Continuity mistake: After Lt. Touchdown has been shot, behind the tank, he falls to the ground with his rifle still grasped in one of his hands but when the marines move in to aid him his rifle has vanished.
Jack Vaughan
23rd Jul 2009
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
23rd Jul 2009
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Continuity mistake: After Cowboy is hit by the sniper Animal Mother fires wildly and destroys part of the "My Toan" sign. A few seconds later you can see it is intact.
23rd Jul 2009
Platoon (1986)
Continuity mistake: When O'Neill hides behind the body of the dead soldier his eyes are tight shut. When O'Neill peers out from behind the body his eyes are now wide open.
23rd Jul 2009
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Other mistake: When the sniper fires her rifle at Joker after his rifle jams, she fires at him and strangely no shell casings are ejected. A few bursts later and her rifle does eject shell casings.
23rd Jul 2009
Aliens (1986)
Revealing mistake: When Ripley first burns the egg plants inside the nest, the Queen screams and moves her head. The steel rod used to hold the Queen's head to the rest of her body is easily visible.
23rd Jul 2009
Aliens (1986)
Visible crew/equipment: Throughout the sequence when the female pilot is preparing to drop the ship with Ripley and the marines on down to LV426, you can see a crewmember in her reflective sunglasses.
23rd Jul 2009
Aliens (1986)
Visible crew/equipment: Just after Ripley drops the first flare (on her way back to rescue Newt), the shadow of a crewmember is cast on Ripley's back.
23rd Jul 2009
Alien (1979)
Other mistake: When Ripley is trying to deactivate the self-destruct mode, the instructions she follows on the container are actually just the French interpretation of the instructions she read to activate self-destruct before.
23rd Jul 2009
Alien (1979)
Continuity mistake: When Ripley backs into the shuttle closet you can see three axes on the wall next to her, when she starts to get into the space suit there are only two, then when she puts the helmet on there is only one.
23rd Jul 2009
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Continuity mistake: The shape of the beam of light coming from Joker's torch, after he enters the bathroom where Pyle kills himself, is different from the shape of the beam before he enters.
23rd Jul 2009
Aliens (1986)
Revealing mistake: When the loader is dragged into the airlock by the Queen, during the shot where you see the orange light get smashed on the floor (seconds before it actually falls in), you can see two wires attached to the loader leading off screen.
23rd Jul 2009
Alien (1979)
Visible crew/equipment: As the Alien drops down behind Brett (before it kills him), you can see wires attached to the Alien's back.
22nd Jul 2009
Aliens (1986)
Visible crew/equipment: A wire is visibly attached to the queen's tail as it bursts out from Bishops' chest. (Slow-mo helps but is not necessary.)
14th Jul 2009
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Visible crew/equipment: When Doug spots his baby daughter through the window in the house, the child starts to roll off the bed and the hand of a crouching crew member comes into shot to stop the child from rolling off the bed completely.
13th Jul 2009
Uncle Buck (1989)
Visible crew/equipment: When Buck accidentally takes the stray cat into the house, if you look in the slat between the frame and the door you can see a crewmember waiting to close it, not the kids. This person is too big for a 6 year old. (01:00:25)
12th Jul 2009
Unforgiven (1992)
Revealing mistake: English Bob is shooting the pheasants from the train. The first one he hits falls out the sky in front of the camera and you can see a wire attached to the bird trailing off camera to the right of the screen. (Slow-mo helps but is not necessary).
29th May 2009
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Revealing mistake: When the house is sieged by the werewolves, Cooper and the Sarge shoot a werewolf out the bedroom window. As he falls, you can see that the man in the werewolf costume who did the stunt is wearing boots.
29th May 2009
The Warriors (1979)
Visible crew/equipment: Just after Luther accuses the Warriors of killing Cyrus, and Cleon is killed, there is a panning shot of all the gangs escaping and at the very right edge of the screen you can see a camera and its operator filming. (00:14:34)
29th May 2009
Day of the Dead (1985)
Revealing mistake: When Rickles is about to be killed, he fires one last shot through the head of a female zombie, but you can also see that there is no magazine in the pistol.
28th May 2009
The Thing (1982)
Visible crew/equipment: Just after Nauls is told by Bennings to turn down the music the film cuts to a tracking shot going towards the rec hall. At the very beginning of this tracking shot keep an eye on the lower half of the medical cabinet, and you can easily see the dolly that the camera is being pushed on. If you look just above the dolly you can make out the blue sweater sleeve of the crewmember pushing the camera as well. (00:14:55)
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