War of the Worlds
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Factual error: Will pulls up a map of Washington DC and surrounding areas, just before selecting cameras to tap into the feed of. With an air traffic overlay showing multiple aircraft directly over the National Mall, Capitol, and White House... all inside the city's strict no-fly zone. One or two could be on official clearance, but this many flights in restricted airspace are unrealistic. (00:00:55)

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Factual error: Just before the drone shot, the surveillance feed shows a busy city crosswalk, but the on-screen coordinates are 32.443518° N, 169.446082° W, placing the location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean over 1,600 miles from land. Moments later, the same coordinates appear again in the drone footage, revealing that the filmmakers reused the same HUD data for two completely different locations. (00:01:35)

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Revealing mistake: In the Dulles Airport surveillance feed scene, the system is supposed to be doing facial recognition on everyone, but the two people walking toward the camera have their faces blurred out. This was probably done for filming privacy, but in reality it makes no sense for the system to censor itself. Will would be looking at non-blurred faces. This indicates it was taken from real footage recorded earlier and then edited for the movie. Signs and clothing logos are also blurred in this "live security footage." (00:01:50)

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William Radford: Take your intergalactic asses back home. Back home! (00:39:20)

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Trivia: When Director Briggs first sends Will a message, Will gets an alert for a new YouTube upload from Disruptor. If you put the YouTube link shown on screen into your browser, it leads to an unlisted video that is nothing but a black screen for a minute and five seconds. (00:03:25)

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