Best movie continuity mistakes of 2011

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Season of the Witch picture

Continuity mistake: At the end of the fight where the altar boy must prove his fighting skills, the sword changes hands between shots when his hands are up.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Miyoko has a drink in her hand while she frustrates the advances of her purple-sweatered coworker. Her grip on the chalice differs depending on the camera angle. (00:01:25)

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The Double picture

Continuity mistake: When Paul is chasing Bozlovski at the port, he repeatedly shoots through his passenger side glass, destroying it. A few seconds later, the glass can be seen undamaged when both cars are banging each other.

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Continuity mistake: During Cardinal Richelieu and Milady deWinter's first conversation, the Cardinal's hands repeatedly change position between shots; sometimes he is holding both up, sometimes they are both down, sometimes one is on the table etc.

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The Lamp picture The Lamp mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Stan is sitting at his desk listening to the answering machine messages and failing to do anything productive. During the whole scene, the handle of his mug switches orientation, pointing at him in every faraway shot, pointing to his left in every closer shot. (00:04:25 - 00:05:30)

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The Sitter picture

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, the kids run upstairs to get changed into their PJ's. However, the girl, Blythe, is already wearing her PJ's and a second earlier was wearing her skirt, blouse and tights.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, the bloody handprint on the car changes entirely the second time it is shown. (02:02:45)

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We Have a Pope picture

Continuity mistake: The designated Pope has just been visited by a physician. Three cardinals want to take a stroll outside for some sweets and arts. One of the cardinals stands and rebukes them; you can see that the cross on his chest has its chain caught in a button of the vest. During the rest of the scene the chain is caught in that button in the closer views and is loose in the wider angles. (00:23:50)

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My Week with Marilyn picture My Week with Marilyn mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Laurence asks Colin for a cigarette in the screening room, he has it between his fingers when Colin lights it, but when the shot cuts, his fingers have disappeared from around the cigarette. (00:45:30)

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I Don't Know How She Does It picture

Continuity mistake: Kate's stockings change colors, from black to beige, while she's running late to work. (00:12:10)

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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, protesters chase Harold through downtown traffic until he dives into his friend Todd's vehicle; whereupon the protesters urinate on Todd's windshield and splatter fecal matter across his driver's side window. For several scenes thereafter, the fecal splatter repeatedly changes shape, orientation and quantity on the side window, actually gaining mass in some shots.

Charles Austin Miller

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The Rum Diary picture

Continuity mistake: Right after Sanderson hands Kemp the itinerary for the next day's events, Sanderson places a pen and a glass ashtray directly on top of the folder lying on the table in front of him. In the next shot, the ashtray is covering only a small portion of the corner of the folder, and the pen is lying beside it.

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Red State picture

Continuity mistake: Three teen boys are abducted to be killed at the church. One breaks free and finds a weapons cache and dies in that room, while his killer dies outside that room. Soon after, the preacher and his wife find the dead church member, then look into the weapons room to see two of the teen boys dead, side by side. But the second hasn't been killed yet, and dies running away from the church later, shot by the the local sheriff by mistake. (00:40:40 - 00:48:00)

John W Rosa

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Suggested correction: The second boy, the one who got shot outside, was playing dead so the church members would leave him. It is not a mistake in the movie.

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Continuity mistake: After Sarah finds her father in the bedroom and goes downstairs to get help, the blood pattern on her shirt/upper breasts changes. While the movie is edited to look like one continuous shot, it was filmed in bits and pieces, and the blood pattern was not consistent in some of the shots, it seems.

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Continuity mistake: Grace is whining to her mom about adding her new sister to the trip. Before she has to head to the hospital, her mom puts her hands on Grace's cheeks. At the cut, her hands are on the shoulders instead, and only then she moves them up to the face. (00:12:20)

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Continuity mistake: At the start of the film, when the bus driver helps the man in a wheelchair onto the bus, his hat disappears then reappears. (00:05:00 - 00:06:00)

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You're Next picture

Continuity mistake: When the slasher is breaking down the door, the knife position keeps changing between shots.

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