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Continuity mistake: The speech that Moore claims/shows then NRA president Charlton Heston giving in Colorado is actually several speeches edited into one. Note how Heston's clothing changes between cuts during this speech.

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Continuity mistake: There's one peaceful scene where the point of view is from a boat drifting down a canal in town. As the boat drifts, it passes by some sort of monument, and a very clear full-body shadow of the camera man and camera is visible against the monument.

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Continuity mistake: When the main character lady is having a drink with a guy at the wedding, she drops her little yellow umbrella on the floor. The guy gives her his pink umbrella. The shot switches and they both have umbrellas in their glasses, the guy has his pink one, and the girl has her yellow one.

Disney-Freak

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Continuity mistake: The movie is a documentary about a road trip from Seattle to Santa Barbara in chronological and geographical order. After passing Santa Cruz they were suddenly in Garberville and then Hopland, both north of San Francisco. They then resumed their trip south of Santa Cruz.

Wayne C.

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Continuity mistake: When Madonna is talking to Chris after the show in Detroit, her ponytail is removed first, then it's back on, then we see it getting removed again.

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Continuity mistake: The Google Earth Streetview route shown through downtown Chicago (I-94/90) is not part of the computer-plotted route from O'Hare Airport to Ishpeming which they used. It would have been a long detour from the suggested path laid out for them. (00:34:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the earthquake happens, the phone falls off the hook so the lady can't get through to the house, and the phone is making that really annoying sound when it's off the hook. The phone is a portable so it shouldn't matter that it is off the hook, and when her daughter comes home it stops making that annoying sound when a phone is off the hook.

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Continuity mistake: Throughout the whole film you can see that Rick Danko's bass playing has been completely redone. What he's playing and what you hear are completely different things.

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Continuity mistake: In electric avenue scene, the number of wood bars the cast has to go around changes from two to four.

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Continuity mistake: When the story begins, and the police car made its run towards the first crime scene, the aerial shot of the car doesn't match with the tail lights, we see it's an older car vs a newer car.

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Continuity mistake: When she goes to sing "Nobody's Perfect," she has on a white tank top, a blue jean vest, and a watch. As she starts to sing, she only has the white tank top on, and no vest or watch. Then again throughout the song, she has the vest and watch back on.

DayMe

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Continuity mistake: Some of the advances Mark made walking toward the edge of the cliff were negated with camera shifts, placing him at earlier spots. (01:28:17)

KeyZOid

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Continuity mistake: When you see Heidi get her food in the restaurant, she is holding one food container. Later you see her with two (without picking another one up).

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the show Damon throws his mic to the floor, and it cuts to a close-up of the mic breaking apart in to several pieces. In the next wide shot the mic is lying intact on the floor. (00:55:45)

Mortug

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Continuity mistake: Sheila is clutching the phone to her chest with both hands, since Melinda is reaching for it to delete the butt-flexing video. The door chimes and the bearded man enters the store; in the foreground Sheila is in a different position with her arms crossed, and in a third one with her arms down at the next cut. And even more noticeable, a 4th different one as she walks away, holding the phone across the chest to the opposite side of her body all of a sudden. (00:07:50)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: Right after the last song John Paul Jones is seen taking his guitar off and resting it on an amp.The scene switches to Robert and when he points to his right JPJ is repeating the action.

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Continuity mistake: When Billy is walking (from his front porch) to his Jeep, the ground is brown, and he has to take several steps to reach the cargo area. When the camera shifts to a front view of Billy by the driver's side door, and he says, "Hi, coach", the Jeep is parked too close to the house for Billy to have taken that many steps to reach it and the grass behind the Jeep is green (not brown). (00:07:45)

KeyZOid

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Continuity mistake: During "Psycho Killer" the cassette player on stage changes position between shots - particularly obvious at the last salvo from the beat machine, when it disappears entirely and David Byrne himself switches side.

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: When the bulls are chasing the guys at the start of the movie, they run past the same black car twice.

Low Cow

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