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Continuity mistake: A goat moves [off-screen] to different sides of a rock, but the rock cannot change shape and color in alternating shots (from greyish, square pyramid-like to brownish, cuboid-like shape). (00:14:15)

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Continuity mistake: Tony is seated at a table with a green-covered book, clipboard, and laptop in front of him. Parker stands across the table from Tony and has some papers in front of him. Parker shoves a paper across the table towards the clipboard and laptop. The camera quickly shifts to Parker, now seated at the table. The paper Parker pushes across the table is not there and Tony's laptop is closer to the clipboard. The empty wine bottles and book are in different positions. (00:03:42)

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Continuity mistake: There is rain in front of and on the SUV when Blake stops to drop off Jamie. The windshield and visible parts of the hood and roof are dry before Jamie exits the vehicle, and there is no rain while she walks away. (00:05:40)

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Continuity mistake: Sarah is sitting on the floor, covered with a blanket, and her feet, in black socks, are exposed. But in the next shots, they are covered and uncovered. (01:32:07)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the video call, Emily's camera is aimed directly in front of a large branch/tree trunk that has fallen horizontally. As she scans the log-like branch, Sam's phone shows all upright trees. Even allowing for a reception delay, Sam's phone never shows the log. [The images are even displayed on a split screen.] (00:19:30)

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Continuity mistake: During the contest near the end of the film, as the walls are rising from the floor to create the maze, Chris Pine's arm positions change between camera cuts; up in surprise, by his sides in the long shot, and back up again in the close up.

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Continuity mistake: Isabelle Huppert managed to blackmail the two main characters into at least getting some tasty sausages, for a start. She takes a bite of one, dripping with mustard. In the reverse shot, the wiener is whole and dry. (01:17:25)

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Continuity mistake: Dad's fiancée places the photo album on her lap and holds the Christmas dance tickets between both hands. She has no free hands to move the album, but the album is on the coffee table. No one touches the album, but it is at a different angle on the coffee table. (00:09:28 - 00:10:10)

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Continuity mistake: While sitting in the chair, Ian's bangs change several times, even though his hands stay in his lap. The metal head covering is removed and his bangs are separated/split near the centre of his forehead, then his bangs are about evenly distributed across his forehead with several intermittent gaps. Next, his bangs are angled to the left, fluffier, and without gaps, return to evenly spaced across his forehead, go back to fluffy and combed to the left, and similar ongoing variations. (00:21:45)

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Continuity mistake: The creamer (or sugar bowl?) is in front of the tea pot's spout, but rear views of Adye show the creamer behind the tea pot and more to his left. Also, the way Adye is sitting sideways in the chair with his knees crossed, the creamer and tea pot should not even be visible from the rear angle. (00:40:50 - 00:41:12)

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Continuity mistake: The trees show through the front windows of the house largely have green leaves with subtle signs of starting to transition for autumn. Panning to the back windows, the trees have a distinct, more uniform orange tint (which cannot be attributed to the sun setting behind them). Returning to the front windows, the tree foliage is more fall-like, similar to the orange foliage in the backyard. (00:00:24)

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Continuity mistake: Morgan and Sophie take far too many steps to get into the tunnel, then take many more, which take them past the man on the left, but the man is still ahead of them. After they take more steps and are past him, they are back at the tunnel entrance. (00:23:18 - 00:23:50)

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Continuity mistake: Scott hugs his daughter and caresses her face while she holds his wrist. From the opposite angle, her hand is gone.

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Continuity mistake: The windshield of Jud's car is still cracked while he is driving to Timmy's house from the hospital; however, when he gets out of his car and you see the windshield, it doesn't have a crack in it. (00:22:00)

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Continuity mistake: The position of Cousin's white headband and the way it is tied vary, even though there is a tight knot at the center of his forehead that prevents such changes. The straighter part of the bow, to his right, is diagonally upward at a ~ 60° angle and the left side is more ear-like and parallel to the floor. Next, the left side is diagonally upward at a >60° angle and the right side is shorter and more parallel to the floor. A little later, the left part is shorter and the right longer, sloping down. (00:06:50 - 00:08:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the front view of Olivia when she sits at her desk and opens her laptop, the clear LED globe lightbulb to her right is illuminated with a visible filament, but the bulb looks solid white when the camera shifts to a rear view. (01:22:22)

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Suggested correction: It's still a clear bulb in the rear view, you're just seeing the white curtains behind the clear bulb.

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Filaments should still be visible because they are darker and in front of the paler background.

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The filament is still visible.

Bishop73

Didn't look illuminated on my screen.

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It definitely is illuminated. It might be hard to tell with so much lighting already present in the scene, especially coming through the window.

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I seriously doubt there's enough background light to make what is supposed to be a clear illuminated LED bulb several feet in front of it to fade away. (This will be my last response).

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Then you're talking about two completely different lamps altogether because the bulb is in front of a giant window with light coming through the thin curtain and it's inches away from the window, not feet. And it's not faded away at all.

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Continuity mistake: The table runner covers the corner of the nightstand and extends 1-2" across the front side. There are notebooks on the opposite side of the shelf below the tabletop. A side view shows the table runner a couple more inches across the front and drapes outward. Only the far corner of the green notebook is visible, but the table runner cannot obstruct that much of a view of the shelf. (00:03:35)

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Continuity mistake: Nancy places her black purse onto the counter. She pulls the black "Double D" out of her purse and sets it in front of Doug, then shoves it back into her purse. Nancy takes her purse off the counter to leave. For a brief moment, the "Double D" can still be seen on the counter. (00:03:50 - 00:04:42)

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Continuity mistake: When the older sister impales herself on the broom handle, her head changed from next to her little sister's hands, at the base, to halfway up the staff with almost a foot of distance between her head and her sister's hands.

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