Best movie continuity mistakes of 2024

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Alien: Romulus picture

Continuity mistake: After Rain shoots all the xenomorphs in zero gravity, and she and Andy have to traverse through the floating blood splatter, the bodies of the dead xenomorphs have suddenly disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: When Jessica kills the sniper with the rock at the beginning, the sniper's body is lying dead on the ridge. When she shuffles down the dune to speak to Paul, mere seconds later, the sniper's body is no longer there. (00:09:04)

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Continuity mistake: When Deep Dark Secret breaks the jar to free the emotions, look at where the emotions are standing, and how the huge piece of glass lands behind them. In about three seconds, the piece of glass changes position, and some of the emotions switch places. (00:33:08)

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Continuity mistake: Lady Raven arrives at the Coopers' place and starts talking to the wife. Cooper's watch is set to 1:35. An instant cut later it's set to 1:20.

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Deadpool & Wolverine picture

Continuity mistake: When Deadpool is talking to Wolverine's skeleton, in one shot the skeleton's mouth is closed, but in the next shot it is open.

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Madame Web picture

Continuity mistake: In the woods, Julia talks about the spider-guy, and Cassie touches her nose in disbelief, then lowers it to chest level. From the immediate opposite angle, her hand is raised close to her head. (00:50:50)

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Continuity mistake: After the Virgil quote scene and the fight that follows, Lucius takes a bath. There's a close-up of him saying something about dying in the arena, and his hair is suddenly better brushed and drier. Then it goes back to the previous wet hairstyle.

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Continuity mistake: When Clay fights Anisette at the gas station, her heels change from stilettos to flats. Best visible when Clay throws her on a car, right after she says he should be retired.

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The Trainers picture

Continuity mistake: When Anita Caprioli and Pasquale Petrolo are talking by her car, the car door hits Lillo. The two awkwardly chat for a while; during the conversation, their hands change position a few times between shots. (00:51:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Tremblay tells Lawrence that he delayed him being called to the Papal residence because he wanted to ascertain all the facts first, the folder in his hand suddenly opens between shots. (00:06:50)

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Joker: Folie à Deux picture

Continuity mistake: During the cartoon short that opens the movie, Joker, on his way to the stage, breaks the arm of a man in the corridor. In the background, slightly ahead of him in his path, is a poster for Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. The camera angle changes as Shadow Joker turns around; he is supposed to be in the same spot, but the poster is way behind him; Joker is now standing next to the Pal Joey poster.

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Unfrosted picture

Continuity mistake: When the milkman is drinking milk in the bar and talking to the Tony the Tiger actor, the amount of milk in his glass changes with the different camera angles. It goes from 2/3 full to mostly full to half full back to mostly full. (00:54:56 - 00:55:45)

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Bad Boys: Ride or Die picture

Continuity mistake: When Marcus is in the car, his grip on the phone changes between shots: sometimes he holds it with all his hand, but at other times just with his thumb and index finger. (00:14:58)

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Continuity mistake: After the bad biker bites Noel, he removes the rearview mirror from the windshield and smacks the bad biker with it. However, when Noel tells Katie to drive the car, in the exterior shots as she sideswipes another car, the rearview mirror is back up on the windshield; then it's off again. (00:33:35)

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice picture

Continuity mistake: When Lydia introduces the guests on her show at the start of the movie, the way the woman is holding her dog "Taco" changes between cuts. (The dog goes from facing Lydia to facing away between cuts.) This sort of mistake happens several more times over the scene.

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Saturday Night picture

Continuity mistake: After the scene with the elevator bringing up the bricks, Garrett Morris and Jane Curtin are having a chat, smoking together. Garrett asks, "You wonder exactly what it is you are doing here?" As he asks that, Kim Matula is leaning her head against her hand. The shot changes and it is dangling off the railing. (00:40:00)

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Wicked picture

Continuity mistake: When Glinda and Elphaba sing "two good friends", Glinda is holding her skirt with her left hand during all the walk. An instant cut later, from the front angle, she is suddenly not and her hand is in front of her skirt. (01:53:55)

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Thelma picture

Continuity mistake: At the gas station, Thelma and Ben are talking to random people Thelma thinks she knows. Meanwhile, her family is on the way there. The sun is going down in this sequence and it's noticeably getting darker. Before they run behind the building, it's suddenly lighter outside and gets darker again.

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