Meteor
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Continuity mistake: When the tidal wave is about to break into the control room, the guy next to the window suddenly grows a toupee.

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Continuity mistake: When the Siberian siblings have supper, one is sitting higher than the other, who's perpendicular to him. A shot later, they're parallel to each other and the smallest kid is now taller.

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Continuity mistake: Before the wave enters the control room, there's a TV on the right. When the water breaks in, the TV disappears.

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Visible crew/equipment: In Hong Kong, when the people are running for their lives, check a group of bystanders on the left behind a safety barrier, calmly watching the filming.

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Revealing mistake: When the tidal wave floods the city and the road, one can see a thick line where the water footage was pasted over the city footage. Furthermore, all of the cars keep driving despite the chaos, and not a single object falls down.

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Character mistake: USA flags are supposed to be displayed with the Union (blue area) on top left corner, whether it's displayed horizontally or vertically. USA missiles at times displayed the flag backwards. Also, at the end of the movie, the flag hung on the hangar next to the USSR flag is backward. (01:40:57)

Factual error: When Mission Control talks with Challenger 2, the Spacecraft's camera feeds of the Crew are displayed up on two wall-sized TV screens. Between them is the familiar Mercator map of Earth with the ground track of a low-orbiting satellite superimposed. Challenger is nowhere near low orbit: it's out past Mars, in the Asteroid Belt. The middle screen would have a schematic of the ship's interplanetary path.

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Dr. Paul Bradley: Why don't you stick a broom up my ass? I can sweep the carpet on the way out.

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Trivia: Director Ronald Neame has a cameo as a British Representative diplomat.

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