Continuity mistake: When Roy's bike falls in the river and he lands on the car's hood, from the opposite angle, a frame later, the river is gone and there's a highway with cars passing by.
Sacha
30th Jul 2010
Knight & Day (2010)
12th Sep 2012
Knight & Day (2010)
Factual error: Outside Seville, Cruise jumps off a bridge on a stall with a sign that reads "Especial en sardines". This is senseless text. The correct spelling should be "Especialidad en sardinas".
28th Sep 2012
Knight & Day (2010)
Visible crew/equipment: When Roy grabs unconscious June and parachutes her off the plane, she stares at him and 3 stage lights plus a lighting screen are reflected on her goggles.
21st Sep 2020
Knight & Day (2010)
Continuity mistake: When June bumps into Roy for the second time, a magazine falls on the floor. When the CCTV scene is played, the magazine is gone and it has been replaced with two leaflets.
8th Oct 2020
Octopussy (1983)
Revealing mistake: When Bond horseback rides towards the plane, Roger Moore is replaced by an obvious stunt man wearing red goggles. (02:02:50)
8th Oct 2020
Octopussy (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Bond escapes from the train and drives away the number and position of the bullet holes changes between shots.
14th Oct 2020
Octopussy (1983)
Revealing mistake: When Bond throws the baddie on the bed of steel spikes, the spikes bend revealing they're made of rubber (despite a crunch and a yell of pain being heard).
8th Oct 2020
Octopussy (1983)
Revealing mistake: On top of the plane, Gobinda's stunt is noticeable because he has less of a beard.
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: The light outside the building as seen from the dining hall is dusk, but from the outside it's pitch dark. This swaps back and forth all the time.
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Revealing mistake: When Lorrie jumps out of the window, she is replaced by an obvious stuntman: Fireproof gloves appear on her hands, she is wearing a fireproof mask, and her hair is an obvious wig.
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When Dan dies there's a wide shot of the building with several floors engulfed in flames. When Lorrie is free-falling just two seconds later, for the scenes play in real time - the flames have disappeared. (01:04:53 - 01:06:10)
11th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When the elevator is lowering the people, a wide shot shows the building on fire. Couple shots later the flames are nowhere to be seen.
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When water is cascading outside the building a man jumps out of a window, producing a hole in the glass. When another man jumps out of the window next to that one, the hole in the glass has a different shape and the hole is several centimeters below where it was before.
28th Sep 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: The people inside the elevator disappear in the wide angle. (01:57:21 - 01:57:51)
27th Aug 2001
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Revealing mistake: When the security guard attempts to open the storage room door where the fire has started, he is set ablaze. Look closely, and he is wearing large protective gloves over his hands, plus a special mask. (00:38:15)
26th Sep 2020
Lionheart (1990)
Continuity mistake: During the fight in the pool, Lyon's big tattoo on his chest disappears. You can see a very faint blue shadow on his chest from the previous make-up.
13th Oct 2020
Hook (1991)
Continuity mistake: When Peter recalls himself alone in the rain with a teddy bear by his side, the bear is sitting upright in the first shot, but resting against the baby with its head skewed in the following angle.
6th Sep 2005
Beetlejuice (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When Otho is doing the Seance, Adam and Barbara appear in their wedding clothes and then float above the table. When Lydia releases Beetlejuice, everyone gets up and leaves the table, and in this wideshot the black wires that Adam and Barbara are suspended from are visible. (01:15:25)
13th Oct 2020
Earthquake (1974)
Revealing mistake: When the California Seismological Institute collapses, the old boss is replaced by a much younger stunt. Also, his sleeves swap between rolled up or not and his tie disappears.
17th Oct 2020
Earthquake (1974)
Visible crew/equipment: A white stage light is reflected on the kettle when Stewart visits Denise at her place. (00:14:29)
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