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People who added this item 4639  Average listal rating (3136 ratings) 8.6  IMDB Rating 9.3 
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)


Continuity: As Norton kills himself, the glass that blows out behind him is quite large and about half of the frame gets blown out. There are a few specs of blood on the window as well. A couple of shots later as the camera pulls back and shows Norton you can see the hole in the window is quite small and shaped differently and a smear of blood above the hole now.
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People who added this item 4829  Average listal rating (3066 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating 9.2 
2. The Godfather (1972)


Continuity: When Sonny is shot at the toll booth the front windshield is torn apart by bullets yet when the bodyguards arrive thirty seconds later, the windshield is intact.
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People who added this item 2354  Average listal rating (1505 ratings) 8.5  IMDB Rating
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)


Continuity: When Blondie abandons Tuco in the desert, watch the rope around Tuco's neck. It changes between shots, sometimes over his left shoulder, and sometimes hanging down in front of him. It is not due to the camera angle.

People who added this item 6804  Average listal rating (4405 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating
4. Pulp Fiction (1994)


Continuity: When they are giving Mia Wallace the adrenaline shot, they mark her chest with a red magic marker. When the shot has been given, the red mark has disappeared.
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People who added this item 7388  Average listal rating (4772 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.9 
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kin... (2003)


Continuity: In the second half of the film, Frodo has a scar on his lower right cheek, close to his chin. Many times throughout the rest of the film the scar changes position and size on his right cheek. It also appears on his left cheek in flipped shots (most obviously on the slopes of Mount Doom when Sam is cradling his head).
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People who added this item 7492  Average listal rating (4859 ratings) 8.4  IMDB Rating 8.9 
6. Fight Club (1999)


Continuity: Close to the end when Edward Norton runs up to the front of the empty building and Brad Pitt appears, he tries to break the glass door by pushing a bench into the door, but it doesn't work. He doesn't move the bench and he then shoots at the glass and breaks it. When it shows him walking through the broken door, the bench has disappeared.
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People who added this item 4584  Average listal rating (3100 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.8 
7. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Ba... (1980)


Continuity: When one of the Storm Troopers unties Solo before he is put into the carbonite, watch his wardrobe - he has a disappearing / reappearing jacket on. This is fixed to an extent on the DVD - the jacket is now lightened to almost match his shirt, but it's still shiny like leather.
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People who added this item 3455  Average listal rating (2225 ratings) 8.5  IMDB Rating 8.8 
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)


Visible crew/equipment:: In the second baseball scene, when McMurphy shouts at Martini because he threw the ball against the fence, there's a lot of
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People who added this item 4913  Average listal rating (3321 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.8 
9. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)


Continuity: In the scene where Luke and Leia are about to swing across the canyon inside the Death Star, Leia shoots one last time. She hits the bulkhead behind the stormtrooper on the right and he falls forward. The trooper on the left continues firing (as seen in the screencap).
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People who added this item 3172  Average listal rating (2040 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
10. GoodFellas (1990)


Continuity: In the scene where Karen is too afraid to accept free clothes from Jimmy and speeds off, the yellow NY state license plate falls from the parked car to reveal the modern white one underneath.
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People who added this item 8207  Average listal rating (5130 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.8 
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the... (2001)


Continuity: As Boromir and Aragorn talk right before Boromir dies, you can see Boromir's right hand gripping Aragorn's left shoulder in the shot from behind Aragorn's right shoulder, but when the camera view changes to Boromir's perspective, looking up at Aragorn, his hand is not there. The scene goes back and forth between these two views several times.
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People who added this item 4247  Average listal rating (2879 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
12. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ar... (1981)


Continuity: When Indy goes to save Marion in the tent he removes the handkerchief gag. But when he decides to leave her there, he puts the gag back on and some of her hair gets caught underneath the gag on one close up shot from the left. But when the camera goes to the back of Indy, her hair is no longer caught underneath the gag..
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People who added this item 2543  Average listal rating (1588 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.7 
13. City of God (2002)


