Best movie mistakes of 1990

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State of Grace picture

Continuity mistake: During the final shootout, when Ritchie comes down the stairs, there is one too few bullets fired for the hits on the walls.

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Wild at Heart picture

Continuity mistake: Sailor Ripley and Bobby Peru are robbing the Feed Store in Texas. Bobby says "Say cheese" shooting one of the two men. We can see that his right hand is blown off. Cut to a shot of the two men searching for the hand and the victim has a bloody left stump. Then the store dog runs out with a right hand in its mouth.

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Bright Angel picture

Factual error: This film is set in Casper Wyoming, yet at the end, as they are pulling away, a visible sign for Interstate 80 can be seen. Interstate 80 doesn't go through Casper.

manthabeat

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The Bonfire of the Vanities picture

Continuity mistake: While Reverend Bacon is accusing District Attorney Abe Weiss, the TV remote control that Weiss is using switches hands between shots.

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Class of 1999 picture

Continuity mistake: After Cody leaves prison and gets in the car with his friends, we see him letting Angel into the back seat, then just two seconds later, when the camera switches to the view of the prison, we can hear the engine started. He couldn't wait for Angel to enter, then enter himself and start the car in two seconds.

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Spontaneous Combustion picture

Continuity mistake: Lisa drives Sam to the hospital and is met by Dr. Marsh. Dr. Marsh puts on a protective eye mask, before administering a syringe of luminous substance into Sam's arm to stop him projecting fire, but the next scene shows him not wearing the mask then it's back when disposing of the syringe.

Paul Andrews

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The Nutcracker Prince picture

Continuity mistake: As Clara and Fritz are running up to their house, the distance shot shows lots of snow covering the rails on the steps. But when it cuts to a close up as Clara is running up the steps, there is suddenly a lot less snow on them, as well as a lot more steps. Also in the close up, round fixtures suddenly appear at the top of the rails. (00:05:05)

Quantom X

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Jekyll & Hyde picture

Continuity mistake: When Dr. Jekyll sits down to try his formula for the first time, he removes his ring from the ring finger of his right hand and puts it on the table next to him. After drinking the formula, as his transformation into Hyde starts, his ring is back on his ring finger.

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I Love You to Death picture

Continuity mistake: When Joey meets the girl at the disco, when he lights her cigarette, she doesn't have her drink in her hand. Her right hand stays raised, with the cigarette, the whole time; but then one shot later, she's holding her drink and cigarette.

Bishop73

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Nightbreed picture Nightbreed mistake picture

Continuity mistake: During the final battle between Boone and Decker, at one point, they are wrestling on a wooden bridge, and the board beneath Boone's head breaks in half and falls into the cavern below. (It is even highlighted in a very dramatic shot looking downwards over the whole cavern as it falls) Yet, a few shots later, the board has suddenly re-appeared beneath his head, unbroken.

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Psycho IV: The Beginning picture

Revealing mistake: When young Norman Bates is spying through the peephole on his mother, who has brought home a man to the motel, we see him in the shower. Although the curtain is translucent, we can see he is wearing a black speedo.

Brian Brennan

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Ghost Dad picture

Factual error: When Bill Cosby (as a ghost) goes to the doctor and the doctor checks his heart (which is not beating), Bill Cosby then presses play on a tape recording of a sound of a beating heart. The doctor hears this through the stethoscope, even though the tape recorder is behind Bill's back, which is not possible.

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Matters of the Heart picture

Continuity mistake: A close up of Jane's hands show a watch on her right wrist and a gold bracelet on the left. A shot of her character's love interest and suddenly her jewelry has switched wrists when they kiss.

Rob245

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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection picture

Continuity mistake: A helicopter drops two harnesses down to Chuck Norris (Major McCoy) who is awaiting with an unconscious bad guy, and tethers the villain to the ropes dropped by the hovering copter. The black harness ropes are shown dangling from the chopper throughout. When McCoy radios to "pull us up" with the villain in view, the once visible ropes are nowhere to be seen. (01:41:40 - 01:42:05)

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The Dark Side of the Moon picture

Plot hole: If the mission of Spacecore 1 is to repair nuclear armed satellites orbiting high above the Earth, then what was the ship doing on the other side of the moon in the first place?

jbrbbt

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Why Me? picture

Continuity mistake: When Gatou Vardebedian is holding Gus Cardinale at gunpoint, the gun keeps changing position between shots (under his throat, by his nose...) and she is holding it straight or turned sideways. (00:13:00)

Sammo

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Bride of Re-Animator picture

Revealing mistake: At the start of the film, where West and Cain are re-animating dead soldiers, one of them tries to kill West. So, he shoots him in the head. It's obvious that West's gun doesn't fire, and the soldier just pretends like he's been shot.

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An American Summer picture

Continuity mistake: Kari and Traci are both wearing sandals barefooted when they are caught toilet papering the house by Tom and Finn but when the four of them go for a walk on the beach minutes later, Kari is now wearing grey sneakers and Traci has black socks with her sandals.

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Dead Men Don't Die picture

Continuity mistake: When the zombie Barry falls on Jordan, he's played by an obvious stunt double who isn't wearing any zombie make-up.

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