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

6th Feb 2010

Avatar (2009)

Continuity mistake: When Quaritch is scolding Jake for making out with a Na'vi, Jake moves his head to the right. In the immediate next angle, his head is straight. (01:31:25)

Sacha

6th Feb 2010

Ghostbusters (1984)

Continuity mistake: When the guys blast the glass lamp in the hotel, it falls on a table and messes up the table and chairs around. In the following angle the area, which was dark half a second ago is now perfectly lit. (00:35:30)

Sacha

3rd Feb 2010

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Continuity mistake: When Dana gives her shopping bags to Frank the doorman, the lettuce is either hidden or coming out depending on the shot, and a long brown bag appears and disappears depending on the angle focusing. (00:01:10)

Sacha

3rd Feb 2010

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Continuity mistake: When Dana is watching the couple arguing she has her arms crossed. A frame later, from a different angle, they are not.

Sacha

1st Feb 2010

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Continuity mistake: When the statue starts to walk it has irons and cables attached to the sole of its sandals. When it's walking downtown the shoe is clean and like new (most likely the first miniature has been replaced by a human in disguise). (01:28:20 - 01:30:15)

Sacha

1st Feb 2010

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Continuity mistake: When the slime is covering the museum an aerial view shows its surroundings empty. At the end of the movie, thousands of people gather around the place, yet the aerial view when the (superimposed) slime explodes is the earlier one, making it look as if the crowd had vanished, only to reappear a second later in close-ups. (01:37:50)

Sacha

1st Feb 2010

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Continuity mistake: When the ghostbusters are yelling at the jar filled with plasma, on the close-up Venkman's hand is around a metal thing, but on the wide angles it is just by its side. This keeps changing back and forth. (00:39:20)

Sacha

1st Feb 2010

Nine (2009)

Continuity mistake: During the Folies Bergere song there's a close-up of Judy Dench and behind her is the vedette walking down the steps one leg forward. The angle immediately swaps to a wider one and the position of the legs has swapped.

Sacha

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