Plot hole: When Vic steals the food from the group in the desert, we see he's been standing about 100 yards from them, all the while they've been digging. This is filmed on the Bonneville Salt Flats, with completely flat ground for miles around. Did the group just not notice a guy (and a dog) standing that close to them? Did they not think of protecting their site with a guard (there are 2 kids and a cripple there, but even they don't notice Vic until he's just ten yards away, running towards them)? As well, the crime 'boss' character allows Vic to get away and does not chase him - he even laughs that someone has the guts to try it. Food is very precious in this world, and nobody would likely allow this theft, much less a criminal boss. (00:15:45)
DavidRTurner
19th Aug 2013
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
19th Aug 2013
Red 2 (2013)
Revealing mistake: When Han is firing the Gatling gun at Frank and Marvin, he is on one side of the street, firing across the street and through the parked cars. Frank and Marvin are lying on the ground on the sidewalk, but some of the bullets' exit holes (after shooting through the vehicles) fold inwards, when they should have bent the metal outwards. (00:49:30)
19th Aug 2013
Red 2 (2013)
Other mistake: When Katya is told that Frank was spotted in Red Square, she tells the soldier (in the English subtitles) to call out the Army - but she says, in Russian, something about Spetznaz - which Is Special Forces, not Army.
19th Aug 2013
Lock, Stock... (2000)
...And Four Stolen Hooves - S1-E1
Visible crew/equipment: When the jockey falls from the horse, there is a 2nd quick shot of the same scene, to extend it a few seconds. In the first part, the horse is running free; in the 2nd, we can see the bridle that's leading the horse forward. (00:36:20)
18th Aug 2013
Admission (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Nelson kicks the soccer ball at John, the ball moves from a certain sideways angle towards him. As the camera angle changes, the ball hits John from a different angle.
18th Aug 2013
Admission (2013)
Audio problem: When Jeremiah talks to Portia when she returns to the Quest school, with the camera showing the side of his face, he is not speaking the words we hear. (00:42:00)
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Other mistake: At the end of the film, as Will and Sylvia run from the time mission after giving away the million years, they run out of downtown and towards the border of the Zone. Raymond drives to that border, gets out of his car and runs towards them. The area is a desolate, empty road, with no buildings or other obstructions to the view - one can see miles across the landscape - yet Will and Sylvia don't see Raymond running towards them until they are within 50 feet of each other. (01:33:55)
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Will and Sylvia's car hits the stingers (spike strips) that blow out the tires, they are driving on the 'right' side of the road. Off the edge of the right side is a grassy area. Will veers to the right trying to stay in control, then the camera angle changes, and we see he is on the other side of the road veering left, where the concrete river is. The camera angle changes, and they are back on the right side, just before another angle change where they fly over the edge... Of the left side. Perhaps there was originally a wide shot showing the car veering way across the road and back; but in the final edit, what we see is a big continuity mistake. (00:46:15)
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When the Minutemen's trap crashes Will's car, they check Will's time and say "he's got minutes. He'll wake up dead." This tells us he has very little left. When he escaped the party the night before (so this is perhaps 10-12 hours later), he had just 2 hours on his clock. Additionally, Sylvia wakes with just 32 minutes, and Will is still able to share some time with her. Yet he gives her only about 4 minutes.
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Will escapes the party with Sylvia as hostage, he barely avoids an accident with an armoured car, into which the Timekeeper Raymond crashes. As Will leaves the scene, he is driving on the left side of the road. The camera shifts to Raymond for a moment, then back to a rear view of Will's car, now driving on the right. The camera angle changes again, and he is once again driving on the left. The right is the 'correct' side of the road, evidenced by all the traffic around them.
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Will grabs Syvia on the dance floor and rushes her outside, Weiss takes a step towards them, but as the camera angle changes, he is back in place beside his wife (whose champagne glass is now in a different position also).
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Will and Sylvia are dancing at the party, the camera is in the centre of the room, panning left as it follows them. At one point, a guitar player comes into view. The camera angle changes very slightly, and he is no longer there.
18th Aug 2013
In Time (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Will leaves Dayton for the first time, the car leaves Zone 12. Later it goes through Zone 8, and eventually arrives at Zone 4 (New Greenwich). But when the authorities are first checking the security footage of Will on the bridge, they have a Time Zone map on the wall, and Zone 12 and 4 are next to each other, with Zone 8 in a different direction.
18th Aug 2013
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Visible crew/equipment: When Vic and the girl are running from Michael, a crew member doesn't quite get out of the way of the camera. (01:18:25)
18th Aug 2013
The Deep (2010)
Continuity mistake: In episode 3 or 4, one of the characters is knocked out and lying on the floor in the Russian sub. He is on the 'left' side of the shot most times he is shown, but occasionally he's on the right.
18th Aug 2013
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Crichton talks to Harvey (Scorpius in his head) about the Wormhole Weapon engineering project, one of the women in the scene leans on the hood of the car, with her glasses in her hand, chewing on the left arm of the glasses (the right arm is folded). The camera angle changes, and the arms are switched. The camera angle changes back, and the arms are switched back. (01:43:50)
17th Aug 2013
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Trivia: When Crichton talks to "Harvey" (Scorpius in his head) for the first time in the movie, Scorpius is dressed like Einstein. There is a blackboard with equations on it. One of them is "e = MC hammer". (00:21:30)
22nd Jul 2013
Atlantic Rim (2013)
Audio problem: On the oil rig at the start of the movie, the 2 actors monitoring the deep sea submarine's progress are subjected to a major explosion noise - yet they don't even notice it. Only when the 2nd explosion comes and rocks the whole rig do they react.
22nd Jul 2013
Atlantic Rim (2013)
Plot hole: The robot pilots have no screens/monitors in the robots to show them what's outside - only some obviously unimportant text or graphics. How could they fight the monsters without being able to see what's in front of them (or anywhere else, for that matter)?
22nd Jul 2013
Atlantic Rim (2013)
Plot hole: When the robot pilots first connect after the first attack, Red tells the story of his battle. They don't seem to even notice the dozen or so civilian bodies they have to actually physically step over - and the bodies are just lying there along the sidewalk & parking lot; no signs of any monster attack, so how did they die?
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