Best movie mistakes of 2015

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The Walk picture

Factual error: The delivery van bringing gear for the walk has a 718 area code on it. That area code did not exist until 1984.

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Landmine Goes Click picture

Continuity mistake: Ilya is standing across from and about midway between Chris and Alicia. He spears the shovel into the ground, but it unintentionally falls over to his right (mostly off-screen). The next view of the shovel shows it has fallen to Ilya's left. (The entire shovel is to the right of Chris, which would be too far regardless of which direction the shovel's handle fell.) In the next view, the shovel's blade is opposite Chris' left foot and later the angle is different. (00:36:30)

KeyZOid

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Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, the two friends discuss about the pool and various fluids including the pleasant effects of the waterjets on their ladyparts. During these amenities, the sleeve of the bathing robe on the bench switches position back and forth between two positions (showing the stripe or not). (00:03:00)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: Théo shows up in class unannounced. The teacher tells him to sit next to "that girl", mistaking Daniel for one. The classmates of course have a cackle at that; the girl at the desk behind Daniel's laughs holding a pen in her left hand at first, right hand at the cut. (00:08:50)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: At the very start of the movie as the 2 guys walk down the alley way, the one in the black jacket lifts his arm up as he passes the rubbish bin. In the next shot from the front both his arms are in his pockets and the rubbish bins completely disappear. (01:00:00 - 01:01:00)

gazza2009

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Checkmate picture

Factual error: At the beginning of the movie when Danny Glover is sitting at the chessboard, the pieces are lined up wrong on both sides of the board. If Danny has the white pieces, the king should be on his right. The black king should be on the opponent's left.

Leslie Brew

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Run All Night picture

Continuity mistake: During the fight scene with the contract killer in the apartment building, the killer's coat catches fire. As the scene and fight continues, the coat is no longer on fire. (01:16:30)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone is sitting at the camp fire, after someone says "You remind me of Mariana when she was young", it cuts to Julia smiling. In this shot, Julia's hands are off-screen and at her side. When it cuts to a wide shot, her right hand is suddenly over her face. (00:45:00)

Casual Person

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Factual error: The timeline is completely wrong. The film begins in 1902, at which point Gertrude Bell has just left Oxford and is about to go to Persia. In fact, Bell was 34 in 1902 and went to Persia ten years earlier, in 1892. By 1902 she had already been travelling for a decade.

Necrothesp

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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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Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade picture

Continuity mistake: Lotte is in her room looking at the checklist for the parade. The size and angle of the quill pen change every time there's a cut. (00:14:40)

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Grandma picture

Factual error: A 1955 Chevrolet is parked in front of Lily Tomlin's 1955 Dodge. Its license plate reads "528 GPR." California license plates did not begin to use combinations of three numbers followed by three letters until 1969. The "528 GPR" plate would have been issued circa 1975 and originally had yellow letters on a blue background. For the movie, the blue background was repainted black so the colors were appropriate for 1955. However, an actual 1955 plate would have three letters followed by three numbers.

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The Boy Next Door picture

Continuity mistake: As Claire discovers the corpse after the cat jumpscare, the gold chain is across the chest or across the lips. (01:15:20)

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Vice picture

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.

Bishop73

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Entourage picture

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: Before the last race while all the teams are ready to go, the sun in the background is below the trees but in the next shot the sun is shining on the runners.

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Stormageddon picture

Factual error: A library assistant is showing his cellphone to a Fed. The Fed pulls out his gun and shoots the assistant from about 8 inches away into his left temple. Another Fed, standing to the immediate right of the assistant is shown after the shot. But there is no blood or material spray on him at all. His white shirt is immaculate. In fact, there is no blood anywhere.

toroscan

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Lazer Team picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene with the fireworks, the Deputy driving the vehicle has his outside mirror knocked off by a firework. You then see the same and only Deputy in the car, in the mirror getting out of the passenger side of the vehicle to confront the misfits. The change isn't due to the reflected image. (00:13:05)

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Do You Believe? picture

Continuity mistake: During USG examination of Maggie, on the screen you can see the whole child, which, given the advanced stage of pregnancy is impossible, because the child would be too large. Regardless, on the USG screen, at the top in the middle, you can see the size of the child as 15.4cm, then a few scenes later Maggie births a full-size 55cm or more child. (01:11:25)

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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.

odelphi

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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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