Continuity mistake: In the final scene on the lido deck when Auto alters the ship's gravity the people mover falls off it's tracks and barrels towards the passengers, smashing a huge path through the hover chairs. When normal gravity is restored and they hyperjump to earth most of the chairs are back in place. (01:20:40)
BocaDavie
27th May 2010
Wall-E (2008)
16th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: Ivan's scar changes drastically from the beginning of the movie. When his father dies and he is building his whiplash suit during the opening credits his facial scar lays on the surface of the skin trailing down his face from the outer corner of his left eye. Throughout the rest of the film it is a smaller, deeper scar about a quarter inch to the right of the original scar.
15th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Ivan crashes Stark's car during the race there is a close-up of Tony's face showing a red scrape on the cornea of his eye. When he puts the suit on there's another close-up of his face inside the armor and both eyes are completely undamaged.
18th Mar 2010
She's Out of My League (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Cam meets Kirk for the first time Kirk is sitting at a restaurant. Cam walks up to him and puts his hand on Kirk's back. Switch camera angle and Cam is now two feet away with his arms at his sides.
Suggested correction: When Cam meets Kirk for the first time, Kirk prepares to sit back down at his table, only to have Cam sit down in the chair first. Kirk had left the table to return the sweater to the woman dining at the adjacent table.
16th Mar 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the film when Alice is laying in bed her father shows her how to wake up from a dream by pinching herself. He demonstrates by pinching her upper arm on the bicep. Switch camera angle and he is pinching her on the shoulder, when the camera switches back he is once again pinching her arm.
14th Feb 2010
West Side Story (1961)
Trivia: When Tony sings "Maria" towards the beginning, that sequence is actually made up of several shots of him walking through the city that were filmed spread over the course of the four-month shooting schedule. The final note of the song - when Tony sings the word 'Maria' in the alleyway as the camera slowly pulls up and away from him - was the last shot filmed (from the documentary "West Side Memories", 2009).
14th Feb 2010
West Side Story (1961)
Trivia: Rita Mareno was unable to hit the low notes in the song "A Boy Like That"; the entire song had to be dubbed. Natalie Wood was not told that all of her songs were going to be dubbed until after filming was completed; she went through the production thinking it would be her voice used in the songs when the film was released. Dubbing the songs after filming was completed posed an unusual problem. Normally when a song is dubbed, they play it during filming so that the actors can mouth the words so that they match the lyrics. The songs in West Side Story were dubbed after filming was completed, so it was the singers who were brought in that had to match their lyrics to the actors mouthing the words (from the documentary "West Side Memories", 2009).
2nd Dec 2009
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Continuity mistake: When Taylor and Nova approach the Statue of Liberty, there is a slow panning shot looking down on them from behind the statue's crown. All of the spikes on the crown are completely straight when seen from this angle. When the camera angle changes and we're looking up at the statue, there is a spike on the left side of the crown bent outward. The bend starts a little more than half-way up the spike; it would have been visible in the shot from behind.
30th Nov 2009
Batman Forever (1995)
Continuity mistake: When the holographic floor disappears in Nygmatech, Batman is standing on a U-shaped "plank" extending out over the open pit. Cut camera angle to a shot looking up at him and he's jumping from a flat ledge; the U-shaped plank has disappeared.
24th Sep 2009
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Continuity mistake: In the bar, Jennifer stops to talk to Needy while carrying the special "9/11" drinks consisting of red, white and blue layers of liquor in tall thin glasses. Midway through the conversation the blue layer in the left glass gets about a centimeter wider when they cut to a different camera angle, then returns back to its previous level.
23rd Sep 2009
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Continuity mistake: In the briefing room Dr. Stone is explaining Wildfire's electronic mapping system. He advises that the old man and the baby are indicated on the diagram by the two red X's. When he says this the diagram shows that the old man and the baby are at the top of the complex, just right of the elevator shaft. Dr. Hall asks to see the patients and Stone switches to a camera view. On the video it shows that the patients have instantly moved into the elevator shaft and are already descending past levels 2 and 3, not at the top of the complex as shown on the monitor.
23rd Sep 2009
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Continuity mistake: The Weasley boys interrupt the exams with their fireworks display. When they fly off, all of the proclamations in their wood frames fall to the floor. The proclamations above the door fall in front of the doorway at Dolores Umbridge's feet. When all of the students run out of the room, all of the proclamations that were in front of the doorway have instantly disappeared.
4th Sep 2009
The Final Destination (2009)
Trivia: The huge crash that starts the film takes place at McKinley Speedway. The students who die in Final Destination 3 attend McKinley High School, and there is an running gag in that film that one of the students targeted for death is also named McKinley.
3rd Sep 2009
The Final Destination (2009)
Revealing mistake: "Death" sets up Hunt's demise by activating the pool's purge pump and running it at maximum (so powerful it can suck the internal organs out of a person). The purge pump runs for several minutes before Hunt drops his coin into the water and goes after it. Despite the purge pump running at maximum all that time there is no change whatsoever in the pool's water level.
20th Jul 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Dumbledore and Harry enter the muggle house to find Slughorn the lights are all out; the only illumination comes from their wands. They enter the hallway, then both turn towards the living room with their wands in front of them. Despite this, the wall behind them is illuminated without either of them casting a shadow. The lighting in the hallway is obviously coming from a different source, not the wands. Can't be moonlight - it is a bright white light shining directly on the wall that was not visible when Harry and Dumbledore first entered the flat.
10th Jul 2009
2010 (1984)
Continuity mistake: Dr. Chandra is in the logic circuits room reactivating HAL. He types words into a computer on the wall opposite the logic circuit panel (panel with the clear plexiglass blocks). In the movie 2001 there was no computer screen there; when Bowman is deactivating HAL you can see the flat metal wall with the red grid on the wall opposite the logic circuits. (00:55:50 - 01:34:05)
20th Jun 2009
The African Queen (1951)
Continuity mistake: When Rose and Charlie are getting married on the Louisa, one camera view of the couple shows a small island in the background, about 50 yards off the port side. The island stays in the exact same place in all subsequent shots from that angle, indicating that the ship is stationary. When they cut to shots looking towards the bow of the Louisa bearing down on the capsized African Queen, it is traveling at a good pace, as evidenced by the bow wake.
10th Jun 2009
The Hangover (2009)
Continuity mistake: The boys try to drug Mike Tyson's tiger by putting roofies into a piece of steak. When Alan puts the pills into the steak you can see that the meat is extremely soft; he pushes the pills in easily with one finger. When Stu brings the steak into the bathroom it's clearly a stiff piece of steak and not the same one.
28th May 2009
Two and a Half Men (2003)
24th May 2009
War of the Worlds (2005)
Trivia: The set used for the 747 crash cost 9 million dollars, and appears in the film for a total of 4 and 1/2 minutes. Five years after the film was made the set is still intact, and a part of the Universal Studios tour in California. There is a steep hill directly behind the "crash site" with a residential neighborhood on top. The tour guides joke that when the people living up there have something they can't get rid of in a garage sale they just toss it down the hill and it becomes part of the debris field.
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