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Men in Black III (2012) - 77 mistakes

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Jemaine Clement, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith (add more)

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-fi

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Continuity: When J and K are driving to Cosmic Lanes, they drive past the exact same white truck three times.

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Factual error: The Army Colonel says "Take them to the brig". However, the brig is used in the Navy. The Army has the stockade.

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Deliberate "mistake": The Army Colonel's Class A uniform does not have a name plate on the flap of the right breast pocket as per regulations. If the Colonel's name plate was present, there would be no twist to the movie.

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Continuity: Before leaving in the jet packs to go to Cape Canaveral, O steps off K's jet pack twice between shots.

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Visible crew/equipment: When J rips out the heart of the fish and it falls to the ground, a boom mic can be seen quickly entering the shot at the bottom of the screen.

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Continuity: In the scene where J and O are talking about the temporal rifts (just before they are alerted to the invasion of Earth) the ring on O's left hand keeps disappearing and reappearing.

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Continuity: When K mentions his grandfather, he turns his head away from J. In the next shot, his head is closer to J.

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Factual error: When J is bowling the alien's head at Cosmic Lanes, three Pinball machines are visible to the right of screen. Pinball was banned in New York City between 1940 and 1976. The movie takes place in New York City of 1969 so no Pinball machines should be visible.

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Continuity: At the diner, J says to the waitress K has apple pie. K is then given some apple pie. In one shot, the waitress is in the middle of giving K the plate with pie and the plate has not reached the table yet. But in the immediate shot afterwards, the pie has already reached the table.

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Character mistake: Griffin states about the New York Mets saying "They were in last place every single season until they won it all". That is not true. They came last ever since they started in 1962 to 1967. In 1968, the year earlier, The New York Mets came second to last where as The Houston Astros came last.

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Factual error: The flag of Burkina Faso visible at Cape Canaveral was adopted in 1984, and the flag of Papua New Guinea was adopted in 1971.

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Other: When Griffin says to J and K that Boris is coming to kill him, they look at the door. There is a silhouette on the door of someone standing completely still. But all the people in front of the door are walking.

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Factual error: When Boris kills Obadiah Price with the spears, he is forced onto the wall by the effect of the spears. The spears aren't big enough to force him onto the wall.

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Continuity: When they are leaving the first crime scene (the crashed UFO) in their Ford Taurus they are shown talking with head rests in the vehicle. They arrive at the headquarters for Zed's eulogy. After the eulogy they are back in the Ford Taurus and the headrests are gone.

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Continuity: J rips out the heart of the huge fish, who exhales his last breath and dies. Several shots later the fish is on a truck, alive, growling and moving wildly.

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Factual error: In the film, in 1969, prior to the launch of Apollo 11 the moon is shown to be a full moon, however, in reality, on the night before the launch the moon was a tiny crescent moon.

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Plot hole: When (future) Agent J and (future) Boris are fighting on top of the large red docking station for the spaceship, Agent J gets shot deliberately by Boris and jumps off the edge of the dock. Then he uses his time travel device to go back in time a few seconds earlier to be able to dodge the shots. There are a few mistakes in this part. 1) There should be another Agent J and Boris there too, as they have gone back in time to that moment again. However in the movie there are only two of them. 2) The injuries sustained by Agent J (the bone spikes in his abdomen) should have remained there when he went back in time. If it were true that you healed once you went back in time into the condition you were in at that moment, then Boris should have grown an arm back when he went back in time. 3) Due to the time loop, Agent J remembers how to dodge the shots, while Boris doesnt remember anything and is surprised by the outcome.

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Revealing: During the time jump, you can blatantly tell J is animated at several points.

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Continuity: When Boris is about to french kiss the woman, she opens her mouth wide and approaches him; then from the opposite angle the mouth is closed and she is walking towards him again.

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Audio problem: When the guard says "Boris the Animal, you have a visitor", Boris replies "It's just Boris". He turns around and his mouth is not moving when he says "Boris" at the end of the sentence.

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Audio problem: After Boris shoots his spears at J, he jumps Boris and himself off the roof and goes back in time a minute to avoid being shot with the spears. When the spears miss him he says "Right! Left! Left! Right!" but his mouth is out-of-sync when saying "Left! Left!".

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Continuity: After O delivers her eulogy for Z, J and K are in the car talking. The amount of cars and the style of the streets they pass-by have no continuity whatsoever between front and side angles.

