Best movie continuity mistakes of 2009

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Precious picture

Continuity mistake: Just as Precious is running out of the deli with her stolen bucket of chicken, you can see that she has left her new journal and pen on the counter. Later, in her first day of school, she has the journal.

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Madea Goes to Jail picture

Continuity mistake: At the first part of the movie when Candy (the prostitute) leaves the courthouse to talk to Derek, her hair moves between shots. Sometimes in front of her shoulder and sometimes behind her shoulder etc.

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Wild Target picture

Continuity mistake: When Maynard is teaching Tony to shoot a gun, Tony fires three shots first. The gun's chamber closes as usual (meaning the gun still has ammo). We see a shot of Maynard, then flick back to Tony and the chamber is now open (meaning the gun is out of ammo). Tony then fires three more shots from an apparently empty magazine before being told to reload. (01:26:40)

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City Island picture

Continuity mistake: When Vivian comes out on the porch with a bottle of soda, the level is way under the label. When she goes down the stairs the level is way over the label on the bottle. (00:42:30)

MiKeMaN_SE

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Post Grad picture

Continuity mistake: When Walter steps into the cat poo he gets it right under the middle of the shoe. When he then lifts his foot to take a look it's stuck under the front of the shoe with no sign of poo in the middle. (00:17:30)

MiKeMaN_SE

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The Land That Time Forgot picture

Continuity mistake: When Cole fills the water jug at the creek, it is only about a fourth full of water when he caps it and hands it to Captain Burroughs. A moment later as they are walking away, the jug is almost completely full of water. (00:18:50)

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He's Just Not That Into You picture

Continuity mistake: When Gigi calls Alex for the first time to get his opinion about a guy "Jarrad", Alex puts her on hold and goes into his office to pick up the call. In the bar the phone line is lit up where it's holding, but the office phone is not lit up at all.

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A Single Man picture

Continuity mistake: In the final scene, after George falls to the floor with a heart attack, the alarm clock is knocked onto the floor but the position changes from near his elbow (in the overhead shots) to closer to his hand (in the floor-level shots).

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Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience picture

Continuity mistake: During the song 'Video Girl' watch Nick's tie because the tie is on, then it's off, then on again, then off and so on. (00:23:35 - 00:28:00)

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Dance Flick picture

Continuity mistake: When Sugar Bear flies through the air and lands on Truck at the end dance off, Trucks legs bend backwards underneath him. When Sugar Bear gets off of him, he's now flat but his legs are laid straight out instead of bent.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats picture

Continuity mistake: Lyn has a patch on his nose and it's loose on one side. In the next scene it's attached tight to his nose again. (01:17:00)

MiKeMaN_SE

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The Collector picture

Continuity mistake: Approximately 10 minutes into the movie the main character is going to burglarize a house and there is a guard dog on a chain in the yard that bites him, through a black mask, on his left cheek. After he is in the upstairs bedroom trying to open a safe, you can see blood around the hole near his left eye, but when he pulls off the mask, there is no longer blood on his left cheek, or any signs of a puncture wound.

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The Last Station picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene in the woods where Tolstoy signs away the rights to his writings, the buttons on Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov's shirt collar are on the left side of his neck until the last shot, where the buttons have moved to the right side of his neck. (01:05:05 - 01:07:15)

Junius

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Serious Moonlight picture

Continuity mistake: During the scene when Ian is taped to the chair, the duct tape across his shoulders changes from shot to shot. Some times it touches the shoulder seams on his shirt, and other times it is several inches away.

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Shortkut - The Con Is On picture

Continuity mistake: In a "movie inside the movie" moment, Arshad Warsi is on the witness stand. In the wide shot the hand he had on the book is held up gesticulating, and at the end of the shot he has his hat in both hands, while it is under his armpit in the shots from the front. (00:12:55)

Sammo

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Crank: High Voltage picture

Continuity mistake: When Eve pushes Chev down the stairs at the horse track, we can see there are more seats underneath them. But they fall over the side and onto the track (close to the wall). In the next few shots they start to have sex, and when the camera pans out they are in the middle of the horse track without ever getting up.

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The House of the Devil picture

Continuity mistake: When she gets the pizza from the guy at the door, it is in a white box. When she goes in and sets it on the counter, it is in a brown pizza box. Then later, when she is running away covered in blood, she grabs the knife on top of the pizza box, and it is white again.

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Fish Tank picture

Continuity mistake: When the family is in a parking lot, the amount of beer in the glass on the car's rooftop keeps changing between shots.

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Road Trip: Beer Pong picture

Continuity mistake: Aboard the stolen cab, the guys receive a photo from Jenna posing with the cardboard cutout of herself. She has a rather straightforward pose in the picture in the phone, while a moment later when we actually saw the picture taken she struck a pose cocking her torso and popping the hip out making a pouty face. (00:34:20)

Sammo

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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior picture Mulan: Rise of a Warrior mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Mulan tricks her father into taking his medicine, and everyone has a laugh at him. Between shots she is pouring from the teapot first with the right, then the left, and one of the geezers sitting by is cackling with a different posture and hands switched as well. (00:05:10)

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