. Over five seconds pass before the extra walks into another shot of the dialogue. And there she is again, but this time redoing her walk from the beginning, when Dewey embarrassed repeats "Little girl inside." (00:17:05)
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