Best movie continuity mistakes of 2009

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Up in the Air picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ryan and Alex are comparing travel cards, Alex's grip on Ryan's concierge card changes in close-ups.

Brad

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Road Trip: Beer Pong picture

Continuity mistake: Aboard the stolen cab, the guys receive a photo from Jenna posing with the cardboard cutout of herself. She has a rather straightforward pose in the picture in the phone, while a moment later when we actually saw the picture taken she struck a pose cocking her torso and popping the hip out making a pouty face. (00:34:20)

Sammo

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Today's Special picture

Continuity mistake: After the spittoon cup gets spilled on Samir's shirt, the stain changes and becomes smaller in a later shot.

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The Last Station picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene in the woods where Tolstoy signs away the rights to his writings, the buttons on Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov's shirt collar are on the left side of his neck until the last shot, where the buttons have moved to the right side of his neck. (01:05:05 - 01:07:15)

Junius

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The Hedgehog picture

Continuity mistake: The concierge is trying to come up with a written answer to Mr. Ozu's Anna Karenina. She crumples the first sheet and there's a cut when she tosses it away; the pad changed position and all the other discarded messages are scattered differently between shots. (00:31:30)

Sammo

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Au Pair 3: Adventure in Paradise picture

Continuity mistake: The young 'au pair' does not have what it takes and resigns after falling into the fountain. As she speaks with the Caldwells, her wet hair is in front of her shoulders in a shot, in the reverse shot it is not, and so on. (00:04:20)

Sammo

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Don't Look Back picture

Continuity mistake: Sophie Marceau's Jeanne meets the Hachette executive Robert (Didier Flamand). She enters the room with handbag and jacket in one hand. She then follows him into the other half of the room. Now she has her clothes in her right hand and her bag is in her left. Not just that; the man had the folder in his left hand in the first shot, but in the new one it's in his right. (00:04:25)

Sammo

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Zombies of Mass Destruction picture

Continuity mistake: When Frida is in her room and throws the stuffed animal near the window, she sees a zombie in the pouring rain across the street. However when her boyfriend startles her in the window, he is dry and the rain and wind instantly stopped.

jerimiah

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The Road picture

Continuity mistake: At the house of the cannibals, when they spot them approaching the house through the window, the woman is wearing dark coloured pants and a whiteish coat. Shortly after, when she enters the house, she is wearing a red skirt, dark coat and a completely different hat. (00:37:15 - 00:37:44)

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Serious Moonlight picture

Continuity mistake: During the scene when Ian is taped to the chair, the duct tape across his shoulders changes from shot to shot. Some times it touches the shoulder seams on his shirt, and other times it is several inches away.

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Lies & Illusions picture

Continuity mistake: When the woman almost overturns the shelves when Wes is signing his book, you can see that in the first shot, all the upstanding books are falling down. In the next shot some are upright, and then in the next they are all lying down again. (00:18:00)

MiKeMaN_SE

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The House of the Devil picture

Continuity mistake: When she gets the pizza from the guy at the door, it is in a white box. When she goes in and sets it on the counter, it is in a brown pizza box. Then later, when she is running away covered in blood, she grabs the knife on top of the pizza box, and it is white again.

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