Best drama movie continuity mistakes of 2008

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Doubt picture

Continuity mistake: After speaking to Donald's mom, Sister Aloysius is standing in the wind with leaves floating in the air. The quantity of leaves situated on the ground changes between shots. (01:17:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Vicky is wounded in her left hand, the wound disappears completely before that scene is over.

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The Brothers Bloom picture

Continuity mistake: When the brothers are standing on the rocks on the beach, the clouds change back and forth behind Stephan.

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Restraint picture

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 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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Continuity mistake: There is a modern coffee thermos container on the sink by the window during a scene set in the 1930s. In the next shot, it suddenly disappears. (00:46:25)

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Continuity mistake: During the scene that Bo and Sam kiss, his hair changes between shots. From the back, his hair is completely pulled back. From the front, his bangs are down. (01:27:20)

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Surveillance picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see Agent Holloway viewing the crime scene photos taped to the wall, he is facing camera looking at transparent pictures on a transparent wall (as if we are behind that wall, seeing through it). When the angle changes to see the Agent from behind, the photos are now paper photos on a normal, opaque wall and the pictures are arranged somewhat differently - most notably to Holloway's right near the top where two wider photos are vertically aligned atop and below each other in the second shot when they were misaligned in the first shot by nearly half their width. The transparency versus opaque materials issue is a stylistic choice of the director and not a mistake, but the mismatched alignments is a mistake. (00:11:25)

johnrosa

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Deception picture

Continuity mistake: When Wyatt is shot, the amount of blood on his shirt next to the collar increases, decreases and even disappears between shots.

Sacha

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Kill Switch picture

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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Lymelife picture

Continuity mistake: Jim, driving Scott home, is smoking a cigarette that disappears before he slaps Scott the second time. There is no smoke in the vehicle that would suggest Jim temporarily placed the cigarette in the ashtray. (00:15:09)

KeyZOid

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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: When the soldiers rip off posters that depicts racial images of buffalo soldiers, the board underneath remains blank. Later in the movie, when they are about to escape the town, the board is shown with tattered old postings again.

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The Ramen Girl picture

Continuity mistake: When Abby is finished washing the dishes, she tosses the towel she was using and it lands on top of a red can. An immediate close-up of the towel on top of the can proves this (0:25:29). A second later, the picture zooms out again to show her bending over from exhaustion (0:25:30). The towel is no longer on the can, but behind it against the wall. Abby follows the shop owner into a room adjacent to the kitchen and when they come back, the towel is once again on top of the can (0:25:55), but most of it is inside the can this time. It's obvious that neither her nor the shop owner has touched the towel and no one else is in the shop. (00:25:25)

Jennifer30

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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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Righteous Kill picture

Continuity mistake: 50 Cent goes through the window onto the floor below. There is glass and debris everywhere. Our heroes run past him later and there is no sign of the window debris.

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The Narrows picture

Continuity mistake: Mike Manador watches his girlfriend Gina drive away in a taxi. Behind him a truck can be seen coming down the street. Mike then steps out into street seconds later, but the truck has vanished. Next shot looks up the street and sure there is the taxi but no other vehicles, and you can see the entire street. (01:41:25)

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The Reader picture

Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Michael Berg is sick on the street in Neustadt and is leaning on a wall to throw up, he's near a closed door and is positioned to the right of that door. Next shot, from inside, shows the door now open and he is leaning to the left part of the door. (00:03:15)

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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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