mrfrede

14th Jun 2013

Godzilla (1998)

Continuity mistake: Nick and company are in a plane after leaving Tahiti. A soldier goes up to the colonel and tells him about the fishing trawlers that were pulled under. Just after that, the camera shows three guys sitting down that look up. In the following shots those guys are gone. (00:19:50)

mrfrede

13th Jun 2013

King Kong (2005)

Continuity mistake: At the end, planes are attacking Kong on top of the building. They stop when they see Ann up there. At one point she is standing, hugging Kong's arm. The camera angle changes to a wide shot and shows her about ten feet away and standing up from a crouched position.

mrfrede

13th Jun 2013

King Kong (2005)

Continuity mistake: Carl is talking to Ann in a restaurant. He asks her if she's a size 4 and she moves to stand up. In the background is a waitress walking toward them. As she stands, the camera changes and the waitress has disappeared. (00:14:50)

mrfrede

28th May 2013

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Continuity mistake: At the very end, Jefferson is shot after dropping grenades into the vent pipes. He lands face down with his right arm bent and his right hand right next to his helmet. The camera cuts to those left on the truck. When it shows Jefferson again, his hand is now about a foot away from his helmet.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: The crop duster takes off to spray the spider hills. He is attacked in the plane by spiders and starts to fly erratically. The camera shows the spider lady, the vet and others from behind through an open shed door. They are standing in the open. The next shot shows the spider lady and the vet up close from the front and they are now in front of the shed wall. Just before the plane crashes they are shown from the shed again and they are all in the open again.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: When they walk up to the spider hill to burn it, the rancher sticks a pitchfork in the ground straight up and starts pouring gas on the hill. The next scene shows a spider crawling into a hole. When it goes back to showing the rancher pouring gas, the pitchfork is now at an angle.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: The spider lady and the vet go to the rancher's place to burn out the spider hill. While there, a bull runs out and collapses. While the spider lady is talking to the rancher's wife, her hands are by her side. When the camera switches to the wife's point of view, the spider lady's hands are in her coat pockets. When the view switches back, her hands are by her side again.

mrfrede

28th May 2013

Godzilla (1998)

Continuity mistake: They go into the broadcast booth in Madison Square Garden. While Audrey is broadcasting, the French guy moves the vertical blinds to his left to look out the window and sees a dinosaur raise its head. Just after that the view switches to the dinosaur's side and he is now holding the blinds to his right.

mrfrede

15th May 2013

Them! (1954)

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, the two cops leave the trailer to go to Gramps' store. When they leave, the shadows are low but there should be plenty of daylight left. They arrive at the store and it's pitch black out, but it was only a twelve mile drive.

mrfrede

15th May 2013

Them! (1954)

Continuity mistake: When they go to visit the trailer, Pat is surprised by an ant on a bluff. When they shoot it, it falls with it's head just over the edge and two bushes in front of it. They switch to a camera angle from behind the ant and now its head is further back and there is a large white rock in front of the ant's head.

mrfrede

8th Apr 2013

Rio Bravo (1959)

Continuity mistake: The sheriff, Carlos and wife and Feathers are in the back room. The sheriff asks Feathers if she was sorry she missed the stage. When he does, Carlos' wife turns her head to look at Feathers then turns back to the right. Immediately after she does that, the scene switches angles and she is shown turning her head to the right again.

mrfrede

17th Mar 2013

This Island Earth (1955)

Continuity mistake: Three scientists escape from the lab. The car stops and two get out and go into a pond surrounded by water. They dip under the water as the car explodes. When they come up they are still surrounded by water. Next, the German scientist shows up and they dip under the water again. After the explosion the camera shows the two in the pond again but now they're surrounded by reeds.

mrfrede

17th Mar 2013

This Island Earth (1955)

Continuity mistake: Shortly after the movie starts, Cal's plane lands and they go into the lab. Cal looks through a scope at an experiment and his assistant is next to him without glasses. After the experiment flames out, they show the men again but now his assistant is wearing glasses. (00:08:50)

mrfrede

12th Jan 2013

Mysterious Island (1961)

Continuity mistake: Shortly after they take off in the balloon they had to knock out the Reb. They decide to throw him out. As they reach down to grab him, he starts to wake up. When they bring him to the edge of the basket he's out again.

mrfrede

12th Jan 2013

Mysterious Island (1961)

Continuity mistake: As they are approaching the island, they have to climb into the ring above the balloon and cut the basket loose. It switches back and forth from long shots to close shots. In the long shots, the ring is at sea level bouncing off the waves. In the close shots, they are 10-15 feet above the water and some of them jump into the ocean.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: After they've been on the island for awhile, Neb finds a chest floating in the water. It's about 6 feet long, made only of light colored wood and has two wooden bands around it. When Neb pulls it to shore it's a completely different chest. Now it's shorter, made of reddish colored wood and has iron fittings.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: When Elena is attacked by the giant bird she is knocked to the ground face up. The bird puts its foot on her and she's face down. A later scene she's face up again.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: They flip the giant crab on its back and start to slide it toward the geyser. The next shot is just before the crab goes into the geyser it's now right side up. It hits a rock and flips landing into the geyser on its back again.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: Herbert jumps onto the back of the giant bird. In the close shots, he starts to stab it with the knife in his left hand. In the long shots he's holding on with his left arm.

mrfrede

Continuity mistake: After the battle with the crab, Neb has a shirt on. When they climb the volcano he doesn't have a shirt on and doesn't have it with him. They spot the boat and go down to find the women on the beach. Here he is wearing a shirt again.

mrfrede

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