Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: When French is holding the bag with the hand he places a ring very close to Costello's cheek. A second later, without him having moved, the hand is at jaw level and farther away.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: When Sullivan is analysing the Providence corpses, the close-up shows both of his hands together, but on the wide shot one is near the corpse, and the other one close to his hip.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: Costello tells Costigan "your dad had his own code". Then Costigan turns his head and exhales some smoke, but the following frame shows his head in the opposite direction and the smoke is gone.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: Costigan enters the bar and points at a guy with a leather cap. In the background, a waiter is leaning on the bar, who then stands up and starts to walk. In the following close shot he is back in the previous place, leaning.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: After Costigan comes out of jail he visits an old lady. From a front shot she is slightly leaning, her left hand unseen. From a back shot the left hand is standing out over his shoulder with a burning cigarette. It should have been visible from the opposite shot at first.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: After the rugby game, Sullivan turns to his right to insult the other team. From a different angle he is making a left turn.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: While Sullivan is rain drenched in military school, when he says "Sir! Yes sir!" his hair style changes in a nano second.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: When Sullivan and his pal are watching the golden dome building from a bench, from a back shot his friend has his head faced straight, but from the front shot it's sideways.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: When Costello is getting his money in the diner, young Sullivan is first sitting next to some packages on the right of the screen , but a shot later, when he stands up holding a brown paper bag, he is seen sitting next to to an empty seat.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: After the rugby game, when Sullivan turns around to insult the other team, there's a guy with a light blue shirt that steps ahead of another one with a dark blue shirt. A second later their positions swap.

Sacha

11th Jan 2007

The Departed (2006)

Continuity mistake: When young Sullivan is at Mass, a priest is swinging the smoking incense burning. In the next shot the smoke is gone, and he is away, arriving with the burner and repeating the previous movement.

Sacha

9th Jan 2007

Superman III (1983)

9th Jan 2007

Superman III (1983)

Superman III mistake picture

Continuity mistake: From the wide shots, the black stripe on the side of the oil tanker is 12 to 15 meters wide, but on the close-up of evil Superman destroying the tanker shows it's thinned to barely a couple meters wide.

Sacha

9th Jan 2007

Willow (1988)

Continuity mistake: When Elora is floating down the river, the close shots show her head standing out of the bundle, but the close shots don't.

Sacha

9th Jan 2007

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: After evil Superman makes a hole on the side of the oil tanker, he flies away and we get to see a bird's eye view of the ship. But now the hole is gone.

Sacha

4th Jan 2007

Superman III (1983)

Continuity mistake: Before the truck is about to fall off the bridge, the blue car in the water moves from a 5 o'clock direction, to a 3 o'clock depending on the shot.

Sacha

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