Empire Records

Continuity mistake: There is a scene where everyone is dancing. It's towards the end but not at the very end. One of the employees of the record store takes his shirt off. Then the camera cuts back and you see the entire group of people dancing. If you look at him he has his shirt back on. Then a couple of shots later he has it back off again.

Continuity mistake: When Liv and Renee are having lunch, Liv takes off her bra and puts it on the table. After that, the bra moves around constantly, all over the table, and eventually ends up on the floor somehow, with nobody ever touching it.

Audio problem: At the beginning of the movie when the employees start singing after Mark puts his song on, Renee Zellweger is supposed to be singing while she wipes the CDs but you hear her singing and her mouth is not even moving.

Continuity mistake: At the beginning when Lucas is counting the money in Joe's office on the calculator it appears the amount of money he counts. Then when they focus again, there's nothing on the calculator and once more it is there.

Continuity mistake: When AJ tries to tell Cory how he feels about her and she is distraught over her episode with Rex, she puts her sweater on and her hair remains under the sweater. Then you see her hair out of the sweater, and then back in again.

Continuity mistake: When AJ is painting outside after he told Cory he loved her, she comes out to confront him and you see a skateboarder over her shoulder skating down the pavement and then jump off the curb. It cuts back to AJ, and when it shows Cory again you see the skateboarder in the same spot again.

Continuity mistake: There's a scene where Renee, Robyn and Liv are talking behind the counter. Liv is talking and her hair is hiding her ears, then the shot goes to Robyn, and you can see Liv and her arms are still, but when it changes back to her her hair is behind her ears.

Continuity mistake: When Lucas arrives at the casino, there is only 1 mirror on his motorcycle, a few scenes later when he wakes up on the motorcycle there is clearly 2 mirrors on the motorcycle.

Continuity mistake: When Debra is sitting outside collecting money with a jar, they focus on her with the jar almost empty, then with a lot of money and then the jar is almost empty again.

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the film when the store is being opened, Mark and AJ start to enter and a woman is seen walking by behind them, but when we cut to the shot inside she has mysteriously vanished in a split second.

Continuity mistake: When Eddie comes in to actually work, he comes into the back room, takes off his pizza shirt and puts on a button down shirt that is already buttoned. Then he asks where "Sexy Rexy" is and his shirt is unbuttoned. Then after Debra says "Better question, where's Gina?", his shirt is buttoned again.

Continuity mistake: When Lucas finally ventures off the couch, he takes part of the couch with him. Then he goes and chased Warren, and when they take Warren into the back room, the couch is put back together. Then, when everybody is dancing a woman has the piece of the couch. Then later when Rex and A.J. are fighting, the couch is put together again.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the owner arrives to collect the money, Warren is sitting on the couch with Lucas playing a Game Boy, which very obviously does not have a game in it.

Continuity mistake: Whilst in the car Cory kisses the Rex Manning record, only to have Gina take it away from her, to show her how she should kiss it. When Gina takes the record she takes it with one hand, but when the camera angle changes and it is in the other hand.

Continuity mistake: When Lucas is in the casino, we see a shot of him getting passed the dice and grabbing the dice. However, just a few seconds later after his nice little speech, we again see the casino rep pass him the dice, just before he rolls the dice which he clearly already had in his hand.

Continuity mistake: If you pay attention to when Rex Manning talks, you'll notice that he strays a bit from his American accent. Maxwell Caufield, the actor who plays him, is (I think) an Aussie.

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film, when all the shop employees are giving money to Lucas so he can pay Joe back, Gina is sitting by Lucas and gives him her contribution. A few shots later you see Gina walk up to Lucas and hand him her contribution....again.

Continuity mistake: When Mark is given the brownies by Eddie he starts to unwrap them. When he smells the brownies in the next shot they are completely wrapped.

Continuity mistake: Just before Warren gets taken away by the cops for the first time, Lucas says something about Warren and the Law. We see that Burko is behind Lucas playing his guitar, but when we cut to a long shot, we see that Burko is sat in front of Lucas.

Continuity mistake: Near the end when they are trying to raise money for the store, AJ sells his Alice in Chains painting then a few shots later it is back behind him.

Warren Beaty: Who glued these quarters to the floor?
A.J.: I did.
Warren: Why the hell for, man?
A.J.: I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.

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Trivia: Ethan Embry's (Mark) brother, Aaron, is also in the film, as an uncredited mosh-pitter.

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Question: When Mark is watching a video in which he views himself being swallowed by a random monstrosity, he says, "I love you Eddie." Now, I took it as a reference to the "Eddie" that was part of a famous Iron Maiden stage show back in the eighties. A friend of mine took it as him (Mark) being thankful for his friend, Eddie, giving him the drug inbibed brownies that he was eating. Which was it?

Answer: I'm pretty sure it was the Eddie that gave him the brownies, because the band we see that is onstage at the time is Gwar, if I am not mistaken. They were famous for having a monster onstage that would 'eat' fans.

T Poston

Yeah, cause Eddie gave him the pot brownies that made him hallucinate being in a Gwar show, so he's thanking him.

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