Continuity mistake: When the title of the episode appears in the credits, there are 4 girls passing in front of the pool bar. One of them is very recognisable for her circlet in her hair, sporting purple and gold bikini and a ripped physique. That same girl, with or without the others, passes in front of the same bar several other times (at least 3) during the scene. (00:01:35)
Sammo
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scene the position of the girl in the inflatable chair is not coherent in the various views. In the establishing shot of the pool, she is in the corner of the part opposite the house, but then she is in a diagonally opposite spot, and later when Morita is clearing his throat to give his speech she has two different guys (not too far apart from each other but still in distinct position) by her feet. (00:01:40)
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: After his speech, the guys toss Jack Metro (Pat Morita) in the pool. Mrs. Eleanor Greeley is present in the faraway shot, and she has her shades in her right hand, but it cuts to a close-up of her going through her sexy chewing schtick holding them in her left hand. (00:02:50)
22nd May 2020
The Upside Of Anger (2005)
Continuity mistake: Joan Allen is on the couch with Kevin Costner, watching TV. Her daughter come back from school and tells her "You're gonna get her yourself tomorrow." Joan Allen lowers the hand with the cigarette, but it's still up in the next shot as if nothing happened. (00:07:00)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: When TC says "Okay, you're the boss!" to the mobsters in his chopper, the back seats are empty - he lost 2/3 of his passengers. (00:28:25)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Magnum shuns Katrina in her tennis uniform trying to plan his day ahead for him. He gets in the car, wearing his plain brown shirt and baseball hat. First shot as he drives to town, with the voiceover going "Other than being a bit presumptive..." etc, and the Magnum driving the Ferrari is hat-less and with a bright red Hawaiian shirt. Of course when he reaches the campus he's in the hat and brown shirt again. (00:19:35)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: When Magnum gets in the open theater, the natural light on the ramp is very different depending on the angle of shooting; it has a pronounced shadow of the parapet with strong sunlight, or nothing of the sort. (00:44:00)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Katrina puts down the perfectly developed picture of Magnum and Margo by the car. There's nothing specific next to the spot of the counter where the photo goes, but in close-up there's a pair of scissors just handy for her to do her bunny boiler routine with. (00:32:35)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Margos asks Magnum "Who's that?" seeing the chopper fly so low by the villa. Magnum is mostly off-frame but you can see his arm reach up to do the gesture he actually does only in the next shot - reach for his Detroit Tigers hat. (00:29:25)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Magnum asks the (moderately) jealous Hawaiian about the scratch on his car. The guy says he didn't do it because it's "not nice." Margo is moving her hand from the bottom to the top of the stack she's holding, but it's back in place at the bottom in the next shot. (00:24:00)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Magnum drops by at the acting seminar his disgruntled girlfriend is teaching. The books on the table appear in different positions under the different camera angles. (00:21:45)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Italian Ice - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Magnum pilfers the car keys from the cars, but in the first close-up there's daytime light to the shot, nothing like the night setting of the rest of the scene. (00:02:30)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Higgins hobbles towards the club's beach bar in his horrid state (you'd think he wouldn't be caught dead looking so ridiculous) and starts reminiscing about the war and trying to mooch a cigarette. In the background, the same blonde with a black bikini hops over the wall twice, and same for the Asian with a blue/black swimsuit. Moreover, a girl in a red bikini and yellow towel keeps making back and forth walks by the surf on the beach. (00:29:30)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Rick tosses the lighter on the table when Magnum shows up tobacco-blocking poor Higgins. The lighter is in a spot on the table next to a paper cup that was never there and is gone after, and the lighter moves too. (00:30:45)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Randolph puts the secretary on hold as Weston Reese tells him his plan to keep Magnum a target. Randolph's arm is in a different position on the desk depending on the camera angle. (00:28:25)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is in James Randolph's office and 'the new guy' is talking to him. He says he disagrees on Magnum's hypothesis; in the transition both him and Randolph have very different positions, with Randolph's hand on the glass and arm raised differently, and J. Weston Reese's arms from crossed in front, to his pockets. (00:26:45)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum is hunched over the Ferrari opening the door when the car first tries to run him over, but in close-up Tom Selleck is standing tall. (00:22:50)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the very brief dinner when Claudia tells Rick that it's over between them, she casts a shadow behind her in close-ups, all the way to the left in the other shots. The difference in ambient lighting of the whole table spot is significant too. (00:18:20)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum and the corporate executive are having a chat after the board meeting. Throughout the scene, the same extras (starting with a man in a blue shirt and camel shorts, a man with a brown pattern shirt, a woman with a baggy sand dress) walk back and forth over and over in the mall or behind them at the tables. (00:08:00)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum reports that he narrowed the possible spy candidates to those in marketing, his hands are crossed over - but in the next shot, he is crossing them again. (00:06:40)
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