Continuity:: During "The Li'l Zé story" before Li'l Dice (Dadinho) kills Goose (Marreco), a woman's white purse changes position, from the right side of Li'l Dice to his upper left side, between the shots..
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People who added this item 2866  Average listal rating (1873 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.7 
14. The Usual Suspects (1995)


Continuity: Right before they rob the police car, a Boeing 747 (four engines) is seen in shots of the plane coming into land. But when the plane is shown from behind, it has only two engines and fewer main langing gears, probably a Boeing 767.
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People who added this item 7540  Average listal rating (4811 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)


Factual error: Merry and Pippin were bound when taken by the Uruk-hai, and the bonds weren't cut until after they managed to escape during the fight. Yet, when the horse almost crashed down on Pippin, he had his arms spread out up near his face, not bound, even though they weren't cut until later. In the next shot, his hands are bound again.
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People who added this item 1631  Average listal rating (1002 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.7 
16. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)


Continuity: In a scene near the end of the movie, George enters the Building and Loan with a Christmas wreath on his arm. On hearing that he has a phone call from his brother Harry, he tosses the wreath on a table and picks up the phone. In the next second, the wreath is back on his arm.

People who added this item 8321  Average listal rating (4946 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
17. The Matrix (1999)


Continuity: When Agent Smith is interrogating Neo, after Smith has sealed Neo's mouth shut and he is backed into the corner, when the camera cuts back to Smith you can clearly see a reflection in his glasses of Neo still sitting down in the chair.
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People who added this item 5204  Average listal rating (3613 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.7 
18. Seven (1995)


Continuity: When Somerset goes back to the man's house alone, he cuts a sticker on the door with his switch-blade to get in. The first error is the sticker is on the inside and it says "Keep Out." The best part about it is the door opens inward. How did they put the sticker on the inside and then exit?
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People who added this item 7767  Average listal rating (4963 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.7 
19. Forrest Gump (1994)


Continuity: In the scene where Forrest goes and visits Jenny (and is introduced to his son), there is an iron on the ironing board in the background. It stands up, then down, then up. The child's artwork in the background also disappears.
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People who added this item 4119  Average listal rating (2662 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.6 
20. Memento (2000)


Continuity: In the scene in which Leonard writes on the back of his picture of Teddy, "He is the one. Kill him," we see a shot of Leonard placing the picture on top of his tan jacket on the bed as he goes to write on it. Then, it goes to a close-up of the picture in which the jacket has disappeared and the picture is lying directly on the blue bedspread. It actually happens twice within that same scene.
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People who added this item 2987  Average listal rating (1760 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.6 
21. Apocalypse Now (1979)


Revealing: In the major helicopter scene when Ride of the Valkyries is played, the actual tape isn't going over the playing heads.

People who added this item 3456  Average listal rating (2355 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.6 
22. Léon: The Professional (1994)


Continuity: After Leon rescues Mathilda from the SWAT team and dodges the snipers, he shoots out a ventilation fan to make an escape route. The blast pattern in this sequence is all wrong. First off, the camera starts on Leon as he begins shooting. He gets off two shots before the camera switches to the vent, but when it does we see about 7 bullet holes around the vent. Then the camera goes back to Leon as he continues firing shots. When the camera is on the vent again, some of the holes that had been there previously are gone. Most notably a hole directly above the vent and to the right is no longer there, and the damage below the grate is significantly less than it had been..
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People who added this item 3768  Average listal rating (2525 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.6 
23. American History X (1998)


Continuity: When Danny gets shot at the end of the film, his paper flies out of his hand. But the very next shot of him shows that the paper is still in his hand being held over his head while he falls backwards. In one of the following shots the paper is back on the floor, but it's on the opposite side it should have been when it flew out of his hand. It's all shown in slow motion and it's very obvious.
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People who added this item 3419  Average listal rating (2200 ratings) 8.4  IMDB Rating 8.6 
24. Spirited Away (2001)


