Hamster

10th Aug 2005

Misery (1990)

Continuity mistake: When it starts to snow, and Paul puts the windshield wipers on, the rate that they swing differs between shots.

Hamster

10th Aug 2005

Misery (1990)

Continuity mistake: Buster parks his car outside Annie's house and is then shot inside her home. Then in a following wideshot of Annie's house, the car has vanished...

Hamster

10th Aug 2005

Misery (1990)

Continuity mistake: In the first scene, where Paul just finishes his book, the typewriter he is on seems to change from a big, old typewriter to a newer, small electric one.

Hamster

10th Aug 2005

Misery (1990)

Other mistake: In one scene, Paul locks the door, but Annie enters the room without unlocking the door.

Hamster

10th Aug 2005

Misery (1990)

2nd Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

2nd Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: At the "Feed the Earth" concert, as the lead singer sings "It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder..." watch the guitarist - a microphone on a stand appears in front of him between shots. (01:39:40)

Hamster

2nd Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where everybody is racing downstairs, as they all fall in the corner you can see Vera is wearing high heels. Later on in the film, especially noticeable at the rocket car scene, she now has flat shoes on. What, did they take a trip to the shoe shop during their frantic race to Silver City? (00:22:00 - 01:14:25)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Audio problem: When Nick is talking to his friend in the casino lobby, in a side view his friend says "...not one quarter..." but you can clearly see his mouth doesn't move. (00:11:30)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: When Randy and the family enter the hotel room, they put the bags down and go round to the boudoir area. In the next shot the position of the bags by the door has changed. (00:10:05)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: In the single outside shot of the "Fatburger" diner, when we hear Bev saying "right, everybody OK? You alright..." look at Hitler's car, parked out front - you can see that the front windsheild (which got smashed earlier) is either missing or intact, because no smash marks are visible. (01:16:10)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Visible crew/equipment: When the rocket car zooms past the repair mans garage and it collapses, you can see a wire running across the outside of the garage, from above the window to behind the petrol pump, and there is a white cable trailed across the road to the left of the garage - in an earlier shot you can clearly see these were not here. (01:16:00)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Revealing mistake: When one of the bikers smashes the front headlight of Hitler's car, the glass smashes well before the metal pole strikes it, revealing that a small explosive was triggered to cause it. (01:07:45)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Audio problem: When Owen is fixing the tyre and all the Lucy's come outside, the old Lucy says "Well maybe we should check the oil," but her mouth says a different line. (01:04:35)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Audio problem: When Duane and the key-cutter are arguing on the cow, Duane cries "Gimme back my key" and then the key-cutter replies "what key?" but his mouth doesn't move. (01:02:25)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Other mistake: In the field, as Duane is flying into the cows, one of the cows jumps "up" before Duane even hits it. (01:01:35)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: As Duane is about to hit the first cow in the field, the direction it is facing changes instantly between shots. (01:01:25)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Rat Race mistake picture

Visible crew/equipment: When Duane hits the second cow while hanging from the rope, if you watch carefully you can see the head of someone, bent down behind the cow, wearing a white hat. (01:01:30)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: When the engine falls from the back of a truck, Zach is driving his van perfectly in the right lane, but when in cuts to a closeup of the wheel of his van driving over the engine, he is now driving so half of the van is in each lane. (00:58:25)

Hamster

1st Aug 2005

Rat Race (2001)

Continuity mistake: At the monster truck ralley, in the first shot as the monster truck revs up, ready to jump the ramp, look at the huge advert signs behind it. One of them has "PowerBar" written on it, but in the second shot as the truck roars over the ramp, the same sign is now totally different. (01:23:25)

Hamster

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