Continuity Police: Your favorite movie mistakes

[Squidboy]

Even if not, it's not that much of a stretch to think that he learned something in the time between the movies, particularly due to the fact that he lives in a school.

The way that the scene was shot made it seem like it was the first time he'd done it, due to exerting his powers to the point that they literally consumed him, to me at least

 

[Alchemyst]

Spider-Man 1- Spider-man knocks 2 thugs through windows in a back alley, next time they show the windows, there unharmed. Also, MJ's hand on Peter's face towards the end.

Mortal Kombat Annihilation - when Baraka is knocked into the pit, it's the same footage from Rain's death.

 

[Dave McFly]

me being a 'car guy' i notice stuff like this:

Back To The Future: when Marty is being chased by Biff and his goons, Biff's car changes from a 46 ford (turn signals are on the hood on both sides of the hood ornament) to a 48 ford (turn signals are larger, circular and located UNDER the headlights) and back to a 46 again.

Passenger 57: in a wide shot of Wesley Snipes character he is driving a mid to late 80s red Corvette roadster, but when he pulls into the parking lot at a hotel it is a new current 92 model, (86-92 vettes are the same mostly but the older ones had a large and thick black horizontal stripe that ran all the way down the sides, across the front and back ends of the car, the newer ones this was body color).

i know, only things a car person would get .

 

[Figs]

Spider-Man 1- Spider-man knocks 2 thugs through windows in a back alley, next time they show the windows, there unharmed. Also, MJ's hand on Peter's face towards the end.

Mortal Kombat Annihilation - when Baraka is knocked into the pit, it's the same footage from Rain's death.

Hahaha! I remember that. I'm willing to bet there are far more mistakes in that film than just that one.

 

[Thundarr]

me being a 'car guy' i notice stuff like this:

Back To The Future: when Marty is being chased by Biff and his goons, Biff's car changes from a 46 ford (turn signals are on the hood on both sides of the hood ornament) to a 48 ford (turn signals are larger, circular and located UNDER the headlights) and back to a 46 again.

Passenger 57: in a wide shot of Wesley Snipes character he is driving a mid to late 80s red Corvette roadster, but when he pulls into the parking lot at a hotel it is a new current 92 model, (86-92 vettes are the same mostly but the older ones had a large and thick black horizontal stripe that ran all the way down the sides, across the front and back ends of the car, the newer ones this was body color).

i know, only things a car person would get .

Still, good job!

 

[Golgo-13]

When Wolverine fought 'Spyke' in the forest, he was stabbed in the abdomen with two bones, but yet after the wounds heal, his shirt is no longer ripped or bloody when we see it next.

When Jean is vaporizing Xavier in her home, Logan climbs on the ceiling to try and get to them and it appears that he opens the door to the room they're in, because when Jean is about to bombard him with broken glass, Logan screams out "NO!", but yet after the scene, Storm and Wolverine have to run into the room to get to Xavier, despite him having just been in the doorway.

Sorry, but the second one here is false. As Xavier explodes, and the house crashes back down to the ground, you can clearly see several bodies thrown from the house by the impact. Those would include Logan and storm.

 

[Dr Lee]

The worse continuity error in the Xmen series is the one where Magneto shifts the bridge in sunset, with none of the cars showing their lights on.... and then, barely a moment later it's dead of night... and all the car lights are on...

 

[ross2287]

When Wolverine fought 'Spyke' in the forest, he was stabbed in the abdomen with two bones, but yet after the wounds heal, his shirt is no longer ripped or bloody when we see it next.

This one pisses me off to no end. People get paid to catch mistakes like these and I can almost guarantee that everyone who has watched the movie caught this mistake. There's no excuse for it.

 

[Donnie Darko]

When Wolverine fought 'Spyke' in the forest, he was stabbed in the abdomen with two bones, but yet after the wounds heal, his shirt is no longer ripped or bloody when we see it next.

Well, the Wal-Mart I go to sells wife beaters with built-in healing factors, so maybe we shop in the same place.

 

[SuperFerret]

This one pisses me off to no end. People get paid to catch mistakes like these and I can almost guarantee that everyone who has watched the movie caught this mistake. There's no excuse for it.

Your guarantee is faulty, as I never noticed it, though I'll probably be paying attention to it now. Thanks.

 

[dude stannis]

Aliens. Lance Henriksen literally having to jump out of the hole in the ground to catch Carrie Henn's Newt.

 

[WarBlade]

Iron Man 2

After the drones have launched, Hammer is with his techs. His glasses come off after Romanoff cracks the left lens, but inexplicably they are back on his face in one shot between other shots where he isn't wearing them.

