Sammo

26th Sep 2020

Fighting Back (1982)

Continuity mistake: John is helping Mr. Nardini at the beginning of the movie. The box breaks right away and spills its content on the doorsteps, and the various items (pay attention to the blue bags of pasta for instance) shift position at every cut. (00:03:50)

Sammo

26th Sep 2020

Bullet (1996)

Continuity mistake: Bullet approaches the Jaguar with the two rich kids. He is leaning against the roof of the car, but in the close-up where he spits through the half opened window, he's leaning against the glass instead. (00:05:25)

Sammo

19th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Continuity mistake: In their first meeting, Rick Latimer stubbornly holds his hand out to Jake Phillips until he properly shakes it. Louis Gossett Jr. takes his baseball cap off in close-up, but in the reverse shot he still has it on his head. (00:14:50)

Sammo

19th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Revealing mistake: The principal apprehends the two younger and bigger guys at once (and for some reason they don't gang up on him and kick his butt). The other guys in the Chevy decide to get back in and drive away. You can already see on the dirt the path they will follow, which is logical for the bit in reverse but not so much for the part when they turn left and go forward, which is not how the car could arrive to that point. And when later the car circles around, it moves also on a path that was not showing in the first shot. (00:11:50)

Sammo

19th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Continuity mistake: The purple Chevy Impala rams the net White Zac was climbing. The net falls all over the car and starts covering the kid too, but in the next shot he is on top of the net. (00:10:30)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Continuity mistake: Rick is pacing behind his ex and the lawyer. He goes past a man in a grey suit in a shot, another man in a grey suit coupled with a woman in a second one, and the next one shows him in the room without either of those people behind him. (00:03:15)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Continuity mistake: When Rick jumps on the bar counter to grab the bat, the beers mugs in front of his friends to his left change quantity of liquid and direction the handle points at. (00:03:10)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Continuity mistake: The protagonist just flushed down the drugs a girl was selling in a bathroom stall. She threatens him saying "Someone's gonna come lookin' for you." In the next shot, the shadow she and the other poofy-haired girl by the stall project on the door tripled in size. (00:33:30)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

The Principal (1987)

Continuity mistake: Rick Latimer is at the bar with his buddies. He spots his ex-wife on a date with the divorce attorney and begins rambling. "This kind of sh. Happens", one of his friends says. The friend next to him, rightmost position, is smoking, and his hand is suddenly raised at the cut. (00:02:45)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

Voodoo Passion (1977)

Continuity mistake: After bathing with Olga, Susan answers the phone and talks with her husband. At the cut following the moment she says "I can hardly wait" Olga playing with her towel changes position. (00:10:50)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

Voodoo Passion (1977)

Continuity mistake: Susan reaches Jack at the consulate. She hugs him and he introduces the other people in the room. As he says "This is Mr. Rodier", the other person in the room has suddenly his hands in his pockets at the cut. (00:12:05)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

Voodoo Passion (1977)

Continuity mistake: Jack's sister invites Susan to give her a kiss. She has her elbow on the sheets. She giggles and there's a reverse shot, and the sheets now go up to her armpit. (00:09:20)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

Voodoo Passion (1977)

Other mistake: Susan gets upstairs as Iris shows her the room. She manages to miss the naked woman lounging in bed - watching the scene, it's an impossibility. It might not be the proverbial elephant, but it's just something so very unusual and conspicuous in the room, in a spot perfectly in line of sight that it makes no sense Susan would miss it and be surprised by that later. (00:08:20)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

Voodoo Passion (1977)

Audio problem: In the initial narration, just after the voiceover mentions the gods and "protect men from their own weakness" you can see the singer moving his mouth without any voice being heard, and in the next shot the flute player peeking at the camera laughing to himself instead of playing - but the sound we hear is just perfect anyway. (00:02:00)

Sammo

18th Sep 2020

Voodoo Passion (1977)

Visible crew/equipment: Throughout the whole intro, most bandmembers, in particular the second drummer from the left, are more focused on peeking at the camera than on anything else.

Sammo

Other mistake: When you pull Terry Bogard in his King of Fighters XII version, his quote says "I don't know about 'legendary' means."

Sammo

Other mistake: The quote you get when you pull Benimaru '99 from the gacha summon is "Don't go too rough on a beautiful lady." Benimaru is a cisgender man.

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Mr. Stillwell limps his way into the parking lot after work, his jacket on his shoulder. He gets blindsided by an ugly dude who punches him away and...the jacket is gone, lost forever, not on the ground, just vanished. (01:08:00)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Van Damme flies out of the ring (handspringing like a pro-wrestler), the surprise and cheer from Ian's cornerpeople is different across the two shots (for instance, Dean leans in to look at two very different times). (01:35:40)

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Revealing mistake: When Jason does his backflipping move that wins him the match...you can actually see it's Corey Yuen dressed as him that does it. (01:35:25)

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