Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: Before the first day of the proper trial, with Ciro's deposition, there's a montage showing Willy Beachum getting ready. However, in that montage, he suits up wearing the red tie that he was wearing in its introductory scene at the beginning of the movie and that he ruined with the coffee spill. The scene was supposed to be edited earlier in the movie, probably. At the trial, Beachum sports a black tie. (00:43:45)

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1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: From the moment Beachum puts down on the table between them the disclosure folder that Crawford mailed him back, it faces different directions without anyone touching it. (00:38:30)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: Willy complains about the unmarked folder that Danny, the clerk, brought him. He looks at the folder, holding it with one hand, instantly turning it into both hands at the cut. (00:37:20)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: When Willy is on the phone talking furniture and asks the difference between Italian and English, Flores is reaching inside the inner pocket of his jacket as he walks towards the camera. At the cut, his hand is on the notepad, and only then does he proceed again to reach inside the jacket, this time finally pulling out a pen. (00:33:05)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Fracture mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Willy asks the decorator on the phone what's the difference between Italian and English, his Samsung Blade switches hands, switching back when he holds it against his chest. (00:33:05)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: At the party, Nikki Gardner is walking and talking with Willy, asking him about what happened with a fellow associate of the law firm. Willy listens with exaggerated expressions, palm on his mouth; his fingers rest at opposite sides of his nose between shots. Similar blunder a moment later, when she starts saying that Burt never interviews juniors; his hand should be on his left cheek, but in the reverse shot it's not there; he touches it only a second later. (00:29:45)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: When the judge asks Willy Beachum if he has an objection to Crawford's request to represent himself, Willy's arms go from straight to bent between shots. (00:25:00)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: In the first courtroom scene, Crawford fires his attorney. Throughout the scene (starting with the wide shot, but also in the transition between closer angles), Sir Anthony Hopkins' hands change position instantaneously between shots. (00:24:25)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: When Ryan Gosling massages his foot while turning down a bargain plea, his wristwatch shows it's 4:40. A couple of scenes later in the day, he is called into court for a 3 PM arraignment; he complains about having just 15 minutes to get there, and his wristwatch now shows it's a little after half past noon when he cleans the spilled coffee, and then a couple of minutes before noon when he rubs his eyes. (00:19:30 - 00:23:10)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: During Lt. Nunally's rather clumsy attempt to talk Ted into giving him the gun, when the camera is behind Ted, his head is tilted in the opposite direction of Sir Hopkins' in close-ups. (00:14:20)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: The stains on Mrs. Crawford's top change position between the time when she falls on the floor, seemingly dead, and the time when Nunally and the paramedic rescue her. There's a conspicuous stripe of blood drip when she falls, while she shows just dot-shaped stains in the later scene. (00:10:45 - 00:16:10)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: When Ted Crawford enters the bedroom where his wife cheated on him, he stares at the bed, which is differently lit between shots - in the first angle, it's sunlit; in the side view, it is fully in the shade. (00:06:40)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: When Ted Crawford asks for Lt. Rob Nunally on the phone, the conversation is played in continuity, but there's a car in the zoomed-up view that disappears in the view behind Hopkins' shoulder. (00:05:35)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: When "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" are on the terrace and he asks her to dinner, the lighting of the scene changes dramatically between shots, to the point that you can also see the outline of Embeth Davidtz's fingers behind Billy Burke's neck through the robe in the frontal view, mismatched with the back view, robe collar in full shade and no hand anywhere near. (00:04:35)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Sir Anthony Hopkins' character gets to his sports car and drives off to commit murder. The shadows on the tarmac outside the hangar change in the span of a few seconds. (00:03:50)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Matlock (1986)

The Judge - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Ben joins Judge Carter Addison in his room in the first part of the episode. Addison is on the phone. Before he finally hangs up, he says, "Okay, I'll see you then." Before it cuts away, you can see Dick Van Dyke putting down the smoking pipe that is firmly between his teeth in the following close-up. (00:10:05)

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Matlock (1986)

Diary of a Perfect Murder - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Ben Matlock is in his office, angrily polishing his boots while he listens to the interview of the brash prosecutor on TV. The leg of the boot is under, then above, then under his forearm again in the span of three shots. (00:43:30)

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Continuity mistake: The main villain is trying the soft approach and wants to persuade David's ex-wife to side with him. As they are having a conversation about the bank loan, John Steiner's glass is raised - or not - depending on the camera angle. (00:37:00)

Sammo

18th Nov 2024

The Trainers (2024)

Continuity mistake: When Anita Caprioli and Pasquale Petrolo are talking by her car, the car door hits Lillo. The two awkwardly chat for a while; during the conversation, their hands change position a few times between shots. (00:51:30)

Sammo

18th Nov 2024

Juror #2 (2024)

Continuity mistake: During jury selection, the defense attorney asks Cedric Yarbrough if he has any history of domestic violence. He formulates the question, leaning against the railing with his arms spread. Mr. King fires back with a question of his own, and you can see the attorney leaning with his left arm inward.

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