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Avatar (2009) - 28 mistakes

Directed by James Cameron, starring Giovanni Ribisi, Joel Moore, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Continuity: In the scene where Parker is shown playing golf on the indoor golf course in RDA, the first time he hits the ball, there are two other balls lying on the course side by side. In the next shot, two are distant apart and in the shot after that, they are in their original position.

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Continuity: When Jake first gets into the "syncing" device and he says, "This is cool," Grace's hands are already on his leg. In the next shot she reaches for his legs, where he replies, "Don't, I got this."

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Character mistake: In the beginning scene where the shuttle lands on Pandora, as Jake gets on his wheelchair preparing to alight from the shuttle, the man behind him unloading equipment has his exopack mask loose even though he is exposed to Pandora's atmosphere.

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Continuity: There is a scene where Jake and Grace are tied up by the natives, shortly after they are cut down, Jake pushes Grace over a log to avoid an explosion, the shot changes to something else, then returning to the log, and we see that he's pushing her again. then the shot continues.

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Continuity: In a scene in the planning room (where the computer model of Pandora is being studied by Colonel Quaritch and Parker Selfridge), Jake is watching them move the model quickly to find something on it and they show his digital watch which says 2:19. Less than a minute later they show his watch again and it says 2:53 (or something close to it).

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Continuity: In the scene where Jake wakes up from his link and Grace asks him, "Is the avatar safe?" and he replies, "Yeah Doc, and you are not gonna believe where I am," her hand is on top of his shoulder. But as the camera angle changes back and forth her hand switches to the side of his upper arm and back to the shoulder without time to have made the move.

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Continuity: After Grace has been shot, when she and Jake are at the remote link-up site, Jake pulls a blanket up to Grace's shoulders, and the tip of it is still folded over. When the shot changes to a close-up of Grace, the blanket now lays completely flat.

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Continuity: When Jake's avatar is running through the garden as he first enjoys having working legs again, he skids to a stop on the loose topsoil in the aisle of the garden. The next shot that shows him wriggling his toes in the soil reveals a pristine path of soil and no evidence of the disturbance his skidding to a stop caused.

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Continuity: In the scene after Jake was just in his avatar for the first time, he and the Colonel are discussing things around a holographic 3D map. With each shot, Jake's arms change from being straight out holding the edge of the table, to clasped in front of him, with no time to move the position in between.

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Deliberate "mistake": In the scene where General Quaritch tilts the Dragon Bomber to throw Jake off balance (before he can throw the grenades), the huge bomb reverses back into the aircraft hold, in the process squashing the soldier in between. However, no blood stains or body parts are visible when the floor is revealed (after the bomb shifts sideways).

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Continuity: When Jake is walking up to the Tree of Souls to ask Eywa for help, he kneels and reaches for his braid as if it were hanging over his shoulder when it is lying down his back. The angle changes and it is now over his shoulder. When he stands up as Neytiri tells him that Eywa protects the balance of life, it's suddenly down his back again.

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Continuity: When Eytukan orders Jake and Grace to be tied up, Tsu'tey and another Na'vi grab Jake and bind his wrists, his right on top. It switches to Eytukan shouting a war cry, and goes back to Jake; his left wrist is now on top.

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Continuity: Before the bad guys bomb the tree-village, Jake is inside his bed. When the lid is being closed he has a plastic tube all across his forehead. Later on, when the lid is opened, the tube is gone. He was unconscious and his hands were by his side, so there was no way for him to move it.

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Continuity: When Selfridge shows Grace the unobtainium ore, he picks it up with his left hand. In the next shot we can briefly see him passing the ore from his right hand into his left hand. The ore magically changed hands between the shots.

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Continuity: In the scene where Neytiri is showing Seze to Jake, Neytiri's ponytail changes positions between shots twice. She puts it over her left shoulder as Seze is landing, it's at her back in the next shot of her, then when she says "Ikran is not horse" it's over her shoulder again.

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Continuity: In the colonel's robot there is a rear-view mirror. When we see the robot from the outside, it is very close to his head. But when we see shots from inside the robot, there is plenty of room around his head and we don't see the mirror.

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Continuity: When Jake tames Toruk, he confronts the Na'vi and speaks to Tsutey. While Jake is speaking to Tsutey, Tsutey's braids are over his shoulder. After Jake says "You are Oloektan," all but a single braid are behind his shoulder. After this, when Tsutey looks at the Toruk in the distance, a braid or two fall over his shoulder, in the next cut no braids are over his shoulder.

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Continuity: When Selfridge is on the indoor putting green and says "Grace, you know, I enjoy our little talks", a woman walks behind him. A few seconds later the same woman walks behind him again, in the same direction.

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Continuity: (Extended Edition) In the scene we see Tsu'tey badly injured on the ground, he asks Jake to finish him off in the "Navi way". Tsu'tey reaches out for Jake's dagger and Jake assists him in taking the dagger out of the scabbard. In the next shot the dagger is back in Jake's scabbard and a moment later in the third shot the dagger is now out of the scabbard and in Jake's hand.

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Continuity: At approximately 15 mins and 15 seconds, Max is looking over the image and info on the activity for the Avatar drivers. When Jake first drives, he is wearing a black "dog tag" with a blue spot. When he walks over toward the viewing window with the portable screen at approximately 15 mins 30 seconds, the "dog tag" is orange with a spot of black.

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