Continuity mistake: When Gaffney takes the bottle of beer off Rudy, he holds it in his right hand and takes a sip. He then turns to the bin to spit it out and moves the bottle to his left hand. In the close-up shot of him spotting the beer in the bin, the bottle has moved back to his right hand. (01:15:35)
Continuity mistake: When Bob is explaining to Rudy that the sandwich isn't spoiled, Rudy is holding a bottle in his left hand. It cuts to Albert and Bethany for a few seconds. When it cuts back, Rudy's right hand is holding the bottle and his left hand is in his pocket. (01:15:15)
Continuity mistake: When Rudy hands the sandwich to Bob for him to taste, he is shown holding a bottle of beer in his left hand, and his right-hand level with the left one. When Bob goes to spit out the bite, Rudy's right hand is suddenly at his side. Bob then says "That's not spoiled", and Rudy's right and left hand are level again. (01:15:05)
Continuity mistake: When everyone is in the airport cafe, just as Rudy goes to take a bite out of the sandwich, it seen in his right hand. When he spits it out a few seconds later, the sandwich is now in his right hand. (01:14:43)
Continuity mistake: When Bob is asking Dinah if the sound is closer than when she first heard it, Laurel is standing right beside her with her arm around Dinah's shoulder. In a different angle, Laurel is suddenly standing with a slight distance from Dinah with her arm by her side. (01:13:05)
Continuity mistake: Just after Toomey goes into the Airport Security closet, the others are shown walking up an escalator. In the shot from behind, when they reach the top, they are all shown standing one behind each other. In the next shot, Nick, Brian and Rudy are suddenly standing a couple meters ahead of the others. (01:08:55)
Continuity mistake: After Toomey has the imaginary confrontation with his father and hears Brian shouting his name, he has each hand on both sides of his face. In the next shot, his left hand is over his mouth and his right hand is over his left hand. (01:08:22)
Continuity mistake: After Toomey starts crying into father's blazer, his father gets him off him by grabbing onto Toomey's blazer around his shoulder. When the shot cuts back to Toomey, the shoulder doesn't appear to have been pulled on at all. (01:07:55)
Continuity mistake: Bob removes the battery cover to a clock to see if the batteries are still inside. Once he removes the cover in the close-up shot, the cover is held so that it is pressed against the edge of the clock. When the camera cuts back to Bob, the cover is away from the clock. (01:01:40)
Continuity mistake: In the reception area, after the frozen clock is shown, Dinah and Laurel hug. Dinah is placing her left arm around Laurel's waist. But in the next shot, her left arm is lowered. (01:00:25)
Continuity mistake: When everyone is looking at the empty airport reception area, there is a shot where Albert looks Bethany, and then she looks at him. The shot then cuts to Nick standing in the foreground of shot, and in the background, Bethany can be seen looking straight forward and not at Albert. (01:00:16)
Continuity mistake: When the passengers are standing outside of the plane after landing, just after Dinah finishes talking, Nick asks Brian "What now" and Brian replies "You tell me." Nick is standing with his body facing towards Brian. When the camera changes angles, Nick's body has suddenly turned 90° so that it is facing towards the airport. (00:55:35)
Continuity mistake: When Dinah finished explaining that there is no birdsong and no motors revving, she says "But" and Rudy is looking to the left. In the next shot, Rudy is suddenly looking at Dinah. (00:55:25)
Continuity mistake: When Brian is trying to talk to the passengers after first landing and tells them that they know as much as him, Toomey walks down the cabin, walks past Brian and continues to walk down the cabin. Then in a closer shot of Brian, Toomey is shown walking past Brian a second time. (00:53:05)
Continuity mistake: When Rudy goes to sit down in his seat with the others just before the plane goes to land, Gaffney can be seen in his seat with his mouth closed. It then cuts to a close-up shot of him, where his mouth is suddenly open. (00:44:45)
Continuity mistake: When Rudy asks if anyone knows how to work the little oven up in the galley, he raises his right arm and points to it with his thumb. Then it cuts to a closer shot of him and his arm is suddenly lowered. (00:30:57)
Continuity mistake: After Rudy asks Brian and Nick where everyone went, it cuts to everyone in the cabin. In the establishing shot, Dinah can be seen in the seat in front of Albert and is sitting on the armrest. The camera then cuts to a closer shot of Albert, and the seat in front of him is visible in the corner of the shot, but Dinah cannot be seen in it. (00:27:37)
Continuity mistake: When Nick grabs onto Toomey's nose with his fingers, his thumb can be seen pressed against one of the fingers he is holding onto the nose with. When Gaffney walks over to them so that he can take Toomey back to his seat, his thumb is away from the other fingers. Then a few shots after that, his thumb is pressed against the other fingers again. (00:16:22)
Continuity mistake: Dinah starts pressing a button after realising her aunt has disappeared. She is pressing the button with her right hand and has the left hand at her side. But in the shot where she goes to stand up, she suddenly has her left hand placed under her right hand. (00:08:28)
Continuity mistake: When boarding the plane, the airport manager puts Brian's bag into an overhead bin. Standing next to him, Rudy can be seen opening an overhead bin and his hands are placed on the door whilst he opens it. In the next shot, his hands are suddenly inside the overhead bin, putting his bag inside it. (00:06:25)
Answer: Think of time as a gear with only one tooth, and think of them as a gear with only one notch. In the past, the one tooth has forever passed their notch and they'll never be carried along in the flow of time again. In the future, the tooth comes along, snags their notch, and they're back in the flow of time.
Phixius ★