Best movie mistakes of 1999

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The Story of Us picture

Continuity mistake: At the start of the movie when the family is sitting at the dinner table discussing their highs and lows of the day, the plate of food in front of the daughter changes. The first shot when she is complaining about camp, her food is visible as three separate items (meat and two vegetables). When the camera comes back to her, the food is all mixed together on the plate. When the shot switches back to her a third time, the food is three separate items again.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Sean Penn is playing with the big band fronted by the female singer, there is a microphone on a boom visible top center of the frame, when the camera does a pullback to show the whole band at the song's end. (VHS version.)

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Factual error: In one scene Alvin is driving over a bridge on the Mississippi. He is going in to Prarie Du Chine but the bridge is in a different town, and he is going from east to west not west to east. The town he is driving into is Lansing, Iowa.

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Audio problem: When Alex is appointed head of Netforce, he looks down for a moment and says, "I don't know what to say." And then looks back up. His mouth is in clear view the full shot, yet never moves once during this line and is completely shut. The audio was just dubbed over the footage in post. (00:23:25)

Quantom X

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At First Sight picture

Character mistake: When Amy goes to Virgil's house to apologize, Virgil tells Amy that the tree is exactly 14 steps away. However he then leads her there by taking 17 steps.

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Continuity mistake: When Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily are singing "Easy Street" outside in the street, Miss Hannigan beats her fur shawl on the ground, and a large piece of fur falls off it. In the next shot, this piece isn't lying on the ground anymore. (00:50:55)

littlestar

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The Minus Man picture

Factual error: The story takes place in the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver) in November and December. Washington may be known as the "Evergreen State", but there are still numerous deciduous trees - and deciduous trees have leaves that change color in Autumn (yellow, orange, red) and then shed (fall off), not stay green through December or into the new year.

KeyZOid

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Audition picture

Visible crew/equipment: When the housekeeper says goodbye to Shigeharu you can see the boom microphone on the right side of the screen. Next to the light hanging above the dinner table. (00:16:42)

Jack Vaughan

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The Clown at Midnight picture

Visible crew/equipment: Mini boom mike type thing appears in shot just as the real killer clown is walking onto the stage about to kill Kate. It is visible when he turns to face the 'audience' in the lower right hand corner.

bexinthecity

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the opening credits, Crawford finishes doing the hair of a client and puts his hands on her shoulders. She says "Crawford, you're a genius"; in the wider angle, no hands on her shoulder, and they are back in the following closer view.

Sammo

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Wing Commander picture

Continuity mistake: As Admiral Wilson on the Pegasus base fires his weapon on the glass window that protects the Navigation A.I. it doesn't gets a scratch. In the next shot he starts to hit the glass with the rifle's stock and a large grey stain have appeared on the glass, only to have vanished next time the glass is shown.

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Hornblower: The Duchess and The Devil picture

Factual error: Hornblower's plan is to sail Le Reve south from Gibraltar to give him ample sea room before he heads for England. Generally, the prevailing wind through the Straits is westerly, unless there is a Levanter, yet Le Reve is shown on a port tack when it should be on a broad reach. The fog that comes up would not exist in a gale-force Levanter.

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Other mistake: At the very end, Alec Baldwin drives away and other cars follow him. Problem is: two cars after Alec's car, the green traffic light turns orange, then red, and the cars keep coming. In all, 6 cars go through the red light.

kh1616

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom picture

Continuity mistake: When Indiana Jones and the five old men have rescued the other old man, the explosives destroy the final carriage which is right at the back of the train, but when the train crosses the metal bridge there are now more carriages behind the destroyed one.

Death racer 1

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Continuity mistake: Jennifer manages to thwart the nefarious plan of the kids who want to cuff her in the subway. During the scene, Heidi Lenhart's left hand grips the bar in close-ups, does not in other shots. (00:27:20)

Sammo

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Genius picture

Factual error: The way that Charlie makes the skeleton move is way too complex to be controlled merely by a basic remote controller (which looks like it was originally for an RC car of some sort), which can only control up, down, left and right.

Knever

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The Moment After picture

Other mistake: The chain "securing" the lock on the boarded up "Metro Christian Shelter" is in some inexplicable way on both sides of a 4" board that is taut between two other parallel boards. However, when the men are using the bolt cutter, the right side of the chain extends from a hole in the middle board, and the left side goes around the side of that same board and then around a pipe that is not originally there. The board that is to the left is missing. (00:17:17)

KeyZOid

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Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century picture

Plot hole: It is laughably implausible that a young child would be able to engineer a space walk on a space station, as Zenon does. Even with the friend getting his dad's access codes, something that like would be well under guard and key, and monitored heavily.

Knever

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