Game Night

Corrected entry: Gary the cop shouldn't be alive. The second lot of 2 gangsters who turn up on the bridge and shoot him from behind (quite significantly - he splats everywhere) must be real gangsters with real guns and real bullets, not paid actor plants because we hear later the witness protection details are real (Brooks sold them) and they have access to a huge private jet plane (not possible to hire on a policeman's salary if it was all just staged).

Correction: This alleged mistake makes no sense whatsoever. The movie makes it quite clear that the second set of gangsters is real. It's part of the joke - only part of the plot was staged by Gary, but the characters end up getting caught-up in a real criminal plot as well during the night. And Gary survives because they shot him non-fatally through the shoulder. It appears whoever submitted this mistake simply didn't understand the movie.

Correction: First of all you can survive a gun shot. Second of all we never hear about how much it cost the cop to stage this and why is that important. Third, after that point nothing is staged. The cop only set it up to the point where he got shot. Everything that happened after that point was real. I don't understand how that's a plot hole.

manthabeat

Continuity mistake: When they're trying to bribe the "pregnant corpse" lady, in shots from the front the $10 bill is perfectly flat on the table, but from the back the front half is noticeably kinked upwards. Then when he starts sliding more money over, the $10 is flattened out.

Jon Sandys

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Ryan: You're like a double threat. Brains... and you're British.

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Trivia: The film has many subtle allusions to popular games and gaming archetypes. For example: -Many elements of the plot (such as the hot-rod car and Gary's dog Bastion) are references to game-pieces from the game Monopoly. -The scene where Annie digs a bullet out of Max's arm and then sews it up is both a reference to the Monopoly thimble-piece and the children's game Operation. -During the chase scene, there are frequent shots where the camera is mounted to the back of the cars in such a way to emulate car-racing video-games. -The music includes several cues done in an 8-bit Nintendo video-game style. -Establishing shots are filmed using a photographic technique called "tilt-shift", which makes live action locations look like miniatures, and thus, like board-game pieces. Etc. There are dozens of these types of references throughout the film.

TedStixon

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Question: Was any of the movie shot on film? IMDb has Arri and RED digital cameras listed, but there are couple scenes (especially early on) that seem to have noticeable graininess that looks much more like traditional film grain than the digital "noise" you sometimes get in modern movies.

TedStixon

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