War of the Worlds
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Continuity mistake: While Will is looking at the new storm clouds on Sandra's feed, he gets a message from the DHS director. On this message, it is displayed as "DHS Dir. Briggs"; then when he pulls it up, suddenly the title now reads as "DHS Director Briggs", with Director no longer abbreviated to "Dir.". (00:03:15)

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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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Factual error: Right towards the start, Will opens up the camera feed around several locations in Washington DC and in the surrounding areas. Six camera feeds pop up, but the information on them is all lazy copy-paste. They all say Location: Washington DC. Yet the first camera shows the Pentagon, which is in Arlington VA, not Washington DC. Then the sixth camera shows the NSA Headquarters, which is in Fort Meade, Maryland, not DC. Also, all six cameras have the same IP address. Not possible with how it's set up.

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

William Radford: You risked all of our lives just to spy on people's Amazon carts! (00:56:10)

POTUS: This plan is humanity's last chance. I see no other option but to initiate this war of the worlds to save us all.

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