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(at around 1h 26 mins) When Connie and David argue and David slams the bottle down, David's drinkin [...]
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(at around 42 mins) Debris from the explosion flies right to left at the top of the frame and liter [...]
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(at around 3 mins) At SETI in New Mexico, after the guy discovers the alien signal, the woman at th [...]
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(at around 41 mins) Although the 'line of sight' scene has been mentioned, in one particular shot f [...]
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When President Whitmore fires Nimziki he says "He can't do that". In actuality the president can fi [...]
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(at around 6 mins) Supposedly set in July, a weather map in the "USA Today" paper shows a mid-winte [...]
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(at around 23 mins) The alien destroyer that hovers over New York City positions itself so that its [...]
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(at around 8 mins) Levinson Sr.'s cigar during the chess game varies in length between shots, when [...]
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(at around 46 mins) During the initial attack, a man in the office is watching the blast wave appro [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When Major Mitchell gives the crash course to all the new pilots, his hair h [...]
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(at around 1h 55 mins) After Hiller and Levinson say their "goodbyes" to each other, Levinson conne [...]
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(at around 49 mins) Obvious CGI flames when Jasmine is running in the tunnel.
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(at around 1h 21 mins) [special edition only] When David and Dr. Okun are inside the alien aircraft [...]
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(at around 32 mins) During the news report of Russell's arrest the reporter states that he was arre [...]
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(at around 15 mins) General Grey refers to a single AWACS as an "AWAC". The "s" does not make it pl [...]
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(at around 52 mins) Air Force One's cabin window shades move up/down when President Whitmore and Co [...]
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The Air Force One in the movie is incorrectly shown with Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines. The real VC- [...]
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In the El Toro scene and before the final battle, F/A-18's are shown with the sword and wreath symb [...]
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(at around 15 mins) The map of Russia shown in "Sky News" (in Russian), shows the city of St. Peter [...]
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(at around 2h) As the Alien Destroyer is approaching Area 51, the entire attack wing launch their m [...]
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(at around 6 mins) At the White House, after the President says good morning to Connie and walks pa [...]
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(at around 11 mins) After Miguel confronts Russell about dusting the wrong field he starts his moto [...]
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(at around 38 mins) When David is outside the White House and puts the device on top of his car, in [...]
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Each of the pilots take a "victory dance" cigar from a box of cigars being passed around during the [...]
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(at around 2 mins) At SETI, before the signal starts to beep, when the techie putts the golf ball t [...]
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(at around 1h) During the first battle with the alien fighters, Hiller destroys one by deploying hi [...]
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(at around 21 mins) On a flash shot from the air down on the Washington Monument. On a sunny day ju [...]
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(at around 1h) When Steven Hiller is flying through the canyon he says "Hope you got air bag" and p [...]
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(at around 37 mins) David and Julius are traveling south to DC from NY so David can tell the Presid [...]
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(at around 14 mins) A sailor's mouth does not match the words he is saying when his face is reflect [...]
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(at around 1h 13 mins) When Dr. Okun is about to unlock "the vault", and says, "the freak show," a [...]
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(at around 59 mins) Just before Jimmy's F-18 plane is shot down by the alien fighters, the air spee [...]
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(at around 34 mins) The address on the letter Steve receives from NASA reads "El Toro, CA 50055" Th [...]
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One of the TV reports on the arrival of the aliens and the associated phenomenon claims the "Southe [...]
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(at around 1h 13 mins) Dr. Okun tells everyone that the aliens do not have vocal cords, yet the cre [...]
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(at around 36 mins) After the pole dance, Jasmine is in the dressing room warning Tiffany not to go [...]
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When David and Hiller are approaching the Mother Ship after leaving the Earth's atmosphere there is [...]
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(at around 1 min) In the movie, when the alien craft is passing the Apollo 11 landing site on the M [...]
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(at around 29 mins) When Capt. Hiller goes out to get into car to drive to the Marine base, he is n [...]
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The F-18 hornets in the last battle scene are shown to be launching sidewinder missiles against the [...]