 

[corby]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

In the last scene Gwyneth Paltrow's character decides to use the last shot on her roll of film to take a picture of Jude Law. He then tells her that she left the lens cap on. But if you look at the previous shot, the lens cap is clearly off

 

[Thundarr]

There are some really great continuity errors being pointed out here. But there are also a number of people who don't understand the difference between continuity errors and just errors in general.

Continuity errors are like in Braveheart during the Battle Of Sterling when the Scots and the English are charging at each other. In one shot, Mel Gibson is carrying a pickaxe. In another he's carrying nothing. Then the pickaxe again. Then his big assed sword.

"Movie Errors" are things like the stormtrooper bumping his head in A New Hope. Seeing Han's reflection in the plexiglass shield right before the "shield generator" blows up in Return Of The Jedi. Rocky's robe being too big in the first Rocky movie, or the colour of his trunks being wrong in the poster in the same movie. A crewman wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses being caught in the background in Pirates Of The Caribbean. A crewman in bluejeans and winter jacket walking across the screen behind Russel Crowe in Gladiator. These are ALL movie editing errors. But none of these are CONTINUITY errors.

Try and keep the two seperate in the future please.

 

[Thundarr]

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

In one scene, Vader's lighted chest piece is right side up. In the very next scene it's upside down. Then it's right side up again.

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

In the beginning, when Vader sees the image sent by the probe droid, he says "The rebels are there. And I'm sure Skywalker is with them."

But later as he's talking to Emperor Palpatine while chasing after The Millenium Falcon, Palpatine tells him that the young pilot who destroyed the Death Star was the son of Anikin Skywalker and Vader replies "How can that be possible?"

 

[Thundarr]

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

In one scene, Vader's lighted chest piece is right side up. In the very next scene it's upside down. Then it's right side up again.

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

In the beginning, when Vader sees the image sent by the probe droid, he says "The rebels are there. And I'm sure Skywalker is with them."

But later as he's talking to Emperor Palpatine while chasing after The Millenium Falcon, Palpatine tells him that the young pilot who destroyed the Death Star was the son of Anikin Skywalker and Vader replies "How can that be possible?"

 

[Warhammer]

The worse continuity error in the Xmen series is the one where Magneto shifts the bridge in sunset, with none of the cars showing their lights on.... and then, barely a moment later it's dead of night... and all the car lights are on...

I laugh every time. How the visual effects company made that mistake baffles me.

 

[Warhammer]

One of the worst continuity mistakes for me is the obvious one in The Dark Knight when Batman pins Joker against the wall in the interrogation room. They shot the scene twice and spliced them together. The Joker's arms switch positions when he is holding on to Batman's arms.

 

[Spider-Who?]

i think some "mistakes" are done for the sake of the story/visual interest of the scene in question. I think they felt that having the battle at night, with car lights in the distance would be better looking than having a fight in the middle of the day. And in terms of the speed in which the sun sets...it all depends on the season and location you're witnessing it from. We also have no clear indication as to the amount of time they hung out on the bridge.

 

[Spideyfan93]

Surprised no one mentioned Jurassic Park yet. Because in Jurassic Park, in the scene where Ellie, Ian, and Muldoon are trying to outrun the T-Rex in the Jeep, Ellie and Ian keep teleporting to different areas of the truck. Also in the matter of 2 seconds, Ellie goes from looking absolutely serious and not frightened at all...to screaming her butt off.

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[ttotheusher]

Speaking of Jurassic Park, when the T-Rex first attacks the cars and knocks them off the cliff, where does the cliff edge come from? It isn't there before.

 

[Solidus]

Aliens. Lance Henriksen literally having to jump out of the hole in the ground to catch Carrie Henn's Newt.

They fixed that in the Blu Ray edition of Aliens.

 

[Catman]

Here are some good James Bond related ones:

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[Asteroid-Man]

Surprised this one wasn't mentioned...

Spider-Man 2: During the train fight, Doc Ock throws Spidey ahead, but then after he passes through the bridge he ends up behind Doc Ock - this defies basic physics...

 

[chaseter]

Surprised this one wasn't mentioned...

Spider-Man 2: During the train fight, Doc Ock throws Spidey ahead, but then after he passes through the bridge he ends up behind Doc Ock - this defies basic physics...

When Doc throws Spidey into the air, Spider-Man is going to slow down. He won't be traveling at the same speed as the train or otherwise you would be able to jump out of a plane and pass a point at the exact same time the plane does. That doesn't occur because of air resistance.