Best movie continuity mistakes of 2009

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Lies & Illusions picture

Continuity mistake: When the woman almost overturns the shelves when Wes is signing his book, you can see that in the first shot, all the upstanding books are falling down. In the next shot some are upright, and then in the next they are all lying down again. (00:18:00)

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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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Did You Hear About the Morgans? picture Did You Hear About the Morgans? mistake picture

Continuity mistake: After Paul tells Meryl that he was hesitant about adoption during their jogging, Meryl returns home. While jogging, she was wearing very tight grey pants. At the barn, her pants are a lot looser.

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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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Transmorphers: Fall of Man picture

Continuity mistake: When the black SUV transmorphs into a robot, it goes to destroy the police car. The CGI interpretation of the police car looks absolutely nothing like the real car, the front grille for instance being completely oversized, and the wheels change totally.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus picture

Continuity mistake: Mr. Nick's cigarette appears at different lengths throughout scene 6. The cigarette appears longer immediately after appearing nearly "burnt out". (00:19:40 - 00:22:25)

OliverHazardPerry

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Notorious picture

Continuity mistake: During the scene when Notorious B.I.G. is in the hotel room talking to Faith Evans on the phone, you can see a silhouette of a woman in the background. Several times in a row when the scene cuts back to Notorious, the silhouette is shown making the same movement of walking forward and sitting on the edge of the bed.

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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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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies picture

Continuity mistake: When Lex Luthor has his battle suit on and fighting Superman and Batman, the head and neck piece change dramatically and constantly. Sometimes the piece surrounds his head, leaving plenty of room and sometimes his head sticks out over the piece. And it's not a matter of angles, because in some shots, everything being the same, the side piece remains at ear level and his head is either above or below the head piece.

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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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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.

Sacha

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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li picture

Continuity mistake: When Bison beats Cantana to death, blood splatters onto his face. It disappears and re-appears from shot to shot during the scene. (Unrated version only).

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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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Today's Special picture

Continuity mistake: After the spittoon cup gets spilled on Samir's shirt, the stain changes and becomes smaller in a later shot.

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Continuity mistake: After seeing the aborted baby, Quaid goes into the bathroom and plunges his head into water. His hair, however, is perfectly dried afterward. (00:35:35)

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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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Continuity mistake: The young 'au pair' does not have what it takes and resigns after falling into the fountain. As she speaks with the Caldwells, her wet hair is in front of her shoulders in a shot, in the reverse shot it is not, and so on. (00:04:20)

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Angel of Death picture

Continuity mistake: During the fight in the bathroom, Zoe and the villain break a bathroom stall door and side-wall down. In the next shot the door is back up in its original position. It is the same door that is beside the urinal, not another stall, as it's a small bathroom with only one stall and urinal. (00:28:30 - 00:30:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Pippa and Herb are having dinner, she hits the table with her fist and wine splatters on his shirt. When he stands up and walks to the bedroom the shirt is spotless.

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