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(at around 58 mins) When the alien gliders first appear, the Air Force is taken by surprise, yet th [...]
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(at around 1h 25 mins) When Connie and David argue, David opens the refrigerator door, and we see s [...]
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The President refers to himself as "Eagle One" while participating in the final air mission to comb [...]
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The earrings worn by the female USAF NCO at the desk from which the General calls the SecDef are no [...]
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(at around 1h 30 mins) Initially while at Area 51, the President is initially wearing a white shirt [...]
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(at around 4 mins) At Pentagon Space Command at the beginning of the film, a 2 star U.S. Army Gener [...]
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(at around 56 mins) When Captain Hiller begins his attack with the rest of his crew from El Toro, w [...]
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(at around 29 mins) When Steve is leaving to go to El Toro, Jasmine comes outside to talk to Steve. [...]
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(at around 24 mins) After going to the bathroom, when Steven turns on the TV in the kitchen, in the [...]
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(at around 59 mins) As a man jumps out of an F-18 during the alien raid of El Toro, we see the jet [...]
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(at around 1h 21 mins) In the containment lab, when the alien awakens and begins its attack, the al [...]
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(at around 2h 10 mins) The city-size ships all over the world are all destroyed in coordinated air [...]
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(at around 1h 23 mins) After the president's entourage fires at the alien through the glass, wires [...]
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When the First Lady boards the helicopter to leave Los Angeles, a Secret Service agent refers to th [...]
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(at around 49 mins) When Jasmine sees the approaching fireball she grabs Dylan from the car and beg [...]
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(at around 2h) Whitmore attempts to nuke the aliens, but their protective force field holds. Once t [...]
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(at around 42 mins) No matter the provocation, even under an evacuation from the White House, the r [...]
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At the beginning of the movie, the camera zooms in on a plaque on the lunar surface left by the Apo [...]
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One of the Royal Air Force pilots in the Iraqi dessert who goes over a map has a pistol with his fi [...]
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Since the "shields" of the alien ships could not be penetrated even by a nuclear weapon, there was [...]
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(at around 1h 8 mins) When Steven is dragging the alien in his parachute, the sweat stain on his ta [...]
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(at around 22 mins) When the ship floats over New York, it goes over the Empire State Building, and [...]
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When the President is firing his F-18's cannon he pulls the trigger. The trigger operates the radio [...]
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Maj Mitchell shoots the Coke can off the alien spacecraft, the sound of [...]
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During the scene before the US counter-attack, the planes on the ground are F-14's, with the wings [...]
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(at around 3 mins) At the start, when the SETI Chief arrives at the lab (after being awakened), a S [...]
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(at around 1h 55 mins) When General Grey tells the President not to engage until they have visual, [...]
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(at around 1h 19 mins) At the decimated MCAS El Toro, when the First Lady asks Jasmine what she doe [...]
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(at around 7 mins) When David and Julius are playing chess at the park in Brooklyn, the slow decomp [...]
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(at around 4 mins) A US Air Force master sergeant is shown with 6 stripes all down. In 1991 the USA [...]
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(at around 50 mins) After Jasmine kicks the door down, in the tunnel, she crouches down & calls Boo [...]
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After President Whitmore delivers his address to the pilots, Major Mitchell tells him he has a "jum [...]
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Levinson is kicking stuff around in Area 51, one of the trash cans is m [...]
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At both El Toro and Area 51, the "Restricted Area" signs are placed on the inside of the fence, fac [...]
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(at around 4 mins) In the beginning of the movie, an Air Force member is shown in full service dres [...]
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(at around 50 mins) In the motorhome, when Troy tells Russell that he feels sick, as the RV pulls o [...]
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(at around 1h 14 mins) After entering the vault (freak show) at Area 51, the group sees the bodies [...]
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(at around 21 mins) When the spaceships begin arriving, it is obviously morning in Los Angeles. Ste [...]
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(at around 37 mins) As Levinson and his father approach Washington D.C. they are the only inbound c [...]
