Other mistake: All the time that Abe has been underwater reading multiple books at a time, he's never designed a machine to turn the pages? Even a pointer on a long arm would work serviceably. (00:19:50)
Phoenix
14th Apr 2004
Hellboy (2004)
14th Apr 2004
The Game (1997)
Continuity mistake: In Christine's apartment, watch the lamp. In some shots, the entire ring around the shade is smoking, but in others, there is only one tendril. (01:21:15)
14th Apr 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Deliberate mistake: Every time the commandos are seen in the early episodes of this season (The Freshman and Fear, Itself) they wear ski masks to protect their identities. Starting in The Initiative, they stop doing this. The reason is that the audience needs to be able to identify the different commando characters, but it's still a discontinuity.
6th Apr 2004
Dracula (1992)
Continuity mistake: When the peasant woman gives Jonathan the crucifix in the carriage, the chain falls over the side of his palm. When he opens his hand to look at it, the chain runs between his fingers. (00:10:10)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Emma is protecting John at the top of the stairs and he says, "I didn't kill anyone," her hand is at her side. In the next shot, her arm is raised in front of him. One shot later, it's back at her side. (00:23:40)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: Emma steps in front of John to protect him from Bumstead at their apartment and says, "You have the wrong man." But in the previous shot and the next one, she is about two feet farther to John's left. (00:23:35)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Bumstead confronts Emma and John outside their apartment, Emma just catches up to John and steps in front of him with her right hand in his side. In the next shot, her left hand has swung around and is gripping his sleeve. (00:23:30)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: After Mr. Hand is imprinted, in the shot as the machine raises him, his headband is shifted slightly over his right eyebrow. In every other shot, the headband is exactly centered over his nose. (00:43:05)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: In the interrogation scene, Bumstead says, "Every time I try to rearrange the pieces it still doesn't make any sense." While he says this, he hits the table and indicates the objects scattered on it, but in the next shot his hand is raised and palm up. (01:01:40)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: The hole in the Shell Beach poster is a different shape when Murdoch tears it than after he punches through the brick wall behind it - the poster runs right up to the hole. (01:15:30)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Visible crew/equipment: When Murdoch leaps from the doorway to the chimney to escape Mr. Sleep, the wires holding him very obviously pull on his jacket at the shoulders. (01:00:15)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Murdoch falls off the building and grabs the fire escape, he catches the handrail. Two shots later, he pulls himself up from the bars. (00:59:00)
3rd Apr 2004
Angel (1999)
3rd Apr 2004
Resident Evil (2002)
Revealing mistake: On the DVD commentary, the director says that he only had a handful of the experiment cubes in Dining Hall B and used cardboard cutouts for all the others. This is most obvious when Rain is walking through the hall alone to check on the first zombie: the cubes in the distance don't match the rigid rows of the ones in the foreground. (00:38:20)
3rd Apr 2004
Resident Evil (2002)
Revealing mistake: As the team gets off the subway and heads for the door into the Hive, the Red Queen's POV shows a nifty infrared display in the lower left corner that marks their locations - it obviously matches up to the ones on screen. But the dots are static, while the people are moving. (00:19:20)
3rd Apr 2004
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Indy meets Hitler, there is a shot over Indy's shoulder that shows his lips are slightly parted (relaxed). Cut to Indy's face and he closes his mouth tightly. In the very next shot, with no elapsed time, we see from Indy's shoulder again that Indy's mouth is relaxed as before. (01:10:15)
2nd Apr 2004
Alien 3 (1992)
Revealing mistake: As Ripley and Dillon lure the Alien into the piston chamber, Morse closes them just in time. Watch closely - he misses the switch. (01:38:15)
25th Mar 2004
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Continuity mistake: At the crucifixion, the soldier says, "Let's settle this" with his arms raised. In the following shot on his front, his hands are on his hips. (01:23:35)
25th Mar 2004
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Continuity mistake: When Stan says he wants to be a woman at the coliseum, he is facing to his left. In the following shot, he is facing down and to the right. (00:19:25)
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