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| 1 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | After Bella awakes from the first nightmare, we see her Romeo and Juliet book on the pillow beside her. When Charlie brings in her presents the book is gone, but then reappears on the pillow between shots. |
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| 2 | 2012 | As the heads of state decide to open the gates, we see the countdown timer in the background go from 14:40 remaining to 14:39. We cut to a different angle, and it's back up to 14:41. |
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| 3 | 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. |
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| 4 | Angels & Demons | About 20 minutes into the movie Professor Langdon talks about the set of 5 brands used by the Illuminati, from which the first 4 represents the elements (earth, air, fire, water). When in the end reaching the Castle St. Angelo as the Church Of Illumination and discovering the set of brands in person he is surprised to discover there's a fifth brand. |
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| 5 | Paranormal Activity | When Katie goes downstairs in the scene at the end, the alarm light (green) is off. When she comes up with the blood on her shirt the alarm light is on. |
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| 6 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | When Wolverine leaves one of the compounds, he slashes through the door with both hands, creating an "X" in the door. After the second slice, the portion of the "X" where the cuts actually crisscross remains in the door, when in reality the pieces would fall out as they wouldn't be attached to the door any longer and would be floating in air. |
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| 7 | 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) has a confederate flag on it, and the remaining left side of the plate has a light blue background with a white circular logo in it (the Georgia State Seal?). When Bandit wipes out the row of mailboxes along the side of the highway, the license plate is upside-down. (Picture) |
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| 8 | The Great Mouse Detective | When Ratigan is sneaking up on Basil inside Big Ben, there is a shot where both characters have their backs to the camera. In this shot, there is a piece of equipment directly in front of the turning gear they are standing on. This piece of metal can be seen to flicker for a few moments. |
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| 9 | 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. |
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| 10 | Saw III | When Jeff is stuck to the fridge, you can see a cameraman's shadow on his shirt. |
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| 11 | The Dark Knight | In the scene where Batman is taking down the SWAT members to prevent them from harming the wrong people, one of the SWAT guys is lying on the ground and attempts to stand up. The clip for his gun contacts the ground and flexes like a rubber stunt gun would, not a real clip and gun. |
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| 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. |
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| 13 | Star Trek | When Captain Robau enters the bridge of the Kelvin he is wearing his Star Fleet insignia. When he sits in his chair it is missing. It re-appears through all of his subsequent scenes. (Picture) |
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| 14 | 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. |
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| 15 | The Longest Day | The U.S. Paratrooper uses his "clicker", and the German answers with a "double" click-click -- click-click. The Paratrooper stands up, and the German soldier shoots twice with his Mauser K98 without reloading. That is impossible. After each shot, the Mauser must be reloaded. The Mauser has a capacity of five bullets. |
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| 16 | 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. |
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| 17 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | After Garber shoots Ryder, he is told by the approaching policemen to "drop your weapon". At which point the camera pans to a shot behind Garber where he is holding the gun in his right hand and proceeds to drop it. Watch the bottom of the screen and you will see Garber catch the falling gun with his left hand. |
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| 18 | Twilight | When charlie and Bella enter Bella's room for the first time after she says, "Yeah, purple's cool," you can hear whispering of some sort (possibly crew) if the volume is turned up enough. (Their S's are very distinct.) |
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| 19 | House of Flying Daggers | When Jin is leading Mei away from the prison after rescuing her, he returns her dagger pouch to her. She puts the pouch on over her neck, but right before she says her next line the pouch suddenly disappears. |
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| 20 | Inglourious Basterds | Shoshanna kills Zoller, then approaches him and pats a film can, which moves farther away. In the next shot, the can has moved backwards and is close to her ankle again. |
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| 21 | Quigley Down Under | Near the end of the movie, a scene opens with the sun low over the ocean. But the characters indicate it's morning. In western Australia, the ocean is to the west so the sun would be low over the water at sunset, not sunrise. |
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| 22 | The Bourne Identity (1988) | Shooting at a gas tank with buck shot at 50 meters distance will not make it explode (it likely won't even dent the surface), and lead pellets do not cause sparks when they hit. |
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| 23 | Office Space | Michael says he was "about 12 years old" when his namesake started winning Grammys. In fact Michael Bolton the singer won his first Grammy in 1990, which would make Michael Bolton the programmer aged 21 in 1999. But he must be older than this because he's worked at Initech for five years, according to Peter. |
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| 24 | Hotel for Dogs | When the dog catcher is locked out from the outside and he is trying to get back in, you can see a crewmember with arms around his neck reflected on the black door. |
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| 25 | Law Abiding Citizen | Clyde has a bloody mouth after being hit by Nick, spits out blood, saliva, and talks. The blood is gone after the camera pans up to Nick and then back to Clyde. |
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| 26 | Simple Things | In the last scene of the movie the nurse's scrubs change - first blue with print, then white with print. |
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| 27 | Precious | The movie takes place in 1987, but during the museum visit the main character is watching video from the Tiananmen Square uprising, which didn't occur until 1989. |
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| 28 | The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie | The swirls on the lollipop drunk SpongeBob is holding drastically change between shots. |
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| 29 | Tommy Boy | Three types of airplanes are used for the flight to Chicago. The exterior loading and taxi shots show a Boeing 747. The interior shots show another Boeing (the overhead bins, sidewall panels, etc., are distinctively Boeing), but it's smaller like a 767, because it only has 2 seats by the window and 3 in the center. The exterior shot in flight shows a Lockheed L1011, with its distinctive S-duct for the center engine. |
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| 30 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | When Farmer Taggert and his older son are chasing the Creeper as he's dragging away the younger boy, the sun is at their backs. As they watch the Creeper fly away with the son a minute later, the sun is now in front of them, having moved 180 degrees. |
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