Continuity mistake: When playing darts in the pub with her colleague, Erin is drunk. She leaves the pub without a bag, but when she arrives at home, she carries one bag.
Continuity mistake: When Travis is attacked by Barris at the end of the experiment, he "catches" the knife and his hand is seriously injured, becoming covered in blood. However, when the red light begins to go off and Travis raises his hands to his head, both of them are clean and uninjured. (01:25:25 - 01:26:45)
Factual error: When Tommy and Kathy go to visit the madame, that part of the movie is set in 1994, but we see two cars that don't fit in that year: a gray 1997-2004 Volkswagen Passat that drives past, and a gray 1996-1999 Citroen Saxo parked a few meters away from madame's house. (01:21:20)
Continuity mistake: When Fred goes crazy for Judy the objects in the background change places.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Tim goes to Julie's gallery to tell her his good news. When Julie comes out to meet him she is wearing earrings and then the next shot she is NOT wearing them, then in another shot she is again.
Continuity mistake: In the first shot of the dead man hanging form the tree, his head appears to be about 12" from the tree limb. After Mattie climbs up to cut him down, his head is several feet from the tree limb.
Continuity mistake: After Kyle dies, Audrey jumps off the diner's roof and starts shooting at the possessed people. She runs out of bullets and gets into the blue van. One of the possessed scratches the top left corner of the windshield. These scratches disappear. (01:09:45)
Continuity mistake: Baby Roberta spits a mouthful of half-chewed peas onto Ramona's face. In the immediate close-up, there is much more green mess on her face than in the preceding shot.
Factual error: When the people of Lilliput find Gulliver's boat, he picks up his cell phone and says he doesn't have any signal but has 11 messages and proceeds to listen to them. If you have no signal at all, you wouldn't be able to check your voice mail.
Continuity mistake: When Aron Ralston falls off the bike he is thrown few yards away of his bike into a bush. However, when he is taking the photo the bike is under his head.
Factual error: In the very first shot of the movie, a clock is shown ticking. The time on the clock reads 05:59:56. It is obviously AM because a few seconds later at 06:00:00, Frank wakes up as if it was morning. As Frank sits up, clear daylight is visible outside of the window. This scene is supposed to be set during winter. We know this because there are many Christmas decorations. Since this is meant to be winter, it should still be dark at that time of day. (00:00:40)
Suggested correction: At the beginning of the movie it's September or early October if latest in the year. At Cleveland's latitude there's enough sunlight at 6am to experience such lighting through a window facing south.
First, what in the film places the opening scene in Sept or Oct? There's too much snow on the ground for it to be either of those months (it doesn't snow in September and rarely in October, but only late October). Second, even if it was set in October, the sun doesn't rise until around 7:30AM or 8:00AM.
I disagree. I think what Bishop73 wrote above is correct. The opening scene at 6:00 AM showed daylight, which would be too early for October, November, and December in Ohio. The movie apparently begins in December based on the amount of Christmas decorations in the neighborhood. Sunrise might be between 7:30 - 8:00 AM and twilight is about 30 minutes prior to sunrise. It simply would not be that light out at 6:00 AM.
Continuity mistake: When Nina and Leroy are standing halfway up the stairs as he is about to announce that she is the new star ballerina, they both hold a glass of champagne. At first, Nina's glass is almost empty; at the end of the scene however, she is holding a full glass.
Continuity mistake: When Ally comes home and fights with her father after getting drunk and staying out all night, the strap of her white top is hanging down at her shoulder, but as the shot changes it moves up on her shoulder without Ally moving it. This changes constantly throughout the scene.
Continuity mistake: While eating in the mess hall in India, the Girl was wearing glasses but in the wide angle back view, the eyeglasses were on her forehead. (01:01:40)
Continuity mistake: During the scene by Kirk's parents pool, Kirk is begging his brother not to embarrass him. Dylan turns to put his back against the side of the pool and his left elbow knocks over a beer can. In the next shot, behind Dylan, he is between two upright beer cans.
Continuity mistake: There is a scene at the school, where Quentin and Nancy are talking by the lockers. Quentin is wearing a Joy Division shirt. The jacket he is wearing over the shirt keeps changing depending on whether it's a closeup of Quentin or a shot of both him and Nancy. You can easily tell, as the band's name is partially obscured during closeup and fully revealed when it's further away. This changes back and forth several times during that scene. Quentin doesn't move enough to warrant the jacket changing so noticeably. (00:18:15)
Factual error: At the start of the movie it said "NEW YORK CITY 2000", then went to a panoramic view of New York City minus the Twin Towers. Even though they stated the year was 2000 and they didn't go down until 2001.
Factual error: As the three Israeli agents are stepping off a plane in Israel in 1966, one of the cars viewed behind them is a 1978 Olds 98 (with its late 70's square headlights). (00:01:45)
Visible crew/equipment: When Dale walks up to the van asking if the are going camping, Chad says they don't want any trouble, you can see the boom mike reflected in the back window of their van. (00:05:10)
Continuity mistake: In the getaway scene where Charlie Wax (John Travolta) reverses into a line of cars to destroy James Reese's SUV, when the SUV explodes the wheels on the SUV change to a stock rim, when it had large custom rims when he parked it.