Continuity mistake: Poirot and Hastings are talking with Freddie, by her invitation. She says "You'll be giving me a diploma next" and three extras walk by her chair. In the following shot she completes the action of standing up, but the extras are still there, behind their original positions. (00:44:15)
Sammo
30th Sep 2019
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
30th Sep 2019
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Factual error: Poirot has just suffered "a turned ankle", in his words; he's talking with Hastings and the kind woman who helped him out, when their conversation gets perturbed by the noise of a plane. Which is surprising, since the plane in question is a Volmer VJ .22 Sportsman, a plane from the 50s, way after the 1930s setting of the episodes. (00:06:40)
30th Sep 2019
Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
Continuity mistake: Gemma joins Emma and Lissy once her 'coworker' left. She takes Lissy's glass picking it from the top, but in the following shot she is holding it by the side of the cup. (00:22:35)
30th Sep 2019
Dragonball Evolution (2009)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Continuity mistake: Rick takes the 100$ bill from Muffy's purse and walks up to the homeless man; an elderly couple is walking in the same direction and is past the barrel, but in the close-up that follows, they are a couple meters behind and pass the barrel only after a second. (00:46:15)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Continuity mistake: The two protagonists escaped the police in Detroit; during the phone call of the bad guys to Joe, the villain with the sunglasses first activates his zippo and is about to light a cigarette, then he repeats the action from the beginning, then he does light the cigarette up and puts the lighter away, then brings a hand up to the cigarette, then the hand is actually on a descending path (looks like the continuation of the previous angle, putting away the lighter). In other words, there's choppy continuity between close-ups and wider shots. (00:41:15)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Continuity mistake: In the car chase against the Detroit police, when Mel Gibson says "Jeeeesus!" during a hard turn as he drives having swapped with Goldie Hawn at the wheel, her legs are coming at him from the side rather than the back, and behind them there's no trace of the car he just passed by. (00:39:00)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Mel Gibson is shown biting Goldie Hawn's leg he is obviously in a position with his belly down. And yet, when the car steers to the right in response to this peculiar stimulus, we see the body of the person in the car with their feet pointed up. Similar mistakes happen throughout the whole sequence. (00:38:05)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Revealing mistake: Rick and Muffy get jumped by the police as they return to her car, but during the arrest Rick frees himself from the cops. Notice when he kicks the cop in uniform; he falls down on a table in the close-up, even breaking it, but you see the same action repeated in the background when Gibson pushes down the cop, and it's different, with no table broken and the sitting woman already standing. (00:37:15)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)

Factual error: Walking out of the clothing shop through the mall supposedly in Detroit, Rick and Marianne walk by mall corridors and stairs bearing all over flags of the Canadian provinces (the movie has been shot predominantly in Vancouver). (00:35:40)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Rick and Marianne pop out of the window of the dining room of the Four Seasons, a branch of the decorative plant is so close to the window that Mel Gibson's arm touches it and moves it. In the next shot (where Gibson still is dismounting from the window), the plant has been moved aside. (00:32:20)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Plot hole: The morning after being shot in the butt at the gas station, Mel Gibson calls witness protection, and tries alias after alias, but finds out they are unknown to the Feds because the evil dude deleted his whole file. Problem is, the agent who has been looking up the name she supposedly did not find, has the computer screen on an empty "Witness Number; K239" page. Which is the right one! How is it possible? The aliases she looked up do not exist, but somehow they returned the appropriate record number. (00:29:10)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Continuity mistake: Rick pushes Sorenson in the car pit; Sorenson in the first shot falls leaves the shotgun on the ground above, but he has it in the following part. To fall that way, he also fell with the left side of the body first, while the reverse shot shows the opposite. (00:20:05)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Other mistake: The official FBI database lists Diggs by his full name, "Diggins, Alan", followed by the Diggs alias, but Sorenson for the Feds is simply "Sorenson, E.", no first name given. He can't have been convincted and served time without even a full name. (00:14:30)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)

Continuity mistake: At the gas station, Marianne tells 'Billy Ray'; "You laugh like him." At the very beginning of the sentence you can spot walking left to right a guy in leather jacket, curly hair, with a blue umbrella. Thirty seconds of dialogue pass, the card checkout at the pump is complete, and in the wider shot the same guy is passing again just where we left him. (00:10:50)
30th Sep 2019
Bird on a Wire (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Marvin falls back after the legs prank, he knocks down several bottles of motor oil, but two piles of boxes stay up. In the close-up that follows Mel Gibson's yuckety laughter, there's just one pile behind Marvin, and he suddenly has also a red rag on his shoulder (the same rag Gibson picks up later since it falls off the pants of the fake legs when 'Billy Ray' picks them back up). (00:07:40)
30th Sep 2019
The Sound of Silence (2019)
Continuity mistake: In Central Park before meeting the toaster client, Peter Sarsgaard in the close-up has 2 tuning forks in his right hand and one in the left, but in the wider shot he has two in his left and one in his right as he picks up the mallet. (00:07:10)
29th Sep 2019
Dragonball Evolution (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Bulma falls in Muten's arms, on the overhead shot you can see her knock the sunglasses off his ear. In the close-up though, Chow Yun-Fat wears them perfectly. (00:38:05)
29th Sep 2019
Ranma ½ (1989)
Ranma to Ranma? Gokai ga tomaranai - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: The shape and order of the 5 pictures laid on the table by Nabiki differ entirely from the POV close-up of Kuno. That happens also with the shots of Akane. (00:12:50)
29th Sep 2019
Dragonball Evolution (2009)
Continuity mistake: Goku kneels by the grave of his Grandpa. His hand is on a stone, showing a white stripe between thumb and index. In the close-up, the stone is turned differently. (00:22:15)
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