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Continuity: At the Chinese restaurant, when K and J are eating, J's white napkin keeps moving around between shots, as do some of the saucers and cups on the table.

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Continuity: At the headquarters, when young K places the neuralyzer and gun on the table their position changes between shots.

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Continuity: When Boris blows the prison door and encounters hundreds of guards, the damage on the door changes between shots.

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Continuity: When J lands back in time, the people behind him walking inside the building are not continuous between shots.

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Factual error: The flag of Spain shown at Cape Canaveral is not the official one used in 1969 but the one adopted in 1981.

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Continuity: When the 60's cops stop J by the billboard sign, he pulls over by the left end of the sign. In the close-up, the car is parked right by the middle of it.

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Continuity: When K slaps the Chinese man with the alien crab his hair gets messy. When the shot changes it's back to brushed.

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Continuity: When K suspends J, the small cup on the counter keeps changing positions and moving further away between shots.

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Continuity: When Boris says "You complete me", the dead cop's head position changes.

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Continuity: In the lunar prison, when the guard puts his hand inside the cake, his sleeve is by his wrist or rolled up to the elbow, depending on the shot.

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Other: J exits the Flatiron building and a woman in a yellow dress starts walking behind him. He looks at the street ahead and the same woman is walking from right to left.

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Continuity: When Griffin foresees the end of the baseball game his hands are on the J and K's backs, but a frame later he's grabbing their arms.

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Continuity: When K disappears, 1960's O takes J to a magic ball (or something) to find out what's going on. In the close-up, the group of 3 to the right disappears.

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Continuity: When J is being swallowed by the fish, the floor around him swaps from very dirty, to slightly dirty, to spotless between frames.

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Continuity: When K tells J he's suspended, J moves his right hand away, yet when the angle changes it's back in its original position and he's moving it away again.

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Continuity: Right before J is trapped by the Chinese alien's tongue a red napkin magically appears on the counter.

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Audio problem: When the alien cuts Boris's shackles they hit the floor and make a metallic sound, yet when the chest armour falls it sounds like the foam object it really is made of.

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Continuity: When J is in the car with young K, about to head for the bowling alley, the way J holds the matchbox changes between shots.

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Continuity: When the alien cuts Boris' shackles, chains and shield, their position on the floor changes between shots.

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Continuity: When the little alien sneaks inside the Boris' hand, the fingers are stretched out in one shot, yet bent a frame later.

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Continuity: When the woman is about to be sucked by the void and fiercely grabs Boris' wrist, the wide and close-up angles show her using her left arm, however in several close-ups it's the right arm shown, as noted by position of her thumb, style of the bracelet (from grey rubber to black with diamonds), and a ring appearing/ disappearing.

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Continuity: At the Apollo rocket launch platform, J calls Boris the Animal twice, who lifts J up and launches him away. J glances at K, who's got both arms stretched out trying to save himself. A frame later, in the close-up, only his right arm is stretched out.

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Continuity: When J steals the blue car keys, a nerdy looking guy with green and white striped shirt and glasses is walking towards the hotel. After J drives zooming through New York, the same guy is seen crossing the street walking the opposite way.

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Continuity: When J looks out The Factory window looking for Boris, the green car he later climbs on has no trash cans next to it. Five seconds later they suddenly appear out of nowhere.

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Revealing: When Boris produces a hole on the lunar prison wall, the void sucks the people and weapons, but not the debris on the floor.

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Continuity: After the bug in the cake kills the cops, it runs to free Boris. The amount of strawberry cake on the sewer lid changes between shots.

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Continuity: When J shows Jeffrey the alien invasion on TV, the notebook on the counter swaps from open to closed, and then back to open between shots.

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Continuity: At the electronic store, when J arrives, the headphones on the counter keep changing position between shots.

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Continuity: When Jeffrey places the time-remote control on the counter it lays next to a notebook. In the close-up it's gone.

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Continuity: When J peeks out The Factory window the broken glasses around the frame change amount and shape between shots.

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Continuity: At the 1960s HQs, K places his hand on a notebook. A shot later it has jumped next to a typewriter.

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Continuity: When young K starts questioning J, K's hands swap between crossed, loose, one on top of the other with no continuity whatsoever.

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Continuity: When J drags Warhol backstage, the people they pass-by have no continuity between the front and back shots. Note the tall transvestite with bulky hair they bump into first, who, a frame later, appears several meters ahead.