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(at around 48 mins) The height of the fireball changes between shots.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) In the desert scene, there is an F/A-18 with IAF Stars of David. The Israeli [...]
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(at around 20 mins) In the diner, when the alien destroyer is about to pass overhead, things begin [...]
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(at around 1h 45 mins) Since he did obviously did not pack before leaving the White House, where di [...]
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(at around 1h 28 mins) When the nuclear missile is launched from the B-2 bomber over Houston, the b [...]
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(at around 54 mins) When Jimmy and Steven climb into the F/A-18 cockpits, there are various sticker [...]
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(at around 59 mins) Close to the middle of the film when Steven Hiller and his wingman Jimmy are ru [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) When David and Steven are on their way to the mothership, in shots facing Da [...]
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(at around 38 mins) When Julius and David pull up beside the White House gate, David places the dev [...]
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(at around 1 min) The Laser reflector seen next to Eagle's Descent stage on the Moon at the start o [...]
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The Hornet's M61 Vulcan is a multi-barreled, battery-powered 20mm cannon. It firing would sound lik [...]
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(at around 32 mins) As David and his father are driving into Washington D.C. the door lock over Dav [...]
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President Whitmore's group when they get to Area 51 consists of President Whitmore, David, Connie, [...]
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(at around 20 mins) Steve and Jasmine are asleep and the house starts to shake. There are 3 picture [...]
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(at around 59 mins) During the alien bombing raid on El Toro Marine base, not a single jet is destr [...]
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(at around 46 mins) During the L.A. office building explosion a car can be seen hitting a traffic l [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) In the first "RAF" F-16 scene, the tail number on the airframe in the backgr [...]
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(at around 48 mins) As Air Force One taxis down the runway, its front wheel briefly lifts above the [...]
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(at around 42 mins) When the President is evacuating the White House close to the beginning, in the [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) Right before Hiller and Levinson take the alien ship to the mother ship, hug [...]
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(at around 48 mins) When Washington, D.C. is attacked, the space craft is positioned over the White [...]
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(at around 48 mins) The Capitol's dome crumbles like stone, but it's made of iron.
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(at around 37 mins) David claims he can triangulate Connie's position, but he only sets one antenna [...]
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(at around 23 mins) The policeman on the horse turns it around twice.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) Pilots use specialized suits to keep the G-Force from making them go unconsci [...]
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(at around 22 mins) When the alien aircraft settles over New York, there is a taxi cab driver that [...]
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(at around 1h 28 mins) When the first plane fires the first nuclear bomb, you see the pilot is stee [...]
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(at around 28 mins) In the kitchen, when Steven is packing up before leaving for El Toro, the blue [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) When Russell enters his F/A-18 during the final assault, he pushes the keypa [...]
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(at around 38 mins) David calls Connie at the White House and she walks toward the divided pane win [...]
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Hiller returns to the bunker with the 1st Lady, Jazmine, Dylan and Boomer the dog in the borrowed h [...]
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(at around 22 mins) When the aliens arrive in New York City and start to come over the city we see [...]
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(at around 52 mins) When Jasmine is coming out of the tunnel after the initial attack on Los Angele [...]
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(at around 46 mins) When Julius first boards Air Force One, he walks down the left (port side) aisl [...]
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(at around 38 mins) When David rings Connie for the second time when he's in D.C. as she walks towa [...]
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(at around 54 mins) Just after Steven and Jimmy board the Hornets, aboard Air Force One, General Gr [...]
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At 14m 42s the submarine is captioned as being "USS Georgia". The real submarine has large horizont [...]
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The Black Knights were scrambled from El Toro, a Marine Corps facility near Irvine, CA. Yet when Ca [...]
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(at around 1h 45 mins) During the climactic events of the movie, General Grey is wearing a field un [...]
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(at around 10 mins) The placing of Miguel's brother's arms when he's beating on the TV to get bette [...]
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(at around 15 mins) Close to the beginning of the film, when we see the President in the White Hous [...]
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(at around 2h 15 mins) In the final scene, burning debris, supposedly from the destroyed mothership [...]
