Best movie continuity mistakes of 2005

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Wolf Creek picture

Continuity mistake: As Kristy is being loaded into the trunk of the car, the bottom of her feet are perfectly clean. She was running barefoot all night through blood, dirt and mud so her feet should be filthy.

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The Honeymooners picture

Continuity mistake: When Alice and Trixie get home after work, in a closeup Trixie is wearing her coat but in a wide shot her coat is suddenly off, and is in her hands.

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Down and Derby picture

Continuity mistake: In the basketball game near the start of the movie the scoreboard showed 4.5 seconds to the end of the game. Several seconds go by including a successful basket being made. Then a time out is called. The scoreboard clock should have already run out but still showed 2.5 seconds to go.

Wayne C.

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The Constant Gardener picture

Continuity mistake: When Ham is seeing Justin off at the railway station, Justin is seen standing inside the door of the train. In the next shot, Justin is back outside the train on the platform.

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Roll Bounce picture

Continuity mistake: When X and Sweetness are having their skateoff, there is one seen where X grabs his right skate in his right hand and spins around. In the very next scene, his right hand is in the air.

Bonita Kilpatrick

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An American Haunting picture

Continuity mistake: When John Bell has blood coming out of his mouth, his left hand is covered with blood. When the camera shot switches it is his right hand that is covered in blood. Then when the shot switches back to the first angle the left hand is back to being the hand that is covered in blood.

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EZ Money picture

Continuity mistake: The children's' aunt makes an urgent phone call to the police from her home living room. It cuts away to a pizza parlor, to which she's dialed a wrong number. It cuts back to her, and suddenly she's in her car, on a cell phone, apologising for the mistaken call.

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Detective picture

Continuity mistake: 2005 cable movie with Tom Berenger, Annabeth Gish, Sybil Shepherd. About 5 minutes before the end of the movie, Gish is holding Shepherd at gunpoint with a revolver pointed at Shepherd's neck. As Berenger enters the room, the click of the hammer being cocked is heard. The first 5 or so close up shots of Gish show her thumb on the cocked hammer. But in the next 3 or so close up shots the hammer is down and her thumb is down on the other side of the grips.

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Cry_Wolf picture Cry_Wolf mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Dodger and Owen are talking outside the Halloween party, Dodger's cape is over her right shoulder. When Owen walks away after they finish talking, her cape is pulled back, off her shoulder.

cinecena

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Locusts picture

Continuity mistake: When Maddie and the others are trapped in the silo, there are a lot of locusts that have landed on the structure, but there is also a huge number of locusts flying through the air all around. After they electrocute the locusts, there's not a single live locust to be seen anywhere, even though all the insects that were not directly on top of the metal building should have survived.

DavidK93

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Continuity mistake: In the kitchen scene at Greg Kinnear's house when Pierce is convincing Greg to fly to Arizona with him to do a job, the clock on the wall behind them first reads 5:45 am. In the next shot, the clock reads 5:28 am.

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Angel-A picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene just after Andre has dragged Angela from the river, towards the beginning of the film, the two engage in a lengthy conversation. As the camera moves between close-ups of Angela's face, and shots of Andre, where Angela is standing in the background, her hair keeps changing from being off her face to covering her face.

STP

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Yours, Mine and Ours picture

Continuity mistake: When the kids finally stand up to the schoolyard bullies, a bus parked in the background keeps disappearing and reappearing.

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Never Been Thawed picture

Continuity mistake: Chuck and Al are having a discussion in an auto repair location. Chuck has a black smear on his face at the beginning of the conversation. As the shots continue back and forth between the two the smear on Chuck's face suddenly disappears.

Wayne C.

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Match Point picture

Continuity mistake: When Chris finds Nola in the Tate modern, her arm changes from bent to down between front and back shots.

Sacha

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Brick picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Pin and Brendan are sitting on the beach talking, in one shot the sun is below the horizon, in the next shot it's just above, and in the next shot it's under the horizon again.

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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Deuce gets thrown through a window the top part of the window falls downward. When the shot cuts to a different angle, the top part of the window falls downward again.

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Category 7: The End of the World picture

Continuity mistake: After Hurricane Eduardo strikes Dade county, the news report says that the storm has moved north of Miami to threaten Georgia and the Carolinas. Later, at FEMA, the visible satellites show one system of indeterminate strength with its center well southeast of Miami, as well as a hurricane with an eye moving westward several hundred miles east of that. Nothing is shown moving up the Florida coast where Eduardo was described to be.

DavidK93

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