Continuity: After Chihiro pulls the rope to let the water pour onto the large stink spirit, she falls in the tub, and then it goes to a view of the water pouring on the spirit, however the rope isn't in the shot, yet should be visibly dangling down.
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People who added this item 4908  Average listal rating (3304 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.6 
25. Saving Private Ryan (1998)


Continuity: When Miller is collecting Upham from the group of translators and map readers, Upham is so confused and clumsy that he knocks everything off the table onto the floor (e.g. typewriter and helmets). Told by Miller to leave everything except his helmet, Upham picks up a German one by mistake. When sent back to the table to get his own, everything has miraculously jumped off the floor back onto the table

People who added this item 4165  Average listal rating (2877 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.6 
26. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)


Continuity: The T-1000 punches his body through the window of a helicopter to get inside. An instant later, the hole in the windshield is gone.
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People who added this item 2577  Average listal rating (1770 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.5 
27. Aliens (1986)


Revealing: When Newt is sliding across the grated floor, Bishop reaches out to save her and you can clearly see he's standing in a hole to make him look cut in half.
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People who added this item 3642  Average listal rating (2247 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.5 
28. Taxi Driver (1976)


Continuity: When De Niro gets shot in the neck, his bald skin cap wrinkles considerably when he presses the wound with his hand. Confirmed by make-up artist Dick Smith in the making-of documentary
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People who added this item 5554  Average listal rating (3684 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.5 
29. American Beauty (1999)


Continuity: After Lester throws the pillow, it bounces off the couch and lands in the chair. In the next shot it's gone, but reappears in the following shot.
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People who added this item 4472  Average listal rating (3027 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.5 
30. Amélie (2001)


Continuity: When Nino goes to 'Les deux Moulins' for the first time, we can see Amelie writing the menu on a glass right behind him. A few shots later, we see the glass again and the handwriting is quite different. That's easy to see if you look carefully at the 'd'. Later on, we see the glass once more, and the handwriting has changed again.

People who added this item 3493  Average listal rating (2407 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.5 
31. Alien (1979)


Continuity: When the search party goes into the boneship, they are wearing full space suits, and hoods under their helmets. When Kane's helmet is first cut off, he has no hood on.
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People who added this item 5053  Average listal rating (3391 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.5 
32. The Shining (1980)


Continuity: In the first scene, when Nicholson is driving to the Overlook, the shadow of a helicopter can be seen at the bottom right. This is only visible in the un-matted VHS print and fullscreen DVD.
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People who added this item 5988  Average listal rating (4019 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.5 
33. Back to the Future (1985)


Continuity: When Marty is being chased by the Libyans, a few times it cuts away to show the instrumentation in the car. The first time the odometer reads 33064.2 and the trip counter says 88.8; the second time it's goes back a little to 33061.8 and 86.4. A few seconds later we see it as he turns the corner, and it goes down again from 33,061.8 to 32,994.4, the trip counter has gone from 86.4 to 19. In fact it's a completely different set of instrumentation - the bottom of the needle's angled in some shots and flat in others.
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People who added this item 5448  Average listal rating (3808 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.5 
34. Gladiator (2000)


Visible Crew/Equipment: In the "Battle of Carthage" in the Colosseum, one of the chariots is turned over. Once the dust settles you can see a gas cylinder in the back of the chariot.
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People who added this item 1628  Average listal rating (958 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.4 
35. Chinatown (1974)


Revealing: When Gittes visits the orange grove and crashes into the tree, you can see that a steel plate has been placed around the tree to protect it.

People who added this item 3099  Average listal rating (2047 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.4 
36. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)


Continuity: When King Arthur is fighting the Black Knight, there is a fire behind the Black Knight that is lit in some shots and nearly out in others.

