Continuity mistake: The pattern of shaving cream on Roy's face changes during the scene in which he gets fired.
manthabeat
30th Mar 2017
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
8th Mar 2017
Free Willy (1993)
Continuity mistake: The sky at the end changes several times from being cloudy to clear. Look at the reflection of it when Willy comes over to Jessie in the water. The next shot is cloudy. The jump scene is clear, and then it is sunny.
22nd Feb 2017
Hard Rain (1998)
Continuity mistake: Minnie Driver helps Christian Slater escape from the prison by unscrewing a metal cage. Right before she is finished unscrewing there is an underwater shot of the cage already broken through. Cut to the next shot and she frees the cage again.
13th Feb 2017
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Continuity mistake: When the kids burst into the house party there are two shots of them flooding in. In the second shot there are kids already on the stairs partying.
23rd Jan 2017
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Continuity mistake: In the scene when the IRS man attempts to pry open John's door, he gets one board slightly off. In the overhead shot, the board is completely off and on the ground.
16th Jan 2017
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the beginning of the chase sequence, Marty is hanging on to a rope and there is a rear facing shot looking at him. There are two wet tire tracks in the shot. These disappear in the following shots.
31st Dec 2016
Reign (2013)
Continuity mistake: Bash takes his shirt off revealing the wound on his right arm. He starts wrapping it again with cloth and the scene cuts to Kenna. It cuts back quickly to Bash and his bandage is fully tied. There is no way he could accomplish this one handed.
19th Dec 2016
The X-Files (1993)
Continuity mistake: The drawing image of the killer loads twice on the computer. You can see it start to load in the first shot which is closer. In the very next shot it loads from nothing again.
19th Dec 2016
The X-Files (1993)
Continuity mistake: Later in the episode a man bangs on an air conditioner to try and stop it from making noise. In the first scene you can tell air is moving because the streamers are moving. After he bangs on the unit the streamers stop moving. The air conditioner is still on. (00:32:30)
12th Nov 2016
Tremors (1990)
Continuity mistake: After Burt reports on the radio that he has killed the graboid in his basement, there are shots of the towns people celebrating. The sky behind all of them is different, specifically the mother and her daughter. In other shots there is blue sky. In these shots there are darker clouds.
6th Nov 2016
W. (2008)
Continuity mistake: When George is introduced with Laura, a lady tells someone grilling what to cook. Bush puts a finger in his ear because it's loud. The shot flips to the other side and his hands are down.
16th Oct 2016
Air Force One (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning when the hijackers are trying to take off at the airport there is a shot where the plane goes over some emergency vehicles (before it takes off). These vehicles disappear in the following shot when the plane hits the tree branches. Also, a taxiing jet would've blown the vehicles and people around. Nothing of the sort happens in that scene.
11th Oct 2016
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Continuity mistake: Kilgore is talking about how he wants to surf the beach. The lighting changes significantly in the space of seconds from the shots of the surf to the shots of the fighting. The shots of the surf are later in the day while the angle of the sun in the fighting shots is higher indicating afternoon.
29th Sep 2016
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Clark falls off the roof, the staple gun goes down before him. In the next shot, it's not heading down from his point of view.
28th Sep 2016
Pete's Dragon (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Pete and Elliott return to their hideout after the ordeal on the truck is over, it is dark. Moments later when Bryce Dallas Howard arrives, there is a lot more light coming in through the trees and the scene looks brighter. This is in the space of five minutes or less.
28th Sep 2016
Pete's Dragon (2016)
Continuity mistake: The sun angle changes several times during the chase sequence when the dragon is on the flatbed truck.
28th Sep 2016
Cliffhanger (1993)
Continuity mistake: During the shootout with the bad guy with the night vision goggles, his point of view is seen several times. When he is chasing Sylvester he is always moving in the night vision scenes but is stationary in the regular scenes.
3rd May 2016
The X-Files (1993)
Red Museum - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: Scully is walking down the steps as Mulder and the sheriff are talking about the boy. In the wide shot she is halfway down. In the closeup she comes up from behind Mulder.
26th Apr 2016
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
The Rivals - S4-E14
Continuity mistake: Laura almost bumps into the boy after they get out of the lake and she looks as if she wants to kiss him. In his point of view, he is standing further away from her. In the next shot she is a few inches away from him.
24th Mar 2016
McLintock! (1963)
Continuity mistake: After John Wayne's son fights the younger man, and he falls into the wall, the damage changes from a bow in the material to a full on crack in it. In the wider shot after the fight is over, the material he ran into shows just the bow in it, no crack.
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