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| Rank | Title | Mistake |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twilight | When Bella and Charlie are going home you can see a crew member reflected on the door. |
| 2 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | When Agent Zero starts shooting while in Africa, he throws his pistols into the air and the slides are open, but just before he catches them the slides are closed. |
| 3 | 17 Again | When Mike walks into Health class, Mrs. Dell's lectern and stool (upon which the basket of condoms and another basket sit) stand directly in front of the chalkboard, but funny how they are both conveniently gone when Mike knocks Stan to the floor, in front of that chalkboard. |
| 4 | Paranormal Activity | When Micah goes into the attic, it is filled with a lot of insulation, yet he comes out from it looking clean as a whistle, none stuck to his clothes or not even so much as an itch or scratch out of him. |
| 5 | Big Fat Liar | Jason and Kaylee arrive in LA on Thursday, and phase one begins Friday morning, but during 'phase one: surveillance day', when Jason and Kaylee are at the stunt demo, Jason looks at Marty's iPAQ PDA and the date reads Sunday, June 4th (stunt demo noted between 12:30 and 1:30pm). Yet, when Vince, the stunt coordinator, tells Marty that he's taking the next day off (day of 'phase two') to take his granddaughter to a birthday party, the clown invitation notes July 28th as the day of the party. Then, on Saturday 'phase two: the take down', when Jason is seated at the bus stop he looks at Marty's PDA and the date reads June 22nd, the day of the 'Whitaker and Fowl' premiere and party. Go figure... |
| 6 | Fast & Furious | The tractor trailer rams the rear of the Buick twice. Just before the second impact, we can see the rear bumper of the Buick is hanging well below its normal location and the sides of the car show crumpled damage. Moments later, the car spins around alongside the trailer and the rear of the car is undamaged. |
| 7 | Zombieland | Most of the time when driving, the windows are down (possibly so no camera reflections are seen) but their hair doesn't move and there is no wind noise in the truck like there would normally be. |
| 8 | Orphan | When Kate, Max and Esther are in the grocery store, you can see 7Up packs on the bottom shelf. Then Kate's phone rings and when she answers it, you can see that on the shelf are 7up bottles instead of 7Up packs. |
| 9 | Knowing | During the time capsule recovery ceremony, there is a man standing next to Nicolas Cage, who pulls out his cell phone to take a picture of the ceremony. However, he's holding the cell phone wrong, pointing the camera towards himself. |
| 10 | The Frighteners | When Frank first runs into Ray's ghost on the street, and they duck into an alleyway to talk, Ray accidentally calls Frank (Michael J. Fox) by his real name "Mike" instead of his character name "Frank." Ray says "I felt this vise-like grip squeezing my heart, and I couldn't breathe, Mike." |
| 11 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | In two different places in the film, the exact same shot of Soundwave communicating with the Decepticons in space is used. |
| 12 | Where the Wild Things Are | The first morning, when Carol is introducing the creatures to Max, look at Carol's nose and its diagonal scratches. The scene is mirrored from time to time. |
| 13 | Hackers | In the meeting with all the head honchos at the oil company, where they first see the DaVinci message, DaVinci asks for 5 million dollars, but during the rest of the movie it's 25 million dollars. |
| 14 | Step Brothers | When Brennan and Dale are on the stage at the wine mixer, Brennan sings opera and when Dale plays the drums you can see a crewmember reflected underneath the cymbal. |
| 15 | The Sting | In the final scene, Kid Twist arrives at the betting parlor, whispering to Lonnegan, "Sorry, I couldn't wait." This furthers the plot as Twist can then inform Lonnegan that the wrong horse is going to win. But it would also blow the entire con because Lonnegan would expect Twist to have been downtown at his Western Union office just four minutes earlier when they talked on the phone. |
| 16 | Flight of the Navigator | When Dr. Faraday is talking to David and his family along the New River in Ft. Lauderdale about going to the NASA facility, in the beginning of conversation up until when David says "no" the Andrews Ave. draw bridge in the background is down. When Dr. Faraday convinces David to go to find out where he's been 30 seconds later, the bridge is open/up and is closing/going down during the rest of the conversation. |
| 17 | Drag Me To Hell | A spirit knocks Christine over and gives her a bloody lip. Her boyfriend tends to her lip, which is very swollen. As she sleeps, there is a close up of a fly going into her mouth between her lips that are not swollen at all. After she swallows the fly, she sits up and her bottom lip is swollen again. |
| 18 | Scream | When Stu, Randy and the rest are talking about breasts, Stu looks down a girl's shirt. The girl smacks his shoulder and kind of grins at the camera, as if it wasn't supposed to happen. |
| 19 | Law Abiding Citizen | When Shelton is eating his asparagus in jail and takes a bit off the top, a few seconds later after switching to another angle, he takes another bite and it still has the top of the asparagus on. |
| 20 | Speed | In the scene where Jack gets off the bus, before he gets the phone call from Payne, the back door of the bus is open. After convincing Payne that he has to get off, he goes to the back doors and pushes them open to get off the bus. |
| 21 | Spider-Man | Towards the end, during the climatic fight between Spider-Man and Green Goblin, there is a part where Goblin is against a wall (this is just before he spears himself with his own hoverboard) and the floor at his feet is fairly intact, but when Peter jumps down the floor is a lot less intact (this is shown from a sideview displaying both Goblin and Spider-Man). |
| 22 | Saw | When Adam is taking the photo of Lawrence in the parking lot, the first two times we see the scene his camera flash goes off, the shutter snaps, and that's it. However, the the third time we see the scene the flashbulb emit a loud, rising pitch sound as the flash recharges just like it did when he was taking pictures in his apartment before being abducted. |
| 23 | Inglourious Basterds | Hugo Stiglitz's eyes twitch when Hans Landa is inspecting his dead body. |
| 24 | Smokey and the Bandit | When the Bandit first drives the Trans Am out of the trailer, the front license plate is easily seen, and it has 2 basic designs on it. The right side of the plate (about 3/5s of it) have a confederate flag on it, and the remaining left side of the plate has a light blue background with some kind of circular logo in it.(Maybe the Georgia state seal?). When the plate is shown again as Bandit wipes out the row of mailboxes along the side of the highway, the license plate now has those designs switched with each other: The confederate flag is on the LEFT side of the plate, while the circular logo has moved to the right side of the plate. It is easy to tell that this is not just a 'flipped negative', as the driver's side of the car is correct in both shots. It is a entirely different license plate. |
| 25 | FearDotCom | Turnbull's wife's cigarette butt becomes shorter and longer during her interview, between shots. |
| 26 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | When young Alex is in the crate, he floats from Africa to New York, dead against all prevailing currents. |
| 27 | Shorts | Lug, Loogie, and Laser could not have found the rock at the end of a rainbow. Rainbows are actually circles high up in the atmosphere and never touch the ground. |
| 28 | Center Stage | At the beginning of the final dance scene during the Swan Lake rehearsal, Jodi is dressed exactly like the other dancers in all white. Right before Cooper pulls her tutu to reveal a dark red leotard beneath it you can see the straps from the 2nd outfit, but not before. |
| 29 | Secret Cutting | When Dawn goes to see Dr. Parella when she has the urge to cut with the piece of mirror, she cuts in the stairwell and then throws the piece of mirror on the floor. There is a distinct smashing sound that would indicate the glass has been shattered, however when Dr. Parella goes to the stairwell, the piece of glass is completely intact. |
| 30 | Pi | When Max meets Lenny in the coffee shop, there is a McDonald's logo on the cream he opens. In some shots it's visible and others it's covered by white tape. |