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Rank Film Mistake  
1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
When Voldemort kills Lily, she is wearing a sweater with high neck, long sleeves and it's red. When Snape comes in the room and sees Lily dead on the floor, she is wearing a blue blouse.
2 The Green Hornet
When Reid and Kato are fighting by the pool, the beach ball falls off the chair (beside the pool) when they land in the water, but is back up on the chair in a following shot.
3 Scream 4
In the final shot of the film, Jill's head moves slightly when she's supposed to be dead.
4 Source Code
This scene is repeated multiple times in the movie: usually when the main character enters the "source code" the scene begins by panning over a small pond showing a Canada goose taking flight. However the sound editor makes the mistake of dubbing in a recording of a hen mallard duck.
5 X-Men: First Class
In First Class, Professor X is made handicapped in 1962 at the end of the movie. In the previous X-men movie, he was walking when he visited the girl (Jean) in the mid 70s with Magneto.
6 The Mechanic
While Bishop and Steve McKenna are practicing with various firearms, a slow-motion shot in the film of Steve shooting a .50 caliber rifle shows that, while the sequence depicts him firing "live" rounds, the extracted shell casing is from a "Blank" cartridge (evidenced by the crimped forward portion of the brass casing).
7 Sucker Punch
Before killing the baby dragon in its nest, Babydoll places her machine gun on the ground in front of the nest. But once she kills it and the mother dragon forces them to flee, the machine gun has disappeared.
8 Thor
After S.H.I.E.L.D "borrows" Jane's research and Darcy says that they took her iPod, her hair can be seen blowing in the wind in the shots facing her left and not blowing in the shots facing her right.
9 I Am Number Four
When John sees his photos on Sarah's website, the lower row of photos shows him throwing a football. However, when Sarah took those photos earlier, she only took out her camera AFTER he threw the football, while John was already talking to Sam.
10 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Barbossa addresses one of his officers as "lieutenant-commander". This rank was not introduced into the Royal Navy until 1914.
11 Captain America: The First Avenger
In the scenes set outside the Hydra bases, the tracked armoured personnel carriers seen are FV432s. These vehicles entered service with the British army in the 1960s, and thus were never even seen during WW2 when the film is set.
12 No Strings Attached
When Aston Kutcher is getting the first text from Natalie Portman, you can see his iPhone is showing June 12 on the lock screen as current date. The text from Emma have also a date of "06/12/10" next to it within Messages app. On iPhone, the texts received on the same day should only show time at which message arrived, and not a date.
13 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
At the beginning of the parents taking Sam around to interviews. A camera and rig can be seen in the reflection of the driver side door.
14 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
When Bella calls Rosalie, you can briefly see the cell phone screen before she puts it to her ear. The lock screen is still visible, showing she didn't dial anything.
15 Limitless
When Eddie is hiding with the golf club, there is a blue chair which got knocked over during the murder. But a few minutes later when Eddie is peeking round the corner to check for intruders, the blue chair is magically standing upright again.
16 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
When Greg is looking at the video of Rowley sitting on the foil ball, he notices it has only 4 views on YouTube. However, if you look closely, it has 24,963 comments - impossible if it's only been viewed 4 times.
17 Rio
In the scene where Tulio visits Linda in Minnesota, there are two blue pens or pencils on the table. When Tulio throws Blu, the two pens or pencils have disappeared.
18 Super 8
In the camera store, Joel stands in front and to the left of a Kodak film advertising display. After briefly cutting away, the camera returns to find the display now rotating.
19 The Dilemma
Passiflora Incarnata doesn't cause the symptoms described in the film. There was one remote incident where some of the symptoms (nausea) occurred but it can only happen if ingested which did not happen in this movie.
20 Paul
When the car Paul is driving spins out of control and flips, the roll bar is visible through the back window.
21 Battle: Los Angeles
Upon hearing that the bombs will drop in 3 hours time on Santa Monica, one marine sets the countdown timer on his watch for 3 hours and starts it. The watch is a Casio G-shock GW-9000 Mudman. This particular watch only has a 1-hour countdown timer.
22 Take Me Home Tonight
No self-respecting radio station would air the uncensored version of "Straight Outta Compton".
23 Cars 2
When Holly and McMissle are convincing Mater to complete the mission, his door panels change between the shots facing the two and then facing Mater.
24 Bad Teacher
The false bottom of the locked desk drawer goes from being a solid piece when Elizabeth Halsey accesses it to a bottom that splits in half when the K9 officer accesses it.
25 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
After the sandstorm ends, there's a shot showing Ethan's back and the sand moves away. Ethan's shadow is behind him, meaning that the sun is in front of him, butwhen the shot changes to view his front, the shadow is in front of him, meaning that the sun is now behind him.
26 The Inbetweeners Movie
When Jay is pushed in the pool, there are three people in the pool who suddenly disappear as soon as he swims to get out.
27 Rango
When Rango was at the mayor's office, the mayor grabs out a jug of water, and he opens the lid. But in the next shot, the lid is sealed again.