Best movie continuity mistakes of 2016

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Special Correspondents picture

Continuity mistake: Eric Bana is listening to the police radio frequencies at the beginning of the movie. He does it in close-up with his left hand on the money, by his right arm, but in the next shot his position is different, since his hand is holding the right forearm. (00:00:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Michelle gets catapulted onto the wall and begins wailing, her right arm is straight, semi-parallel to her shoulders. Next shot and it is bent, hand up to the level of her face. (00:22:55)

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Continuity mistake: Mother and son run towards the store window as the Ford Galaxy is burning in the parking lot. At the end of the shot from behind, a woman with a lilac top and long brown hair comes into frame and leans against the vegetable stand. After the cut, with Jamie and the mom by the window, the same woman walks in again. (00:01:30)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist (Andrea Bowen) is in the car with the captain, who is debriefing her about the subjects involved in the case. Throughout the conversation, multiple times her hair covers her ears or is combed behind them, with no consistency. (00:11:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Kimmel was eating his steak, the position of the three beer bottles near the upper-left hand corner of the table changed. At first, they were close to his plate (two almost touching) and arranged like the first three bowling pins would be. A front view shows the three beer bottles further away from Kimmel's plate and at a different angle. (00:36:43)

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Continuity mistake: The cursed necklace is shown emitting its evil fumes on the white paper of the letter, but the letter itself is perfectly 90° with the envelope, or at a different angle. (00:06:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the first scene, the old alien man comes to pick up his spaceship and Ratchet instructs him to "Now, let's fire up that mag booster." The old alien pushes the switch forward to start the mag booster. Later in the movie, Ratchet flips the switch backwards to "engage mag booster" as Clank commands. (00:06:30 - 00:26:30)

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The Huntsman: Winter's War picture

Continuity mistake: After their fight with the monkey Sara has some scratches on her forehead and cheekbone but when she gets to the castle with Freya they are gone.

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Continuity mistake: John Biswas is tailing the little deaf girl. His scooter breaks down and he follows her on foot. They are walking in the same road in two different shots, with a cut just a few meters apart. The toys in her right hand and the paper in her left swap hands in the second shot. (00:18:20)

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Continuity mistake: Conner is back home, but his publicist drags him out and they go to a club, with Conner wearing a ton of makeup. They turn around hearing some loud riff; Sarah Silverman has her glass of wine on the counter in the first shot, held up in the reverse. (01:02:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Lady Susan is counseling her daughter Frederica in her bedroom, the shot shows an unlit candle on a dresser behind Lady Susan. The shot changes back and forth between Frederica and Lady Susan. When the shot changes back to Lady Susan, the unlit candle is gone, though there is no one else in the room.

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True Memoirs of an International Assassin picture

Continuity mistake: When Masovich kills Paolo, we see the slide stay locked in the open position. But in the next shot the slide is closed.

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Continuity mistake: Throughout the movie, fire axes seem to be the weapons of choice. Only two fire axes are used, but they appear recurrently. In the very first use, the protagonists grab fire axes to butcher the monster called Beverly. Blood and gore go everywhere; yet, the axes emerge from this bloodbath with no blood or gore on the handles - they're virtually pristine moments later. The axes are used again and again, right up to the ending, and blood comes and goes from the axe handles seemingly at random.

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Continuity mistake: Maudie lights herself a cigarette. There are 2 matchboxes on the railing of the porch. They disappear for the rest of the scene and Maudie's cardigan and dress do not have pockets. (00:02:35)

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Continuity mistake: During Kirk's birthday party at the end, Scotty's hair is a different style and colour than the rest of the film. He also has a beard, but there is no time for him to have grown one since this is supposed to be a few days after the battle with Krall.

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Continuity mistake: Mike and Tommy at the beginning of the movie are in the desert and have been staring at nothing for 3 months and 6 days. When Mike says this precise amount of time, and earlier when he asks "What's your point, Tommy?" the lid of his scope flaps in the wind. In the rest of the scene it stays still. (00:02:20)

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The Darkness picture

Continuity mistake: Mikey dropped the wristwatch Andrew gave him and it landed face down with the bands upward. When Mikey jumped off the rock to retrieve it, the watch's face was on its side (visible to the screen) and the bands were parallel to the ground. (00:05:04)

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