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3rd Jan 2020

Knives Out (2019)

Continuity mistake: Marta recalls in her head the facts of the fateful night during Blanc's coin flip. Harlan sits down in the attic room and grabs the Go pieces from the bag. He places the bag on the table when she tells him to take the "goddamn medicine and go to bed", but it is back in his lap at the cut, and on the table again at the next cut, midsentence. (00:32:50)

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3rd Jan 2020

Knives Out (2019)

Continuity mistake: Benoit Blanc caught Marta eavesdropping through the stained glass and is doing now "some pokin'." She answers his questions with her arms straight, and listens to him with her arms folded. (00:23:40)

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3rd Jan 2020

Knives Out (2019)

Continuity mistake: Parker lies back in her bed saying she'd like to shock her mother. Wednesday is casting a shadow on her that leaves out her temple and the top of her head, but in the close-up she is uniformly in shadow. (00:49:30)

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Other mistake: After days, when the evil Margaux sends messages through the neighbourhood app to warn everyone about the Addams allegedly about to "attack the town", on screen you see that there have been no new messages since the first time she used it, during Wednesday's arrival at school. Would be quite strange if days went by without a single new message. (01:03:40)

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Other mistake: Bethany puts a mouldy sandwich in Parker's bag, then grabs a beverage from a student, pours it in the bag, and shakes it for good measure. When Wednesday later retrieves the sandwich, it's not wet at all. It should have been a soggy mess. (00:40:00)

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Plot hole: Throughout the movie, the behaviour of the gate does not seem quite consistent; Gomez has to feed meat to it to distract it to let the camera crew out...but they came in just fine and on their own. Same for the angry mob at the end.

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Other mistake: In the sequence when Pugsley gives the 'reading' for the Mazurka, the written part of each of the three book pages is identical. The pages have also been flipped backwards. (01:07:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Bethany pours the drink into Parker's bag, the four-eyed crony has her hand in front of her mouth. The hand shifts, being now at the side of the mouth, but at the cut it's back in front of her mouth again. (00:40:15)

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Other mistake: Not to dispute cartoonish antics, but in the climax of the movie, Pugsley's bombs destroy the boulders fired by the catapult without causing as much as a little bit of dust, while the house crumbles with a lot of detail in rubble, falling bits and assorted devastation. The whole explosion effects look really like they don't belong with the rest of the mise-en-scene. (01:11:30)

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Factual error: Parker is looking for the phone her mom hid. She is moving a box of cereals. The cereal ingredient label has a few joke entries you may Miss at first (goat hair, bitter almond paste, false eyelashes), but the nutrition facts tab is also incoherent in a way too subtle to be a deliberate joke; sub-categories of each macronutrients exceed the total. For instance, it has 5 g of Fat in total, but 25 g of Cholesterol and 56 g of Saturated fat (at most it could be mg). (01:00:25)

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3rd Jan 2020

Seinfeld (1990)

Other mistake: When Margaux is thumbing the message to the population to turn them against the Addams, the keys she hits do not match the text. (01:03:00)

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3rd Jan 2020

Monte Carlo (2011)

Factual error: Judging by what is shown at the end of the movie, Owen managed to install the new light switch while the lights were turned on. (01:40:50)

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3rd Jan 2020

Seinfeld (1990)

3rd Jan 2020

Seinfeld (1990)

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