Factual error: When Sean is crossing the chasm by jumping on the 'magnetic rocks', he jumps onto the edge of several of the rocks. Assuming that the rocks could actually float in the magnetic field as shown, standing on the edge of one of them would cause it to immediately flip.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) - 34 mistakes
starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Seth Meyers (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller
Continuity: When Sean first sees the 'magnetic rocks' forming a bridge across the chasm, there is a great distance between him and the other side, and about 20 floating rocks. When he starts to cross, the distance is now much shorter, and he only jumps on 6 or 7 rocks to get across.
Continuity: At the beginning where Trevor is looking through Max's stuff, he sets the glove on the table. In the next shot the glove is back in the box.
Continuity: When Trevor, Hannah and Sean are being pushed up in the T-Rex skull by the geyser, they are laying in the skull and you can see that there is harness rope that comes out from behind Trevor and Hannah's back (that they are laying on). But in the shot when they are pushed out the mountain by the geyser and reach their highest point (before they start falling back down to the ground again) there is no rope visible behind them or in the skull at all. In the following shot as they fall back down to the ground, the rope has reappeared.
Continuity: When Trevor is fighting off the carnivorous plants that are attacking him and holding Hannah hostage, in one shot we see him punch into the mouth of one plant, causing his hand to become entirely covered in a sticky goo. In the following shots however, the same hand is now clean.
Continuity: After leaving the lagoon area and exploring the rest of the 'Center of the Earth', the size and appearance of the wet patches on everyone's clothes, especially on the front of Trevor's jumper, continue to change from smaller to larger to darker and lighter, etc.
Factual error: When Trevor, Sean and Hannah enter the cave full of emeralds, rubies and diamonds, you can clearly see that these precious stones are not in their rough, natural forms. Instead the diamonds are crystal clear and look shiny and polished. In reality they would be rough and have a murky yellow tint to them.
Continuity: When Trevor is sitting at the table
flipping through the copy of the 'Journey
to the Center of the Earth' book he found
in Max's box, his location in the book
keeps drastically changing from shot to
shot, from almost at the start of the
book, to the back and to the middle, and
so on.
Continuity: After Trevor and Sean clamber out of the
lagoon that they landed in, they begin to
remove their jackets because they are
soaking wet. However between sudden
shots, the beanie hat and headlight that
Sean was wearing on his head instantly
vanishes, with no time for him to have
removed it himself.
Continuity: Trevor falls a short distance to the floor after Hannah cuts his harness ropes with a knife. After he hits the floor and the ropes fall onto him, between shots the ropes laying all over his body and face keep moving, disappearing and appearing.
Visible crew/equipment: When Trevor is outside in the street
greeting Sean as he sits in the car, Sean
then gets out of the vehicle. As she gets
out and stands by the car talking to
Trevor, you can clearly see a large white
reflecting board reflected in the backseat
door, behind Sean.
Continuity: After the glowstick has been dropped
down the chasm; and the shots goes
back and forth from Trevor to Hannah as
they talk, you can see from shot to shot
that the torch in Sean's right hand keeps
disappearing and reappearing.
Continuity: After Trevor saves Hannah from
underwater and they are all laying on
the rocks, Hannah's wet stringy hair
keeps on changing position and the wet
hair that is stuck to her right shoulder
keeps disappearing then reappearing
back on her shoulder during the scene.
Continuity: As Trevor frantically cleans up his lounge
area, he starts picking up plates and foil
takeaway dishes, collects them all and
places them on a shelf. But in the next
shot all the plates/tins have suddenly
appeared on the central table in the
lounge.
Continuity: As Trevor is telling Sean to check his
watch in order to time how long it takes
for the glowstick to reach the bottom of
the chasm, Sean removes the torch from
under his neck and points it onto his
watch. Suddenly in the next shot the
torch is back under his neck.
Continuity: When Hannah is tending to Trevor and
Sean as guests in her house, she brings
three mugs over and places them on the
table. Between shots the three mugs
swap their places; you can easily see
this by comparing them in relation to the
book sitting next to them.
Continuity: When Trevor and Sean climb out of the
lagoon, they realise Hannah is still
underwater so Trevor dives back in to
rescue her. When he retrieves her from
the water and they all scramble back
onto the rocks, Trevor leans his head
back onto his backpack. In the next shot
his head is now resting on the rocky
shore below his backpack.
Continuity: After trying to tidy up the lounge area,
Trevor gives up and resorts to throwing
a large blanket over the central table,
which he grabs from the sofa. After he
picks up the blanket, between shots the
position of the items on the sofa changes
and also a cushion appears from
nowhere.
Continuity: In the scene where Sean wakes up on the beach, he is lying face down in the sand beside a fish, and he is wearing gloves. In the next shot they are gone and reappear again in the following shot.
Factual error: It is impossible to receive a cell phone call at the center of the earth. There is no way that a signal can penetrate thousands of kilometers underground like that.
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