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Continuity: When J puts a tray in the fish's mouth, it swaps from perfect to wrinkled between the first two shots in a time-frame. For the rest of the scene, there's no continuity between the shape it has in the wide angles and in the close-ups.

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Continuity: When Jeff is talking to J on the Flatiron, he is looking at J except for a brief shot where strangely he is suddenly facing left without having turned his head. Then a frame later, from another shot, he is back facing J.

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Continuity: When the cops are frisking J, the small cop on the left's left hand keeps changing position in every shot, with no logic whatsoever.

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Continuity: When J exits the Flatiron building in 1960 a woman walks right behind him, then the shot cuts to his POV of a group of hippies, then back to the previous shot of J and the woman obviously continues her walk. She should've been several meters ahead already.

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Continuity: When J and K fall off the roof holding onto a door, they land opposite to each other. A frame later, from a different angle, they're laying next to each other.

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Continuity: When K takes the prize out of the Crackers box, the size of the box magically becomes very tiny.

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Continuity: When J chases Boris in 1960s New York he exits The Factory and runs on the sidewalk past a black car and a lamppost. A frame later, the car is gone and he's running on the pavement, on the space left, to allow him to step on the green car.

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Continuity: When K grabs the remote to lift the library wall, the remote is facing a 9 o'clock direction, but in the close-up it's facing a 6-7 o'clock.

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Continuity: When J is being eaten by the fish, his trousers are clean. Right after it growls, a close-up shows his trousers covered in mustard, despite him not shooting it until several seconds later.

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Continuity: When the cop is about to dip his finger in the cake, its position and distance to the cake keeps changing in every single shot, with no logic whatsoever.

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Continuity: When J falls off the green car, right when he lands the wooden crates previously standing against the rail hand are gone, only to reappear when he stands up.

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Continuity: When Boris shoots spikes at the door that K and J are holding, one of them gets stabbed on the upper part of the glass. When the angle changes it's stuck on the center part.

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Revealing: When the movie starts and J is about to neuralyze the people, the skyline on the background is a blatant backdrop.

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Continuity: After K is falling with J from the rooftop, big chunks of concrete start to fall, yet disappear in some shots. When they land, the ground is clean, yet in one of the close-ups of K a chunk magically reappears next to his head.

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Continuity: When K sees the dead Chinese manager pinned to the wall, the manager's facial expression changes between shots in a mere half second.

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Continuity: In the Headquarters back in the 60's, when J is crying out that he and K spent 14 years of stakeouts, cowboy music, etc. a woman in the back swaps from standing by a screen to walking 40 meters to the right, between shots.

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Factual error: Apollo CSM is venting something through RCS thrusters in the scene on the launchpad. It is not correct, because RCS works on aerozine (UDMH, hydrozine) that isn't cryogenic fuel. Also, video/photo from the actual launch doesn't show this venting: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires/s69_39525.jpg http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires/s69_39961.jpg http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires/s69_39962.jpg http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires/s69-39529.jpg http://youtu.be/zGNryrsT7OI.

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Continuity: When the Afro-American military lays dead, his cap changes positions between shots.

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Other: When J is falling from the Chrysler building, the soles of his CGI shoes are completely black, brand new and spotless, which is impossible unless he got up there flying or changed his shoes in mid-air.

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Factual error: When J is driving to Coney Island and is stopped by the two police officers,the view of Coney Island in the background is wrong. You see the Wonder Wheel ferris wheel and to the right you see the Cyclone roller coaster. The only way you could see the Cyclone to the right of the ferris wheel would be if you were on the boardwalk, on the beach, or in the Atlantic Ocean. (The tall cylindrical ride between the coaster and wheel is verification that the roller coaster shown is the Cyclone.) In addition, in 1969 there were two other roller coasters - one of of which would've been seen in that view - the Tornado which would be to the right of the ferris wheel which means the proper view should be two roller coasters with the ferris wheel between them.

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Continuity: During the scene where Agent J and K are driving around Midtown Manhattan, the wide shot shows them driving past the red TKTS staircase in the middle of Times Square. Then there is a shot of J inside the car a few moments later, and they pass by the red TKTS staircase again.

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Continuity: When J falls off the green car by The Factory, cardboard boxes, a woman and a sailor magically appear out of nowhere.

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