Continuity mistake: From Director's Cut. The scene where Al is being quizzed about the ownership of the discovery of the object discovered by the "Mom and Pop" survey team tells us that a call has been put in by that team to the base. But then when they discover the ship, where is the call? They explicitly do not call it in. Now this is not just a general enquiry because they were sent out there two weeks ago to a specific grid reference. "He says he's onto something." (00:16:34 - 00:18:38)
PeterNZ
16th Feb 2024
Aliens (1986)
20th Dec 2023
Deep Impact (1998)
19th Dec 2023
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
15th Oct 2023
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Clara is about to leave Doc's workshop, the position of Doc's hand on the telescope alters each time we move from rear to front shot. (01:08:09)
15th Oct 2023
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Factual error: Preparing to run the model train in Doc's workshop, Marty connects the clamp to the positive terminal. But he actually connects to the white ceramic insulator. Doc correctly connects to the negative metal terminal. (01:10:01)
5th Oct 2023
Time Tunnel (1966)
Continuity mistake: At the very end of this episode, when they have just arrived in the new time, Doug is fighting a man in a turban. He loses the turban, but then the next shot, it has reappeared on his head. (00:48:54)
1st Jul 2023
Deep Impact (1998)
Other mistake: How can it be named Wolf-Beiderman? Wolf never sent the email, and even if it did go, once the network was restored, he never called it Wolf-B before writing it on the floppy label. The president says both were killed in the crash. So, they invent an astronomer working at the observatory and no one notices? Remember, the floppy was destroyed in the fire. Wolf never called anyone; he was killed while trying to make a call. Maybe the pics were also burned. Mr. Perry never followed up?
19th May 2023
The Neptune Factor (1973)
Continuity mistake: The attachment to the minisub is inconsistent. It is an open hook first then as it's being lifted it becomes an enclosed shackle looking quite different. Plus a figure now appears on the roof. Ben Gazzara has just gone below. (00:57:42)
2nd Jul 2022
Magellan (2017)
Factual error: The film informs us the gravity on Neptune's moon Triton is less than 8% of Earth's. But the whole physics of the rocks and his movement on the surface do not reflect that. The actual surface is frozen nitrogen. The difficulty he has in moving around is not well correlated by him only weighing 7kg. Https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5361488/.
18th Oct 2021
Top Gun (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Cougar is looking at the picture of his wife and child, it's a girl. When he is interviewed by the Captain, he says "I almost orphaned him..." (00:10:14 - 00:13:03)
Suggested correction: He actually says "I almost orphaned 'em out there today" ie. Orphaned THEM not him.
Except he follows it up with "I've never even seen him." So he's talking about a boy. And before the orphan line he said "wife and kid", not "wife and kids", implying only one child.
And he couldn't have orphaned them anyway if their mother is still living. Dude was all shook up and couldn't think straight.
17th Sep 2021
Star Trek (1966)
Continuity mistake: In the turbolift, Chekov is standing to the left, but when the door opens he has moved to the right and exits behind Spock. (00:10:40)
16th Mar 2021
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Buster approaches the table, we see the glass is about 1/3 full. Next shot it's 2/3 full. Then it's picked up by the chap with the goatee, But it reappears on the table at "weapon." Next, at the wide shot, it's empty, (as are all the glasses, also the other glasses were full, now they are empty).
16th Mar 2021
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Continuity mistake: In the saloon scene, Buster sits at the table, then later stands up. He is right next to the table. Then we see a wider side shot, where he and his chair have teleported away from the table. He does his kicks then he is back close by the table again.
30th May 2020
Our Man Flint (1966)
Revealing mistake: The drums that the women escape in are anchored to the seabed because they are sitting upright, even when empty and the boat driving off. (01:44:25)
6th May 2020
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Other mistake: Aside from the error of having mines so densely packed and so close to the bottom so deep, there is no possible way the Seaview could have settled to the bottom while passing through this minefield without being destroyed. (00:48:00)
29th Sep 2018
The Avengers (1961)
The 50,000 Pound Breakfast - S5-E19
Continuity mistake: The clock showing London time is 12.15 when Emma is captured. Shortly after, the ticker timer goes off, it looks like almost 5 or 6 o'clock. But the ticker message is timed at 12.15. A short time later, after the escape, it shows 10.40.
