Sacha

27th Apr 2010

True Lies (1994)

Continuity mistake: During Harry's Tango with Juno, she bends backwards twice, the second one a couple is dancing right behind them. In the opposite angle it's a different couple and they're walking. (00:10:30)

Sacha

27th Apr 2010

True Lies (1994)

Continuity mistake: When Harry dances the Tango with Juno there's a wide shot of the place, in the immediate close-up two guards appear out of nowhere behind Harry.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Reece is in the meeting with the Ambassador his pen points in a 12 o'clock direction, in the following angle it points in a 2 o'clock.

Sacha

16th Apr 2010

Goodfellas (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Henry is visited in jail by his wife, his daughter turns her face away to the right. From the opposite angle she's in a totally different position and also a toy has appeared in her hand.

Sacha

16th Apr 2010

Goodfellas (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Henry comes back from the hospital and is watching the helicopter above, the number of cars behind keeps changing from frame to frame. Sometimes it even looks as if there's just one lane, then two lanes filled with cars, then no cars.

Sacha

16th Apr 2010

Goodfellas (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Henry is in the shower listening to the radio news about the Lufthansa robbery, his hair is brushed backwards. Then he starts to shout and it turns to messy and loose, then back to the first angle and it's pressed and brushed backwards as it was the first time.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Altobello asks a young boy in Sicily to imitate a donkey, he is served a jar of wine with the handle pointing to the left side. In the close-up it points to the right side.

Sacha

8th Apr 2010

Shutter Island (2010)

Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, Teddy and Chuck are talking by the steps. Teddy's cigarette is in his mouth or away depending on the angle, with no continuity sense whatsoever.

Sacha

8th Apr 2010

Shutter Island (2010)

8th Apr 2010

Shutter Island (2010)

Continuity mistake: When Teddy arrives home and sees his wife on the swing, the ducks in the lake appear or disappear depending on the angle.

Sacha

8th Apr 2010

Shutter Island (2010)

Continuity mistake: When the German officer is dying, his gun has a paper next to it. When Teddy kicks the gun away the paper is gone.

Sacha

8th Apr 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: During the earthquake, after the ground swallows the police car, the crowd to the left disappears, only to appear half a second later.

Sacha

8th Apr 2010

Shutter Island (2010)

8th Apr 2010

Shutter Island (2010)

Continuity mistake: During the dying German scene, the needle on the record player moves backwards between the first and second angle, in barely a couple seconds.

Sacha

7th Apr 2010

Die Another Day (2002)

Continuity mistake: When Bond and Graves are fencing, the amount of blood on Bond's nose increases or decreases randomly between shots, without any logical order.

Sacha

1st Apr 2010

Men in Black (1997)

1st Apr 2010

Surrogates (2009)

Continuity mistake: When Willis's surrogate is lying on the ground with a woman pointing a rifle at him, the collar on his shirt swaps from being away from the face to up and very close, between the wide and close-up angles.

Sacha

1st Apr 2010

Cyborg (1989)

Continuity mistake: Gibson throws his backpack on the road and hides by some nearby bushes, leaving Nady alone in the middle of the road. In the aerial angles, the Nady is standing on the side of the road. This keeps changing back and forth.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, Harry is kissing a woman while Sally waits in the car. A couple passes behind the car, but they disappear in the close-up.

Sacha

1st Apr 2010

Men in Black (1997)

Continuity mistake: When J is trapped by a tentacle of the alien woman in the car, the first seconds of him being dragged up and down he casts no shadow on the ground. Later on when the tentacle is extended he does cast a small shadow. (00:44:10)

Sacha

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