Continuity mistake: When Lenny and Lex do the genetic experiment, the stuff on the table comes much closer together between the first and second shot.
Sacha
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: In the barn Carl looks ahead to see through the walls to check who's coming. His POV shows a cart wheel, but when the angle changes it's been replaced by 4 stables. The wheel is on the far right hand side.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie is trapped by the tree and Carol Ann is about to be abducted, his bed cover keeps changing back and forth from messy to perfectly folded.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After the chair moves, Steve is in awe, his left hand on the counter. A frame later, on the close-up shot, it's on his thigh.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the volcano erupts, the village's main tower keeps swapping form lit to unlit between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: In the pool, Diane is surrounded by at least 4 bodies floating together; however, when she grabs the hose to climb up, half a second later, the overview of the pool shows just 2 bodies quite a distance each away from each other. In the next close-up, the 4 bodies reappear.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman is being buried in the moon, the flag pole behind disappears between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Diane falls in the pool, the distance to the floating corpse on the left increases or decreases randomly depending on the shot.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie covers the clown, the Chewbacca print on the jacket keeps changing in every shot.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: Diane places the liquor flask upside down on the table, but a frame later it has turned 180ยบ.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: At the hotel room, Clark and Lois are watching the city skyline. From their POV the city is New York/Metropolis, but behind them is a glass door which reflects the real city, which is completely different.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman flies to save the cosmonaut, the spaceship behind turns pink.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After the credits, the position and amount of beer cans around the fallen bicycle changes between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Before rampaging Metropolis, Nuclear Man elevates himself in Luthor's apartment and smoke comes out of his arms. For the rest of the movie this feature doesn't happen.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: Wen the tree grabs Robbie the toy by the window swaps from facing right to left back and forth.
8th Nov 2010
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: In the barn, the vest is folded in such a way that the sleeve-hole is hidden. However, in the close-up of Carl hiding the glass the hole is perfectly visible. Then it swaps to the previous angle.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After Carol slides through the kitchen floor, Steve rests with his back against the wall, over a brown line. When the angle changes, a frame later, he's resting half a meter to the right of the line.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After Diane places the chair to show Steve how it moves, the chair swaps from being parallel to him to slightly skewed. Also, its position on the floor changes: First the right legs aren't touching the brown lines, and a frame later they are.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: While Diane faces the creature and demands it not to touch her babies, she is resting against a long flat wall, but from the angle behind, half of her body is resting against a corner.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: The night the clown attacks Robbie, when he turns off the light the lamp and the Darth Vader bust swap positions between shots.
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