Best movie continuity mistakes of 2011

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Continuity mistake: After sex, Gerry sits next to Grace on the bed and his pink shirt is unbuttoned. Several shots throughout the conversation whilst on the bed and his shirt buttons are now done up, but when he gets up his shirt is now unbuttoned again.

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Continuity mistake: J. Edgar takes his secretary-to-be on a date and tries to impress her by showing off his card system for cataloguing books in the Library of Congress. When he runs to the book shelves he brushes past an open book set up on a display stand - sitting on a sheet of glass. The glass moves when he touches it and hangs off the edge of the table. When he returns seconds later the glass is back in place, centered on the table. His date did not move; she was still standing where he left her a few feet away and they were the only two people in the Library.

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Continuity mistake: Adriana puts on one of Gil's earrings. But a frame later, when heading for the carriage, she is wearing both earrings.

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Continuity mistake: When Charley and Ed are arguing in the abandoned house, the light switches on the wall next to Ed change positions repeatedly between shots even though neither of the characters ever touch them.

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Continuity mistake: When Lucy comes home at the beginning of the movie she quickly buttons the top of her dress. While eating dinner, it is open and then buttoned again between shots.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, when Liam Neeson looks around at the wolves approaching from the forest, the black frostbite mark on Liam Neeson's face is on his right cheek instead of his left cheek. (01:50:00)

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Continuity mistake: *SPOILER* When Stephen finds Molly dead, her position on the floor and the scarf on the bed change positions between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When the hurricane hits, you see the "Clearwater animal rescue" sign break apart. After the storm passes, the sign is complete again (albeit missing some letters) on the ground.

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Continuity mistake: In the opening scene just before Victoria descends into the cave, she's wearing two headlights, the bigger one is on her right side and the smaller one is on her left side. In the next scene while she is talking to Josh, the position of those two headlights changed. (00:15:10)

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Continuity mistake: None of the games in Goon were played in Manitoba, but every rink has Manitoba Liquor Commission advertising on the boards. In the game played in Quebec the advertising on the boards disappears in the zoomed out camera shots and you can see the MTS Centre logo on the scoreboard.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Margaret Thatcher is teaching her daughter Carol to drive, you see Margaret's window partially open but just as they near-hit the cyclist, her window is down just enough for her to stick her hand out but in the next shot its back to being partially open.

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Continuity mistake: When the nurse is giving Liam Nelson the address of the investigator, in one shot she's writing the note with her left hand, and in the next shot, she has the pen in her right hand.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Deputy Rose Gammon approaches the car with the body of Cindy Van Alden in it, the position of the car changes between shots. From within the police car, the car with the body is parked diagonally with the rear end in the road. From the long shot, the car is off the road and parallel to it.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Hobson and Arthur are in the elevator, and Arthur is looking at the ring; during the second to last shot in the elevator the ring is in the case, but in the next shot Arthur is holding it and putting it on his finger, giving him no time to take it out.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie when the girl and guy are boarding the submarine, the camera switches to a view where you can see an apartment complex in the background. If you look towards the top you can see someone standing at the balcony and then they move off towards the balcony door. In the next shot the person is gone.

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Continuity mistake: Bill Haydon is on a call with the Hungarian embassy. He's holding his phone in his right hand talking on it, but then slams it down with his left hand.

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Suggested correction: Watch the scene, he lowers the receiver to speak to Jerry and his hands come together on the receiver, the camera cuts to Jerry, then back to Haydon hanging up the phone with the left hand, closest to the cradle. Watch it again, seems to match correctly.

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Continuity mistake: When Tybalt smashes into the wall and breaks, there are a few pieces and he's shown to be hollow. But when he's put back together and is dancing at the end, his arm and leg break off and are now solid.

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Continuity mistake: Vincent has brown hair. When he has the spike driven through his head, his hair is blonde.

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Continuity mistake: When Alan is taunting Michael about selling door knobs and Michael's back is against the door frame to the dining room, the dining room is dark; both chandeliers are off. All four characters are in the living room but as Michael responds to Alan's taunts, the lights are on, even though no one entered that room and Michael's hands were in his pockets during the exchange.

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Continuity mistake: Three-quarters into the film, Jacob brings Rosie, the elephant, to Reece Witherspoon's tent. Her husband, August, appears and seconds later there is, out of the blue, a cigarette between his fingers.

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