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Continuity mistake: Gail tells her daughter she wants to be 6'4" and puts her chin on top of her hands. Her left hand is on top of the right. Except, in the next shot it's the opposite. Back to left-right when we're back on the previous angle. (00:14:10)

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Continuity mistake: At dinner, once Gail uses the "Make me one with everything" line, Katie is moving around the table to get seated. Victor is drinking, but after the cut he's eating with a fork. Gail is about to talk about her big break, her hand is down, and then up after the cut. (00:12:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the Dean's office, Luke sighs when his dad talks about the distinction between musicians and businessmen, and brings his hand to his temple. Camera back on Guy, and Luke's hand is not there. Moreover, a couple seconds later Katie comes running, and a new inconsistency appears; Luke's arm is on the armrest, but in the pensive/malincholic position again in the wider shot. (00:05:10)

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Continuity mistake: Katie slaps away Victor's handful of earthworms, but they get inside the blender. In the close-up you can see a few worms miss the open blender and fall to the side, on the counter. When Gail arrives, those telltale protostomes have disappeared. (00:03:20)

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Peril at End House - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Commander Challenger in front of his boat laughs with Hastings "I hope my alibi is in order." As he says that, Hastings nods. During this close-up, his hat is casting a completely different shadow, covering his whole shoulder instead of just the back of the neck as in the rest of the scene. (01:03:35)

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Peril at End House - S2-E1

Character mistake: In the hotel lobby, Poirot, indignant of Hastings' attitude towards the murder case, says "After three attempts had been made at the life of M. Nick, Poirot gave his word he would protect her." But he did that after four attempts; Nick already avoided 3 "mysterious accidents" (painting, car, boulder) and Poirot witnessed the 4th, the bullet that pulled him into the whole case to begin with. (01:02:20)

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Peril at End House - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Jim Lazarus pulls over by the protagonists to complain about being unable to see Nick. During the scene, Paul Geoffrey's different facial expressions are shown in the side mirror of the car, but each time we cut back to him, he has the same stoic face listening to Poirot. (00:47:00)

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Agatha Christie's Poirot mistake picture

Peril at End House - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Poirot rudely awakens Hastings with his three questions. You get a good view of Hastings' wristwatch on the bedstand. When at the end of the Q&A Hastings turns his attention to the watch, it is in a completely different position. (00:41:25 - 00:42:35)

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Continuity mistake: During the dinner scene, different bottles have been used in different takes, since the foil in some shots is touching the rim of the bottle, in others is exposing about 1/4 of an inch, and in others has been torn off unevenly, with the gap also not facing the same direction between shots. (00:10:05 - 00:13:35)

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Continuity mistake: Richard chats up the beautiful stranger at the bar counter; his phone moves closer to her between shots before he scoots closer. On a related note, since they are always pretty close, also Pierce Brosnan's hands throughout the whole scene jump from actually touching the glass stem, to just being on the counter. (00:07:40)

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Continuity mistake: Naomi Watts holds the baby to her chest while Viggo Mortensen walks away; she is supporting her with her right hand behind her head, which becomes the left hand in the faraway shot. In the same shot, Kiril is jumping around, but is leaning against the wall at the following cut. (01:33:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the finale, once Nikolai delivers the line about being king, the baby cries. From that point on, the side views come from takes filmed while the baby was sleeping and therefore is quiet and still, while shots from a different angle have Christine moving. (01:32:35)

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Continuity mistake: Anna sits by Nikolai at the hospital, and after a while, he turns towards her as she moves her hands to her thighs. The next shot though has rather spotty continuity; Anna's hands are turned differently, the eye contact with Nikolai is lost, and the heart monitor from 47-48 has now a mostly steady 55 pulses. (01:21:45)

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Continuity mistake: After some fighting on the floor, Nikolai manages to put a knife in the chest of one of the sauna killers, and is fighting with the other. They get close to two poor dudes who are minding their own business; in the first shot you see the younger of the two completely stepping out of the way, a good couple meters away from the action. In the next one though, Viggo, the aggressor and those 2 are practically in a single line. (01:18:50)

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Continuity mistake: The bigger Chechen assassin punches Nikolai after the first slice across the chest. When Viggo is rolling on the floor and ends up on all fours close to the wall, his chest is quite clean, but when the guy angrily walks up to him, his chest is a bloody mess just before getting kicked. (01:18:05)

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Eastern Promises mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Nikolai gets hurt for the first time (slice across the chest, shown in a close-up) by one of the hitmen. He punches the aggressor in the face, who bounces against the wall. His hand is in plain view and there's no weapon. Next shot, he's brandishing the knife, and drops it only a moment later. (01:17:55)

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1st Oct 2019

A Bigger Splash (2015)

Continuity mistake: In the first phases of the conversation about the sleeping accommodations (hotels full, Yacht Marina etc.), Tilda Swinton's hand motions are inconsistent in the shot/reverse shot succession. For instance, she's playing with her drink using the straw, held in her right hand that turns into her left hand at the cut. (00:10:45)

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1st Oct 2019

A Bigger Splash (2015)

Continuity mistake: The four tourists walk down the path once Corrado Guzzanti vacated the table. He bows to Tilda Swinton passing by. Meanwhile the sleazy manager greets a bunch of people at another table. He does it walking past a table with two women; there's a cut with no jumps in the distance he travels as he walks past them, and the woman that was simply eating is now bent to the side, going through her bag on the ground or something like that. (00:10:15)

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1st Oct 2019

A Bigger Splash (2015)

Continuity mistake: The four tourists walk to the busy absconded restaurant. They look down from the ridge overlooking the tables, which is followed by a close-up of a table with 4 people. Between these two shots the napkins on the table have changed, and in the other table in the background the bottle of wine moved from being placed between two plates, to a position in front of the woman. (00:09:05)

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Eastern Promises mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The Chechen brothers approach Nikolai in the sauna. Viggo Mortensen has a towel draped across his back, with an irregular profile, covering the right shoulder more than the left. After a brief cut on the hitman preparing his knife, there's a close-up of Viggo, with the towel neatly arranged and properly balanced. (01:17:45)

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