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29th Feb 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, the teacher asks "Has Nicky's mom volunteered?" The guy answers "Emily?" with his arms down his hips, but he had his arms folded across the chest just in the previous shot. (00:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: Judge Pendergast calls the daughter of his therapist, who reacts with typical New York aplomb. During the scene, the same extras continue to walk back and forth with no logic, sometimes coming twice from the same direction, even. Most egregious example the blonde with a ponytail and sunglasses on top of her head. She is behind Jennifer Aniston in the opening shot and appears at least 4 times (possibly more but there's another blonde too -unless it's the same one who occasionally removed the glasses) and walks away from Aniston and Forte two times in a row. (00:17:40)

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Continuity mistake: James after talking to the pushers outside his house steps in, and behind him we see Bob curled by the window. In the following close-up the cat is turned in a different direction. (01:21:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Bob runs away during the incident with the pushy lady that wants to buy him off James, the cat is wearing his leash in some shots, and isn't in others. (01:16:50)

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Continuity mistake: James is eating the non-Christmas lunch with Betty; he says "I'm tofu, and I'm inedible", and she laughs. In these two shots, she has different food on her fork. (00:55:30)

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Continuity mistake: Throughout the conversation with Betty after Baz's OD, Ruta Gedmintas' hands/fingers change position on the cup between shots. (00:53:00)

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Continuity mistake: The evening that follows the first successful performance, James opens a can of food for Bob. He puts the can to his left, but in the next shot the can is on the opposite side of the table, to Bob's right. (00:45:30)

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Continuity mistake: During the first performance with the cat, singing "Satellite moments", a man in a brown sleeveless jacket and sporting a beard approaches James holding a shopping bag in his right hand. In the close-up of the cat he is bending to deposit the coins he had in hand, but his bag moved to the left hand. (00:42:30)

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Continuity mistake: When James is on the bus with Bob, he is holding him with his hand positioned in front or behind Bob's front leg, depending on the shot. (00:39:00)

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Continuity mistake: Inside the vet's waiting room, James gets ticket 62. Not too bad considering in close-up the digital display shows they are serving patient 57. But after half an hour passed, in the background before he says "Bob, look, it's the month of the cat" the counter is at 51. (00:26:20)

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Continuity mistake: After the overdose in the car, James meets his social work to try and start again. He puts his paper cup on the desk. He drinks then from said cup. When she stands up, James' cup is fuller than before. (00:08:30)

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Continuity mistake: James is counting pennies on the aptly named counter of the store. Take a look at the pile of money; there's one coin in particular which stands out, on top of the other flat ones, tilted to the left. A couple of shots later the coins slightly changed position, which is easy to tell noticing the change of position in that coin. (00:04:10)

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Continuity mistake: James strokes the cat he just put on the counter in their first meeting. As he crouches, he puts his left hand above the right. When their eyes meet in the next shot (where incidentally the cat also looks right into the camera initially), the hands are swapped. (00:15:55)

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Continuity mistake: During James and Bob's first meeting, in one early shot the box of cereals is on the counter next to the cat, while in the rest of the scene it's not there, nor it is supposed to since James gave his furry friend a lift but never picked the box up from the floor. (00:16:00)

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29th Feb 2020

Kill Ratio (2016)

Continuity mistake: After the credits, Tom Hopper sees and hears a bunch of helicopters and calmly walks indoors. He then addresses the waiter raising his left hand before the cut. In the next wide shot though we see him with a right hand raised that reaches for the champagne tray and grabs a glass. He says "Thank you" in a third shot, same angle as the first one, and in fact, the champagne flute is in his left hand now. (00:02:50)

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29th Feb 2020

Te3n (2016)

Continuity mistake: John Biswas is tailing the little deaf girl. His scooter breaks down and he follows her on foot. They are walking in the same road in two different shots, with a cut just a few meters apart. The toys in her right hand and the paper in her left swap hands in the second shot. (00:18:20)

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Continuity mistake: The getaway car has its path blocked by the police on one end of the road. They U-turn and try to escape the other way. During this sequence there are POV shots from inside the car that were filmed at a very different time; the natural light is completely different. (00:02:20)

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29th Feb 2020

Let Yourself Go (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Toni Servillo meets VerĂ³nica Echegui in the sauna, she says something in Spanish to him, and then shrugs in a close-up. The jacket and towel cover her shoulders and neck area entirely, but in the wider shot that follows, the towel is gone and the jacket is looser. (00:11:10)

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