Best movie continuity mistakes of 1986

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Ruthless People picture

Continuity mistake: When Judge Reinhold is in his kitchen with Helen Slater he tells her they have to be ruthless. He sees a spider on the floor and gets a magazine and scoops it up. Then he goes outside to let the spider out and he puts the magazine down for 1/2 of a second. He was supposed to put the spider on the ground but if you look nothing comes off the magazine. Then he goes to squash it with his foot, but what can he squash if there's nothing there? (00:13:35)

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Continuity mistake: Liana is barefoot most of the movie yet at the chief's village she's shown wearing black ankle socks.

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Continuity mistake: Mr. Fox gets to his apartment building sporting a huge cigar. He briefly talks, or at least attempts to communicate, with the girl in the lobby, and the cigar is gone. The cigar is back the moment he opens the door to his flat and the goons jump him.

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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: Martin McNamara calls his brother at the beginning of the movie and tells him he'll be ready in two minutes. When the camera cuts to a new shot, his grip on the phone changed entirely.

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Continuity mistake: When the cops chase the microlight, the grey raft leaning against a stall changes positions between shots.

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Dead Man's Folly picture

Continuity mistake: Poirot met Ariadne Oliver who invites him to the "murder hunt." Poirot and Hastings then get on a boat to head there. As they sit on the boat, there are a few extras, led by an easily identifiable lady in a yellow sweater, that move up the stairs of the pier and reach the top. The boat slowly takes off, and about 10 seconds later we see the pier again, with again those same people from before just reaching the top of the stairs. (00:02:25)

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Chopping Mall picture

Continuity mistake: Just before the second technician is killed by the robot's pincer stabbing him through the magazine he is reading, if you look closely you can see the holes in the magazine made by the pincer in previous takes of the scene.

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