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(at around 1h 55 mins) The launcher for the nuclear missile is missing from the bottom of the alien [...]
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(at around 42 mins) When the White House is being evacuated, as Connie runs down the stairs in the [...]
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(at around 1h 21 mins) Hands can twice be seen moving the tentacles of the alien in the Area 51 lab [...]
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Dave Levinson hands the same piece of paper to the President three times.
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(at around 2h) The airplanes they are flying have 4 missiles, yet at the final air combat the Presi [...]
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(at around 41 mins) In the Oval Office, when David says, "They're using our own satellites against [...]
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(at around 1h 30 mins) At the MCAS El Toro ruins, when Steven's chopper is heard overhead, the Firs [...]
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(at around 21 mins) When the alien ship arrives in Washington DC, its shadow goes over the Lincoln [...]
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(at around 37 mins) When Julius and David drive to DC, the amount of dirt on the Plymouth's front a [...]
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(at around 1h 10 mins) When President Whitmore and the rest get to Area 51, you see David Levinson [...]
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(at around 47 mins) When the alien ship over New York blows up the Empire State Building you see th [...]
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Coffee will not cure a hangover.
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Levinson is briefing the higher-ups on the plan to plant the virus, he [...]
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(at around 53 mins) In the briefing scene at El Toro prior to the first counter-offensive, Lt. Colo [...]
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(at around 22 mins) When the alien aircraft at the beginning of the film first breach the skies ove [...]
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(at around 8 mins) During the chess match, David's left middle fingernail is severely bruised, best [...]
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(at around 14 mins) At the Oval Office, when General Grey says, "They're tracking another one off t [...]
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Actors "marks" to stand on, are visible at these points through the movie:
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In the opening sequence, the mothership moves over the Moon, blotting out the plaque left during th [...]
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(at around 27 mins) When he leaves his office, David says that there are roughly 6 hours until the [...]
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(at around 48 mins) When Air Force One is taking off, the fireball should not be that close. The he [...]
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(at around 1h 30 mins) When President Whitmore boards the chopper and then Air Force One, he wears [...]
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(at around 2h) At the beginning of the battle over Area 51, President Whitmore fires his first miss [...]
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Although the Mellon Bank and Citi Group buildings are near the US Bank Tower, the latter building i [...]
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David manages to write a virus for an unknown and alien computer, with an unknown and alien operati [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When Russell Casse volunteers, he tells Air Force personnel he had previousl [...]
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(at around 47 mins) When the Empire State Building gets blown up, look to the right of the picture. [...]
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(at around 44 mins) During the first alien attack, Marty in New York and another driver in Los Ange [...]
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(at around 1h 25 mins) In Area 51 a bottle of Bushmills Whiskey beside the fridge is square on to t [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) The RAF do not operate F-16s and also the RAF's aircraft would not have the [...]
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(at around 1h 24 mins) In the Area 51 lab, after the alien is shot, when Major Mitchell rushes over [...]
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(at around 2 mins) The SETI chief, in bed at the film's opening, wakes up before his phone rings. H [...]
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It is morning and light out in Washington D.C. when the stuff with the spaceships is beginning. The [...]
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(at around 9 mins) When David walks into his office, with Marty, he sits down at his desk, and the [...]
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(at around 28 mins) Jasmine's older-model television is not connected to a cable and has a VHF dial [...]
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There would be no need for the aliens to use Earth satellites for communications. They had deployed [...]
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(at around 2h) When Julius Levinson is praying in a group, he is sitting on the floor. He recites " [...]
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(at around 2h) Whitmore uses up all of his missiles early in the attack on the alien ship. But some [...]
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Hiller and Levinson flew through debris from the explosion of the Mother ship by their nuclear miss [...]
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(at around 16 mins) At the beginning of the film, when the President is being briefed by his member [...]
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(at around 46 mins) The title of the countdown clock window on Levinson's PowerBook changes from "R [...]
