Continuity mistake: Before the wave enters the control room, there's a TV on the right. When the water breaks in, the TV disappears.
Sacha
27th Mar 2024
Meteor (1979)
27th Mar 2024
Meteor (1979)
Continuity mistake: When the tidal wave is about to break into the control room, the guy next to the window suddenly grows a toupee.
28th Mar 2024
Meteor (1979)
Continuity mistake: When the Siberian siblings have supper, one is sitting higher than the other, who's perpendicular to him. A shot later, they're parallel to each other and the smallest kid is now taller.
27th Mar 2024
Meteor (1979)
Visible crew/equipment: In Hong Kong, when the people are running for their lives, check a group of bystanders on the left behind a safety barrier, calmly watching the filming.
28th Mar 2024
Meteor (1979)
Revealing mistake: When the tidal wave floods the city and the road, one can see a thick line where the water footage was pasted over the city footage. Furthermore, all of the cars keep driving despite the chaos, and not a single object falls down.
26th Mar 2024
Meteor (1979)
Visible crew/equipment: When Bradley is in the control room, the T-mark on the floor is visible. (01:12:30)
27th Aug 2001
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Revealing mistake: On the roof during the helicopter rescue scene, there is a panic and some women run to the helicopter trying to land in strong winds. As it explodes, a woman in a slinky dress falls down. Paul Newman helps her up and her dress is whisked up to reveal "stuntwoman" kneepads on her legs. (01:51:15)
13th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Revealing mistake: During the party, doors open and a burning man appears. He is wearing fireproof gloves, his face is covered in some dark mask and some sort of awful wig to hide all the safety procedures. He resembles a werewolf. (00:57:20)
22nd Mar 2024
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Revealing mistake: When Clara's dress rips off and is about to fall off the train, Doc saves her. One can notice it's not Christopher Lloyd but his stunt double. (01:41:17)
22nd Mar 2024
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Marty is about to race against Needles, he holds the wheel with both hands. An instant cut later, his hands are gone.
5th Feb 2024
Argylle (2024)
Continuity mistake: When Lagrange finishes dancing with Argylle, she places both hands around his back, the left over the right. A shot later, they're placed the opposite way. (00:02:10)
20th Mar 2024
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Revealing mistake: When Doc holds the newspaper with the 'Gang jailed' headline, the same paragraph is repeated several times. (00:24:03)
20th Mar 2024
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
13th Jul 2004
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Visible crew/equipment: Studio lights are reflected in the Wicked Witch's large crystal ball, as Dorothy sits down and cries beside it, just before she sees her Auntie in it. (01:15:10)
6th Mar 2024
Knight & Day (2010)
Revealing mistake: When Roy is on the car's hood and makes a van flip in the air, the mechanism to lift it up is visible.
5th Mar 2024
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Revealing mistake: When the two cars chase Ethan, note the skid marks further up on the road from previous takes. A second later, the jeep makes a turn on that very same spot.
27th Aug 2001
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Visible crew/equipment: When the cars flip over as they blow up, you will see a circular object underneath the vehicles, about the size of a tyre. This is the device that "lifts" the vehicle for it to flip on one side, timed with the appropriate explosion.
12th Feb 2024
Sheena (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Sheena gallops towards the prince's car, she is replaced by an obvious stunt double who not only does not resemble her but is a brunette, as opposed to blonde Sheena.
12th Mar 2018
Beetlejuice (1988)
Revealing mistake: At the end, as Beetlejuice's head shrinks, the collar has a line around it, showing where the two images were superimposed.
31st Aug 2006
Twins (1988)
Continuity mistake: Arnie enters the parking lot driving on two wheels crying "Woooa." The close shots show him with one hand on the wheel and the other outside on the window; but on the wide shots, with the stunt, both hands are inside and his mouth closed but still the cry is heard. This mistake goes on every time angle changes.
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