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Other mistake: In the 7th game of the season, a scoreboard shows the score with about 3:08 to go in the game as 43-12, but next the announcer says they lost 35 to 12.

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Continuity mistake: When Barton is talking to the film maker about writing the film the film maker has on a military uniform. As the scenes go back and forth between him and Barton the military ribbons come undone on one side and then miraculously return to normal.

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Continuity mistake: Chuckie falls into the river. When Bingo rescues him, his bike is in a different place in the river.

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Continuity mistake: In the Fish and Chip van, the guy with the pony tail says, "I'm going to fart." The next few shots have his head alternating in different positions even though there was no time for him to move.

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Other mistake: When the paperboy throws a newspaper at Hulk Hogan, and he throws it back, hits him and he falls off his bike into a bush. If you look closely, you can see him run into the bush, instead of being knocked into it.

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Continuity mistake: As Harris and Trudi are driving down the freeway, while having a shootout with other drivers, Harris hits a water container on the truck next to them and water sprays across his windscreen. In the next shot (which is wider) the windscreen is completely dry and remains that way for the rest of the scene.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the cop car chasing the tow truck does a complete flip in the air, a roll bar is clearly seen where there was none before.

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Continuity mistake: In the "Corn Scene" when Pepto is eating with the bums, and he tells the bum that he has a piece of corn on his face, during cuts a white plastic knife suddenly appears beside his bowl.

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Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, when Dr. Alex Tremor goes to see Marina Lemke, he enters her apartment and it is light outside. He stays only long enough to have a 5 minute argument with her. As he exits her building, it is very dark.

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Other mistake: After Nora leaves with the wrong bag, Snaps calls the Underwood home to ask someone to come over and switch them back. Later, Nora herself returns and Aldo makes the switch for her. Then the Underwood chauffeur comes to trade the bags, and Aldo does this for him. But Aldo would've known that Nora had already retrieved the correct bag, so why would he change them back?

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Visible crew/equipment: During the scene where the grandmother and the monsters stop at a variety store in the tinted bus a camera man can be seen. As the bus pulls away, you can see the camera man standing there filming the scene quite clearly in the reflection of the bus windows as it pulls away. (00:24:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Alec Baldwin finds Kim Basinger in Las Vegas, she is wearing a white dress with thin straps. One strap is continually off her shoulder - except for one shot after he has followed her into her dressing room. They shoot her back, and both straps are up. All other shots have the one strap off her shoulder.

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Visible crew/equipment: Toward the end of the movie Curly Sue comes back home from the orphanage. She sees the letter from Bill and begins to walk slowly to the living room - look left to the screen and you will notice something drop from above kinda looks like something silver, maybe a boom mic.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Jack approaches Parry's bed, a crew member is seen on the right hand side of the shot wearing a walkie talkie. He inches out of frame in 3 or four seconds. (01:51:05)

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Continuity mistake: It wasn't snowing in the front of the house (e.g, when Ethan, Hallie, and Stephanie were going home; when the ambulance arrived; when anyone came in the front door), but it was snowing heavily in the rear of the house during scenes showing the Christmas tree. (01:18:24 - 01:20:42)

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Continuity mistake: When the red haired woman is undressing to enter the jacuzzi to kill the guy, her red dress is either on top of the white robe, or next to it, depending on the shot.

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Other mistake: Jack gets hit in the face by a car trunk but when he wakes up later there's no cuts or bruises on him.

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Continuity mistake: When Jason and The Count duel, the cut on Jason's cheek is already there before The Count cuts him there. By that point, Jason was only cut on the shoulder.

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Other mistake: Despite Lena's cab driver and his wife both being Armenian, the wife's speaking Spanish.

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