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(at around 2h 5 mins) Russell Casse's airplane was destroyed by the impact with the alien ship, not [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) The scientist's mouth never opens when he orders to "open the launch tunnel" [...]
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The F-18s in the film have no mirrors in the top arch of their canopies. Real F-18s have three mirr [...]
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(at around 2h 10 mins) When Steven and David are in the mothership, Steven says that once the missi [...]
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(at around 49 mins) When Jasmine grabs Dylan out of the car, his sneakers are white/black with blac [...]
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(at around 1h 45 mins) After President Whitmore comments to General Grey that the pilots look young [...]
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(at around 1h) Just before Steven Hiller crashes his fighter jet into the canyon, he looks at his f [...]
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(at around 5 mins) When the First Lady calls the President from Los Angeles at the beginning of the [...]
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(at around 37 mins) David's phone book program displays non-existent street addresses in Washington [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) Before David was to board the Alien Spacecraft, he gave his father (Julius) [...]
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(at around 49 mins) When Jasmine is running in the tunnel, she kicks open the door just in time to [...]
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(at around 15 mins) When the aliens attack Novosibirsk, Russia, a map of "The Russian Republic" in [...]
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(at around 1h 25 mins) When David removes the bottle that Connie put in the fridge, in the next sho [...]
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(at around 37 mins) Julius and David are driving in the Plymouth and when they reach DC, the car's [...]
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(at around 44 mins) When Tiffany alerts the other alien believers of the ship opening up, there is [...]
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(at around 1h 7 mins) The clouds in the sky disappear suddenly when Hiller is dragging the alien. [...]
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(at around 14 mins) In the Oval Office, when General Grey says, "They're tracking another one off t [...]
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(at around 33 mins) The same group of pilots surrounding Russell in a 1971 photograph are later see [...]
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People are shown on cell phones after the aliens show up; one would think the the cell networks wou [...]
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(at around 1h 6 mins) The President assures Julius Levinson "there is no Area 51." This is untrue, [...]
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(at around 31 mins) The President mentions to his wife that she will be evacuated by helicopter fro [...]
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(at around 2h 5 mins) After the shields of the mothership have been taken out and the fighters fire [...]
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(at around 40 mins) Levinson's laptop opens itself just before he shuts it.
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(at around 35 mins) When Steven Hiller is talking to his friend in the locker room, the ring accide [...]
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(at around 31 mins) When David shows up at his father's house, Julius opens the door pointing a gun [...]
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(at around 18 mins) When Connie starts to give her speech at the White House press conference, the [...]
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(at around 1h 1 min) Just after Hiller parachutes to safety, we can see he's landed not far from th [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) When Russell is sitting in the fighter jet he pushes a button and you hear " [...]
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(at around 54 mins) When Marines Hiller & Wilder are getting ready to go up the first time, Hiller [...]
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(at around 21 mins) The position of Abraham Lincoln's head on the table when President Whitmore is [...]
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The Secret Service agent who guns down the alien with Major Mitchell and General Grey uses what app [...]
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(at around 1h 23 mins) At the Area 51 lab, when President Whitmore is down on the ground in pain, i [...]
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(at around 2h 5 mins) During the final battle over Area 51, Russell Casse appears in his F-18 and s [...]
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(at around 10 mins) When the Casse kids are in the motor home and the guy drives up to complain abo [...]
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(at around 2h 10 mins) At the very end, Jasmine gets out of the jeep and goes running to Steve. Con [...]
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(at around 1h 5 mins) Several characters throughout the film describe the crash of the alien vessel [...]
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(at around 1h 26 mins) When David is getting drunk and he's talking to Connie, at one point he slam [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) The announcement says the base at Area 51 is looking for pilots and they wil [...]
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(at around 1h 25 mins) When David and Connie are talking in the room at Area 51, she states "Haven' [...]
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When the tunnel is filled with the fiery explosion, the black woman leaves the door open so the dog [...]
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No explanation is given as to how the spacecrafts can float slowly through Earth's atmosphere and n [...]
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(at around 13 mins) As the Alien Destroyers enter the Earth's atmosphere, one scene cuts to a surfa [...]
