Actually, that’s deliberate. They went back in, and redubbed the scene to give it the miscount. At least, that’s what’s claimed in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner.
Mutiny In Space a grade Z sci-fi seen on MST3K. A minor character is killed by the villian, but she later prominently appears working on the bridge!
“Look alive everybody! Oh, sorry Cindy.”
According to imdb that’s not an error:
**“Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It has been claimed that Kane’s last words could not have been known as he was alone in the room. This is incorrect; the majordomo says that he was in the room, heard Kane say “Rosebud”, and that when the paperweight slipped from Kane’s hand he knew he was dead.”
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In one of WEB Grifffith’s novels (though, I admit, this is not a continuity problem), a character is asked in the late 1950’s if he will pay for plane tickets with Visa (known as Bank Americard until the early 1970’s) or with Mastercard (known as Master Charge until the early 1970’s).
In The Princess Bride, when Grandpa starts reading he opens the book twice.
Thats because he forgot he opened it the first time.
…in his old age.
Can we include casting discontinuities? As in Bond… James Bond…
[Actually, I don’t have a problem with the ever-changing Bonds, Moneypennies, "M"s, and "Q"s. With the letter-designated positions, that’s just normal turnover; it’s arguably more of a problem with the conventionally named roles (albeit necessary for the perpetuation of the franchise, so it’s fine by me).]
But it’s a greater problem with the ancillary roles of villains and sidekicks, for which there should be more continuity, wherever possible:
Arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld: eight appearances (if we include the non-cannonical “Never Say Never Again”), played by eight different actors. Recovered from his premature apparent demise in “Diamonds Are Forever” to reappear in “For Your Eyes Only”.
CIA agent Felix Leiter: eight appearances so far, played by seven different actors. And don’t even get me started about Leiter’s recovery from the shark feeding, which IRL would probably have lead to, at the very least, his retirement on disability.
Charles Grey: plays a doomed CIA man in “You Only Live Twice” and Blofeld in “Diamonds Are Forever”.
Joe Don Baker: plays a bad guy in “The Living Daylights” and a CIA man in “Goldeneye”.
Maud Adams: famously, the only actress to play a “Bond Girl” twice – albeit as completely different characters.
In Spiderman Tobey-Peter shoots his web at his bedroom lamp and pulls it across the room, & smashes it pretty good. Aunt May shows up a few seconds later, and the lamp is back on the dresser in one piece. I caught that.
I didn’t catch this until it was pointed out to me, but re the OP it nullifies the whole concept of the film:
In the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and the Scarecrow are fighting with the Apple trees trees, look really quickly at the scene they cut to cut right after the Scarecrow says “I’ll show you how to get apples”. Dorothy’s is wearing black shoes, not her ruby slippers.
I watched The Ring last night, and
when Ann Morgan pushes her daughter down the well, they’re wearing what appears to be turn-of-the-century clothing. However, Ann Morgan died in '78, and her husband appears to be about 70 in 2002.
It’s not the worse continuity error ever, but the logic on the timing of events didn’t pan with me.
in Daredevil, the movie makes it pretty clear that Murdock is a struggling defense lawyer. But in an early scene that motivates him to go into costume that night, we see him prosecuting a rapist.
Has no one seen Plan 9 from Outer Space? It probably should not even be compared to these wannabe problems since it is the unobtainable zenith of continuity problems. But two of my favorites come in the same scene. They are when the cop car (a car with a single light on top) starts off in the day light (“No problem Sarge, it’ll only take us five minutes”) and arrives at the cemetery at night with a car with three lights on top.
TV
A pet peeve that I have that turns up a at least a few movies is the “disappearing bodies phenomenon.”
Arg, the only example I can think of right this second is that stupid Stephen King movie “Sleepwalkers” (I think that’s the title) with Brian Kraus and his “mom” as evil, catlike creatures:
Evil mom kills about six cops, rahr!, rips their throats out, kill, kill, kill! Almost immediately, the “hero” shows up for the final big showdown. Camera pans back for the big fight… uh, where are all the cop bodies?
I see this continuity issue crop up a lot.
TV time! thats one of my favorite movies, I just hadnt thought of it at the time, everybody loves an Ed Wood movie
Not a continuity error, but since we’re all including them anyway…I just saw the Lion in Winter for the first time and near the beginning, Henry II makes a reference to King Lear. The Shakespeare play King Lear was written a few hundred years later, so was the play based on a well-known story that Henry II would have known in 1183? I hope someone knows the answer to that.
In That 70s Show, Donna started out with two sisters, and she’s down to being an only child now.
Feeders and Feeders 2: Aside from this, these are two of the worst movies ever made. All that aside:
In the first Feeders movie, the Earth is destroyed, and all the main characters are killed. In the sequel, Feeders 2: Slay Bells, the Earth is not destroyed, and two of the main characters are alive and have even got married.
Siblings go missing on tv all the time, from Dobie Gillis’ brother on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis to both of Donna’s sisters on That 70s Show. I wonder if there’s a parallel universe in which these people are still in the shows but Dobie and Donna are missing.
And of course there are all those biblical and Roman epics in which the extras can be seen wearing watches and trucks and planes go by in the background.
I’m reading T. Coraghessan Boyle’s big new novel Drop City. It’s set in the very early 70s but there are an amazing number of things mentioned that weren’t around in those years. No 14-year-old girl would call her parents “clones”. That wasn’t in the normal vocabulary yet. And Tofutti wasn’t introduced until 1982! I’m surprised they all made it past the editor.
The mother of all continuity errors: the horrible Chuck Norris vehicle Firewalker. One character, the head bad guy, has an eyepatch. The eyepatch actually switches eyes. Several times.
I always thought it was sophisticated horse riding apparatus.
In The Rock, when the jets are going in to attack the island at the end, the number of jets changes. It first shows six flying in a triangular formation, then shows five flying in a pentagonal formation, then shows six again. The shots of six jets are very close, but the shot of five jets is a very long shot that shows the jets passing underneath the Golden Gate with lots of space around them. I guess the sixth guy went the long way around because he didn’t want to fly under the bridge.