Men in Black 3

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: 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: After being pulled over by the racist cops, J insults them and they pull him out to frisk him. As they have him bent over the car, one of them pulls out his gun and says "what's this, a concealed weapon". In the shot from behind J turns his head to the left to look at the gun. It cuts to a view of J's face as he says "Hey, it's his grandmother's suit." J is instantly looking straight forward. (00:41:05)

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Continuity mistake: After the incident at Wu's restaurant, J walks up to a crowd of people and says "Can I have everyone's attention please?" As he does, he holds up his neutralizer. Just before the cut, you see him raising his other hand and points at the device. It cuts to show the crowd, then back to J. Suddenly he is repeating this exact same motion, the footage repeated as he points to the neutralizer. (00:18:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the little alien sneaks inside the Boris' hand, the fingers are stretched out in one shot, yet bent a frame later. (00:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: The shot of Apollo 11 flying away from Earth shows spent fuel stages and other debris falling away. When the ArcNet deploys after a flash of light, all the debris disappears. The shield should envelop the debris as it falls back to Earth, not make it vanish. (01:32:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where J is being questioned by K, O walks up to to K, who picks up a cup of coffee and starts drinking it. The handle is directly in front of K on the opposite end of the cup in the first shot, but in the next shot, the handle is suddenly on the other side. (00:44:50)

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Continuity mistake: As J is being put in the "big ass neuralyzer", they first have him in front of it strapped in a metal bracket. As they begin turning him upside down, the white suit guy on the right reaches over and begins opening the hatch on the neuralyzer. You see him turn the handle and hear the creak and see it slowly crack open for a moment before the shot cuts. Then two shots later as the white suit on the left is about to put the bite guard in J's mouth, the hatch is suddenly closed and the guy on the right is reaching over to open it again. (00:46:10)

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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)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When J is shown the time-jump gear, the box is to the left of a pair of earphones and just an inch away from the log journal in front. When the shot changes the earphones are between both.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When J is drinking his chocolate the glass is next to his mouth in the angled shot from in front, but lowered in the angle from behind.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Obadiah stands on the Chrysler building terrace his hair is either loose or tucked behind his ear.

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Continuity mistake: When K and J drive to the bowling alley, the same junction with a shiny blue car and a man wearing an orange shirt is seen three times through J's window.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the bowling alley, after K polishes the alien's head, the way his hair is messed up changes between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When K questions J at the headquarters, K grabs his tie. From the immediate angle his hand is lowered.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: As J flies backwards after the fish creature sneezes, he breaks through the plate glass window, and has the bottles in his hands. After the cut, he's just breaking the glass, and the bottles are missing from his hands.

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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: 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: 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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Agent J: That, gentlemen, is a standard-issue neuralyzer. But you're not gonna remember that. And just because you see a black man driving a nice car does not mean it's stolen! ...Uh, eh. I stole that one. But not because I'm black!

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Trivia: During the Apollo 11 launch, the film cuts to various people watching it on television. One of the people is Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the Men in Black films.

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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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