Best movie continuity mistakes of 2015

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Palm Trees in the Snow picture Palm Trees in the Snow mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Clarence is looking over the papers in the office, she picks up a Certificate of Tetanus Vaccination. In the close-up of the certificate, her right hand is touching the top right-hand side and her left hand is touching the bottom left-hand side, which she then moves to the middle of the bottom side. The next shot, her left hand is touching the top left side and her right hand is touching bottom right side. (01:04:42)

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Continuity mistake: In the parking lot in front of the company he just left, Dan Trunkman is talking with Timothy McWinters and Mike Pancake. Once Mike tells him the reason why he's not working at Footlocker anymore, Dan asks him "Do you work hard?" In this part of the scene as the editing switches back and forth between two main camera angles Tom Wilkinson has either his arms relaxed down his sides, or in front of his belly. (00:04:15)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: When Carlos goes back to Lacey's home, when she opens the front door she is wearing a long beige cardigan and a green coat. In the next shot where she hugs Carlos she is no longer wearing the coat. (01:47:45)

Utopianjellyfish

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Continuity mistake: Towards the end while Brian and Welch are talking at the hotel, the sun on the wall changes between shots.

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Continuity mistake: In scene where the resurrected girl sits up after having slept on the settee, her red jumper alternates between being over her shoulders and round her waist several times. (00:59:00)

Mike Davies

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Continuity mistake: SPOILER: The boy, Roger, finds a glove in a secret drawer in Mr. Holmes' room. The glove is lying perfectly flat in the drawer. It had supposedly been there for years unknown to Mr. Holmes. Later, in a flashback scene, it shows Dr. Watson putting the glove in the drawer. When he puts the glove in the secret drawer, it is not laid flat in the drawer - it has an obvious upward bend in the glove. Since the glove had been in the drawer, untouched, for years, it should have still had that upward bend.

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Suggested correction: Although we are only shown Watson putting the glove in the drawer once there is no reason to suggest he may not have looked at it again before he left for good. More compellingly, Watson placed the glove in the drawer whilst the bureau was in place in Holmes' quarters in London, and it was not discovered until a quarter of a century later having been moved at some point to Holmes' house in Sussex. This journey could also easily have displaced the gloves position to some degree. The weight of papers contained in the drawer above may have also aided in flattening the glove out over the years.

Andrew Upton

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Continuity mistake: In order for Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman to break into the secret room, they knock it down. Four enemies who were waiting for them in front of the door are crushed by the falling door and blood is splattered, forming a pool of blood in front of the door. During the fight that follows, there are several shots where the knocked over door is shown, but the pool of blood at the front of the door has vanished. (00:07:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the two protagonists are introduced to the private room and watch Dan's video message, the clock in the background never moves despite the several minutes duration.

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The Marine 4: Moving Target picture The Marine 4: Moving Target mistake picture

Continuity mistake: As Jake and Olivia steal a car while their enemies are shooting at them, we see a rear-view mirror. A few seconds later, Jake turns to check if they are followed, and the mirror has vanished. As they reach the safe house the mirror is back. (00:19:55 - 00:21:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Dre is talking to his brother outside the house before he leaves, the house in the background is showing partial sun (around sunset). Then, it becomes fully in the sun in the last shot as he's now leaving. The frame instantly changes to a wider view of the street, and now the house is fully shady with the sun already down.

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Pan (2015)

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Continuity mistake: When Peter Pan is fighting the tribe's Pan on the trampoline and they're just about to finish Peter Pan off, the elder chief calls for the fight to stop. Peter's arms are above him in the overhead shot but are outstretched in the view from behind Peter.

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Continuity mistake: There are several fist fights between Cain and Adam. In most of them one scene does not relate to the previous one. For example, Cain is walking away, and the next cut shows them embraced in a shoving match. This discontinuity happens in many encounters.

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Continuity mistake: After the opening scene in the Middle East, the scene cuts to an overview shot of London fading towards the U.S. Embassy. As the scene starts, the time on Big Ben is 3:05, but when the camera reaches the U.S. Embassy, the time read on the description at the bottom reads 8:15.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene when Grandma's car breaks down when Grandma and Sage are on the way to Sage's appointment, Grandma doesn't have her purse when she gets into the stranger's car. In the next shot, when they exit the back of the minivan, Grandma now has her purse around her neck and by her side.

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Continuity mistake: First meeting with Lazarus; the pastor sits down, his wife is just about to, and Verdean's assistant has placed her bag on the table. Next shot, pastor and wife seated, but Miss Jensen is still just only then approaching the chair and putting the bag down. (00:08:25)

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Continuity mistake: The guys pass 3 women walking on the sidewalk just before the Ciel pulls up at the hotel to visit Travis. 2 of these women are in the next shot where Vinnie and Eric get out of the car and walk into the hotel. The tall one in a floral dress walks away from the camera and stands to one side, and the blonde wearing the black top and spotted shorts is chatting in the background. (01:06:05 - 01:06:55)

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Continuity mistake: The close up of handwriting on the visiting card handed over to Gert at first does not match with the close up shown later.

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Continuity mistake: The drawing of the church Kelly shows is different than the one she started to draw, even if she erased lines. The whole thing is shifted over to the right and both top lines go from angling towards the horizon to one being straight.

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Continuity mistake: When Kevin Bacon is shouting "did you open the trunk?" at the boys through the window of the sheriff's car, his hand is full palm on the glass from the exterior shots, but in an entirely different position in the shots of him from inside the car.

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