Best movie revealing mistakes of 2016

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back picture

Revealing mistake: When the leading hitman jumps from the balcony you see him land on a rubber mat.

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The Purge: Election Year picture

Revealing mistake: When they are in the hospital van, taking the senator to triage, and they receive fire from the helicopter, one announces that "Randall is dead" referring to the young man in the back of the van. It then cuts to his corpse - however, a split second before the scene changes away from his face, his eyes move towards the camera. (00:56:35)

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Passengers picture

Revealing mistake: Just after Aurora finds out that Jim woke her up, she runs around the ship. When she finishes the run, she comes across a dead end and the shot cuts to Jim sitting in front of CCTV monitors. If you look carefully, her movements on the middle monitor do not match the two either side of it - a badly-synced video rather than a live CCTV feed. (01:04:00)

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi picture

Revealing mistake: When a contractor fires a grenade at an enemy technical, the truck visibly explodes and moves upwards before the (most likely) CGI projectile hits it. (01:02:00)

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople picture

Revealing mistake: When the hiker's body is taken out of the cottage, it is so obviously a dummy - you can see the join in the neck.

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Hidden Figures picture

Revealing mistake: When the ladies are being escorted by the police to NASA, their Chevy is in park.

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The Nice Guys picture

Revealing mistake: Healy tears off the October 26 sheet from the calendar, and before the camera cuts away, it shows the October 25 sheet underneath it. That's not how calendars work. (00:11:25)

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Hacksaw Ridge picture

Revealing mistake: When the stretcher is being lowered down on the line, the high tension steel wires can be seen under the hessian rope.

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Suggested correction: I don't see this as an error, because just before they lower him down, it is obvious that they have rigged a tripod and cable at a much lesser angle than straight down the face of the cliff. Once the cleanup phase started, additions like this would have been normal to remove the dead and wounded.

I am 100% certain this is an error.

The stretcher is seen lowered down hung from ropes tied at each corner, which would have really happened. Obviously this wouldn't meet safety requirements for filming, so they've "hidden" steel cables in the rope. The error is that the cables and the screw-in anchors in the stretcher are visible. Also the rope on some of the corners is visibly slack as a result.

This doesn't refer to the tripod and cable rig. Just as the stretcher starts moving, the camera shows it moving off to the left with the other soldiers watching on. One of the soldiers is holding one of the ropes that attach to the stretcher. When he lets go, it reveals that the rope is frayed, revealing the steel wire that is threaded through the rope. It's the wire that's attached to the stretcher, not the rope.

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The Conjuring 2 picture

Revealing mistake: During the scene near the end, at the climax of the film, when Ed is holding onto Janet for dear life outside her bedroom window, as Lorraine rushes over and pulls them back into the house, 'Janet' is a dummy.

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Captain America: Civil War picture

Revealing mistake: During the face-off between Bucky, Captain America and Iron Man at the end of the film the fake snow is seen stuck to the actors after they fall down. It remains throughout the scene rather than melting as real snow would.

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Criminal picture

Revealing mistake: When Jerico is having his surgery the angle of the device that will be transmitting the memories is inconsistently angled in the real shot versus the monitor image.

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Special Correspondents picture

Revealing mistake: When they (Finch and Frank) are on the boat to Ecuador, in the first shot you can see on the waves that the boat had sailed in what seems like a circle. (01:16:30)

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story picture

Revealing mistake: After Jyn has retrieved the data file containing the Death Star plans, Krennic is shown walking in a hallway with two other Death Troopers and pushes a button to open a door. The door begins to open before Krennic actually pushes the button to open it. While his hand is not seen touching the button, the sound of the button being pressed is still heard. (01:51:10)

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe picture The Autopsy of Jane Doe mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When Austin goes to write the Roman numeral "XVII" on the chalkboard, the erased numerals from a previous take are still visible where he's about to write it. (00:41:36)

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Now You See Me 2 picture

Revealing mistake: When Dylan is looking at the news articles in Thaddeus' cell, the camera pans over to one of the articles with the headline, "I am a victim": Thaddeus Bradley. The opening paragraphs on the first column are repeated throughout the entire article.

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The Jungle Book picture

Revealing mistake: Some scenes in the jungle involve heavy downpours of rain, but rain drops are not seen splashing on Mowgli or the jungle creatures.

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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life picture

Revealing mistake: Towards the end of the movie, the principal puts on his hat which turns his hair green. But you can see the green paint has already been applied before he puts his hat on.

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X-Men: Apocalypse picture

Revealing mistake: When Apocalypse first introduces himself to Magneto in the factory and tries to persuade him to join his side, a seam in Apocalypse's facial prosthetics next to his mouth is starting to come apart during a close-up shot.

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A Kind of Murder picture

Revealing mistake: The "snow" is obviously fake and it is largely absent on the left third of the screen and, to a lesser extent, the right side. Although it apparently recently started snowing, the snow was not melting when it hit the pavement, which would mean it was cold enough for snow to also "stick" onto metal vehicles (but did not) and the car pulling into the alley should have left tire tracks. At various spots throughout the movie, "snowfall" is spotty and irregular. (00:26:48)

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