Best movie mistakes of 2023

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods picture

Continuity mistake: After Freddy gets bullied by the high school jocks and returns to talk to Anthea, he leaves his locker door open to walk her to class. When the camera pans around, his locker door is closed. (00:24:47)

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Suggested correction: Freddy's own locker is 4th from the right - he shuts it at the start of the scene. Just as Anthea says, "You knew those guys were gonna hit you," note the ginger-haired girl in an orange sweater is at her open locker, 2nd from the right, and Freddy walks over. As Freddy says, "That's how I amuse myself," we see the ginger girl standing patiently behind Freddy while he uses *her* open locker (she has a blue floral lei hanging inside) to unbend his crutch. When Freddy says, "Walk you to class? No. Why would I wanna do that? YES!" we see the ginger girl ready to get her locker back. She closes her locker while offscreen in the next shot. Then in the next shot, as the camera faces Freddy and Anthea, in the background we see ginger girl standing at her now closed locker. Rewatch this scene, please. There is no continuity problem.

Super Grover

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Other mistake: Father Amor picks up an ancient book, opens it, and blows dust from the first page. How did the dust get into a closed book?

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Revealing mistake: Just as the first credits roll, when the cheerleaders dance, check the African American, Caucasian, and most noticeably, the Asian American people behind the team. They are blatant, creepy-looking, unrealistic CGI characters. (00:01:18)

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Final shootout: Agent Bannon (Kate) shoots Agent Delson (Tye) in the head, dead center of the forehead. When Vail checks on Agent Delson moments later, the bullet hole is off-center to the right. (01:36:05 - 01:46:40)

Jfish

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Continuity mistake: Byron walks towards the maid and surrounds her waist with his arm. From the angle behind, he is repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Tre holds the bound fleece blanket [or men's top?] with the white border to his left, but it lands (not rotates) onto the desk with the white border to his right. The blanket is at a different angle in front of Chris, and the white border faces Chris (i.e. rotates about 90°) before Chris touches or picks up the blanket. (00:05:58)

KeyZOid

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Other mistake: The scene where the king has directed his aides to issue "a firm denial of these accusations" makes little sense, since Alex has already officially and firmly confirmed their relationship from the White House press room. For the palace to announce that the son of the US president is lying would create diplomatic chaos between two very close allies and would not happen. (01:42:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam and Tara are at the police station, pay attention to the objects on the table. After officer Bailey enters the rooms, several of the objects on the table suddenly change positions from the first shot. For example, Tara's phone and coffee cup swap places. The pen has moved a few inches up on the notebook. A few of the photos shift around, etc.

TedStixon

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Continuity mistake: During the drive to the mansion, the number of pages Noah has read in her book ("Pride and Prejudice") varies with front/back views. After she has read to almost the end, she's back to the middle or about two-thirds left to read. (00:02:00 - 00:02:44)

KeyZOid

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Continuity mistake: Chato is returning to the diving bell. He has on a full face mask and tanks. Yet in the next shots, he is shown approaching the bell and getting out of the water. He has no face mask and no tanks.

toroscan

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Continuity mistake: At the bar, the amount of beer in Maria's "Corona Extra" bottle varies from at the neckline, to below, to above. After she takes a swig, it is still at the neckline; then it is about 1/2" above the neckline. (00:25:50 - 00:26:44)

KeyZOid

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Plot hole: Jenny steals Dr. "Sanchez's" badge by bumping into him so she can get into the lab, but she never did anything to return it. But Dr. "Sanchez" is still somehow able to walk into his lab without his badge. And even if he thought he left his badge behind in the lab for some reason and had someone let him in, he doesn't do anything to look for it, which would have alerted him to a security breach before seeing the scarab missing.

Bishop73

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Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, when Mills and Koa are battling the dinosaurs, it is nighttime. Mills lures one of them towards the hot springs, and at this point, sunrise is beginning. After they defeat the final dinosaur, they go back to the escape pod, and it is back to being nighttime again.

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Factual error: It is shown, more than once, that letters from the IRS are piling up, and it's implied that these are the property tax problems with which the main character is wrestling. However, property tax letters would not come from the IRS/Federal government. Rather, they'd come from local/county/city government.

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Other mistake: After the first guard at the chemical plant is sniped, the second guard goes to check on him and is surprised by the sudden appearance of an attacking helicopter. Helicopters are extremely loud, and flying as low as it was depicted would also vibrate the ground and the building. There's no way it would have been able to sneak up on the guard like that.

Phaneron

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Continuity mistake: In the Soviet bunker, Batman hooks a soldier taking cover at a distance. In the next shot he's suddenly closer and in range to kick him.

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Factual error: After Napoleon's coup of the consul, there is a scene featuring Josephine carrying a toy Pomeranian dog. While Pomeranians existed at this time, they were much bigger in size (upwards of 50 pounds). The more modern type of Pomeranian that she is carrying wouldn't start coming about for another century.

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Continuity mistake: Aamal hangs her daughter's photo from the rearview mirror, and it usually extends beyond the height of the mirror by an inch or so. However, the close-up shows the entire photo within the mirror. (00:15:54)

KeyZOid

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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)

KeyZOid

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Visible crew/equipment: The camera is reflected in the glass of the gas station after the woman calls the cops on the killer. It's visible on the right side before the shot cuts.

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