Continuity mistake: During the party, when Louis throws the coats on the gargoyle's head, its horns are visible from the front shot, but covered in the immediate angle from behind. (00:53:20)
Sacha
13th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
12th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the eggs are flying in Dana's kitchen, she approaches the counter and comes inches away from it, yet from a wider angle she is several meters away. (00:19:20)
12th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Peter arrives at the library, the blue book he later slams is on the far left of the table. A frame later it's on the far right. (00:07:00)
11th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the Ghostbusters arrive at the skyscraper, a guy with a bulky walkie-talkie appears/disappears between shots. (01:19:25)
11th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: Distance between the guys when they find the ghost librarian decreases significantly between shots. (00:10:40)
11th Jun 2011
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the Ghostbusters are heading for the building, there's a wide view of New York bathed in a sunset light with a red and blue sky. In further close-up shots, there is a clear sunny light everywhere. (01:15:20)
Suggested correction: Most likely the result of the supernatural clouds forming around the building.
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.
11th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the road cracks and swallows the police car, the distance between the ambulance behind increases and decreases between shots.
9th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: Stay Puft walks behind a church, which appears or disappears depending on the angle.
9th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Stay Puft is walking towards the church, an aerial shot shows the (miniature scale model) streets totally empty; however, a floor-level angle shows hundreds of (green screened) people who have appeared from nowhere. (01:32:05)
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.
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
6th Feb 2010
Ghostbusters (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the flying eggs scene, the lettuce on the right changes shape and position between angles. (00:19:20)
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)