Continuity mistake: Dr. Frederick Chilton infamously leaves a pen on Hannibal's bed. The pen changes position between shots in a rather obvious way, doing almost a 180° turn. (01:00:15)
Sammo
19th Mar 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
19th Mar 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: Dining at the Chinese restaurant, Rita asks a fresh refill of her drink. Throughout the scene, the glass appears in her hand seemingly at random between cuts. Not just that; the level of liquid changes as well. It is particularly obvious when she says that the mystery autograph looks like signed by "a retard." (00:17:00)
15th Mar 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: The principal admits his lie and brings the team to his real destination. At the entrance, Commissioner Selwyn Patterson's is standing with his hands behind his back, in front of him, and behind his back again at the cut. (00:23:20)
19th Mar 2020
Family Weekend (2013)
Continuity mistake: Emily Smith-Dungy just kicked her bags in the snow. Her neighbour and schoolmate Kat drives by and offers her a ride home. Emily after initially rejecting her help accepts it; the trophy switches hands from the first quick shot to the next. Her scarf is also positioned differently. (00:08:40)
19th Mar 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Continuity mistake: Taking a fatal bullet from Travis, the robber falls back. He is not just breaking the snack display cabinet, but also knocking one of the dirty Spanish magazines off the clothesline. The magazine falls with him and gets all crimpled between his arm and the counter, but vanishes entirely in the rest of the scene. (01:08:50)
19th Mar 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Continuity mistake: Clarice Starling is interrupted during her training course, and her clothes are sweaty, with a stain that goes under the breast and the "FBI Academy" logo. She rushes back to the building, and her jersey dried sufficiently up to be clean all the way above the logo. Even more obviously, when she gets in the elevator the V patterned sweat stain goes all the way to the middle of her back, but when she is making her way through the corridors leading to Jack Crawford's office, again the stain has dried off considerably. (00:02:55)
19th Mar 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Revealing mistake: When the Senator finishes his speech and steps off the stage, Travis begins to move making his way through the crowd. Several extras are recycled appearing in inconsistent positions - look no further than the black woman with a bright flower patterned pink shirt; she is simultaneously in front of Travis as he begins to move in the outer section, and right between Charles Palantine and the stage in the shot immediately after. And then she keeps popping up where she's not supposed to be, continuously. (01:36:20)
19th Sep 2010
The Women (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Sylvia goes to Eddie's apartment to take her to Mary's lunch and she knocks the number on the door is 10C, inside the apartment it changes to 1. (00:06:40)
3rd May 2009
Obsessed (2009)
Visible crew/equipment: At the beginning of the film, when Idris Elba walks around the back of the SUV, you can see a reflection of the boom mike in the rear glass. (00:00:50)
28th Sep 2018
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: Rick pulls up in a car to the right side of a helicopter, gets out, and gets in the helicopter. When the helicopter is shown taking off, there is no car next to it. (00:38:20)
6th Mar 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Magnum's sling looks different before the flashback and after it when he speaks with Higgins. (00:48:50)
12th Mar 2020
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see Higgins, she is holding shock collars, but they keep switching hand throughout the scene. (00:06:00)
29th Feb 2020
Madaari (2016)
Character mistake: In the newsreel during the growing tensions, a newspaper headline featured with great importance goes like this; "ABUCTED son not yet found." (00:04:30)
2nd Feb 2020
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: Masha reaches over with her left hand, but it is a right hand that removes the tape off Jerry's face in close-up. (01:19:00)
21st Feb 2020
Riot (2015)
Factual error: Throughout the movie Danielle Chuchran wears full makeup (lipstick, eye-shadow, even mascara) despite being a prisoner. All the other female characters wear no make-up at all (or if they do, it is completely inconspicuous). It should also be noted that she is an outcast that is on the wrong side of the people who run the joint, the fact that she's the only one dolled up makes no sense other than for the very non-plot related reason that she is the deuteragonist, 'good guy' and gets close-ups.
25th Feb 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Continuity mistake: When the store owner beats the carcass of the robber, Travis' pistol is either to the right of the box on the counter or to the left, together with the gun of the robber. (01:09:30)
9th Apr 2002
The King of Comedy (1982)
Continuity mistake: When De Niro's character gets in the limousine with Lewis' character he has a hurt hand. He wraps it with a handkerchief. As the scene progresses the handkerchief disappears and reappears depending on the camera angle. (00:07:15)
2nd Feb 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Continuity mistake: The breakfast scene ends with Jodie Foster having a bunch more toast on her plate than at the start. (01:26:40 - 01:29:20)
21st Feb 2020
Ride Along 2 (2016)
Continuity mistake: In the footage inside the bathroom at Pope's, Kevin Hart is wearing a different sash from the rest of the party scene (or more likely, the same one but inside out by mistake). It's particularly obvious when he looks out of the window and the two patterns alternate depending on the camera. (01:04:50)
13th Mar 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Revealing mistake: When Travis starts spelling his phony name out to the security guy, a ginger kid walks in, stares at the camera, and hides away as quick as he came. In similar fashion, another kid with a red baseball cap looks at the camera behind De Niro once this walks by evading the photographer. (01:04:20)
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