20th Mar 2018
Time Tunnel (1966)
Continuity mistake: Jiggs goes back with a bag of grenades and a machine gun. He fires the gun, but when he is jumped on by the Trojan, the bag is gone. An object which may be a bag is lying on the ground, but is not the one he brought. No further mention is made of the grenades. (00:21:20)
29th Jan 2018
Time Tunnel (1966)
Visible crew/equipment: When Alba says "He's in this room" books start flying off the shelves. You can see the device used to push the books off the shelves come forward then be retracted. (00:41:00)
1st Jan 2018
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Continuity mistake: When bringing the cannister up, the rope is rigged such that the lifting rope is under the supporting rope. But as soon as it appears on deck, the lifting rope has switched and is now over the supporting rope, and the tackle is nowhere to be seen. (00:49:00)
18th Jul 2017
Away All Boats (1956)
Continuity mistake: When the bulldozer is pushing the boat on the beach, the driver is initially dark skinned with a hat. Then next shot he is fair with no hat. Then back to dark skinned with no hat. (00:24:55)
23rd Jan 2017
Arrival II (1998)
Revealing mistake: When they are trying to escape the building, he throws what looks like a bollard at the glass door. The door shatters before the bollard hits it. (00:53:45)
26th Apr 2016
Wedlock (1991)
Continuity mistake: The bus Frank has hijacked is bus 104, seen as it crashes through the obstacle. But when his bus pulls up behind the tour bus, this bus is also numbered 104. Then they pull up and stop behind 103. (00:55:05)
26th Apr 2016
Wedlock (1991)
Other mistake: The bus Frank is in crashes through a wall of items, at speed, but no visible damage is done to the front of the bus when we see it later. (00:55:05 - 00:55:40)
28th Feb 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Tomorrow is Yesterday - S1-E20
Character mistake: When first considering the impact of Captain Christopher's removal from this time, Spock makes a mistake in his dialogue. He says "They show no record of any irrelevent contribution..." when it should be "relevent..." (00:13:50)
21st Jun 2015
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: When Em is sheltering from the rain after being evicted from the hut, as the wall of fronds falls, the string used to pull it over is visible to the right of the screen. (00:55:20)
12th Apr 2013
Edward the King (1975)
Continuity mistake: When the princess moves between rooms, the door in the first room is left well open, but when the shot changes to the second room, the first door is almost closed. (00:05:40)
19th Apr 2004
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Mickey is introducing the song, Mitch is preparing to play. His hand is sometimes making the opening chord, and sometimes it's by his side. They must have used different takes for this scene and patched them together. (01:10:55)
25th Jan 2004
Blackadder (1986)
25th Jan 2004
Blackadder (1986)
25th Jan 2004
Blackadder (1986)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: They are sitting with their gas masks on waiting for the gas to vent. Look at the reading on the "gas analyser" the needle is way in the red zone. Then a few seconds later it reels back to under the red and the green light comes on. Kind of a sudden fall. (00:43:00)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: We see the "gas analyser", and there are three red lights (must be a bad sign) but the needle is on the far left of the dial, far from the red zone. (Someone must have forgotten to switch it on...) (00:42:00)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: As we see the sub going down, the tech says "descending at 5 ft per second", and another one says "no forward motion". Cut to the sub going forward and down at considerably more than 5 ft per sec and apparently making a rumbling noise while doing it . (00:32:00)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: Rick is using a rebreather, yet seems to be exhaling bubbles, looks more like SCUBA. (01:11:00)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Factual error: The heroine is trying to get to come on the trip in the minisub. She is asked "Name three under-ice amphopods" The word should be "amphipods", and her answer "Gamamarus" should be "Gammarus". (00:25:30)
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the sub resurfaces, we see the sail and part of the hull protruding above the ice. Where is the gash in the ice made by this sub coming through at considerable speed? How did the wings on the sail make it through with such minor damage (the port one just looks a bit bent)?
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the film, we see a whale nearby in a patch of open water (which would have been better to surface in after all), but when the shot pulls back there is no sign of any open water nearby.
5th Nov 2003
Sub Down (1997)
Continuity mistake: After the sub has surfaced, we cut to the happy couple on the sail suddenly, where we have been having eye contact and salutes between Rick and the XO emerging from the aft hatch, they can now no longer see the hatch because the after part of the sail is in the way.
27th Oct 2003
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Trivia: Right at the very end, when the group of people is milling around staring at each other, watch for Barbara Feldon, from Get Smart.
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