Sammo

Continuity mistake: The three friends are talking in the cafe about the Morris Chestnut dude. Throughout the scene, the waitress with the polka dot shirt keeps popping in view; when the two shout "Harold?" all of a sudden Jason has his hands on Mikey's shoulder, and at the end of the shot the waitress just vanishes. (00:04:00)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: In the arms dealer scene, De Niro puts the last gun down with the others he is purchasing. It's at the exact angle as the others, pointing to the right, but in the close-up of the suitcase with the holster on top of the selection, now that gun (the so called "."380 Walther") is angled left, opposite of the others. (00:57:00)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Rizzo's sadistic lieutenant pokes and pats repeatedly Guido in the chest and calls him a "man of steel." When he turns around, the knot of his fancy scarf is folded differently compared to the previous shot. (00:17:20)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Presumably the same day when he passes by Palantine's HQ and does not see Betsy at her desk, Travis nearly bumps his taxi into the same girl (Jodie Foster) he failed to save from her pimp. The sequence does not concern itself with continuity at all; the girls move away from the taxi twice in two different ways (look at how the long haired hooker turns), and De Niro's hands change position on the wheel with no logic. (00:51:40)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: In front of the favourite taxi diner, just after De Niro tells Wizard that he has some "bad ideas" in his head, you can see on his face and the wall behind him the characteristic intermittent pulse of emergency vehicle lights. The shot change, with Wizard talking across the cut implying continuity, and a few seconds later, right in that streeet, a police car with emergency lights on pulls over to apprehend someone. (00:47:25)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: At Belmore's, Travis looks at the crimpled 20 dollars note in his hand; in close-up the top left (relatively speaking) corner of the note is folded perfectly towards him, while in the other shot there was no straight folding line. (00:45:35)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Travis walks out of Belmore to talk to Wizard. Right at the door he passes by some hoodlums; he is staring down in close-up a black kid with a chain. Another kid with a white T-shirt, carrying nunchakus, is behind him in that close-up, but walked already way ahead of him in the very first shot. (00:46:00)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Betsy walks away from the porn theater, and Travis follows her. He says, trying to yank her back by her arm "Wait a second, I wanna talk to you." Two prostitutes walk behind them. In the shot that follows, behind De Niro, the same prostitutes pop again in frame walking in the same direction, not having advanced at all and in fact being behind their previous position. (00:36:30)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Travis is in the Charles Palantine campaign office to talk to Betsy for the first time. When he asks, leaning on the desk "What do you say?", one of the volunteers, a girl wearing jeans and a T-shirt in horizontal stripes, walks behind him. In the next shot, with Cybill Shepherd playing with her pencil as she ponders an answer, the same girl walks again behind Robert De Niro, coming from the same direction as earlier. (00:22:25)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

The Layover (2017)

Continuity mistake: In front of the elevator at the Sheraton, a stoned Kate touches Meg's lips; she uses just her index finger, but as the doors go "ding" she suddenly has 4 fingers raised in the reverse shot. (00:19:50)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

Smoking Gun - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: In the prologue, Young Murray finds a man he does not know sitting at a table. He advances towards him in a wide shot of the room, and the man positions his left hand on the corner of the table, but in the following closer angle on him, his hands are close together exactly like in the initial shot by the same angle. It's like the middle one never happened. (00:03:10)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

The Headless Nun - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Sydney Fox retrieves the parchment with the map, she holds it differently (probably turned 180°) between the close-up and the reverse shots. It also should be noted that the world-class archaeologist just casually dumps on the floor like a piece of garbage a ornate XVI century flask. (00:23:50)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

The Headless Nun - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Nigel wonders why prisoners write on walls. He moves the flashlight from the left hand to his right. When he walks back and the shot changes though, instantly it is back in his left. (00:22:10)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

The Headless Nun - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Nigel accidentally (unconvincingly so) steps on the Beautiful Nun 's bathrobe in a close-up. His toothbrush hand is down his hip, in frame, but when they both gasp in a reaction shot, the toothbrush is between them. (00:17:30)

Sammo

15th Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Continuity mistake: The bloodstain on Sean's shirt is different between the close-up when Stephanie checks on him and when he stands again. (01:45:50)

Sammo

15th Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Continuity mistake: In the opening shots of the funeral, Stephanie is holding her son's hand in the first, and his shoulder in the second. (00:41:25)

Sammo

15th Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Continuity mistake: Sean hands the "vegetable smoothie" to Stephanie holding it by the middle, which becomes the top in the reverse shot. (00:30:00)

Sammo

15th Mar 2020

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

15th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

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