Continuity mistake: Officer Dwayne Myers pulls the shades from the sock; he is holding them in a different way between shot and reverse (fingers on the lens vs fingers on the hinge). (00:12:00)
Sammo
19th Mar 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
19th Mar 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Character mistake: Dwayne tells Jack on the crime scene that the victim (who had two aces, with one ace on the board) he had "three of a kind or as the pros say, trips." Pros don't say "trips" to that though, since "trips" happens when two cards matching one you have in hand are on the table. Holding the pair makes it a "set." (00:06:25)
19th Mar 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Plot hole: The murder as described makes kinda sense (it's a device used in other works of fiction), but not at all as shown; the person hiding in the bathroom closes the door to the point of making it click, and opens it also with a click. Even panicked, the other person in the room is going to hear the sound of a lock right behind him. The door should have been closed only partially. Moreover, the bathroom door is right by the front door closed just by the door chain, and Philip Marston had the door unlocked and with just the chain to break; the bathroom door was fully in his view the whole time.
19th Mar 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Other mistake: The text message used as ploy to cover up the murder was sent at 17:44, but during the flashback showing the killer setting up the murder scene, a wristwatch on the vanity is at about 10 o'clock. (00:44:25)
19th Mar 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: After the obligatory ultimatum visit by the Commissioner, Jack asks Florence for good news. When she chirps that she -really - found something, her hands drop in the close-up, but are holding the headphones steady and up in the next shot. (00:32:25)
19th Mar 2020
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In her quarters Soji tells Narek "If you had asked me 5 minutes" etc.; her mundane-looking special necklace pops out of her shirt's collar on her right. After a brief reverse shot when she does move her neck, her necklace is all the way in front of her collar on the left. (00:36:05)
19th Mar 2020
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After the action scene at Chateau Picard, we see Soji talking with Ramdha. Ramdha is placing the romulan tarots in configurations not coherent between shots; for instance when Soji says "the pixmit, how do they work?" there's a space she'd wedge the card in, but in the overhead close-up she is putting it to the side of two cards. (00:31:00)
19th Mar 2020
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Commodore Oh appears in an odd Men In Black cosplay to Dr. Agnes Jurati in Okinawa, Agnes removes her earplugs and lowers her arms, but in the next shot she is still shown with her right hand raised. (00:16:15)
19th Mar 2020
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Remembrance - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Laris is fixing Picard's tie. In the background a technician from the TV crew passes in front of Zhaban. New shot, with Picard unironically saying "A la guillotine, alors", and the man is passing in front of the Romulan again. (00:11:10)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: Rupert is checking his hair in the mirror before leaving for the scheduled call and the taping. He says his last words to Jerry; notice how the poor man has his jaw fully taped up. When Masha frees his mouth later, she has merely to remove a single piece of tape. You may assume that she did it off-camera at some point while she was preparing dinner; even in that case, it does not explain why in that aforementioned shot Jerry was fully taped down to his knees but had the ankles free, but when he makes his escape slapping her and when he is in front of the TV store at the end of the movie he is removing tape specifically placed around both ankles. She could have reason to remove some of the tape in advance but not to randomly tape parts of him left outside of the duct tape cocoon. (01:16:05 - 01:34:40)
19th Mar 2020
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot hole: Some part of the dialogue between Jean-Luc Picard and Admiral Kirsten Clancy must have been left on the editing room floor, because when Commodore Oh refers to the conversation the two had, says that "He referred to Zhat Vash by name." He did not. (00:21:30 - 00:37:30)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: FBI Inspector Gerrity introduces himself to "the King", he asks the obvious question "What is your name." The agent on the left of the frame has his arms behind his back, but in the next shot they are crossed in front of his belly. (01:26:30)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: After walking past the Stage Manager (Jimmy Raitt) who did not take him seriously, Rupert Pupkin bumps into Cathy Long. Notice the man in a dark grey shirt that walks behind the piano, right of the frame. At the cut, the man has another guy in front of him that was not there in the previous shot. (01:24:40)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: "The King" is on the phone with Mr. Bert Thomas, the producer. During the conversation, the extras on the street are recycled. Particularly obvious a man in red pants and and a white and red shirt, who passes by at least 3 times, and a woman with a black skirt and a pink top. (01:17:50)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Other mistake: Rupert almost got to the end of the cue cards when he flips too quickly the one saying "Alive", partially hidden behind another he is holding in his hand, showing the one saying "again" too early. So Jerry asks him to go back. And he does, only to bring then from behind "again." There is a small bit when De Niro is off-camera, but for this sequence to go as shown, he would have slipped to the bottom/the back of the pile the "again" card that was already at the top and then put in its place one of the two he had already in hand, the correct one, "alive." The fact that "again", that was at the top of the pile, is pulled from the bottom instead, makes no sense. (01:08:50)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: Rupert seizes Jerry's hard candy tube and asks him; "Do you mind if I have one?" He is holding the packet almost vertically, at the cut he holds it horizontal. (01:04:35)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: Jerry Langford removes the goggles his kidnappers used to blindfold him. Masha is holding the gun with a different grip between shots (left hand under the right wrist, one finger under the handle, followed by a more conventional grip, with a different distance of her thumb in the next shots). (01:04:10)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: In the kidnapping sequence, Jerry enters the car leg first, and his right hand is the last part to get in. In the view from inside the car, he's in head first, body rotated differently. (01:03:10)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: While he waits for the last word on his tape, Rupert has another dream sequence. He greets his old high school principal saying "Well how are ya?"; notice there's Robert De Niro's thumb popping in view in that close-up on George Kapp, but in the following wider shot, De Niro's hand is on the armrest. (00:41:55)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: After the encounter with the cancer lady, Jerry is stalked by Sandra Bernhard. In his escape he traverse an intersection; people in the street and on the sidewalk change between shots. (00:39:55)
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