Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

Continuity mistake: Going through the old file about Carol's case at the end of the movie, Fury reaches for her picture, which is turned 90° to fit in the folder (being horizontal) but at the cut the picture is already oriented correctly for him to look at. (01:52:20)

Sammo

Agatha Christie's Poirot mistake picture

Double Sin - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: In the car chase, when the woman turns to check the police behind them, the close-up on the steering wheel does not match the position of her hands before and after. Similarly her passenger has the right hand visible when it shouldn't be. (00:28:45)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Baby's Day Out (1994)

Continuity mistake: From the kitchen table, Veeko tosses Baby Bink's storybook to Norby. He is tossing it with the back of the book on the left of the screen. When Joe Pantoliano catches a book tossed from stagehands, the book is turned the other way around. (00:20:05)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: While Shaft and the girl are lowering the boat, a bad guy with a knife approaches. He has an almost intact cigarette in mouth, which burns down an inch in between shots between that time and when he does his bowling-like throw and dies. (01:25:05)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Cross and the lewd red herring doctor talk about the imaginary Futokan bottled water, Morgan Freeman has his left hand on his right wrist when he is shot from the side, but he has his hands joined when the camera is behind him. (01:21:50)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: When Aleme reads from the book about castles, there's an obvious difference between the close-ups (right hand moving on the page) and the wider shots (she holds the page, then she is moving the left hand on it instead of the right). (01:43:20)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: Shaft slips out of the prostitute's room as he hears the clamor downstairs. He slides under the railing; his right hand holds the stick all the way at the top in the second shot, in contrast with the position in the previous. (01:10:15)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: Shaft offers his hand to Aleme helping her up into the scarecrow nest; his left leg is held considerably higher than the right, but in the side view of the ladder the feet are exactly at the opposite; right up, left down. (00:44:10)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: When Shaft says that his folks were not into cotton but tobacco, the Colonel has his hands (and the recorder) on the table, but jump suddenly up at the cut. Shaft's glass is also more full than at the beginning of the scene. (00:35:05)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: The thin man with greasy hair that draws Shaft's suspicion on the bus out of Addis Ababa, is shown with one arm on the back of the seat and one arm on his lap in close-ups, but he has his arms folded in the wider shot. (00:36:50)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Continuity mistake: Cross is talking to Kate who woke up from her drug-induced coma. He mentions his niece and she says "I talked to her." In this part of the scene, Cross' hand goes on and off her shoulder depending on the camera angle. (00:53:00)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Continuity mistake: Cross shows the erotic picture to Dr. Wick Sachs, holding the evidence with his fingers positioned much differently in the reverse shot. The plastic evidence bag is also folded while it was straight in the first view. (01:23:10)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Revealing mistake: In Maiberra, with the big trucks of the villains loudly traversing at top speed the roads, all the women by the road are facing the opposite direction instead, smiling, and some of them looking into the camera. (00:51:10)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: When Shaft arrives in Addis Ababa, the first close-up on Richard Roundtree shows a man with a hat behind him. No men with hats are behind him in the opening shot of the plane ladder, nor the following. (00:31:05)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Baby's Day Out (1994)

Continuity mistake: Veeko is trying to pry Baby Bink away from the gorilla cage pulling him by the shoelace. In the side view the floor of the cage is littered with half eaten fruit, but in the close-up all of that is gone. (00:47:35)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Continuity mistake: The Gentleman Caller interrupts Naomi's execution (of the musical kind) saying that Bach should be "crisp." Naomi seen from behind puts the violin down, but she's still holding it in the close-up. (01:28:30)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Baby's Day Out (1994)

Revealing mistake: When the three criminals jump from one roof to the other to chase the baby, Norby rolls during the landing and ends up against a metal chimney, which gets pushed aside, offering no resistance whatsoever. (00:26:55)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Audio problem: The slave recruiter in the village shoots Shaft and kills his bodyguard. The Luger gun he is using has a suppressor, but the noise it makes is the noise of a normal, not 'silenced' gun. (00:56:55)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: When the protagonist dodges the machine gun fire in Amafi's office building, the desk in front of him has a lamp on it in the frontal views, but with the camera placed behind Shaft there is no lamp. (01:39:55)

Sammo

9th Oct 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: When the Colonel proudly shows the stick and with a skillful hand motion covers the knob before offering it to Shaft, Richard Roundtree's hand is by the glass at first, close to his chest after. (00:34:25)

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