Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: The doorbell rings during the party and Stu tumbles over the couch to go get it; does so in two shots that are completely off when it comes to continuity, just look at his robe, and Rose McGowan's gestures with the toothpick. (01:03:15)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: The sheriff and Dewey are talking; one is smoking and the other has a cone. When the sheriff says that "it's been confirmed", Dewey takes a mouthful of ice cream, but at the cut he does it again, with perfectly clean lips and without having even the time to swallow the previous. Since the joke is that he takes a mouthful each time the sheriff takes a puff of smoke, he takes one too many, one before and one after the cut. (00:59:50)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: Billy gets in Randy's face as he says he's killer. Stu puts him in a hold, but the position of his hand in the lock changes between shots. (00:57:05)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: Randy wonders with Stu if Sidney may go out with him now that Billy kinda outed himself as a killer. Stu goes through extensive Matthew Lillard-isms hunching forward, but in the next shot when he answers deadpan "No. I don't. At all." he's standing straight. (00:56:15)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Character mistake: Sidney asks on the porch why Cotton couldn't prove that he was having an affair with her mom. Tatum's answer is "Well, you can't prove a rumor. That's why it's a rumor." That's quite the preposterous answer, especially since the point she wants to make is that it was not in fact 'just' a rumor.

Sammo

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Suggested correction: Tatum isn't trying to argue with Sidney. Tatum agrees that she doesn't know the truth about her mother's infidelity and certainly can't prove anything. Rather, what Tatum is trying to tell her - gently and somewhat indirectly - is that she believes the rumors, which is distinct from knowing the facts.

TonyPH

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When Ferguson helps Simon Doyle on the couch, his tie slides off Simon's non-injured leg once, then in the next shot it is on it again and re-slips. (01:00:55)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene when Jackie gets drunk in record time, David Niven's shadow on the curtain changes sharply when the angle switches the first time; in the closer view he casts a deep shadow right behind his head, while in the wide angle of the room there's barely any shadow. In the same transition, Linnet is touching the cards with both hands first, simply holding her cigarette in the second shot. (00:57:55)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When the doctor feels the need to make a precise assessment of the stone's age, the maid is suddenly close to the big rock between shots. (00:49:00)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: Linnet is enraged because apparently Salome Otterbourne featured her in her fiction book and equated her to "a nymphomaniacal baboon." Nonsense aside, she gets up holding the book. Angela Lansbury is looking at her, left hand upturned. Cut, and she is staring at her with both hands in her lap, downturned. (00:35:35)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: Mrs. Salome Otterbourne sits next to Linnet. Linnet is holding an object between her hands; when Salome says that writers can get flowery in their speech, Linnet replies drily, but the hands changed also position. They were at the same level in the first shot, they are one on top of the other in the follow-up. (00:35:00)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: Bowers and Van Schuyler retire in the cabin leaving Linnet behind them. The deck is dusky, but in the reverse angle that follows, there she is, on the fully sunlit deck. (00:34:30)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: Simon and Linnet regain their wits after the unexpected encounter with Jackie on top of the pyramid of all places. They make out, and Linnet's hair changes radically position depending on the camera angle throughout the whole snogging. (00:14:35)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When Simon frees the horse's reins from under the stone, the saddle blanket all of a sudden folds between shots. (00:13:25)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: On the top of the pyramid, Linnet whispers "Silly" to Simon's question about her happiness, and she holds him close. Her thumb is on display at the side of his bicep, but at the cut it's on the part of the arm that faces her. (00:12:20)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: In the introduction of her character, Bowers tells Mrs. Van Schuyler "What do I care" to her threat. She sits straight, with the cigarette hand slightly below chin level. In the wide angle she sits back, with the cigarette hand resulting at a higher position. (00:09:45)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When Jackie tells Linnet that she has a favour to ask, she holds the box at different height and tilt during the conversation, and the position of her fingers on it changes as well. (00:05:40)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When the butler tells Linnet Ridgeway that the architect isn't there yet, she turns towards him dramatically in the first shot, and in the following she again turns towards him. (00:04:30)

Sammo

Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 4 - S2-E4

Factual error: The bittersweet ending is powerful from a dramatic point of view, but also impossible, because law (in Japan, at least) explicitly forbids organs coming from suicide victims to go to their family members, to prevent behaviour exactly like the one displayed here.

Sammo

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