Revealing mistake: When Harry stands at his bedroom window looking at the nearing headlights, the houses opposite him on the left are really the neighboring houses that are seen to the left of the Dursleys when facing the Dursley house and the one on the right is actually the Dursley's home. In the close-up of the car as its headlights face Harry, the Dursley's house is seen behind it, but the check curtains and patio table were added to change the look of the house. The distinctive pattern of each of the home's bricks are a giveaway. (00:08:30)
Super Grover
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: There are eleven vertical front bars on Harry's window, five on each side of the center bar. Ron attaches the hook to the bars on Harry's window and when he says "Let's go!" we see the hook between the third and fourth bar on the right. Yet in the next shot and also in the shot looking up as the bars fall, the hook is between the fifth and sixth from the right. (00:09:20)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Visible crew/equipment: When Uncle Vernon falls out of Harry's window, in the interior shot as he yells, "No, no, no, no, no!" leg pads are visible under Vernon's pajamas as his legs fly out the window. (00:10:00)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Revealing mistake: When the bars on Harry's window are being ripped off, most of the window frame comes off as well. In the close-up. the attached hook pulls the bottom of bars and window outward, causing them to fall a certain way. Yet in the next shot looking up, the way in which the bars and window fall is strikingly different, not to mention unrealistic if it was really being yanked out via the hook at the bottom. (00:09:25)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: When the bars on Harry's window are seen falling in the shot looking up, the windowsill is up on the left side and is visibly very crooked. Yet when the Weasley car backs up to Harry's window, the windowsill is perfectly fine again. (00:09:20)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: After Harry packs his trunk, in the wide shot, as Ron starts to lean over to attach the hook to the bars, the excess rope is in the corner of Ron's window, but in the next close-up it's right in the center. (00:09:10)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Dobby comes out of Harry's closet, he has a CG sock on his ear which he throws towards the dresser. The CG sock is not on the floor in the following two shots, although it should be, when the dresser and floor area around it is shown as Dobby says, "Harry Potter musn't be angry with Dobby," as well as when Dobby yells, "No!" and runs out. (00:06:10)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Dobby stands on Harry's desk, in the close-up he slams the lamp base into his head with the electrical cord coming out of the base to his right. Yet in the next close-up the cord comes out of the base directly in front of Dobby and is now wrapped around Dobby's neck. (00:05:25)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: The pillow and blankets on Harry's bed not only change position in consecutive shots, the actual pillow changes drastically from the time Dobby jumps up and down on the bed, until Harry confronts him about the letters. (00:03:05 - 00:04:30)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: The Dursley house is shown in the opening shot, as Harry sits by his window. When Uncle Vernon places bars on Harry's bedroom window, the shrubbery directly below the ground window is completely different. (00:00:50 - 00:07:55)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Harry first encounters Dobby, as he walks toward the corner of the bed to bow to Harry, a single sock and other clothes are lying on the bed. In the next shot facing Harry, the sock and clothes on the bed have noticeably changed positions and the two long ends of the Gryffindor scarf that hang over the trunk is visible. When Dobby sobs, as he walks off the bed, only one short end of the Gryffindor scarf hangs over the trunk, and it also changes position in following shots. (00:03:10)
25th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Harry enters the kitchen, the cake/pudding Petunia is fussing over is lopsided and shorter than the one shown in the close-up, when Dudley tries to pick at it. There are subtle differences in the look of the cake/pudding in subsequent shots of it too. (00:01:30)
23rd Jul 2004
I Love Lucy (1951)
First Stop - S4-E14
Visible crew/equipment: After driving all day, the Ricardos and Mertzes stop by a run-down diner then end up spending the night in their shared cabin. While they're all in their beds, the vibration of the nearby train causes the Ricardos' bed to shakily slide towards the Mertzes and then back again. The wires attached to the Ricardo's bed are visible, coming from the hole at the bottom of the left wall, and the leg at the foot of the bed is set in a track attached to the floor, which keeps the bed on course.
23rd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Continuity mistake: The top of the writing desk has different items on it, including a ceramic pot with pens. When Natalie comes home she takes the pens out of the pot and slips them in her handbag. The existence and/or position of the things on the top of the desk change within the previous and following shots of it, including when Leonard searches for a pen. (01:13:25)
23rd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Deliberate mistake: When Leonard takes the photo of his newly acquired Jaguar, the car's hood is parked right up in front of the shrubbery and its shadow is in front, at the hood, seen when Teddy arrived. The actual photo of Leonard's 'new' Jaguar shows it to be nowhere near any shrubs and its large shadow is cast on its right side. (00:03:25 - 01:40:55)
23rd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Continuity mistake: While Leonard sits on Natalie's couch rifling through his papers, in the shot facing Leonard, behind him, the two top drawers of the writing desk are open. In the next shot as Natalie comes home only the top drawer is open. (01:13:20)
23rd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Natalie comes home she slams her handbag down on the shelf. As she and Lenny talk and she begins to antagonize him, the handbag changes position within these shots. (01:13:25)
23rd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is killed, his body lies on a certain area of floor tile with missing tile, yet after Leonard takes the photo, there is a close-up of Jimmy's body and it lies on a different area of the tile, further up, closer to the wall. (01:39:15)
22nd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Continuity mistake: While Leonard sits on Natalie's couch looking through his papers, in the shot facing Leonard, behind him, the top two drawers of the writing desk are open. In the next shot as Natalie comes home only the top drawer is open. (01:13:20)
22nd Jul 2004
Memento (2000)
Other mistake: In the Sammy/Lenny shot in the Institution, before the switch the orderly on the left heads toward the medical files with his arm outstretched and the nurse walks behind Sammy. Just as the person passes the camera the film jerks and the two men at the table, visible on the left, have a shaking motion. After the switch, the orderly and the nurse are both further back. (01:29:50)
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