Joel Gordon

Factual error: The boy who is sent to retrieve Achilles, refers to Boagrius as the Thessalonian, speaking of those from Thessaly. Thessalonians are people from the Greek city of Thessalonika - which is settled about 1000 years AFTER the battle of Troy. People from Thessaly were/are called Thessalians. The term Thessalonian should never even have been known to the boy, much less used by him. (00:06:10)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: When Billy Bob is going to talk to Lance at the beginning, he walks from a point about 5 feet in front of the truck instead of around the front of the truck. (00:04:50)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: In the beginning when Lance is walking out of his house, a wide shot shows the screen door is shut. When it cuts to him he's walking out from inside the house and the screen door is already open. (00:04:35)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie when Janey shushes Jake her finger pushes his lip up. When it cuts her finger is just laid across his lips. (01:21:25)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: When Jake and the twins are dancing the girls' hair is together in the space between their heads. Jake looks through the space and it is suddenly clear (the hair looks pulled back). (01:10:00)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: After the twins are announced as prom queens it shows a close-up of Priscilla, who stands at the front of the crowd (closest to the stage). When the twins walk up the stairs, Priscilla is no longer there. (01:09:15)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: At the end of the song when they all pose with their hands in the air, some of them have different positions (head tilted a different way, different leg forward, etc.) when the camera does the panning shot from above. (01:04:35)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: During the football game, Jake is wearing a Nike shoe (black with a swoosh). After the game when talking with Janey it's got a cross-hatched design. (00:57:40 - 00:59:25)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jake takes his first snap, you can see on his left sleeve a Wilson "W". However, the shot changes once the ball is snapped and the Wilson logo is no longer there (it looks like they might have painted blue over it). Nice product placement? (00:57:35)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: When Mt. T is telling Jake he likes to whip boys in the shower Jake puts his hand up and says "Whoa". It cuts and Jake no longer has his hand up. (00:56:20)

Joel Gordon

Audio problem: After Reggie Ray is in the coma, they tape him to two players and one of them (the one on Reggie's right) makes an obscene comment, which is spoken with amazing clarity though he has a mouthpiece in. His lips are obviously not in sync with what he says.

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: During the football game against the North Compton Wildcats, Reggie Ray gets all woozy. If you look at the scoreboard in this shot it says there is 1:15 left in the 4th quarter. After the trainer talks to the coach the board says 1:20 left in the 3rd quarter. (00:53:35 - 00:54:25)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the football game against the North Compton Wildcats, the team runs out on the field. It cuts to a scene of Jake waving at Janey and in the background the team is going through some drills. It then cuts to another shot of the team running onto the field. (00:51:25)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jake asks Janey to the prom, Ricky puts his fist to his mouth after she says she will go with Jake. It cuts to a shot where he has nothing in front of his mouth. (00:51:10)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jake walks into the cafeteria and Austin makes fun of him ("he has a thing for butt ugly girls") there are a stack of wrapped sandwiches on sliced bread in front of the fat guy. A moment later, they are unwrapped sandwiches on hoagie buns. (00:49:20)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: At the end of Jake singing "Janey's got a gun," he has the microphone angled away from the microphone stand. The shot changes to the guards giving Janey a taser. When it comes back to Jake, the microphone is angled back toward the microphone stand. (00:32:55)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jake sings "Janey's got a gun," the people in the crowd behind her scatter. One girl (in a tan coat) is carrying her painting. In the close-up shot the painting has fallen from one of the clips holding it, but in the wide-angle shot the painting is on securely. There is also a girl in blue jeans and a blue sweater and purple shirt sitting to Janey's right. She runs past Janey off the screen. In the next shot (a wide angle) the girl is seen again running behind Janey. Just watching it I think the same could be said about the other people in the class as well. (00:32:40)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: When Jake goes to ask his sister for a favor, she takes off her robe and hops on the bed, spinning clockwise. In the next shot she is in mid-air, but there is no twist to it - she hops onto the bed straight. (00:30:30)

Joel Gordon

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Layla drives her VW through the gate you can see a camera lens (a bright circle) in the passenger seat of Clayton's truck. This is the angle used for a brief moment from his view when she crashes through the gate. (01:32:20)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: When Layla is trying to get away from Clayton in the car chase, she goes to pass a blue car behind a white truck. It cuts to a shot from inside her car and the white truck is there, but no blue car. Another car is coming the other direction and she has to yank the wheel. She should have been creamed by the blue car, but wasn't because it disappeared. (01:32:10)

Joel Gordon