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• Continuity: While Angie is talking to Dale in the motel room, the time of the UFC fight is inconsistent, first being around 2 minutes counting down then jumping up to around 3:30.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Dale and Saul are beating up Red in his house, Red's cold sore first appears, then disappears, then appears again.
  
  
• Continuity: After Saul pulls his foot out of the car window, the hole changes sizes from small and jagged, to larger and more rounded, seemingly without explanation.
  
  

• Continuity: When Saul and Dale are in the woods and talking, there is nothing on the rear of the car. When the camera cuts to Saul talking on the phone, a jar of pickles is suddenly there. When he hangs up, the pickles are gone again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the corrupt female officer's car flips when chasing Saul and Dale, there is clearly nobody driving it.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase scene the hub cap on the car keeps appearing then disappearing. It was clearly shown falling off early in the scene.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Angie's Father is shooting at Saul/Dale, there is clearly a small flash in the lower cupboard door as the charge is set off. A bullet/buck shot would not create this flash.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, the barn is blown apart. The scene cuts back to Saul, Dale and Red and then back to the barn for a last time. The barn now is pretty much all there again, and it continues burning.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the beginning of the film when the private is smoking a joint, the camera cuts to outside of the box he is sitting in and you can clearly see the smoke from a smoke-machine blow towards the private.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Angie is talking to Dale on the phone in the hotel, it is visible that the phone is not plugged into anything when Angie is moving the base around and swinging the wire.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the beginning and end of the movie during the scenes in the underground bunker, there are what appear to be windows with light coming out of them. However, it is not uncommon for underground bunkers to have fake windows with light sources behind them in order to give people the illusion of light coming from a window to the outside.
  
  
• Continuity: When Saul is hitch-hiking using his thumb as a penis, his watch is clearly black. In later scenes his watch is silver.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Dale is arguing with Angie over the phone, she says that she lost her virginity to him when she was 14. Yet earlier in the conversation Dale talked about all the stuff she would be doing next year at college, and how they had only been together for 3 months. She actually does not say that she lost her virginity to him, just that she lost it when she was 14.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Dale witnesses the murder and goes to Saul's apartment building in a panic, the sound of the rapid buzzing as he pushes the call button doesn't match the buzzing heard in Saul's apartment.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several solders within the military bunker are armed and not wearing cover hat indoors. Military rules clearly state that all armed personnel shall wear a cover when under arms.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: While Dale and Saul are talking in front of a huge mirror in the holding room of the former military bunker, a crew member's reflection is clearly seen; a second crew member also walks by in the background (of the reflection).
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Saul shoots Matheson and Matheson falls backwards into the glass, the glass shatters before Matheson even touches it. However, the round fired is a .45, that has enough force to go through Matheson's body and shatter the glass.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Dale and Saul get to Red's house he is in the middle of making his cat's birthday cake. He says it's a tradition to get up early and make his cake - despite the fact it's nearly 5 o'clock in the afternoon or later.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Dale shouts at Saul to turn on the windshield wipers in the squad car, he says they don't work, but if you look carefully at Saul's Hand, he's just clicking the turn signal up and down; not actually turning any knobs which would turn on the windshield wipers.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight scene, while Dale is on top of Red with the door, they keep jumping from place to place on the floor. First, Reds head is in the sink, then its next to the sink, then farther, then closer. Even the sink itself jumps from sides that it fell on. Sometimes its on its back, sometimes not.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Ted Jones has no connection to Dale until Saul tells Red Dale's full name. The degrees of separation only lead him as far as Saul. Therefore, Dale and Saul could have just hidden out at Dale's apartment from the very beginning. However, Dale can't be certain that the murderers didn't see him or his license plate, so it makes perfect sense that he'd want to stay away from his apartment.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Budlofsky and Matheson have never seen Saul, nor has Saul seen Budlofsky or Matheson before they see each other at the retirement home, so they shouldn't recognize each other. However, if Saul knows he is being chased by dangerous criminals, it stands to reason that he would panic upon seeing two unidentified men speaking to his grandmother. His reaction to seeing the two men attracts their attention and they correctly surmise that he is the man they're after.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In some shots during the car chase scene, there is a wiped off area on the windshield next to Saul's foot to let the driver see out of the cruiser.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the fight scene at Red's house, Red flips Saul over the edge of a bar causing several tumblers to fall. One of the tumbler magically balances on the edge of the bar for about 3 seconds before falling to the ground.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Dale asks Saul for a quarter of an ounce of Pineapple Express, but the bag Saul gives Dale clearly contains less than an eighth of an ounce.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Saul visits his grandmother and then fights the goons, he breaks a coffee pot. Part of he liquid hits the camera lens and slightly blurs the area just above Saul's head.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the movie when Dale is eating with Saul and Red, a chunk of his ear is supposed to have been shot off from earlier. When the camera catches him at an angle, you can clearly see his full ear is intact when at a different angle, it correctly shows half of his ear gone.
  
  

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