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Continuity mistake: In the scene where the mother introduces Mason to her college professor, the class ends at 1:35 according to the clock on the wall. In the span of a few seconds as Mason and her mother walk to the front of the classroom the clock shows 1:55.

qcomkid

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Suggested correction: The class was not over yet. After the clock showed 1:35 PM, the lecture continued about Pavlov's dogs, (un) conditional response, salivation, and the professor asking the class for another example, etc. The class emptying the room would also take a few minutes. Film time might not have been 20 minutes, but the clock showing 1:55 PM indicated that the class was over at this point. Liv and Mason then went to the front of the room.

KeyZOid

I saw 1:38 PM, then class might have been over. It would not take 17 minutes for the classroom to empty (maybe 5 minutes or so). Change your wording to reflect this, and your mistake will be valid.

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Continuity mistake: Chilling on the couch watching a movie, Jay's friend farts. Obviously well practiced in the discipline, it takes her merely moments within the same shot to perform the necessary adjustments after the emission and place her index finger back on the dainty seashell lid of her media device. But in the next shot, as she proudly smiles basking in the warm glow of her successful feat, her finger is off the lid. (00:07:00)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: At the start when the stall holder is throwing her sign in the bin, the way it's facing changes between shots. In one shot the straight edge is facing left, then right, then left again. (00:13:10)

Ssiscool

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Continuity mistake: Meghan is at the initial meeting with the TV execs. During the scene, the pens in front of the various board members change position between shots, and in the cut that follow her suggestive "hold them steady" hand-pumping, the woman with the light brown sweater is first with her hands off the table, then suddenly on it. (00:03:15)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: When the car with Alice goes over the cliff, and when she then exits, she is wearing shoes. When she awakens and begins climbing (and afterward), she has none.

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Continuity mistake: Maddie and Taylor are talking about Maddie being over her previous fiance (that Taylor knows of). Taylor has the hair on her right side tucked into her jacket, but next time the camera is on her, her hair is neatly arranged over the shoulder. Similarly, her hair on the left shoulder changes position between shots just before Maddie drags her out to meet their plus-size friend. (00:06:20)

Sammo

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Plot hole: The main plot of the film involves Iris and Olson's mission: Destroying the Mobile Fortress 000. But Iris is a special gynoid. Her primary function is to activate the Mobile Fortress. The antagonist of this film could unleash calamity if he had Iris and the fortress. So, which idiot has sent Iris on this mission? The logical course was to send a demolition team, or better yet, send no-one at all. Anything is better than sending the activation key outside the safety of the Olympus.

FleetCommand

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Character mistake: When Mr. Rogue is spinning the globe to assign countries to the students he spins for Albert Morio, and he puts his finger just west of North America and says "Lebanon." Lebanon is in Asia, slightly northeast of Egypt and we can see Egypt on the globe on the other side of where his finger is at. He's nowhere near Lebanon.

Bishop73

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Continuity mistake: When Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, and his friend are talking to the fraternity brother to have him wear glasses to get evidence of their hazing, Rose Byrne sticks her fingers in the whipped cream of the guy's sundae and licks her finger. In the shot from behind, she sticks her index finger into the whipped cream. But she licks it off her middle finger.

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Revealing mistake: At the end when April and Kyle are killed, they are thrown in a hole back first. When they are shown, they are neatly positioned beside each other. April even has her knees bent up and Kyle has his arm around her waist meaning they obviously positioned themselves for the final shot.

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Factual error: The helicopter flown is a Bell 407. The movie is set in '88 and the first flight of this type was 1994.

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Other mistake: When Jordan drops Rusty's truck into the compactor, the excavator and its claw seem just too small for the job. You can see the truck has been sawed shorter as the truck's rear axles stay on the ground while the cab goes in the compactor. There is no possible way for the truck to snap in half like that when lifted. This small excavator would just simply have flipped over trying to raise the truck by the engine compartment.

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Factual error: In a first season scene that takes place at The Max, Kelly Kapowski is wearing sandals; Kelly never wore sandals on the show until the 3rd season at the beach club.

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Continuity mistake: The Judge and son are standing by the side of the road and there's a black bag on the ground between them. When they leave there is no bag on the ground.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene after Petyr's death, Deacon is standing in front of a table and the window directly above the table is shown. At that point, you can see a boom mike being yanked out of sight. I know this is supposed to be a docudrama, but this is the only place equipment is shown in the entire movie.

sexxypeety

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Suggested correction: You said it yourself, it's the boom mic of the documentary crew. They make no attempts to hide the fact that it's a documentary.

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Continuity mistake: Hercules and Tarak are sitting together talking and Hercules pulls out the necklace that his lover gave him as he reassures Tarak that he will get them to Greece. In one shot he is looking down at it in his hands, then the next shot his head is suddenly leaning back against Tarak. (00:37:45)

Quantom X

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Continuity mistake: Ben shoots the last bottle used as a target on top of the red drum. After that, he reloads his gun while chatting with his two partners, and magically, multiple jars and bottles appear on top of the drum so he can continue practising. (01:18:25)

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Factual error: When Jess meets her father and Martin on the embankment it is twenty to five in the afternoon, however this is between New Years Day and Valentines Day - it would be dark at this time of day in these months.

Liam D

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Factual error: Brian Wilson's panic attack on the airplane takes place circa 1964. However, the interior of the plane had distinctive sculpted doors on the overhead bins, a style first introduced in 1983 on the Boeing 757.

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