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Continuity mistake: In Asgard, right after Frigga has been captured, a Kursed Algrim is holding her by the shoulder. In the next shot he is holding her around the neck.

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Other mistake: When Schmidt sets the self-destruct timer at the Hydra base, the clocks count down at twice the speed of real-time.

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19th Nov 2011

Priest (2011)

Other mistake: When Priest forsakes the church rides across the plains on a 'motorbike' the speedo shows him reaching 150 mph, and then even 250 mph. However, in any shot of him riding he can't be going any faster than 70-75 mph.

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17th Apr 2011

Wild Target (2009)

Continuity mistake: When Maynard is teaching Tony to shoot a gun, Tony fires three shots first. The gun's chamber closes as usual (meaning the gun still has ammo). We see a shot of Maynard, then flick back to Tony and the chamber is now open (meaning the gun is out of ammo). Tony then fires three more shots from an apparently empty magazine before being told to reload. (01:26:40)

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17th Apr 2011

Moon (2009)

Deliberate mistake: When Sam is watching the security footage of his predecessors being disintegrated in the chamber, the disintegration happens the instant the coffin door is shut. However when he goes in to test it himself there is a ~60 second wait as a congratulatory video plays before the disintegration occurs. (01:00:00)

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31st Oct 2010

Date Night (2010)

Other mistake: At the beginning of the cabbie scene when Phil attempts to free the car from the taxi the second time, he is driving forward and the taxi is being pushed backwards. However when Phil hits the brakes the cabbie lurches forward (towards his dashboard). As his car was going backwards, a sudden stop should have pushed him back into his seat rather than lurching him forward towards the dash. (01:08:45)

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Revealing mistake: In a close-up, just after the defeat of the Jabberwocky, the White Queen collects the Jabberwocky's blood dripping from its teeth into a vial. Cut to a wider shot with the vial just over half full, you can see that the drips are still being caught by the vial (ie, they don't drop past it onto the ground), but the level of blood in the vial doesn't rise, revealing that it is done in post-production.

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4th Feb 2010

Glee (2009)

2nd Nov 2009

Atonement (2007)

Revealing mistake: During the long tracking shot at Dunkirk, steadicam operator Peter Robertson had a little assistance in getting around. This took the form of a kind of golf cart (from the beginning to just after shooting the horses), and later a rickshaw (from little after the choir to just before the steps ascending the billets). If you look at the ground to the left just as the camera begins backing away from the carousel, you can see tracks in the sand made by the rickshaw. Keep watching the sand near the actors' feet to see more.

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Continuity mistake: During the motorcycle chase, just after the police car breaks through the wooden gate, in the close up of Rambo's motorbike its wheels go through two puddles, a short space of land, then another puddle. Keep watching closely as he rides through the mud. In the overhead shot of Rambo approaching the road at an intersection, he goes through the same three puddles again (the third one is hidden behind a tree, but you can still see the splash).

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer mistake picture

Continuity mistake: In the first scene in Giuseppe Baldini's perfume shop, his employee comes in and starts setting three candles in a candelabra. He sets them very straight and upright, however after we cut to Guiseppe asking if he knows of Amor et Psyche and back to the shot of the candelabra again, all three candles are wonky. This is more than simple gravity could have caused. (00:27:30)

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