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Continuity mistake: During the final battle, the T800 at one point is trapped but manages to free himself (losing one arm in the process). He comes back to slice the T1000 in half with a metal bar. The T1000 kicks backwards at him (karate-style) - and the metal bar is flying away! Yet in the following shot, it is still there embedded in the T1000.

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Suggested correction: It doesn't fly away. It is wrestled out of the T-800's hands as the T-1000 turns around because it's stuck in the T-1000's body.

lionhead

Like, to the top left of the frame? Possibly. Depends a bit on playback speed too.

Spiny Norman

18th Jun 2022

Pat & Mat (1976)

Vinari - S1-E24

Continuity mistake: In the close-up of putting the lids on the bottles, Mat's hands have 5 fingers (briefly done by a real person instead of the puppets). However, throughout the series, the duo is consistently 4-fingered - and that includes other close-ups that were also created with real hands briefly replacing the animation.

Spiny Norman

20th Apr 2022

Dr. No (1962)

Continuity mistake: The car chase that ends with the quip, "they were on their way to a funeral." During this car chase, you can see both cars coming round the same bend not just once, but several times. In between, there are close-up interior shots of Bond too. But three of the longshots are all from the same curve.

Spiny Norman

29th Nov 2021

The Mummy (1999)

Continuity mistake: During the foreign legion battle, the defensive line starts to retreat from the wall, falling under the force of the attack. Rick is at the centre of a group of five soldiers who are more or less in a V-pattern. When the camera changes position from front to back, there's just 3 of them.

Spiny Norman

Continuity mistake: Hargon has a hook for a left hand. After the opening credits (during the dice roll scene) the hook is briefly on his right arm. Then it's left again during the rest of the episode.

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Continuity mistake: When Uncas single-handedly attacks Magua's party on the mountain, he shoots an opponent who is filmed falling off the side of the mountain. When the camera cuts back to the fight, you can see him fall down again on the far left (while Uncas is attacking the next one in line).

Spiny Norman

19th Apr 2021

Floris (1969)

1st Sep 2020

Gladiator (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Lucius descends the stairs to greet his mother and Commodus, there is a brief close-up sideways which shows, behind them, a banner, and two stones with hieroglyphs. There are in fact several Egyptian obelisks in Rome, that were taken there in antiquity. The only trouble is, it doesn't match with the long shot at all. (Commentary track confirms this was not shot on one existing location - only the four top steps of the stairs were really there). (00:57:31)

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Mind My Maharajah - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: During the snooker game, while they are discussing the wager over the sergeant major's next shot, the maharajah has quietly flipped a cover over one pocket of the table. His servant puts the same lid on the same hole again (it is the same pocket, in between Gloria and the two officers). The chair in the background also appears to have moved a bit to the left. (00:18:30)

Spiny Norman

19th Feb 2019

The ABC Murders (2018)

Show generally

Continuity mistake: The only letter that Alexander B. Cust really wrote himself is briefly shown when Poirot visits the office of the Twinkle Toes stocking company. The lowercase "R" is too high every time (meaning that the typewriter isn't perfect, a detail put in for realism). Yet all the close-ups of a typewriter progressing through the work on that letter, or any of the letters written on the same machine, show a perfectly aligned "r."

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