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For the giant ships to hover above cities, they must possess anti-gravity. This technology would al [...]
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(at around 26 mins) The alien ship blocks out all of the satellite dishes on the roof of David's of [...]
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(at around 1h 1 min) The way Hiller landed when he was parachuting to the ground would have broken [...]
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When the L.A. survivors arrive at El Toro, there are destroyed F-15 planes in the wreckage. The F-1 [...]
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(at around 22 mins) When the ship approaches New York, the shadow hits the World Trade Center and i [...]
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(at around 15 mins) On the side view of the AWACS crew, one can see part of the Flight Engineer pan [...]
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(at around 1 min) When the mothership first goes past the moon, the lunar soil is shown vibrating f [...]
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Russell in the aircraft waves to Miguel on the motorbike. The Sun is on Russell's right (starboard [...]
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(At around 14 min) In the Submarine, a crew member calls out "Admiral on Deck." The Commanding Offi [...]
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(at around 39 mins) Even with the say-so of a member of the President's Cabinet, David and his fath [...]
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(at around 21 mins) The shadow of the approaching ship moves up the face of the Abraham Lincoln Mem [...]
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The President is being advised by an Marine General. Under the circumstances, the head of US Space [...]
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When Major Mitchell is briefing the pilots before they engage the enemy craft, his fatigues are sho [...]
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(at around 12 mins) The decorations worn by General Grey include decorations received for valor in [...]
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(at around 1h 16 mins) Mr. Nimzicki is identified as the Director of the CIA. Later, just before he [...]
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(at around 53 mins) When Lt Col. Watson is giving Earth pilots the first pre-combat briefing he is [...]
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In the opening sequence, the Moon's surface is in full sun and the black sky is filled with stars. [...]
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(at around 48 mins) As Air Force One is taking off from Washington, D.C., the runway marker lights [...]
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The opening scene shows the Moon's landscape with the Earth high above the horizon, but the Moon is [...]
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(at around 16 mins) The U.S Air Force's E-3 Sentry has a very large and very powerful radar system [...]
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No single nuclear bomb currently on Earth could have destroyed the Mothership. Especially not one s [...]
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(at around 14 mins) The scene with the U.S.S. Georgia takes place in the Persian Gulf. The captain [...]
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(at around 1h 3 mins) Aboard Air Force One, when David feels nauseous there is a telephone between [...]
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(at around 1h 17 mins) When Steve Hiller first meets the President at Area 51, they shake hands; Si [...]
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(at around 49 mins) When Jasmine is running from the explosion and is holding Dylan in her arms the [...]
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(at around 23 mins) When the spaceships begin arriving we see a police officer on a horse. He turns [...]
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MCAS El Toro is shown in the movie in the middle of the desert. MCAS El Toro, which has since been [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) In the Israeli/Arab scene, the officer is heard talking about elements still [...]
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The missile launched by the B-2 is made-up. The nuclear missiles carried by the B-2 are powered by [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) The message purporting to be Morse code was gibberish. Additionally, the Mor [...]
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(at around 1h 27 mins) Captain Hiller "steals" a UH-1 helicopter to go rescue Jasmine. The distance [...]
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A piece of wreckage at Area 51 bears the shield of the Air Force's Air Combat Command. Area 51 is l [...]
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(at around 34 mins) When Steven returns to the base, some of the other guys are watching the news o [...]
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(at around 25 mins) When Steven Hiller goes out to get the paper, the paper has a string around it [...]
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(at around 26 mins) When David and Marty are discussing David's discovery that the signal is a coun [...]
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(at around 25 mins) When Steven walks across the lawn to get the newspaper, a few feet away from th [...]
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(at around 2h) Supposedly, the people at Area 51 are safe because they are "deep inside a mountain, [...]
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(at around 30 mins) When Capt. Hiller is hugging Jasmine goodbye, at one point his left epaulet is [...]
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(at around 2h 10 mins) Captain Steve Hiller never wears a sun glass when he takes the alien ship, b [...]
