Continuity mistake: In the beginning, Ana's fringe changes from an uneven fringe, to even, and uneven again; back and forth.
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9th Dec 2015
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
4th Dec 2015
The Money Pit (1986)
Deliberate mistake: When Shelly Long is pretending to play a skilled violinist, to achieve this, when we first see this, Shelly's bow is above the strings; hence, no noise.
4th Dec 2015
The Money Pit (1986)
Audio problem: In the beginning, Walter and Anna are in bed and Walter gently slaps Anna on the hip 4 times, but we hear 5 slaps.
30th Nov 2015
Across the Pacific (1942)
Continuity mistake: Near the end, as a plane is getting ready to run down the airstrip, Bogie knocks the gunman out, then uses the gun to shoot the plane in its tracks. When the machine gun starts to fire, it has a long strip of bullets, then fewer, and so on.
30th Nov 2015
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Continuity mistake: After a day at the beach, Lucy has a long walk ahead of her via a very long dirt road. When Lucy starts the walk, there is a man/woman riding a horse-drawn wagon; but, after a brief chat with Daniel, when she starts walking again, the wagon is gone, and there are no visible side dirt roads.
25th Nov 2015
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Raimund pulls the girl with the red coat off the railing bridge, his briefcase opens and his pupils' essays fall out and get wet in the rain. Raimond and the girl pick them all up, but they are a mess; miraculously, when Raimond starts to put them back, they fit easily, and they are not soaking wet.
25th Nov 2015
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Audio problem: When Armedeo and Estefania are ready to leave in the car, George stands in the driveway with a gun aimed at Estefania. Armedao gets out of the car, but the car's ignition goes off without Armedeo doing it.
25th Nov 2015
The Third Man (1949)
Other mistake: Near the end, Harry Lime is trying to escape through the sewers of Vienna. There is an opening to the street; Harry puts all his fingers through the holes, trying to lift the metal plate, but Harry has a pistol in his right hand; there is no way he can poke all his fingers through with his right hand with the pistol in it.
16th Nov 2015
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, a man who can see into the future puts his hands into a bowl filled with ashes. His hands now are blackened with soot, except for a side-on shot, where his hands are clean, with only a small amount of soot on them.
16th Nov 2015
The Gift (2000)
Continuity mistake: Annie takes the photo album from her sleeping son's arms and she heads for the door, with the album under her arm. As she appears out the door, the album is gone.
16th Nov 2015
The Gift (2000)
Audio problem: Buddy drives a manual truck, but when he goes around a corner, we can hear the truck's gears changing. Buddy's arm stays glued out the window, so he can't be changing gears.
16th Nov 2015
Blindspot (2015)
Factual error: The memory Jane has of the man who takes away all her memories holds a butterfly needle to Jane's arm. The butterfly needle is called that because it has 2 wings and a body in the middle. To use this needle properly, the person takes both wings up together to be able to slide the small needle in, but the person we see using it, doesn't do this - he holds the needle behind the 2 wings and then inserts it. Also, this needle is far too small to handle the bag of drug-filled fluid that is intended for Jane's arm.
16th Nov 2015
Airport (1970)
Other mistake: When they are trying to put together the character of the potential bomber, when he bought insurance, the woman who took his details said she remembered him because he didn't seem to have much money for someone going to Europe, but the bomber had told her he had changed all his US money for Lira, and when she persisted, he said the money was all in big bills, and he had left his cheque book at home - so he did have money.
Suggested correction: He said he did, but we know he didn't,, and anxious as he was, he was a terrible liar. The insurance gal saw right through him. Clearly, no talent for either insurance fraud or mass murder.
You might also take into account that in those days 10,000 Italian Lira was worth a measly US$5.69, so having nothing but "big bills" - large denomination notes - would not have been difficult.
12th Nov 2015
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Continuity mistake: At the end, Lucy is sitting in the big chair in her bedroom, and Martha leaves, pulling the door closed with her. In the next shot, the door is wide open. In addition when Lucy dies, her head is turned to her right, but as she leaves as a ghost, she looks back at herself, and her head is now turned to the left.
12th Nov 2015
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Character mistake: After a year in Gull Cottage, Lucy and Martha walk up the stairs together. Lucy says she had a dream a year ago and Martha says she remembers her telling her about it, but because it was about the ghost, she didn't tell her a word. So Martha didn't hear a word.
9th Nov 2015
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
2nd Nov 2015
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, as Raimund is crossing the bridge in the rain, his umbrella turns inside out, but as it flies away to the river, it is not turned.
21st Oct 2015
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Question: Who plays the shape shifter - the man/huge bear?
Chosen answer: The character is Beorn and it is played by Mikael Persbrandt.
9th Oct 2015
Rebecca (1940)
Factual error: Crawley tells the girl that Rebecca's body was in the sea for two months and Maxim had to identify her, which is totally ridiculous: A body in the sea for two months would have been eaten and nibbled on by everything that eats meat and is passing by; there would be hardly anything left.
1st Oct 2015
The Reader (2008)
Question: At the trial, first, we are told that all the women died in the church, but then a woman survived - we are not told how - and she appears to be quite old; then we are told that her granddaughter wrote the book about it. Was the granddaughter in the church, as well, and survived somehow? I'm confused.
Chosen answer: There were two survivors: a woman and her daughter, who was named Ilana. It was Ilana's memoirs of her and her mother's experience in the camp that were published. Ilana, the daughter, may have helped with the actual writing based on her mother's memories (since Ilana's own memories could be bleak, as she was just a child).
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