Best movie continuity mistakes of 1986

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The Big Easy picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Remy finally figures out that Ann has some serious questions about his dept., he pushes her against a tree. When the camera is on him, her necklace has swung around to the back of her dress. When the camera is on her, the necklace is 1/2 inside and 1/2 outside the front of her dress. This switches back and forth several times.

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Spookies picture

Continuity mistake: When Adrienne sits on the couch, her cigarette swaps hands between shots.

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Firewalker picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Volkswagon is sinking in the water, the first shot shows Chuck Norris diving off the car roof and he starts to doggie paddle. The next shot is of Melody Anderson swimming and behind him, Chuck is still on the roof of the car. The next shot, he is back in the water again.

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Peggy Sue Got Married picture

Continuity mistake: When Peggy Sue passes out at her reunion, the first shot (from her perspective) is her on the floor, looking up at her daughter and Charlie standing about 6 feet away. The second shot is her daughter and Charlie crouching down close to Peggy Sue's face. In the third shot, Charlie is instantly standing 6 feet away again.

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Heartburn picture

Continuity mistake: When Rachel goes to the "group", her bag is multi-coloured; when she comes home from the "group", her bag is different, it is now just black.

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Super Mario Brothers: Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach picture

Continuity mistake: When Peach collapses on top of Mario after the weird TV invasion, Mario's arm is on top of hers, but in the closer shot that follows his arm is distant and in fact it is behind hers the moment he turns a little.

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Continuity mistake: After Eugene takes the stage to face Jack Butler, everyone (including Eugene) turns when Scratch walks into the room. When Scratch sits down and Eugene turns back to face Jack Butler, Eugene's hat is gone.

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Castle in the Sky picture

Continuity mistake: When the army takes Sheeta away, and throw Pazu in the dungeon, Pazu doesn't have his hat, nor is it anywhere in the room. And when he was able to come out, still no hat. But as soon as he leaves the fortress, it suddenly appears.

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Slaughter High picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Carol is running from Marty, she hides in the gym. Marty runs into the gym. Carol runs out and goes down two flights of stairs. She then goes into a room by the stairs and goes to the window...the window that overlooks the gym. Somehow having gone down two flights of stairs Carol has ended up above the gym.

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Continuity mistake: When Betty and Zorg are taking turns having a drink from a glass, there is a shot of Betty putting the glass back on the table. She is holding onto the glass with her left hand when she does this, but when the shot cuts, her left hand is touching Zorg's arm. (00:10:40)

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Continuity mistake: After the car accident, a man in a black hat and coat runs up to the left-side rear window of Patton's car, taps on the glass, then peers into the car. The camera angle changes to show the Jeep arriving and we see the same man in black arrive again to repeat all the same moves exactly. (01:13:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where he is fixing breakfast for his daughter, Robert Redford's shirt sleeves are down. When he goes to rescue the burning toast in the oven, his shirt sleeves are up and then they are down again. (00:15:00)

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Troll picture

Continuity mistake: Torok the Troll wears a magic silver ring which allows him to appear in the form of Wendy Potter. However after Wendy's mother tells her about the orange juice, when Wendy touches the cold bottle of milk in the fridge she grabs her arm in pain and we can see both of her hands, and she's not wearing that magic ring.

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Continuity mistake: When the robots are chasing the girls, the girls are all carrying make-shift Molotov cocktails made out of petrol cans with a rag in the neck. Suzie is hit in the leg by a robot and falls to the ground. The robot then fires a laser at the petrol can by her, causing it to burst into flames, which cover her too and burn her to death. However, when the camera pulls back, we see that her petrol can is mysteriously intact and untouched by the flames.

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Continuity mistake: The views of von Ragnar at the wheel of the semi truck show him wearing tight-fitting glitter gloves as seen into the cab, but large, looser, darker gloves in closeup shots of von Ragnar's hands on the wheel.

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