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11th Apr 2021

Bluebeard (1944)

Revealing mistake: When we see for the first time cops fish out of the river one of Bluebeard's victims, the "lifeless body" helps herself up on the boat, practically climbing on her own. (00:02:15)

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11th Apr 2021

Dick Tracy (1945)

Continuity mistake: After the scene with Junior that busted him as the night kitchen raider, Dick is in his office. Pat Patton tells him about his findings going through the victim's belongings. He leans forward with his left arm, and Dick at the same time pulls his own arm back away from the desk. Next cut and Dick has both hands on the desk and Pat just his right arm on it. (00:12:35)

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Continuity mistake: Terry Thomas' name appears in the credits inside the green disc of the traffic lights. However, in this close-up the feet of the poor worker are absent. (00:04:50)

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Continuity mistake: Pauline is driving in the one-way street, of course the wrong way. There are several continuity errors between cuts; for instance when you see the 'boy' in the back seat laughing hysterically behind her, in the background you can see the red pick-up she nearly has a frontal with in the next shot. (00:05:00)

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Continuity mistake: Pearl is singing a song to mock her boss at the factory. She goes through the first lines about being too worn out "to play." With her feet on the work table, she puts her hand under her chin. In the background, a fellow seamstress is watching. In the next shot, her arms changed position, now crossed in contrast to the previous shot. (00:04:40)

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Continuity mistake: Doris picks up the phone and there's a cutaway shot on Johnny playing his guitar as he listens. The stockings Doris tossed at him are gone from the guitar head, but they are back when the phone call is over. (00:05:10)

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Continuity mistake: Bob Hope asks to take a peek at the execution chamber. He peeps from the hole, nudging away the lid with his forehead, and turns away. The lid came to a complete stop, but in the next shot when Ronnie walks away here's the lid swaying again as if he had moved his head from the window just that moment. (00:02:25)

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9th Apr 2021

Flight to Hell (2003)

Revealing mistake: When the two survivors get in front of the emergency door, their hair gives out all sorts of chromakey artifacts. (01:21:00)

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9th Apr 2021

College Kings

College Kings mistake picture

Character mistake: When you stretch and wake up after hooking up with Aubrey, your character says it's time for "AN new day."

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9th Apr 2021

Crush Crush

9th Apr 2021

Flight to Hell (2003)

Revealing mistake: Mike putts successfully against his opponent and decides to celebrate. He does so by juggling a golf ball; too bad it's a poorly textured CGI golf ball that does not even appear rigid. (01:02:05)

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9th Apr 2021

Flight to Hell (2003)

Revealing mistake: When Don leaves the cockpit to check on Jack, now sans tentacle, he walks right to left across spaces on green screen. His walking speed does not match the scrolling of the background. (00:46:45)

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9th Apr 2021

Flight to Hell (2003)

Revealing mistake: After bumping her knee, Janet retrieves a real bottle of booze from behind a stack of superimposed CGI bottles. (00:22:00)

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8th Apr 2021

Limbo of the Lost

Character mistake: During your interactions with the native American pirate, Chief Blackhawk, in a couple of lines of dialogue (for instance when he gives you the cage as "momento" [sic] of friendship) his name is misspelled as "Balckhawk." Then again, when you hover the mouse pointer on him, he appears to be "Cheif" Blackhawk.

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Continuity mistake: The postman hangs his bag to the hook on the wall. By the noise, he knows a split-second in advance that an explosion is about to happen, and ducks. The actor ducks out of view; we are not supposed to notice that once he disappears, film editing inserts the part when the background partially detonates. We however do, because the bag in the foreground changes position in the space of a single frame. (00:05:25)

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8th Apr 2021

Flight to Hell (2003)

Revealing mistake: In the final explosion, the plane loses two of its engines, or rather, a bad superimposed image of each engine that fly at the screen. (01:21:30)

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