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(at around 1h 1 min) When Captain Hiller ejects from the F/A-18 he is clearly strapped into his sea [...]
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(at around 42 mins) When the White House is being evacuated, in the shot from behind as Connie rush [...]
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(at around 47 mins) The firewall that destroys Washington DC is all wrong. When the destroyer blows [...]
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While David is talking to his wife, he holds the Johnny Walker bottle in his hand, then it is sudde [...]
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(at around 10 mins) As we hear the biplane's engine closing in on Miguel Casse, as he rides the mot [...]
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(at around 2h 5 mins) When Russell Casse is flying a fighter plane as "Eagle 20", he launches his n [...]
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(at around 36 mins) At the club, in Jasmine's dressing room, there are either two nail polish remov [...]
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The amount of booze in David's bottle changes when he's drunk and trashing everything.
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(at around 1h 22 mins) [special edition only] When Dr. Okun and David are inside of the alien ship, [...]
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(at around 2 mins) In the opening shots, the Earth is shown in the background of the alien mother s [...]
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(at around 13 mins) The Commander walks into the Oval Office to tell the President that the object [...]
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(at around 1h 24 mins) At Area 51, the soldier shoots the alien at point blank range, and two shots [...]
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Major Mitchell is asked to shoot the Coke can from the alien aircraft, [...]
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(at around 16 mins) Aboard the AWAC, after the pilot sees the fireball emerging from the clouds, th [...]
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(at around 1h 5 mins) When the National Security Advisor suggests a nuclear attack on the aliens wh [...]
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(at around 42 mins) When the helicopter is sending the welcome message, the aliens destroy it with [...]
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(at around 44 mins) When Marty honks his car horn while trying to escape, the "honk honk" does not [...]
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(at around 1h 30 mins) After their daughter leaves the room, when the President tries to lie to the [...]
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(at around 47 mins) The same blond man runs from exploding buildings in New York and Los Angeles. ( [...]
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(at around 2h) When Russell boards the F/A-18, he places the photo of his kids beside the left DDI [...]
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(at around 5 mins) Near the beginning, when Whitmore is in bed talking to his wife on the phone, he [...]
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El Toro base is shown being at the end of a long desert road. El Toro is in the middle of completel [...]
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(at around 46 mins) When Levinson opens his laptop to watch the last few second count down, it can [...]
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Sky News anchor George Putnam refers to Russia as "The Russian Republic", but the country's name is [...]
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When piloting his F-18, Russell is shown without gloves at times, and with them in others.
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(at around 2 mins) The opening scene in which the mothership passes the moon heading toward earth, [...]
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The opening scene shows the Earth as if you were standing on the Moon, but Earth is not to scale. [...]
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(at around 31 mins) When the First Lady is at the hotel and on her cell phone you can see bright su [...]
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(at around 13 mins) The submarine is listed as the U.S.S. Georgia, which is an Ohio class fleet bal [...]
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Captain Hiller has facial hair growing below his lower lip. This would violate Marine regulations. [...]
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(at around 14 mins) [special edition only] At Compact Cable, when David takes the bowl out of the m [...]
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(at around 31 mins) When David shows up at his father's house before they leave NYC his father answ [...]
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(at around 12 mins) When the President is being briefed for the first time about the arriving vesse [...]
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The instrument panels in the cockpits, namely Captain Hiller's (Will Smith) are not accurate. The e [...]
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(Widescreen Only) When Tiffany joins the other alien believers on the rooftop, she brushes by a bru [...]
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Various mistakes regarding the correct time of day: The sun is rising in Washington DC after a scen [...]
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(at around 20 mins) When the ships enter Earth's atmosphere, one ship is seen entering above the Ca [...]
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(at around 1h 35 mins) When Major Mitchell is asked to shoot the Coke can from the alien aircraft, [...]
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During the medical procedure on the alien Dr. Okun and a some of the attending staff are not wearin [...]
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(at around 14 mins) The collar devices worn by the Commander of the USS Georgia are the size used o [...]
