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50 First Dates (2004) - 22 corrections

Directed by Peter Segal, starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Romance

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There's no way Lucy could keep thinking it was the same day for a year. Her period would be the most evident signal that time kept going by. [Nope. She would simply think it was a little irregular this month. Extremely common.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
Most of the time Ula's armband tattoo is on his left arm. When Ula and his kids jump off the deck his tattoo goes from his left arm to his right arm several times. [Ula has identical armband tattoos on BOTH arms throughout the movie.]
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Ula's shark bite is missing from his left side when he talks about it at the golf course. Also it never comes back for the rest of the movie. [When Ula and Henry are on the boat talking together, you can see the scar on his side (a 'line' of white skin). This is after the golf course scene.]
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Wouldn't the wall where Lucy paints everyday get abnormally thick if two coats of paint are applied everyday for a year? [Yes, but if her father is willing to spend the time to paint it a solid color over her artwork every night, it's reasonable to assume he'd strip it once in a great while, too.]
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When Henry's talking to Marlin on the boat, a blue boat appears out of nowhere behind Henry, then it disappears. [Um, it sailed away. That's what boats do.]
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When Lucy is throwing paint around in her father's garage, her hand is covered with paint, but in the next scene when she runs from the garage her hands are clean. [This has been removed in the DVD version. The DVD I own only has this scene as a deleted scene, it is not actually in the movie.]
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When Henry, Marlon and Doug are talking about Lucy painting and singing in the garage, Doug is wearing sun glasses. A few shots later his glasses mysteriously disappear. [During those "few shots" he may well have taken the sunglasses off. Seems like a natural thing to do when you enter a dark room from the bright outside.]
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When Henry poses as a delivery boy and gives Lucy the lilies and a package, Lucy asks who it is from and Henry responds that it's a secret. She then turns to her father and he asks what she's got there and she replies a videotape but she isn't sure what's on it. It was never revealed to her that she is holding a video tape and it is gift-wrapped. [Given the size and weight of the package, she easily could have figured it out by the time she got inside.]
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Lucy has been painting pictures of Henry since she moved into the institute. But she passes him at the zoo and doesn't recognize him. [Lucy didn't live at the institute when she passed by Henry at the zoo.]
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While getting a ticket from the policeman, Lucy discovers the real date by looking at the newspaper box outside the restaurant she frequents. But if she goes to this same restaurant every day, why didn't she ever notice the daily newspapers there before? [She might have, but she wouldn't remember it. We find out that every so often she figures out what happens and gets upset, but then forgets about it the next day.]
Edit Corrected by Myridon
The film starts around November 13th. Then Henry takes a long time to get Lucy's attention in various ways etc and the movie is called 50 first dates, so you'd think at least 50 days pass along with the days where he doesn't succeed with her. Shouldn't there be Christmas decorations or something similar? It would be safe to assume that Christmas would be very close by the time Henry is ready to leave. [No there shouldn't be decorations, because they don't want Lucy to find out what happened. Also, the movie is called "50 First Dates" as a way of hinting at the plot, it doesn't literally mean there is 50 first dates. And, even if it was literal, they obviously skipped many of the days to cut back on time, so the holidays were left out intentionally.]
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When Lucy found out she has short term memory loss, she was devastated. In the last scene, when she woke up on the boat and finished watching the tape, her reaction was a lot calmer, even though she was married and had a child. Since she's finding out for the first time, she should've been shocked. [Lucy's behavior is not a plot hole, it's a character trait. Consider the events in the dinner: Lucy's responses to Henry differed from day to day. One day she pretended she didn't speak English, the next she claimed she had a boyfriend. Her responses varied, it's not a plot hole if her response to the tape varies as well.]
Edit Corrected by Thisbe
In the scene where the walrus vomits on Adam Sandler's assistant, we see a shot of the assistant covered in vomit, as well as vomit all over the ground. When the assistant leaves, suddenly the ground where she/he was standing is clean. [Unless you're watching a different version of the movie than the one I own- we never even see the ground where his assistant is standing after she says her line. She then walks away and they don't show the ground again.]
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When Lucy enters the diner, it's raining outside and she's not even wet. [She's not wet because she is covering her head and body with her jacket.]
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In the scene where Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are kissing each other while it's raining, Sandler steps out in the rain. In the next shot, just a second later, his clothes are already totally wet. The same thing happens with Drew Barrymore. [If you have ever been in that kind of rain, you would know that it is entirely possible for this to happen.]
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Done for the sake of our surprise, but grating nonetheless. When Lucy wakes up at the end and sees the tape, she watches it and goes through her now expected shock, but nothing on the tape warns her that a) she's a mother, and b) she's at sea, both of which you'd think would be important to let her know. [If I remember correctly, we can see something about her daughter's birthday, but even if not, we don't get to see the whole tape anyway. There's probably something about it on there.]
Edit Corrected by Xofer
In the scene near the end where Lucy shows Henry all the pictures she has drawn of him she says "I have seen you in my dreams for the last few nights" how would she know this if she can only remember the day before the accident? [Part of Lucy's treatment at the hospital would involve being told everyday about her condition, so by that time of the day, she would know that time has passed. Plus don't forget her diary.]
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When Henry is pretending to be tied up, Lucy's father drives by and tells him to go to their house. When Henry gets to the house, Lucy's father tells Henry that he's figured out that she only sings on days she has met Henry. It then shows her singing. She hasn't met him yet that day, so why is she singing? [Although it is _possible_ that this is is a plot hole, it is also possible that Henry did indeed see Lucy that day. There is an unshown period of time when Henry is untied and eventually makes it to Lucy's (father's) house. She may have indeed seen him that day, and been the one to untie him.]
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In the scene where Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider are re-enacting the way Adam and Drew Barrymore meet plenty of times and are being filmed by Rob Schneider's character's kids, the camera changes shots really fast between Rob and Adam as they take turns to say their lines even though they're being filmed by a young kid and with a normal camera and there's no way he could have been hitting the "still" button on the camera to change the position of it as they speak, because they speak continuously. [Since we don't know how much time he spent making the tape, he might have had the scene filmed from different angles, and spliced them together to make it look more professional.]
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During the farewells before Henry gets on the boat to go to Alaska alone, Ula has no scar from the shark bite in his torso. [That's because the scar wasn't on his torso, it was on the left side of his waist.]
Edit Corrected by Jane Doe

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