Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie starts and Barbara shelters herself from the rain with a suitcase, her hair changes from being on her back to over her chest.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Barbara is about to put the star on the tree, the toys on the table keep appearing and disappearing between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The first time we see the Roses celebrating Christmas the amount of pencils in the cube keeps changing between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Barbara talks about how good being a waitress is and throws a bunch of dollar bills on top of a book. In the following angle, they have moved closer to the pencil cube.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Chaplin stands up to deliver the final speech, takes off his cap and we see his hair is short and flat. When the angle changes to a close-up the hair is longer and fluffy.

Sacha

11th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When the road cracks and swallows the police car, the distance between the ambulance behind increases and decreases between shots.

Sacha

9th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

9th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When Stay Puft is walking towards the church, an aerial shot shows the (miniature scale model) streets totally empty; however, a floor-level angle shows hundreds of (green screened) people who have appeared from nowhere. (01:32:05)

Sacha

9th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When the movie is about to end, the Ghostbusters are in front of the building and the pavement starts to crack open. A group of men by the door stumble off-screen to the left. Half a second later, a close-up shows the people repeating all the previous movements.

Sacha

9th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When the Stay Puft monster appears and all the cars crash, a driver goes out of a grey car through the window. In a closer angle he is back inside and repeating the movement. (01:31:15)

Sacha

9th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: After the pavement cracks and swallows a police car, the chunks of broken pavement next to the car differ between shots. From a back view there are smaller pieces, but from a front view they are a couple of big and long chunks. (01:21:00)

Sacha

9th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When they're all fighting in the Mayor's office, the mug on the desk changes its position between shots.

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When Venkamn picks up slime from the library's drawer, the wood is first partially dry with chunks of slime, but a frame later appears all wet with no slime. (00:09:15)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: Venkman meets Dana by a fountain. When he says goodbye to her, first a man with a hat passes behind him and disappears in the next angle; then, in a close-up, Venkman is surrounded by dozens of people who vanish half a second later in the wide angle, where the place appears empty. (00:44:45)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: At the hotel, when the Ghostbusters blast the cleaning lady's trolley, the stuff on the floor changes between shots. Watch the toilet paper on the far left, for example. (00:31:50)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When Venkman is doing the tests trying to flirt with the blonde student, when she says that the figure on the card is a star, Venkman is first holding the card with his thumb and two fingers. But from the back angle, four fingers are seen extended. (00:03:20)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Ghostbusters mistake picture

Continuity mistake: During the flying eggs scene, the lettuce on the right changes shape and position between angles. (00:19:20)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When the Ghostbusters run out of the library, an old woman in a blue coat is seen on the left side by the bottom of the steps. A second later she is all the way up and coming from the right side instead. (00:12:20)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: After the library scene, while the three scientists are walking and talking, a woman in a striped blue and yellow sweater passes by Egon, but disappears in the immediate next angle. (00:21:35)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When Venkman walks down to the library's basement, his tie changes from skewed to straight. (00:08:35)

Sacha

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