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(at around 1 min) In the beginning, the ship casts its shadow on the Moon in a way that would place [...]
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(at around 20 mins) When one of the alien ships fly over Los Angeles, you can see the shade of the [...]
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(at around 30 mins) When Hiller is saying goodbye to Jasmine in the front garden, there is strong s [...]
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(at around 1h 26 mins) At the end of the scene, when Connie tells David that she has never stopped [...]
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(at around 2h 5 mins) When Russell boards the F/A-18 and when he is airborne - such as when he salu [...]
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(at around 26 mins) On the television screen that has a map of where all the ships have landed in t [...]
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(at around 21 mins) As an alien ship approaches Washington D.C. we see its shadow first encounter t [...]
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(at around 2h) On earth, when Hiller tries to fly the alien fighter the first time, he pushes the s [...]
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(at around 10 mins) Farmer Lucas complains to Miguel Casse that his crop is failing because Russell [...]
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(at around 56 mins) During the original attack on the ships by the F-18s, they shoot missiles at it [...]
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(at around 25 mins) Although it's supposed to be July 2, Steve's morning newspaper is clearly dated [...]
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(at around 1h 27 mins) Captain Hiller is an F-18 pilot. Yet in the scene after the alien attacks ha [...]
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(at around 1h 35 mins) After Major Mitchell is asked get a gun to shoot the Coke can, in shots faci [...]
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(at around 1h 55 mins) When Hiller and Levinson are inside the mother ship, attempting to upload th [...]
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(at around 1 min) The United States flag placed on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is no [...]
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(at around 7 mins) The Levinsons are ostensibly playing chess in a New York City park, but the view [...]
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When David is talking to Connie (about having something special) he pours booze into his glass. Whe [...]
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US Space Command is headquartered at NORAD, is an Air Force posting, and is run by the commander of [...]
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(at around 2h 10 mins) They only had 30 seconds to not only escape the mothership, but also to reac [...]
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(at around 3 mins) In the second sequence of the film, a black man is sitting on a counter and cont [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) Since the small alien craft was designed for a multi-tentacled being, trying [...]
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Dr. Okun has explained that the Aliens are just as susceptible to injury and death by physical impa [...]
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The Roswell Crash Wreckage was taken to Wright Patterson Airforce Base, not Area 51, however, as an [...]
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(at around 1h 7 mins) Hiller says to the unconscious alien he's dragging through the desert on July [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) While being briefed about the nuclear weapon fitted onto the repaired alien [...]
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(at around 2h 10 mins) In a scene at the end, Hiller and Levinson are seen walking away from the cr [...]
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(at around 16 mins) On the AWAC, in the close-up of the pilots' hands at the console, they are wear [...]
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(at around 1h 1 min) In the crash of Hillard's F/A-18, notice that the radome, canopy and cockpit a [...]
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(at around 1h 35 mins) After David makes a mess in the Area 51 alien attacker's hangar, when he is [...]
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The film essentially ends with the understanding that the aliens have been completely destroyed and [...]
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(at around 21 mins) When the large ships hover over a city, they cast a shadow of a certain darknes [...]
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(at around 29 mins) Jasmine opens her curtains to look at a spaceship from inside her house. We see [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) When Steve gives David the cigar his fingers change from being held together [...]
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The Area 51 scientists take Hiller's alien into surgery. No reason is given for this, as they have [...]
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(at around 33 mins) Miguel tells his younger brother to "Pack up, we're leaving," without moving hi [...]
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(at around 46 mins) The "Air Force One" shown in the film is not the plane the President would have [...]
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(at around 46 mins) After the US Bank Tower Explosion the amount of debris changes in between shots [...]
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(at around 16 mins) During the interior scene of the supposed AWACS, the flight engineer panel show [...]
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(at around 21 mins) When the President holds his frightened daughter, in the shot after the alien c [...]
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The big electronic map which shows where the alien ships are has one circle over the south suburbs [...]
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(at around 2h) Near the end of the film as the shields come down, the jets start firing missiles at [...]
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