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13th Oct 2005

Daylight (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Kit rushes to a table and scrambles everything off it to pick up a large object to stop the fan, the timer in the background says 28 seconds. But when Kit walks up to the big fan to slow it down we see the timer again and it says 19 seconds, but only two or three seconds have passed since we last saw the timer so it should be at about 24 or 25. (00:39:40)

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13th Oct 2005

Daylight (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Roy Nord is about to go into the mid river passage, a girl is taping him on her digital camcorder. In the first shot her hand is gripping the camcorder's screen and bottom with one finger next to the LCD display, but in the following shot all of her fingers are at the bottom of the camcorder. (00:37:00)

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13th Oct 2005

Daylight (1996)

Revealing mistake: Just after Roy Nord gets killed in the mid river passage collapse, we see one of the criminals and Kit come out of the hole, and the black criminal get thrown back by a big flame explosion. When he hits the wall, it seems to bend. (00:50:35)

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13th Oct 2005

Exit Wounds (2001)

Visible crew/equipment: During the bridge shootup scene when two cops are at the side of the bridge with motorcycles, Boyd hits the cop closest to the bridge and we see it is a dummy. (00:04:45)

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Continuity mistake: When T.J. is talking with the homeless black guy who is sitting on the floor telling the student how to keep warm, the guy throws the student a book to rip up and make himself warm. When he throws the book, the student is grasping the book at the bottom with his left hand, but in the following shot his left hand is at the top of the book. (01:16:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the tidal wave is hitting Manhattan, and the camera cuts to Laura walking behind the black woman and the cop, the woman panics and turns to her left to look at Laura, but in the following closeup she turned to her right to look and talk to Laura. (00:47:50)

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12th Oct 2005

Collateral (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Vincent is in Annie's office and looks over the desk, her cellphone is on a file which is also under the office telephone, but in the following shot her cellphone is now on the desk. (01:34:25)

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Continuity mistake: As the massive tidal wave is rolling through Manhattan, when it cuts to Sam looking at Laura from the steps, the two taxis in front of the library are further away from each other, than in the following shot when Sam has to jump on the cars just to get over them. (00:48:00)

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Continuity mistake: When the students are looking around the library for books to burn, it cuts to a girl and man standing on the balcony beside a book cart. When the guy reaches across to grab a book and says, "We can't burn this one..." he is holding the book with both hands, but in the following shot his left hand is on the book and the other hand is on the cart. (01:11:35)

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12th Oct 2005

Collateral (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Max and Annie are walking away from the train, in a shot from behind Max has his right hand on Annie's back, but in the following shot from the front Max's right arm is all the way around Annie fixing her jacket. (01:47:35)

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Continuity mistake: When the tidal wave is about to hit Manhattan, Sam and his two friends are walking up the stairs, and the black friend's hood is over his head, but in the following shot it is no longer over his head. (00:46:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam is sitting in the kitchen eating, his mother is talking to Jack on the phone and just after Jack says, "Sam is a straight A student he doesn't fail classes," Sam puts down his glass of milk and leaves his left hand up, but in the following shot it is down by his stomach. (00:12:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam and the other two students are on the big ship, Sam goes outside so that the wolves will chase him, locks the door, then climbs the ladder to a door where the students are. The black student is startled and turns around with a metal scoop to his right getting ready to sling it, but in the following shot the scoop is over his left shoulder. (01:34:20)

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12th Oct 2005

Collateral (2004)

Continuity mistake: At the third contract killing, where Max and Vincent are sitting at a table in the jazz club with Daniel (the owner), watch the glass and receipt on the table, in one shot both the glass and receipt are on Daniel's side, then in the following shot both the glass and receipt have moved across the table somewhat to Vincent's side. (00:39:45)

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12th Oct 2005

Collateral (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Max and Vincent are in Max's mother's hospital room, Max is at the window and in some shots the window lever is in the open position and sometimes in the closed position. (00:48:40)

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11th Oct 2005

Collateral (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Max and Vincent pull up to the second contract killing, Vincent gets out of the back of the cab holding two seals in his right hand, but in the following shot the seals are in his left hand. (00:29:10)

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11th Oct 2005

Collateral (2004)

Factual error: When Max and Vincent are at the second contract killing destination, Dispatch calls and Vincent is holding the receiver. In one particular shot he does not release the button on the side of it and we hear Lenny speaking. This would not be possible: he would have to release the button first to hear what Lenny is saying. (00:29:55)

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10th Oct 2005

Blade II (2002)

Continuity mistake: In the middle of the film when the Bloodpack gear up ready to go out and into the sewers to find the reapers. Blade and Nyssa are talking at a table, Whistler shouts "hey Blade, give me a hand". In this shot we see Nyssa looking at Blade, but in the following shot she is now looking down and away from Blade. (01:04:35)

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10th Oct 2005

Absolute Power (1997)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Luther drops a gift off at the hotel for Gloria Russell, when she opens the card to look who it is from, in this shot we see she has her right fingers on top of the card, and the left at the bottom, but a closeup shot of the card shows she has both the left and right fingers at the bottom of the card, then in the following shot the right fingers are back at the top of the card. (01:28:20)

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10th Oct 2005

Basic (2003)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film when Osborne is interviewing Dunbar, the first shot of the interview room shows a pen and pad on the metal table. The pen on the pad moves from being along the width of the pad to being along the length of the pad. (00:05:15)

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