Visible crew/equipment: When Thornhill exits the phone booth 6 stage lights are reflected on the glass door.
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18th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill makes a call at the train station the cord of the phone is curled in the wide angle but straight in the close-up.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Other mistake: At the train station, the same red-haired woman in a green dress with two distinctive suitcases appears three times in different places despite her walking the opposite way. Sometimes she has a hat and others not.
25th Nov 2022
The Living Daylights (1987)
Continuity mistake: On the frozen lake, a cottage is blown to pieces, a wheel flies away, and many explosions take place, rising big clouds of black smoke. However, in the wide angle, the place is spotless.
Visible crew/equipment: While in hot-pursuit, Han and Chewie are desperately trying to fix the Millennium Falcon (just after C-3PO informs them of the damaged hyperdrive, making light-speed impossible). In one shot Chewbacca has a bare human thumb, without gloves or makeup, and can be easily spotted in the lower left part of the screen. (00:38:00)
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the car park, when Bond activates the car-camera the phone screen shows the car next to Bond and the black and yellow column, but not Bond, despite him being in sight.
27th Aug 2001
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: This can only be seen in the widescreen version. When Han, Leia and Chewie venture out of the Falcon to investigate the cave they're hiding in on the asteroid, as they walk towards the left of the screen you can see the edge of the tarpaulin sheet they're standing on as well as the faint outline of a crew member trying to get out of the camera shot. (00:58:40)
27th Nov 2022
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Continuity mistake: After Luke's snowspeeder crashes on the snow, right before he exits, there's no damage on the right window. From the outside shot it's broken all over.
25th Nov 2022
Star Wars (1977)
Revealing mistake: Before Darth kills Obi-Wan, he rises his saber to prepare to die and his face and hands are perfectly visible. Right before Darth kills him, there's a wide shot where his face is missing and a black object is used to hold the saber, thus revealing the actor was replaced by an empty cloak to achieve the vanishing effect.
25th Nov 2022
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Revealing mistake: The volcano erupting is an obvious composite of at least two images: an explosion on a mountain and lava flowing. The cut-out footage of the lava is blatantly evident for one can see the outline of the pasted film, which has a lighter colour than the mountain's.
20th Nov 2022
The Lost City (2022)
Continuity mistake: When Abigail is showing the book, Loretta holds food with her fingers and eats it. Shot cuts and not only does the food reappear, but her right hand is lowered.
19th Nov 2022
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Revealing mistake: When the movie begins Bond climbs up a telephone pole. From behind he is obviously not Sean Connery: not only his build is different, but his hair is a weird squared wig, maybe some sort of security helmet.
19th Nov 2022
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Bond enters the room to free the woman there's a chair next to the bed. A shot later it's a meter away. (00:03:40)
10th Nov 2022
Star Wars (1977)
Continuity mistake: Darth Vader fires at Luke's X-wing and blows R2D2's top off. Half a second later it shows no damage at all. It's not even scorched. When Luke lands, R2D2's head is destroyed and it's scorched all over. (01:56:15)
13th Oct 2022
BMX Bandits (1983)
Revealing mistake: When Nicole Kidman shows the kids some tricks she is replaced by a very obvious stunt, older, taller and... a man. Confirmed by Nicole Kidman, who said her stunt double was "a teenage boy wearing a padded bra." Source https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/kidman-s-made-off-like-a-bandit-in-hollywood-all-without-the-bmx-20211216-p59i2t.html. (00:36:58)
9th Oct 2022
Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
Revealing mistake: When the baddie rises his hand to grab the frisbee with blades his hand is blatantly fake.
9th Nov 2022
Superman II (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Superman returns the flag to the White House, not only has the shot been reused, but the trees have been badly cut around to change the previous grey sky for a bright, blue and sunny one.
3rd Jun 2003
Sister Act (1992)
Visible crew/equipment: When Eddie arrives at the casino near the end of the film, he opens the car door and in the reflection you can see the filming crew.
26th Sep 2020
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Jack runs Lo Pan over with the truck, he signals Jack to drive towards him. A shot later when the truck hits him, his hand is lowered.
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Suggested correction: Between the robe LoPan wears and angle of the camera, it can't be determined if his hand is lowered, or in the same position.
You can tell the hand is lowered because his hand should be visible as it was above his shoulder. And to point out the obvious, when it cuts to the front of the truck, it's a dummy in place, so we know his hand isn't up. We also see the dummy fall over as it's hit making it more obvious the hand isn't raised.
5th Nov 2022
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Revealing mistake: When Bond slides along the ice he is very obviously grabbing a cable that pulls him along.
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