Continuity mistake: When the car with Tim and Lex is turned over, mud flows into it and it's like they are going to drown. But when seen from the outside, next to the tracks is a firm gravel road, and Dr. Grant doesn't even sink in when he steps out of his car with the flare.
Jacob La Cour
19th Sep 2012
Jurassic Park (1993)
18th Sep 2012
Jurassic Park (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Grant shoots at the window in the control room, and we see the holes, they are holes from rifle bullets. But the shell casings on the floor is from a shotgun. And yes - shotgun shells do exist with one big slug in them, but then the holes in the glass would be a lot bigger.
11th Sep 2012
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Indy stands inside the Map Room, looking at the model of the city, the rays of the sun are to his left, and they move right and down as the sun rises. But since the entry hole is behind him, that would mean that the sun would be to the right when standing outside - but it was to his left when he entered the hole.
11th Sep 2012
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Strickland is hitting Biff with the Almanac in the parking lot, the way the book is folded changes between shots.
11th Sep 2012
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When seen from the outside the entry hole to the Map Room is quite vertical. The angle is different when seen from the inside. Further, the hole is so vertical that the sun wouldn't be high enough to shin through the hole at 9 am.
9th Apr 2012
Shadow Man (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Jack's father in law is waiting in the car outside the airport, he shuts the car door. In the shot just before the explosion, the door is open again.
9th Apr 2012
Shadow Man (2006)
Continuity mistake: In the car chase, Anya tells Amanda to buckle up - and she does. A few minutes later, she tells Amanda to get down - and she immediately slides down from the seat. Where did the seatbelt go?
9th Apr 2012
Shadow Man (2006)
Continuity mistake: During the car chase in Bukarest, in all exterior shots of the Taxi, Amanda is not there. The seat-back shows, and she is tall enough (in the internal shots) so that she should have been visible.
9th Apr 2012
Shadow Man (2006)
Continuity mistake: In the shoot-out with the CIA in the big mansion, Jack's shoots so many times that his gun should have run out of bullets.
9th Apr 2012
Shadow Man (2006)
Continuity mistake: Anya has her hands tied on the back when she gets up from the chair, but when they run, they are suddenly untied.
8th Apr 2012
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Billy and Costello are talking in the bar, after Costello fires the paper cloth, smoke is visible in the shots involving Billy, but not in the ones involving Costello.
8th Apr 2012
The Departed (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Costello lies dead in the shovel of the excavator, his right arm moves between shots. (First it is up - in the far shot, it is down).
7th Mar 2012
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Continuity mistake: In the final scene when the planes take off from the underground base in the dessert, the distance between the 'roof' holes does not match between the shot when seen from below and from above. From below the holes are quite close, (compared to the size of the holes), but from above they are quite far apart.
6th Mar 2012
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Continuity mistake: When chasing the missile heading for Moscow it is said that they must stop the missile before it re-enters the atmosphere. But there are clouds all around them and the sky is blue. They are in the (very low!) atmosphere. (01:31:00)
6th Mar 2012
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Ripcord is chasing missiles in the Night Raven, we see a computer screen showing the trajectories of the 3 missiles and Night Raven. But the first missile was shot down immediately after launch (a long time before Night Raven took off). Even though the display reads 'Signal lost' the missile did definitely not get that high. (01:29:15)
6th Mar 2012
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Continuity mistake: Right after the missiles are fired, three of the good guys run to the missile tube carrying rappelling ropes. Not a whole lot - maybe 50 meters, or 100 meters at max! But when you look down the missile tube - it is DEEP. Nevertheless they have just the right amount of rope to reach the bottom. (01:25:05)
6th Mar 2012
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Continuity mistake: During the chase in Paris one of the GIs jumps through a train. Since he is heavy and moving forward, and the train is moving to his left, this exit hole in the train would be further back than his entry hole. But in the clip where he is inside the train, you can see the train moving - but he is moving with the train. That is wrong. The train would be moving left relative to him (even though the shot is in slow motion). (01:00:45)
28th Feb 2012
The Bodyguard (1992)
Continuity mistake: When Frank pursues the killer at the lake house, through the snow-clad forest, his breath doesn't show. But he comes from a warm house directly out into a freezing night air.
28th Feb 2012
Stormbreaker (2006)
Continuity mistake: During the conversation at the helipad at the end of the movie, Alex's hair changes between shots, and more than the wind could do.
23rd Jan 2012
I Am Legend (2007)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Robert is sealing off his house, the height of the sun changes between shots. When his alarm sounds, it is almost horizontal but at one of the other windows it is bright sunshine, and the sun is coming from high up.
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