Dr Wilson

9th Feb 2004

The Experiment (2001)

Continuity mistake: When the prisoners escape, they lock the door of the cell and break the key, forcing the guards to go another way. But when Dr Thorn returns, the door is opened.

Dr Wilson

9th Feb 2004

Spirited Away (2001)

Spirited Away mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Chihiro is preparing the bath for the intruder, the rope attached to the water pipe disappears when she sees the faceless ghost. (00:57:00)

Dr Wilson

9th Feb 2004

Spirited Away (2001)

Factual error: Not long into the film, D'Artagnan jumps in some hay. There's a flag of the province of Québec (Canada) visible in the background. This film is set in France at a time this flag didn't even exist.

Dr Wilson

9th Feb 2004

Igby Goes Down (2002)

9th Feb 2004

Igby Goes Down (2002)

9th Feb 2004

Igby Goes Down (2002)

9th Feb 2004

Igby Goes Down (2002)

9th Feb 2004

South Park (1997)

9th Feb 2004

South Park (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Jacquouille and Jean-Pierre are in the Middle-Age, they want to alert the village that the Burgundians are going to attack it. They slide from the hill and a dead tree, or even an antennae is visible on the top of it. It's not visible in other shots.

Dr Wilson

4th Feb 2004

Star Wars (1977)

Revealing mistake: When Greedo is threatening Han in the Cantina, there's a black object behind him. When Han shoots him, the object is smaller and some round things appear on the wall. It's visible in the screenshot of the dummy Greedo. (00:50:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Lady Ginette is preparing a cocktail, she takes a bottle of red wine and starts to pour it in the bucket, but from another angle it's a bottle of vodka.

Dr Wilson

Continuity mistake: When Jacquard is in the Middle-Age escaping from the villagers, he passes in a backstreet and pushes a barrel to block the way. The shot later, the barrels are stacked normally.

Dr Wilson

Continuity mistake: When Freddie is driving the boat, the direction keeps changing from shots to shots. Dickie told him to keep the same direction.

Dr Wilson

28th Jan 2004

Ran (1985)

Continuity mistake: When the wife of the new lord arrives at the castle and asks the guard why the other people don't bow in front of her, the guard runs to the other side of the road and speaks to those people. The shot later, he has disappeared.

Dr Wilson

Trivia: The apartment where Frank lives in Atlanta is the perfect one for a single man, according to the philosophy of Hugh Heffner, the founder of Playboy magazine.

Dr Wilson

Factual error: When Carl explains the check system to the other police officers, they show a map of the USA with Kansas City in Nebraska instead of Kansas, and Boston in Maine instead of Massachusetts. The next time the map was shown, the cities are at the good place and the shades of gray are different. (00:43:20)

Dr Wilson

28th Jan 2004

Ran (1985)

Revealing mistake: When the guard that wants to kill the fool is hit by an arrow, you can see the outline of a protection plate or something like that under his clothes.

Dr Wilson

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