Continuity mistake: Outside of the hospital, Anna finds Nikolai on her bike, waiting for her. When he sticks out his arm with the address, pay attention to the background; there's a couple walking down the pathway, and someone with a reflective vest coming from the left. Cut for a couple seconds to Naomi Watts thinking about the proposal, and the people there haven't advanced. Similarly, camera back on her, a woman is wheeled out of the door, but does not show up in the reverse shot on Mortensen, or rather, she does but only in the one that follows. (00:55:20)
Sammo
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: Anna storms out of the burger place to talk to Nikolai. For the greater part of the scene, when the camera is on Naomi Watts her hair is nice and tidy, while in the reverse shots on Viggo Mortensen, the wind messes up her bangs. (00:49:45)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: When Nikolai the driver goes to the burger joint to talk to Anna and her family, the latte in front of Anna's mother in the wider shots throughout the scene has the cocoa on top in a narrow circle. In the closer angles instead it's sprinkled more spread out, noticeably different. (00:47:40 - 00:49:30)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: Anna is taking loving care of Christine in the hospital room, and while she does that she is interrupted by the creepy voice of Semyon who went all the way there. The position of Naomi Watts' arm on the crib changes between shots. (00:38:15)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: After using the girl in the brothel, Nikolai puts money and an icon prayer card next to her. Between the 3 shots where you can see those items, the girl is not supposed to have moved, curled in her exhausted semi-fetal position, but you can see how the card, money and even the bracelet she is wearing all change position. (00:37:30)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: At papa's personal brothel, Kiril cups Nikolai's chin telling him how he wants to make sure he's "no queer." When Cassel is from the front, he's pointing his index finger under Nikolair's chin, while in the front views of Viggo Mortensen's face, Cassel gets awfully creative with the appraisal of his buddy's manliness, doing things like thumbing the cleft of his chin or using his ring finger instead. (00:34:45)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: On the doorstep of the restaurant during the rainy night, a very drunk Kiril is entangled with Nikolai. He has his right arm around Nikolai's shoulder, but somehow when Anna is walking past, he's fully turned around with his left arm against Viggo Mortensen's neck. (00:24:10)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: Viggo Mortensen is preparing to cut off the fingers of the cadaver. He flips his tie over the shoulder in the close-up, but in the following view of the room with Cassel patting his ass the tie is down his chest again. Goes back over the shoulder for more close-ups. (00:20:05)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: During the banquet, Semyon motions to the waiter that offers to pour him champagne, to serve the guest to his right instead. The bottle was showing the label to the camera, but in the new shot it made a 180° turn, the label faces the waiter instead. Moreover, the waiter exits left but is walking right behind Semyon right a split second later in the reaction shot as Semyon looks at his son answer the phone. (00:15:10)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: In the kitchen, Semyon is telling Anna how 'sad, very sad' is that he can't remember the woman having anything to do with the restaurant. A restaurant worker with a towel in hand walks past them, and has already opened a fridge and looking into it in Naomi Watts' close-up. (00:11:05)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: During her first visit to the Trans Siberian restaurant, Semyon is walking Anna across the room. She walks along a table, and the waiters and waitresses she passes by are inconsistent between shots (for instance she walks past a woman, but in the front view there's only a man behind her). (00:09:00)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: Kiril comes out of the restaurant's back door, shouts at the dog and puts a hand on Nikolai's shoulder. He is talking across the two shots about his wife, in the second one his hand is not on his shoulder, it is on his back. (00:07:15)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Character mistake: Nikolai is driving Anna home after the bike went kaputt in the rain, outside the restaurant. Anna towards the end tells him to "take the next right." Both Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen are looking left, and keep their eyes there. (00:28:25)
1st Oct 2019
Eastern Promises (2007)
Continuity mistake: Anna's uncle storms away refusing to translate the notebook of the dead girl. Anna sits down while her mom lays the table. In the close-up, she has all the utensils on the cloth (she missed the spoon in the wider shot) and the knife shifted more to her right. (00:06:35)
1st Oct 2019
Ranma ½ (1989)
Toujou! Eien no mayoigo Ryouga - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: After the intermission panel with the drinking panda, in the aerial view Ryoga has only guys behind him, while the crowd is mixed in the following shot. (00:12:15)
1st Oct 2019
Captain Marvel (2019)
Continuity mistake: When Carol is showing Fury the upgraded communicator, in the close-up Fury is already drying his hand with the towel he grabs only later. (01:48:40)
1st Oct 2019
Ranma ½ (1989)
Pî pî P-chan Roku na monjanee - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: Once Again has kissed Ryoga's cursed form, in close-ups the pig's bandana touches Akane's hand, while in wider shots they are not touching. (00:07:10)
1st Oct 2019
Ranma ½ (1989)
Pî pî P-chan Roku na monjanee - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: When the butler guy trying to hit Ranma ends up sticking his bo through the gate bars, the weapon is at a different height between shots. (00:19:30)
1st Oct 2019
Captain Marvel (2019)
Continuity mistake: When Maria says "It's just basic physics" and takes a sip, her grip on the glass is different than in the following shot. (01:15:05)
1st Oct 2019
Ranma ½ (1989)
Gakkou wa senjouda! Taiketsu Ryouma vs Ryouga - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: The portion of Akane's hair cut by Ryoga's metal belt is much bigger once the hair hits the ground. (00:21:20)
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