Continuity mistake: Gonzo uses Rizzo to clean the window to see into Scrooge's business. The window cleans itself more quickly. You can tell from the original angle that rubbing Rizzo alone isn't cleaning it as fast.
manthabeat
26th Mar 2025
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
22nd Mar 2025
The Penguin Lessons (2024)
Continuity mistake: Michell and the woman he meets in Uruguay are walking on the beach in the early morning. The sun behind them hasn't even come up over the horizon. There is one shot where it's much higher in the sky to the left of the characters. Then, it's below the horizon again.
19th Mar 2025
The Penguin Lessons (2024)
Continuity mistake: Right at the beginning of the film, Michell walks into the gate of the school. The sun is off to one side and it's later in the day. Instantly, when he's inside the school, the sun is overhead.
9th Mar 2025
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Continuity mistake: Lee is talking to Randi while she is sick in bed. She's looking at him. The shot cuts to another angle, and she's looking toward the camera.
17th Feb 2025
What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
Urgent Care - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: Guillermo is lying on a table in the hospital and wearing a dress. Nadja comes in, trying to get him out of there. While she is talking to him, he sits up a bit and starts playing with the bottom of his shirt. The shot cuts, and now he is lying flat on the table again.
2nd Jan 2025
Speed (1994)
Continuity mistake: When Jack is trying to catch up to the bus in Tuneman's car, the sun changes several times. In most angles, it's to their right. At one point, it is behind them. Then, it's above them.
2nd Jan 2025
Speed (1994)
Continuity mistake: Jack is lying on his horn trying to get onto the onramp. This is right before he drives past Tuneman. He is lying on the horn, and yet both of his hands are on the wheel.
27th Dec 2024
A Christmas Story (1983)
Continuity mistake: After the old man plugs the lamp in and starts to admire it, Ralphie is looking up at it. Cut to the other angle where we can see his face, and he is now looking down.
18th Dec 2024
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
Continuity mistake: Near the end, Jake hides in a dog crate. The dog runs out of the plane, and the baggage guys chase after it. While this is happening, a bag is coming down the conveyor belt. Between the first shot and the next angle, the bag jumps backwards.
16th Dec 2024
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Continuity mistake: In the taxi, they almost hit a large truck coming toward them. Cary Grant taps the driver on the shoulder, and they miss it. The very next shot has the rear window of the car in it. The truck has disappeared.
2nd Nov 2024
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, right before the witches turn the boy into the cat, watch the girl in the chair. She's supposed to be dead because the witches sucked her life force out. She moves her knees. There are two mistakes in this scene. Not only is the dead girl moving her knees, the sheet covering them goes from being between her legs to completely straight.
28th Sep 2024
9-1-1 (2018)
Continuity mistake: The driver's side window of the SUV stopped by the wrecked bee truck is down initially. Suddenly, the window is up when the truck driver comes to bang on it.
21st Sep 2024
The Faculty (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Nurse Harper comes into the faculty lounge and is talking about pills, watch Coach Willis's hand. He starts to raise his hand to drink water, and we never see him lower it. The shot cuts to an angle through the slats in the closet. He repeats the action.
3rd Aug 2024
Top Gun (1986)
Continuity mistake: Maverick is talking to Charlie in the scene where she gives him her address. In the angle from behind him, his right hand is up holding a pencil next to his head. In the reverse shot, his hand is down. No pencil.
29th Jul 2024
Better Call Saul (2015)
Continuity mistake: In the desert when Tuco and Nacho are interrogating Saul, the sun and sky change half a dozen times. When he is being cut free, the sun is to his left. The next shot it's overhead. The continuity gradually improves as the scene goes on.
19th Jul 2024
The Quiet Man (1952)
Continuity mistake: When Wayne and O'Hara leave on the carriage with the horn, the door to the house is open. Cut to the wider shot and the door is closed.
7th Jul 2024
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Louis is carrying all of the luggage into the first hotel, he bumps into people who bump the guy on the ladder, Stewart. This causes a coconut to fall on the guy's head. You can see Stewart start to come down the ladder. Cut to a different angle; Stewart is back at the top of the ladder and climbs back down again.
14th Jun 2024
Thelma (2024)
Continuity mistake: At the gas station, Thelma and Ben are talking to random people Thelma thinks she knows. Meanwhile, her family is on the way there. The sun is going down in this sequence and it's noticeably getting darker. Before they run behind the building, it's suddenly lighter outside and gets darker again.
12th Jun 2024
True Lies (1994)
Continuity mistake: During the "bridge is out" scene, Harry's helicopter is parallel to another chopper to the right of it. The chopper to the right is in front of and then behind Harry's chopper depending on the angle.
30th May 2024
Breaking Bad (2008)
Continuity mistake: Walt comes over to Jesse's house to tell him about Hank investigating Gale's murder. Jesse is shaving some guy's head. In one shot, the guy getting shaved has less hair. More hair instantly appears seconds later. (00:26:20)
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