People who added this item 1826  Average listal rating (1218 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.4 
37. L.A. Confidential (1997)


Continuity: The stunt double's hairline is quite different than the actor's, when Bud White holds him over the balcony.
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People who added this item 4197  Average listal rating (2781 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.4 
38. Reservoir Dogs (1992)


Continuity: During the torture scene, Mr. Blonde gets his sleeves bloody, but when he is holding the ear, the blood disappears. A few seconds later, the sleeves are bloody again.
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People who added this item 3112  Average listal rating (2019 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.4 
39. Full Metal Jacket (1987)


Continuity: During the drill scene when Sgt. Hartman is asking Private Pyle if he knows the difference between his left and his right, watch the positioning of Pvt Pyle's cap. After being struck the first time, the cap is slightly cocked. After the shot returns to Pyle and before he gets struck for the second time, the cap is obviously cocked further over.

People who added this item 3984  Average listal rating (2681 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.4 
40. Braveheart (1995)


Continuity: When Wallace first meets Princess Isabelle and is left alone with her in the tent, the wimple she is wearing appears to have a life of its own - first it's on her chin, then over her chin, and then under her chin.
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People who added this item 4259  Average listal rating (2904 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.4 
41. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)


Continuity: When Lando says "Go on, you pirate" his entire outfit is reversed - his shoulder holster strap goes the other way, and his rank insignia changes side too.
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People who added this item 6015  Average listal rating (4063 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.4 
42. The Lion King (1994)


Deliberate "mistake": At the elephant graveyard, little Simba claws Shenzi in the face. When Mufasa saves Simba from the hyenas, the cuts are gone, a few seconds later. [This was done intentionally, I'm sure, for two reasons. The first being, Disney doesn't let fresh scars linger on the screen too long. Secondly, during that same scene when Mufasa rescues Simba & Nala, he claws Banzai in the rear. To stress the point later in the movie, that severe scar is shown too, but only briefly, it too disappears because of reason 1. Still a "mistake", but there's why.]
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People who added this item 910  Average listal rating (606 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.3 
43. The Great Escape (1963)


Continuity: The position of the propeller crank changes between when Hendley first hands it to Colin and when Colin begins to crank it.

People who added this item 3383  Average listal rating (2207 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.3 
44. Blade Runner (1982)


Visible Crew/Equipment: Near the beginning of the film when Deckard and the other cop take off in the car to go to the police station, you can see the cables lifting the car up into the air.
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People who added this item 5922  Average listal rating (4041 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 8.3 
45. Batman Begins (2005)


Continuity When the Tumbler leaps toward the steeply-angled rooftop (the shingled roof with dormers), beyond it is a tall office building on the opposite side of a highway that is running perpendicular to the Tumbler's direction of travel (and parallel to the face of the office building). In order to leap onto this highway, the Tumbler will need to make a hard left or right turn, as going straight will take it across the highway into the face of the office building. But as the Tumbler reaches the end of the angled roof, suddenly the office building has moved far to the left, and the highway is now nearly in line with the Tumbler's direction, running into the distance next to the office building, and passes along the left side of the shingled roof, making it easy for the Tumbler to leap easily onto the roadway.
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People who added this item 3758  Average listal rating (2555 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.3 
46. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)


Plot hole: When Indy is stepping on the letters at the end, trying to spell out God's name, he steps on J, incorrectly. When he falls through, however, he grabs onto another letter so as not to fall down. The letters he grabs onto and pulls himself up are an L and a Y, which are not in the word Iehovah, so should have collapsed too.
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People who added this item 3380  Average listal rating (2302 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.3 
47. Die Hard (1988)


Revealing: In the shot where we see all the terrorists (except Karl and Theo, who are upstairs) walking into the building from downstairs, they are about to walk through a doorway when the camera cuts out. Watch the terrorist on the left (he's the one who guards the door) - before the camera cuts out he realises he's about to hit the doorframe very hard. Reminiscent of the Stormtrooper in Star Wars.
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People who added this item 2013  Average listal rating (1310 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.3 
48. Heat (1995)


