Sacha

16th Apr 2010

Goodfellas (1990)

Visible crew/equipment: After Henry pistol-whips his neighbour he goes to Karen's home. She opens a glass door and a boom mike, set lights and crew are reflected on it.

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

Deliberate mistake: The music in the 50s wasn't, by far, the Shakira pop and hiphop style that the people dance to in the movie.

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

Other mistake: Before Joey Zasa is murdered, an altar boy in the parade (on the left side of the screen) can't help but stare at the camera all the time.

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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