Men in Black 3
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Continuity mistake: When J falls off the green car by The Factory, cardboard boxes, a woman and a sailor magically appear out of nowhere. (01:01:40)

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Continuity mistake: At the diner, when J says "World class serial killer out there, and we're having pie", K is looking downwards, then looking over to the right in the next shot. (01:03:40)

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Continuity mistake: At the diner, J says to the waitress K has apple pie. K is then given some apple pie. In one shot, the waitress is in the middle of giving K the plate with pie and the plate has not reached the table yet. But in the immediate shot afterwards, the pie has already reached the table. (01:03:45)

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Continuity mistake: At the diner, K says the "pie don't work unless you let it." J then looks at him and begins waving his fork at his own pie, but the shot cuts to a different angle and J is instantly looking down at his pie as he begins waving his fork. (01:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: At the diner, K asks J if he has a girl in the future. In that shot, J is looking down at his food. It cuts to a different angle and J is instantly looking straight forward as he is turning his head to K to say "I got you." (01:05:05)

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Continuity mistake: When they arrive at the ball park, K gives J his stuff back. The close up of the time device in J's right hand shows his thumb is closed in close to his hand. But the shot cuts to show both him and K, and suddenly his thumb is stretched out. K also puts his arms down twice during this part. (01:06:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Griffin places his arm back around J's shoulder after J steps back, J is shown to be looking at the baseball field. Next shot just as J says "So this is how you see things", J's head is suddenly slightly shifted to the left. (01:07:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Griffin shows J and K the vision of the baseball game, J walks back and then walks back over to Griffin. Griffin then places his arm around J and his hand ends up around the top of his arm. In the next shot, Griffin's hand is suddenly on J's shoulder. (01:07:05)

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Continuity mistake: When K takes the prize out of the Crackers box, the size of the box magically becomes very tiny. (01:07:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Griffin foresees the end of the baseball game his hands are on the J and K's backs, but a frame later he's grabbing their arms. (01:08:40)

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Continuity mistake: When past and future Boris meet, past Boris turns towards future Boris completely and has his full body facing future Boris as he is walking toward him. But as future Boris is still walking towards past Boris and saying the line about spending the next 40 years in prison, past Boris suddenly has his body turned away from future Boris, and so future Boris has to step around in front of past Boris. (01:12:45)

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Continuity mistake: As J is telling K the truth about Boris killing him at the Moon Launch, one shot from behind K shows his head is down. The next shot, he is suddenly looking straight forward as he punches J in the face. (01:16:15)

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Continuity mistake: As Griffin is telling J that K has to go to the Apollo launch, the shot from his perspective shows J holding his nose from where K punched him, his hand being over his nose. The shot cuts to show Griffin's face and suddenly J is wiping the underside of his nose. (01:16:35)

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Continuity mistake: As J is saying no jet packs, he has both arms out with his hands turned palm down. It cuts to a different angle saying there's a reason they don't have those in the future, and you can see his left hand. It is suddenly gesturing towards the machines but palm up. (01:18:40)

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Continuity mistake: As O is helping K into the jet pack harness, he asks her if that is right. She says "Unfortunately it is." In that shot, she is looking up at him right into his eyes. It cuts to a side angle and she is suddenly looking at his mouth and chin. (01:19:15)

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Continuity mistake: On the Apollo docking bay, just as J says "You're gonna lose", Boris has J pinned up against the scaffolding. Then as Boris says "Let's agree to disagree", J is suddenly not pinned against the scaffolding, leaning forward. J also goes from looking ahead to looking down. (01:28:35)

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Continuity mistake: At the Apollo rocket launch platform, J calls Boris the Animal twice, who lifts J up and launches him away. J glances at K, who's got both arms stretched out trying to save himself. A shot later, in the close-up, only his right arm is stretched out. (01:28:40)

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Continuity mistake: When J is charging Boris and keeping track of the spikes that the alien shoots at him so he can dodge them on the second try, Boris first shoots and hits J in the left shoulder. Then the second shot hits J in the right as J says "right" and the third shot hits his left side. Then when he goes back in time a few seconds, the only thing to change is J knows the sequence of which Boris will shoot the spikes. Only it is different. J dodges the first one and says "right" as it passes his right side. Followed by two lefts, and then a forth one on the right. Yet previously, it was left first, then right, and then left again only three. It goes from left right left, to right left left right. (01:29:10)

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Continuity mistake: As the hand creature busts the shackles off Boris' legs in Lunar Max, you can see the bottoms of his pants over his metal prison boots. There are only a few folds and wrinkles over his left foot, and the pants over right foot are hardly wrinkled at all, or affected as the creature climbs up his right leg. But only a couple of seconds later, we see another shot of Boris' feet as the creature breaks off the metal sleeve of his arm, and suddenly his pants legs are very wrinkled. Boris was standing perfectly still the entire time. Boris' legs are also suddenly closer together. (00:03:35)

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Cop 1: Well, look at this. Power windows, power seats. I bet you the thing cost 6 grand.
Agent J: Ah, yes, and it has a roof, but it's hidden.
Cop 2: Hey, what kind of work do you do? An individual of your... Particular ethic persuasion?
Agent J: Mmm...
Cop 1: Maybe he's a noted athlete.
Agent J: Mmmm! Yes. Starting forward for the Detroit Darkies.
Cop 1: Where'd you get the car?
Cop 2: And the suit?
Agent J: I stole them both. Uh, car from your wife, suit from your grandmother.

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Trivia: Rick Baker, the special make up effects artist, appears as the alien with an exposed cranium at Z's funeral. (00:08:25)

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Question: When J is in the elevator after his time jump and asks the guy with the news paper about the date, you can faintly hear elevator music playing. It sounds extremely similar to the song Back In Time written by Pitbull for this movie, which plays as the credits start. Is it supposed to be like a tribute to this song as an elevator version or something?

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Chosen answer: The name of the song is "Love is Strange," recorded by Mickey and Sylvia, and released November 1956. Pitbull sampled it in his song "Back in Time."

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