Hamster

6th Apr 2006

Beaches (1988)

Continuity mistake: When CC is working on a movie, she gets out of the car and yells at the director, and the subsequently punches him. The man in the car, in the background, has a hat which keeps disappearing in some shots.

Hamster

6th Apr 2006

Beaches (1988)

Continuity mistake: When CC and Hilary go into the hotel to get sodas, a man sitting at the table behind them gets up and begins to walk away. In the next shot he Is seated again, then gets up and walks away once again.

Hamster

6th Apr 2006

Beaches (1988)

Continuity mistake: The strip of photos in CC's top keep changing position; sometimes they are sticking far out of her top, in other shots they aren't as visible. This is very clear as Hilary and she sit at the hotel table and talk.

Hamster

6th Apr 2006

Beaches (1988)

Continuity mistake: The scrub CC wears as she walks into the hospital room, as Hilary is in labour, keeps on changing position. It alternates from hanging off / being on her shoulder, without her touching it.

Hamster

6th Apr 2006

Beaches (1988)

Continuity mistake: When Leona is telling CC about leaving, and packing up to go see her father, watch the clothes on the rack either side of CC; between shots they change position, and some clothes completely change.

Hamster

6th Apr 2006

Beaches (1988)

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, we see C.C. standing against the beach house. There's shot of her walking to centre of deck, followed by another of her still against the beach house, and her walking out to the centre again.

Hamster

6th Apr 2006

The Birdcage (1996)

Continuity mistake: As Armand serves the soup up to everyone, during the dinner scene, it has hard boiled eggs in it. The eggs in everyone's bowls in following shots change - some appear/disappear, some change position, etc.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the girls are at Lori's, just after Kia asks them if they think she needs a nose job, the lights flicker. When they flicker Kia is holding a compact in her left hand and she begins to close it. Both hands are up by her face but then the angle changes to a wider shot and her left hand is empty and on her lap and the compact is in her right hand as she places it on the sofa.

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: In the dream fight between Freddy and Jason, you can see the wire that holds the machete up when Freddy catches it after Jason swings it.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jason crashes through the cabin wall and slashes the teen, a crate on Jason's right foot alternates from being on / off between shots.

Hamster

5th Apr 2006

Delicatessen (1991)

Continuity mistake: When the man puts the sacks of grain on the counter, for the butcher, he places them both on a small red mat on the counter. In the next shot they're off of the red mat, and are on the actual counter. (00:05:00)

Hamster

5th Apr 2006

Delicatessen (1991)

Continuity mistake: When Aurore is throwing items out of the window, after her failed attempt at suicide, the items on the table change between shots. The playing cards set out change, for instance. (00:57:00)

Hamster

5th Apr 2006

Delicatessen (1991)

Visible crew/equipment: When Louison first enters Julie's apartment, for tea, as Julie walks him over to his chair, reflected in the glass cabinet up on the wall is a boom operator walking backward, holding the boom. (00:24:25)

Hamster

5th Apr 2006

Delicatessen (1991)

Continuity mistake: When the man at the table blows up a balloon he dips it in a bowl. Between shots the black mark on the balloon changes location, and also, another black mark appears between the shots. (00:21:00)

Hamster

5th Apr 2006

Delicatessen (1991)

Revealing mistake: When the postman goes upstairs to see Julie with the package, he steps on the broken step and falls down the stairs. As he rolls down, the bulky outline of kneepads under his trousers is visible. (00:17:30)

Hamster

5th Apr 2006

Delicatessen (1991)

Visible crew/equipment: When the butcher is talking to Louison outside the delicatessen, after he has just arrived in the taxi, the whole boom mike is reflected in the window above them, to their left. (00:08:05)

Hamster

4th Apr 2006

Misery (1990)

Continuity mistake: Paul is eating in bed and by the plate are some pain killers. The position of the pain killers in relation to the plate changes between a few shots.

Hamster

4th Apr 2006

Misery (1990)

Continuity mistake: When Paul types "what else was there...?" on his typewriter, it is all on one line in a closeup. In the next shot it is on two separate lines when he writes "The End."

Hamster

4th Apr 2006

Morozko (1965)

Continuity mistake: After Nastenka's mother smears white face paint all over Nastenka's eyebrows, to make her look comical, in following shots the neatness of the face paints on her eyebrows differs. (00:32:25)

Hamster

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