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Character mistake: Jamie says about his dad "Last time I felt close to him was on my birthday in 1974. He bought me mirrored sunglasses. I saw the President fall down the stairs, and I threw up on the carpet." The footage they are showing on TV is from Gerald Ford's infamous fall from the Air Force One which happened in June 1975. (00:02:25)

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Continuity mistake: When the Ford Galaxy burns in the parking lot shots, it does not have scorch marks on the car doors. The shot from inside the store, behind Jamie and Dorothea, shows the car with heavier damage and marks under both the front and backseat window. (00:01:30)

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Continuity mistake: Mother and son run towards the store window as the Ford Galaxy is burning in the parking lot. At the end of the shot from behind, a woman with a lilac top and long brown hair comes into frame and leans against the vegetable stand. After the cut, with Jamie and the mom by the window, the same woman walks in again. (00:01:30)

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22nd Aug 2019

Sextuplets (2019)

Continuity mistake: Alan and Marie are chatting with the doctor after the initial sonogram. Marie's hands change position few times between shots - for instance right after the "crack" joke, she lowers her hand but it's on top of her pregnant belly at the cut. (00:03:30)

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22nd Aug 2019

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Continuity mistake: In the back of the limo at the beginning of the movie, the woman with Mr. Amafi blows cigar smoke in his face. She does so opening her mouth at the end of the first shot, but has her lip still puckered in the one that follows. (00:01:40)

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Continuity mistake: The mafioso with the rainbow scarf hands his boss a drink, extending his arm. The next shot begins with his arm bent, and the third mafioso acting as barista is also in a position inconsistent with the previous shot. (00:15:00)

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Plot hole: Spoiler: It appears entirely impossible that the Hive plan (which apparently involved just...waiting around indefinitely for a specific weapon to turn out, if you listen to H's summarization of it, which T agrees upon) could ever work, in particular for years as depicted: H 's mental conditioning literally does not go past one sentence he memorized, and breaks down if asked for any detail. He could never have filled a mission report or be engaged in conversation about the subject. And High T has Hive DNA: we have to believe that MIB does not conduct as much as an annual physical on its members - and that considered that other high officials were suspicious of him to begin with. (01:36:00)

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Plot hole: Spoiler. Agent M points out as highly suspicious that the twin assassins knew the location of Vungus, and High T backs her up on this, saying that only a handful of MIB officers could have leaked that information. High T also established that those aliens were part of the Hive collective. It turned out that they were not part of the Hive, and the Hive connection was made-up entirely by the villain himself...which is the Hive! What he did was absurdly counterproductive to his cause: nothing except the report he himself made up connected the Hive at all with the case.

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Suggested correction: Maybe a wrong move by High T but more like a character mistake rather than a movie mistake. High T was trying to scare the agents into overreacting to what was perceived as a high risk threat. Then it backfired on him but definitively non a plot hole.

mauslyon

I don't mind the proposed changes of category, or even a 'demotion' to Stupidity. But I say it's more of a Plot Hole by the definition used in the website; " Events or character decisions which only exist to benefit the plot, rather than making sense." The whole plot moves along thanks to a deliberate decision by the villain who literally fabricates evidence to implicate himself.

Sammo

Sorry but it COULD make sense. We have 2 aliens from planet X (which is presumed to be a "hive" territory) that - at that point in the movie - are perceived as killers. It makes a lot of sense for HighT to reinforce in Agent H and Agent M the fear of an incoming invasion by waving the Hive scare flag in front of them. HighT could not have predicted at that point in time that the twins would say "we need that weapon for the hive" before being obliterated, Thus starting a doubt in H and M.

mauslyon

I fail to see why it makes sense for him to tip them off about the much larger intergalactic invasion when he just needs to send them on a wild goose chase to buy himself time for the last part of the plan. He amply demonstrates that he can fake anything about their background. Or simply not fake anything at all;they have no Hive contamination, and so they are just refugees from a dead planet. Instead, he fakes evidence that implicates his faction and is caught hiding that forgery.

Sammo

Maybe Stupidity is more appropriate.

mauslyon

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Continuity mistake: When agent H is being chased by the MIB agents through the market streets of Marrakesh, he runs past the same extra twice in two separate streets: a young guy with a goatee, wearing a brown robe with red collar and a backpack. (01:02:00)

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21st Aug 2019

Shaft (2019)

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Continuity mistake: Young Shaft is meeting his friend at the bar: he has just his solitary drink before him when Karim arrives, but the drinks are now 2 with Sasha's arrival - only for a single shot, though, as just a single glass is afterwards. (00:11:40)

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21st Aug 2019

Shaft (2019)

Factual error: During the FBI briefing, the coordinates of the mosque supposedly in Harlem are shown on screen long enough to allow you to read them. The coordinates are 34.1234379 -117.177613, which would put the mosque somewhere in California. (00:09:45)

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21st Aug 2019

Shazam! (2019)

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Continuity mistake: When Billy finally finds his mom and talks to her in front of her apartment, the door behind her changes from (almost) fully closed to much more open, to an intermediate state, and fully closed again at the end. (01:25:30 - 01:28:00)

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21st Aug 2019

Aladdin (2019)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, a woman with a mustard colored robe approaches Aladdin about his monkey, attempting to distract him. In the shot from behind, Aladdin lowers his arms, but he's seen in the following shot with both arms raised examining a trinket hanging from the market stall. (00:04:50)

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21st Aug 2019

Aladdin (2019)

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Visible crew/equipment: Aladdin is running away from the guards with Jasmine: he counts to 3 and jumps from a roof. In the overhead shot there's an extra mat on the landing point to cushion his tumble and roll, which disappears in the following shot. Very visible, being white and along the parapet. (00:10:30)

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21st Aug 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Continuity mistake: In the Hulk scene at the diner, once Scott takes the picture of the kids, in the frontal shots he is holding the phone with his right hand and hands it to them, while the reverse shots don't match - egregiously noticeable when he says "I don't want a picture with them" waving an empty right hand. (00:38:05)

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