Best movie continuity mistakes of 2017

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

Betting on the Bride picture

Continuity mistake: When he tries cooking by himself, he leaves a pan on the stove and goes to sit on the couch. At some point while on the couch the pan is no longer on the stove and when he runs to it after the fire alarm goes off it is still gone. Then when he gets to the stove the handle has been flipped to the other side. (00:48:05)

More Betting on the Bride continuity mistakes
The Leisure Seeker picture

Continuity mistake: Throughout the scene at Stukey's, when Helen Mirren is chatting the Syrians' ears off her elbow sticks out of the window at variable length between shots. (00:05:45)

Sammo

More The Leisure Seeker continuity mistakes
Revolt picture

Continuity mistake: He drinks from a water bottle and finishes it. The next cut it's got water left in it. (00:22:00)

More Revolt continuity mistakes
November Criminals picture

Continuity mistake: Addison put his sweater on (over his neck and arms into the sleeves). After his dad asked him if he was OK, the view of Addison in the mirror showed him putting his sweater on again. (00:16:04)

KeyZOid

More November Criminals continuity mistakes
Indian Horse picture

Continuity mistake: When Saul and "Nookmis" (his grandmother Naomi) leave on the canoe, there are several blankets/rolls of food between them. The pile reaches to about Saul's waist in the canoe. When Saul and Naomi continue their canoe trip the following morning, the pile of blankets/rolls between them is higher (almost to Saul's shoulders) and the colors/sizes look different (larger, even though they obviously ate some food). (00:11:37 - 00:12:09)

KeyZOid

More Indian Horse continuity mistakes
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town picture

Continuity mistake: Izzy gets out of the car of her one night stand and lights up a cigarette. She begins to type on her phone, phone in the left, cig in the right. A jogger bumps her and in the next shot she coughs on purpose to try and make her put the cigarette out. From now on, Izzy's phone is in her right hand and her cigarette in her left hand. (00:08:05)

Sammo

More Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town continuity mistakes
A Taxi Driver picture

Continuity mistake: Man-seob smears some cream above his upper lip after a few smoke grenades are deployed. The amount of cream shown over his upper lip changes between shots.

Casual Person

More A Taxi Driver continuity mistakes
Miss Me This Christmas picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Regina is looking at pictures and messages on her phone. There's no solid continuity between close-ups and wider shots, with the hand position changing suddenly most times. (00:01:10)

Sammo

More Miss Me This Christmas continuity mistakes
Suburbicon picture

Continuity mistake: Gardner Lodge first takes a bite from the corner of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sets it back on the plate. The camera angle changes and when he is seen holding the sandwich again the bite is now taken from the middle of the sandwich. (01:28:55)

RighteousEvil

More Suburbicon continuity mistakes
And Then I Go picture

Continuity mistake: The glass bowl of spaghetti is filled within about 2" from the top, but the mound in the center almost reaches the rim when Janice carries it to the table. After Tim serves at least 1 cup servings onto 4 plates, the bowl looks just as full as it is when Edwin leaves the table. (00:14:27 - 00:16:17)

KeyZOid

More And Then I Go continuity mistakes
It's All About Karma picture

Continuity mistake: Mario Pitagora is sipping ice tea in the garden, and then starts explaining to his "son" the nature of his business. His hand changes position on the glass repeatedly between shots, on the rim or lower. (00:27:10)

Sammo

More It's All About Karma continuity mistakes
First Kill picture

Continuity mistake: On the way to hunting, there are some trees with early Fall foliage and there are trees with yellow leaves behind Aunt Dottie's house. All other times, especially obvious when Will and his family were going home, the tree leaves are green. (00:08:38 - 01:35:15)

KeyZOid

More First Kill continuity mistakes
While You Were Dating picture

Continuity mistake: When William Baldwin spills macaroni on his MacBook, in the close-up of the notebook keyboard you can see part of the screen in the background. The chat app he supposedly is using is empty of any text, no trace of the conversation he is having in the rest of the scene. (00:05:00)

Sammo

More While You Were Dating continuity mistakes
Bleeding Steel picture

Continuity mistake: While racing through a parking complex to get to his daughter at the hospital, Lin ramps out of the exit and hits the font of his car on the ground leaving some damage, and even a part of the bumper hanging off. However in subsequent shots, the vehicle is undamaged. (00:02:50)

Quantom X

More Bleeding Steel continuity mistakes
You Can't Fight Christmas picture

Continuity mistake: Edmund and his business partner pull over in front of the hotel. They walk out of the car, and the woman is holding a clipboard in her left hand and her smartphone in her right. When they get through the hotel doors though, she is thumbing her phone in her left hand and the clipboard is now encased in a whole document folder she did not leave the car with, in her right hand. (00:02:40)

Sammo

More You Can't Fight Christmas continuity mistakes

Continuity mistake: When Toni Servillo meets VerĂ³nica Echegui in the sauna, she says something in Spanish to him, and then shrugs in a close-up. The jacket and towel cover her shoulders and neck area entirely, but in the wider shot that follows, the towel is gone and the jacket is looser. (00:11:10)

Sammo

More Let Yourself Go continuity mistakes
More Fist Fight continuity mistakes
All I Want for Christmas Is You picture

Continuity mistake: When Mariah is talking to the girls on the bridge at the beginning of the movie, the girl in green is holding her leash (her dog's that is) with her right hand in the shots from behind, the left hand in others including the wider ones from the protagonist's height. (00:02:25)

Sammo

More All I Want for Christmas Is You continuity mistakes
Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas picture

Continuity mistake: Sara recovers the artifact and gets on the boat. She removes the deep-dive helmet and the oxygen tank. The villain is looking at her through his binoculars, she hasn't moved, but the equipment she took off and dropped on the deck has vanished. (00:03:00)

Sammo

More Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas continuity mistakes
Falchi: Falcons Special Squad picture Falchi: Falcons Special Squad mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Michele Riondino has just killed the snitch and is going after the witness, a Chinese woman. He holds her at gunpoint; she does not move, but in a shot she has hair in front of just her left shoulder, both shoulders in the next. (00:30:30)

Sammo

More Falchi: Falcons Special Squad continuity mistakes

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.