Best movie continuity mistakes of 2008

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Surfer, Dude picture

Continuity mistake: Addington and his manager talk about showing Zarno the "Under the Sun" sticker idea to make money. Trouble is he would already be getting royalties from it. Two scenes earlier, April May meets up with Add wearing an "Under the Sun" T-shirt. Therefore he was already making money and didn't need to go see Zarno.

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Continuity mistake: When Ronald's girlfriend gets up at the breakfast table, and tousles his hair, Ronald is holding a glass of milk in his right hand. There's a cut to a wide shot, and Ronald is not holding the milk. There's not enough time for him to have put it down.

rswarrior

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Daphne is talking to the peasant farmer after leaving the King, Luster casts "Flaming Hand of Fiery Doom". Daphne blinks a few times and has a shocked look on her face, but has no other indications that a person exploded in front of her. In the next shot, Luster comes up and pulls "a piece of peasant" off Daphne's cheek that wasn't there before.

LadyRaevyn

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Continuity mistake: During this scene, the female lead, Freya, is being attacked by the Moorwen youngster in order to eat her. When above her, the Moorwen's saliva is dripping onto her face, cut away to the monster, as it hears the main characters coming to her rescue. Cut back to Freya and there is none of the saliva on her face, another cut back to the creature and a final cut back to Freya, her face is now covered in saliva again. (01:27:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Sam is talking with the person in the cemetery, while they are sitting side by side on a bench. In one shot there is an object on his left shoulder and it is missing in the next shot.

Tbrennan

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One Week picture

Continuity mistake: Right before Ben runs over the skunk, he's wearing goggles, but when you see him on the ground right after crashing, he is not.

TeamTJ

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Continuity mistake: When Rincewind and Twoflower are at the Edge, Rincewind tells how he only knows the one spell from the Octavo and how he got it. In several shots of Twoflower the clouds in the background change drastically, often between one- and two-seconds shots of Rincewind. The clouds are almost motionless in every shot, so they could not have drifted that fast so suddenly.

Twotall

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Continuity mistake: When King is fighting with Lazarus in the bar, Lazarus gets blood near his mouth like you get when getting hit in the face. But when they fight near the white door, the blood is gone. (01:13:00 - 01:18:00)

Fowara

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Eden Lake picture

Continuity mistake: While on a dirt road, the GPS tells them to turn around when they can. The car then starts to turn left. In the next cut, the car is turning right.

posty

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Hamlet 2 picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the drama teacher is in the copy shop trying to decide what color paper to buy, his hand keeps moving between shots. Every time the shot is from the copy shop side of the counter, the drama teacher's right hand is in front of the blue paper. But every time the shot is from the drama teacher's side of the counter, his right hand is in front of the orange paper.

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Continuity mistake: When Annie is taken to the truck (in Mexico), she has no coat on and a gag in her mouth. When they reach the cantina, she is taken out of the truck wearing a brown jacket and no gag, but as soon as they show her inside the cantina, she once again has on no coat and is gagged.

grannycindy

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Adoration picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene at the end of the film at his grandfather's empty lake house, Simon first unloaded the wooden Christmas figures from his duffel bag onto a pile of firewood on the dock. He then went into his grandfather's workshop and sawed the scroll off of his mother's violin. With his phone, he took a picture of the severed scroll in his hand with the dock in the background, but the dock was empty.

nkeeshin

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Continuity mistake: When Will's mum takes her shoes off she is not wearing stockings. Will starts giving her a foot rub with nothing on her feet. When he goes to get the computer left by the neighbour his mum has stockings on. (00:15:20)

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Continuity mistake: During dinner, a waitress brings a pot of food with a burning flame in the middle of it, to one hilarious subdued Cage reaction. During the first part of the scene, the flame burns high with wind blowing to the left during Nicholas Cage's close-ups, and is less intense during the reverse shots on Charlie Yeung. (00:39:05)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: When the pea-soup is first taste tested, you can see close up that it is under C. Once it zooms out to the room, it seems B and C have changed places. (00:07:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Despereaux fights the cat in the rat arena, he hides behind a blue ball of yarn. When the cat hits the yarn, causing Despereaux and the yarn to fly in the air, in the next shot, the ball of yarn vanishes and never reappears again.

Paul M Leslie

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Buddies are wondering how their kids are, we see the kids really upset about them not being home and we go to Alice trying to decide what to wear. In the next shot, the dresses she's holding change places.

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Continuity mistake: When Justin gets his sex toy home, he turns his family photo facing down on his nightstand. He turns the photo down square with the nightstand. The next cut, the photo is turned 45 degrees to the nightstand. (00:14:10)

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