Sacha

21st Jul 2006

Marathon Man (1976)

Continuity mistake: When the cars crash into the oil truck, the body in the car on the far right keeps changing: Head down against the steering wheel (as we later see it in a close-up), head missing and head up and stiff.

Sacha

19th Jul 2006

Superman (1978)

Continuity mistake: Before Superman enters Luthor's lair, Teschmacher is laying on the couch and a bottle of Ambre Solaire is facing straight close to the TV. In the next shot the bottle is turned to the left.

Sacha

18th Jul 2006

Superman (1978)

17th Jul 2006

Superman (1978)

Continuity mistake: The morning Clark leaves the home farm, the sky keeps changing throughout the sequence: Dawning, clouds, sunny, dawn again, cloudy, back to sunny.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Bernstein is talking with Colson's assistant, her hair is falling in front of her left shoulder, in the following close up shot it's behind.

Sacha

17th Jul 2006

Superman (1978)

Continuity mistake: The first day Clark Kent works in the Daily Planet, he sits by his desk and then a close-up shows Lois placing her hair behind her ear. In the next shot the hair has changed and is now is covering her ear.

Sacha

17th Jul 2006

Superman (1978)

Continuity mistake: Right before Superman catches the burglar, he is standing in a steel intersection of the building. A second afterwards, he is in the middle of a window pane.

Sacha

17th Jul 2006

Superman (1978)

Continuity mistake: The day young Clark Kent leaves his parents' home, there's a shot where mother is watching him from inside the house. The clouds and sky colour reflected on the glass is different to the one we see in the following angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When McMurray enters his office at the start of the film, he places his hand on the table and sits down. The position of the hand is different between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Gogo gets hit by her metal ball, she falls and breaks a table, and a lot of splinters gather around her head. In the next angle, for only a couple of frames, there are fewer splinters.

Sacha

22nd Jun 2006

Leon (1994)

Continuity mistake: Leon is playing with Mathilda and she can't guess the actor. she tilts her head and then angle changes to the back of her head. But now not only her head is not tilted but when she says "I swear, I was going to say that actor" she is not mouthing the words.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Pierce Brosnan enters the tailor shop, Russel explains how the secretary got wounded. She is in the back looking down, but when we hear her story a close up of her is shown turning her head to show us the scars. The shot changes to the previous wide angle and she is back in the original position, looking down, a split second later, without having had time to move her head.

Sacha

23rd May 2006

V (1984)

23rd May 2006

V (1984)

22nd May 2006

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Continuity mistake: When Teabing's plane lands the sky keeps changing depending on the shot: cloudy, grey, bright and sunny. And all in a matter of seconds.

Sacha

22nd May 2006

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Continuity mistake: When Aringarosa is shot by Silas, he falls to the floor. The position of the cross on his chest changes between wide and close shots.

Sacha

22nd May 2006

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

22nd May 2006

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Continuity mistake: Before the policemen shoot Silas he places Aringarosa's cross pointing in a 9 o'clock direction. After he is shot, a wide shot shows the cross in the position it was before.

Sacha

5th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: Desmond throws a bunch of papers tied up with a string at Gillis. Shot changes to him catching them and the bundle is totally different.

Sacha

5th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: Gillis is lying on his bed with the script pages all over the bed. Look closely and you'll see that they're all copies of the same page.

Sacha

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