Sammo

17th Apr 2021

Justice League (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Wonder Woman says "He's back" looking at the freshly resurrected shirtless Superman, the policeman by the patrol car is leaning against it differently compared to the previous line-up shot; he was lowering the hand with the radio, and he's on the contrary talking on it now. (01:13:35)

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

Justice League (2017)

Continuity mistake: Aquaman puts Clark's body in the amniotic pool. The photo of his father falls in the water-like liquid and begins to sink, and quickly. Minutes pass with the hacking and all the discussion in between on how to power the process, but when Flash finally 'jumpstarts' the machine, a shot is dedicated to the photo that is still there in the pool, yet to be submerged. (01:10:35)

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

Justice League (2017)

Continuity mistake: Steppenwolf sends away the parademons saying "This one is mine" to confront Wonder Woman one-on-one. She says in close-up "You overestimate yourself" and her right shoulder is clear of hair, but in the previous shot she had hair right in front of that shoulder. (00:54:55)

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

Justice League (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Flash calls himself "a snackhole", he holds the pizza carton with the hand at its corner, then more towards the middle. (00:38:45)

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

Justice League (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Aquaman dumps the sailor that was attacked by parademons, the man has no green stains on himself, but he exhibits large ones in a close-up, not to mention that Aquaman's hand is clean in the rest of the scene other than the glass close-up (as we can see from the Snyder cut, the encounter had nothing to do with parademons in the original concept). (00:42:40)

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

Justice League (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Wonder Woman breaks through the door, the left side flies off, sliding on the floor almost all the way to the couch in the reverse shot, and is closer to WW in the next. (00:09:45)

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: Back at the post office/sweets shop, Howie witnesses a bizarre bit of 'traditional medicine' involving a frog. The animal is held in close-up in a different way than in the first shot - the position of the last 3 fingers changes. Moreover, despite the spoken lines overlapping between shots giving the impression of continuity, the candy jar appears out of thin air, since the woman had just barely put the frog away in the other box.

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: In the former churchyard, Sergeant Howie walks past a woman breastfeeding and holding an egg. He looks at two mostly empty crates of fruit; the one on the right rotates 90° between shots as he approaches it.

Sammo

17th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: When Sergeant Howard checks out the school register, he follows the line pertaining Rowan with his finger. His finger has gone quite a way towards the center of the book, but in the reverse shot the hand is at the edge.

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: Howie chalks up on the blackboard the name of the missing girl, Rowan Morrison. He then notices the empty desk and walks towards it. Now look at the blackboard in the background; the writing changed - the shape of the Rs in "Morrison" being the most conspicuous difference.

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: Sergeant Howie is being quite critical about the food quality at the inn. Willow tells him that he can have "peaches and cream", and he replies "Aye, from a can I suppose." The beer fills his mug up to the top section of the handle. Brief cut to Britt Ekland, and in the next shot Howie's mug is half empty even if he didn't have time to drink - nor it is implied he moved at all, the position is the same.

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: Sergeant Howie cuts short the bawdy song at the pub banging an ashtray on the counter. You can then notice that in the wider shots the scarf at the neck of the owner of the pub is positioned differently compared to the closer views; a bit of it is untucked/tucked into the collar.

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: After the part when the song mentions the 'toes' of the Landlord's Daughter, there's a bit when a burly bearded man gets behind Willow and bumps his large literal pouch against her rear, performing pelvic thrusts while his hands are kept at the height of his shoulder. Cut (during the song, played continuously) and his hands are joined above his head.

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: During "The landlord's daughter", the protagonists starts to realise something is quite a bit weird once one of the patrons mentions the parts that stand 'at attention'. In the background, Willow's dad walked to the right and is facing away from the crowd, but in the next close-up on Edward Woodward, he's behind him and smoking facing him.

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Wicker Man (1973)

Continuity mistake: The protagonists are in the back of the post office to see Myrtle. She is using as model one of the chocolate hares. After the first close-up on the drawing, when her mum leaves, the hare is gone, and it is back at the next cut. (00:10:55)

Sammo

15th Apr 2021

The Scarlet Claw (1944)

Continuity mistake: The postman walks into the tavern as the bell tolls. When he sits at the table with the others, everyone changed position at the cut. The bearded man had his hand on his glass, and now it's gone, and the priest's hand was not on the table, but then it is. (00:02:15)

Sammo

14th Apr 2021

Rules Don't Apply (2016)

Continuity mistake: Howard Hughes is on the phone inside the screening room after they played the news reel about his successful prototype flight. During the conversation, the phone cord is under his armpit or above the forearm depending on the angle. (00:46:30)

Sammo

14th Apr 2021

Rules Don't Apply (2016)

Continuity mistake: In the hospital scene, the nurse holds the enema bag at different heights between shots. (00:38:25)

Sammo

14th Apr 2021

Rules Don't Apply (2016)

Continuity mistake: The protagonist is on the couch with his girlfriend in Fresno. He mumbles worried about her dad "knowing"; his hands are joined with different placement (left on top, right on top) between shots. (00:13:15)

Sammo

13th Apr 2021

The Undefeated (1969)

Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, when John Wayne followed by the harmonica player is talking to Marian McCargo, her scarf goes from left to right or right to left depending on the angle of the shot. (01:56:00)

Sammo

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