Best movie mistakes of 2003

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Good Boy! picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where all of the dogs are talking in the Garage Nelly goes under a tarp of some sort.In one shot she is going under the tarp the next she is out of the tarp.And then she is back under the tarp.

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Factual error: When Brendan Fraser comes out of the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower is right in front of it. The Louvre and the Eiffel Tower are miles away from each other.

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Big Fish picture

Continuity mistake: When Edward is walking through the forest and the trees grab him the key he is wearing falls off his neck, but in the next couple shots you can still see it hanging on his neck.

Nick N.

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Continuity mistake: When B-Rad first meets Shondra, she gets her coffee and turns to walk to the condiments and you see a woman in the background walking towards the bathroom with a tray. The camera angle changes and the woman is gone. (00:20:56)

MCKD

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Grind picture

Other mistake: For the entire length of the movie, Bam Magera is referred to as Bam. But in the credits, his character's listed as Chad.

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Factual error: Tony Gregory, the politician that Veronica meets, is seen wearing a suit and tie. Tony Gregory the TD, made a point of never wearing a tie.

kendra jackson

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Secondhand Lions picture

Continuity mistake: When Hub and Walter are talking by the lake, Hub's, and later Walter's, blanket repositions itself each time the camera cuts back. (01:08:45)

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Visible crew/equipment: Towards the begining of the movie, in the scene where Tomas visits Lorena and they are talking face to face, as the camara zooms in on the couple, on Tomas' shirt you can see the shadow of the camera, and then it quickly zooms out.

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Lost Treasure picture

Deliberate mistake: The four main "good guy" characters are stuck on an island with people who are trying to kill them. Steven Baldwin's character brings a pistol and takes a machine gun from one of the bad guys. Several times they overcome other armed men, but after defeating them, never bother to take the bad guys' guns. At one point, two characters argue over who gets to carry the pistol, yet when they knock out a man armed with a rifle, they leave it with him and just walk away.

Mark Bernhard

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World picture

Factual error: After Stephen Maturin comes back with a small portion of findings from the Galapagos Islands, he presents a stick insect to Captain Aubrey, but stick insects (Phasmids) don't exist in the Galapagos Islands. (01:41:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Denzel pulls up to the hotel to see Paul Cabot the view from the inside of the truck shows a connector for a rear view mirror, but no mirror. When they cut to an external view of the truck it has a rear view mirror.

Charles Fraser

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Audio problem: When Sebastian and Nathalie first come to Nathalie's heroin dealer, we hear the rain falling, yet when Nathalie steps on the street there is no sign of rain but we can still hear it.

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The Gathering picture

Continuity mistake: When Cassie sits down at the table at the pub there is a menu lying next to her glass. When it cuts the menu has changed position. (00:22:00)

Mortug

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Bad Santa picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene when John Ritter is trying to fire Santa and the elf, there is a cup with candy canes on the edge of his desk. The number of candy canes change with each shot. (00:32:20 - 00:34:10)

Karoo

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Continuity mistake: When Peter starts grabbing himself, his shirt is seen semi-tucked into his pants. The camera angle changes and the left side of his shirt is now hanging outside of his pants. (00:55:34)

MCKD

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Continuity mistake: When Lila's staff are gossiping about the "new sweetheart of America" Christian raises a glass and toasts, "Hear hear!" There is only one glass, but in the next shot Lila is holding it. Also, in the following shot, Christian is holding his hands together and no wine in sight. (00:13:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Karen Black shoots the sheriff, she puts the gun up close to the side of his head and fires. We see blood shoot out of the opposite side of his head but the side she shoots him on has not a scratch.

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Revealing mistake: Near the end of the movie, when Johnny Depp's eyes are removed, he talks with the boy when he's against the wall. In several shots you can see Johnny Depp's eyes through the sunglasses. (01:33:55)

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Factual error: During the song where Mowgli and Balo are dancing together with other animals, there are several hippopotamus also dancing. This is impossible, as hippopotamus are native to Africa, and the movie is set in India.

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