Continuity: When De Niro confronts Ashley Judd in her motel room, he knocks all but a few hangers off of the metal coatrack. While the camera goes back and forth while they argue, the remaining hangers disappear and reappear several times.
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People who added this item 3652  Average listal rating (2428 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 8.2 
49. Jaws (1975)


Visible Crew/Equipment: When the fishermen start out on the hunt, Ben Gardner appears in a close-up leaning on the windshield at forward deck, while talking about how stupid some of the others are. In the next wide shot of the boats, Ben's green boat is towards the left of the screen, and the large reflector screen and camera, that are mounted to the bow of his boat, are visible in front of the forward window where Ben is seen in the previous shot.
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People who added this item 3016  Average listal rating (1949 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.2 
50. The Wizard of Oz (1939)


Revealing: During the scene when Dorothy and Scarecrow are fighting with the trees, Scarecrow says "I'll show you how to get apples" and he gets hit by the apples. The very next scene if you quickly look at Dorothy's shoes, you can see that she is wearing black shoes, not her ruby slippers.
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Comments

Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 10 14:41
Uh Oh mistakes in this list: Raiders of the Lost Ark shares the explenation with The Shawshank Redemption :D. Awesome list nevertheless!
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 10 14:44
@Zimbaad fixed. thanks.
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 10 15:34
You are most welcome! I've watched that wrong stormtrooper fall a thousand times. Never gets old :D
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 10 17:07
great! Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope is the funniest one xD
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 10 21:33
wow I've seen fight club like 100 times and never noticed that bench.
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 11 8:03
lol there is few funny ones
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 11 11:48
Another two Fellowship Of The Ring mistakes for you:
1. When Frodo rolls down the hill in the snow on the way towards Moria, you can see his Hobbit boots.
2. Just after Aragorn has killed that Uruk-Hai in the woods, as he runs towards Boromir an orc who's meant to be dead lifts his head up.
Edit: 2 years, 7 months ago
Posted: 2 years, 6 months ago at Nov 17 0:31
Excellent post, I enjoyed it. Another one I noticed was a scene from Hitch where Will Smith is talking to Kevin James in Smith's condo. One scene a door is open, the next camera angle shows the door closed. I rewound it for my friend the first time I saw it. Thanks
Posted: 1 year, 7 months ago at Oct 21 18:14
You've included a film called 'Northwest Passage' in your list for the mistakes featured in 'North by Northwest'.
Besides that, great list.
Posted: 1 year, 5 months ago at Dec 4 18:05
Nice list!
Posted: 12 months ago at May 22 12:54
I've only watched 15 of these movies, but I never noticed the mistakes! (Except from the bench in Fight Club) I guess I focus too much on what is actually happening, and not the little details (and sometimes big detials) :)
Posted: 12 months ago at May 25 11:43
look who's talking too, when john travolta is trying to get his son back to sleep, the pee wee herman doll goes from sittin up , to lying down.

Billy maddison, when he is asked to write the word rizzuto on the black board, the writing keeps on changing behind him.

the wizerd of ozz, judy garland pig tale keep changing from long to short.
Posted: 9 months, 3 weeks ago at Aug 3 3:01
some of these are dumb and uninteresting like most continuity errors usually are but others are fucking priceless!!!! great list!!!!!
Posted: 6 months, 2 weeks ago at Nov 7 17:48
You've put Northwest Passage and I think you mean North By Northwest.
Posted: 6 months, 1 week ago at Nov 12 20:10
I love these types of 'movie fails' you know? good job!!!
Posted: 6 months, 1 week ago at Nov 13 1:22
Nice! From wich site u get this???
Posted: 6 months, 1 week ago at Nov 13 11:16
Nice job on this list.
Posted: 4 months, 3 weeks ago at Dec 26 5:56
damn bloopers! :)

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