1408

Continuity mistake: Halfway through the film, Mike is wandering inside the room and knocks down a red vase. A second later it appears back on the table.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mike fixes the boat painting, his hair and face are dry. He turns around and sits down and now he is all sweaty and with messy hair.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mike goes to the window, leaving a can, food and a bottle on the night table. When he comes back only the bottle remains.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mike falls down from the ceiling, he falls on his back, but a second later from a closer angle he is crashing on the table on his butt.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: In the scene Where Mike Eslin's hotel room has frozen over and he is laying on the floor talking into his recorder he notices his computer turns on and his wife is talking to him. As Mike tries to get up you see his head touch the alcohol bottle, in the next shot that is further away from Mike you see the bottle is much further away from his head then it should be.

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Continuity mistake: When Mike reaches the phone and hears the operator asking if he is checking out, the phone on the table swaps from facing down to up between shots.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: While Mike is presenting his book, the cigarette on his ear is semi-hidden by his hair. Half a second later the hair appears shorter and the cigarette is visible.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Mike enters the hotel and a woman in the back, sitting next to the woman with the pram, disappears between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mike is in the room holding his crying daughter, the blood trails from his nose and ears change constantly between shots.

Continuity mistake: When water starts to pour in the room Mike's hair is totally messy, except for a brief shot where it looks perfectly combed, and then back to messy.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mike falls on the frozen floor, after chatting with his wife, the vase swaps from being covered in ice to semi covered between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Mike is signing books, a fat guy bends over next to him. Angle keeps swapping in a matter of seconds from front to back angles and he's always there, except for a moment from the back when the guy disappears, only to appear again in the front angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The amount of snow on Mike's forehead when crouching on the floor, increases and diminishes between shots in a matter of seconds.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the final scene, the plastic bag moves from being perpendicular to the laptop to parallel and close to it, between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When frozen Mike crouches towards the laptop he takes the blanket off of him. In the next angle the blanket is again on his back.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After knocking down the stuff from the fireplace, Mike is leaning against a wall, next to a knocked down lamp. The position of the lamps keeps changing all the time depending on the angle.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Mike first enters room 1408, there are three light switches on the wall. He flicks on two of them. A few seconds later, you see the switches behind him, but it is two different switches that have been flicked.

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Question: When Mike gets a postcard about the Dolphin and room 1408, he writes on the back for a moment as he figures something in his head and circles a (=13). He then says cute. How exactly did he figure 13 from 1408? I am confused by that part.

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Chosen answer: He sums up the individual numbers: 1+4+0+8 = 13.

Twotall

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