Best movie continuity mistakes of 2003

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Cybermutt picture

Continuity mistake: Nino gets trussed up in silver duct tape. The boy gets bundled over the shoulders of one of the bad guys, and you can see that there is only a small amount of tape around his legs. They go straight inside the meat packing factory and suddenly in the next shot, there is a huge amount of tape around the boy's legs.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Frannie and Detective Malloy are standing outside the police car, after Frannie was picked up by the two police officers, outside her apartment, you can see a girl with a white shirt with black sleeves and a very short skirt passing by. After a few seconds, Detective Malloy goes back into the car and you can see the exact same girl passing by at the same direction as before and she even wears the exact same clothes.

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Continuity mistake: The first time at the station, Sweetu looks back at the camera representing Aman with a confused look on her face, mouth open a little bit, teeth clenched. During the Heartbeat instrumental song when they show a flashback of the same moment with Aman in the shot, Sweetu looks at him with a big smile on her face. You can see this because when her face turns her mouth is visibly wide open and her lips are curled upward. (00:10:35 - 00:20:40)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where the three Confederate soldiers are about to be executed for desertion, a blindfold is placed around the deserter on the right. It is a narrow strip of cloth covering his eyes. The camera pans to the firing squad and then back to the three men. The blindfold on the deserter on the right, is now much wider.

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Continuity mistake: As the New Main Street Singers are performing their second song at the show, you can see Parker Posey pretend to use her guitar as a shotgun. The strap for the guitar drops from her shoulder down to her right forearm when she does this. When the shot changes the strap is back up over her shoulder. (01:01:40)

Lummie

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Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam is chasing everyone through Las Vegas he drives the race car through a souvenir stand. This puts a large dent in the front hood of the car. This dent disappears when the car is shown next.

Greg Weisgerber

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Continuity mistake: As Nicolas Cage is smoking a cigarette in his car when his daughter comes into view for the 1st time. The camera angle flips between him, him with her in the background, to his key, back to him, and back to him with her in the background. Each time the angle changes so does the length of his cigarette. The time span is only a matter of 10-15 secs as she walks up and then starts to walk away, but his cigarette ends up being longer than when she walked up. (00:25:25)

Donald Jenkins

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico picture Once Upon a Time in Mexico mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The chain with which El and Carolina are linked together gets cut open with a welding torch. When the chain falls down on the ground it's intact again. (00:34:50)

NancyFelix

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Continuity mistake: At the very beginning of the movie, in the shot where Val Kilmer is unconscious and lying down on the ground, he first appears with his right hand facing up, then facing down, then facing up again.

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Open Water picture

Continuity mistake: During the scene in which the two main characters are diving, before the boat leaves them, Susan's snorkel swaps from the left side of her mask to the right and back again.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene were Hans tries to hang himself, you can see that the chandelier falls down but in the next scene when O.J the owl flies underneath it, it is still there.

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Undead picture

Continuity mistake: Marion isn't wearing any clothes as they enter the convenience store. However, as they are standing in the doorway you can see he is wearing boxers.

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Continuity mistake: When Isabelle arrives in front of Roxy's apartment, you can see the cab driver close the trunk after he removes Isabelle's bags, but when Charles-Henri hands the driver his bags a moment later the trunk is still open.

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Continuity mistake: When Helen puts the trashbag down, with the teddy on top, the teddy's scarf hangs down over its face. But when Gypsy picks it up, the scarf is no longer hanging over its face.

Hamster

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Continuity mistake: Curtis is helping Molly seal the windows by screwing them shut. He hands the drill to Molly and she holds it up by her chest. When Claudia walks into the room Molly lowers the drill down in front of her below her waist. Then there is a quick cut back to Molly and Curtis as he says, " well that should do it", and the drill is back up in front of her chest again as she lowers it down a second time.

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Continuity mistake: When the team climbs out of the river they suddenly are very dry. Best evidence for this is their hair and clothes when they start to run away (those should have been heavier). (00:27:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the examination scene John (Mike Myers) places a Rubik's Cube on the desk in front of him. The camera angle then switches to overhead and the cube is not there. Then he shouts "Stop writing" and the cube is in front of him but further to his right than before.

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Continuity mistake: At the very beginning of the movie, Rachel Leigh Cook drops Doleman off at the bank and he says, "I'm going to go in there and blow them away." At the end of the movie, when the scene is replayed from a different camera angle, he says, "I'm going to go and try and blow them away."

DavidK93

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Continuity mistake: In the beginning when the text of the book is seen the format of the date of the peoples death is MM/DD/YY later in the movie the dates are seen again and the format has changed to DD - MONTH - YYYY.

Sean Cayouette

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Continuity mistake: As April walks up the stairs after finding out that her family left, she pops all the balloons. But when she reaches a turn in the stairs, she rips down the orange crepe paper and lets it fall to the steps. The crepe paper was still stapled to the wall though, and in reality would have ripped instead of all coming down in one piece.

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