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Continuity mistake: Russell Crowe is dunked head and torso in a pool, immediately gives chase to Blueface, but he's basically dry when reaches Holly. Later in the movie it's even worse, since Ryan Gosling has a near-death experience falling in a pool, but he runs as normal, only slightly moist in the hair (and even pulls out a cigarette and lights it later by the time the cops arrive).

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Continuity mistake: John Boy draws the knife and makes his generous 'offer'. Cuts back to the Nice Guys who are driving fast; the Mercedes, as dirty as it is, is still perfectly intact with both sets of headlights working and the hood ornament. The front section was damaged when March fell asleep at the wheel earlier, and the car is again damaged when they pull over in the driveway. (01:24:10)

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Continuity mistake: Jessica is on the phone and asks the person on the line "Richard something? Yeah." Holly in the background just puts her hand one one of the nearest cards, but at the cut she's moving her hand back from the top of one of her solitaire lines. (01:22:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Russell Crowe says in front of the hotel "She's meeting somebody", the steering wheel is turned in a different way than you see later as he turns the wheel straight. (01:07:40)

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Revealing mistake: Jackson is fighting with the older guy at the party. In their struggle, the gun fires once. Ryan Gosling turns around at the appropriate time, but half the extras react to the supposed noise a second late, some don't even do that. (00:48:00)

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Continuity mistake: March realises he's sitting next to Robert Downey Jr. with a fake beard and quite dead. Notice his necklace, worn above the tanktop. In the rest of the scene the chain is above or below the shirt, randomly. (00:44:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Chet tells March "make a left here", he's pointing with his left hand. In the next shot his left arm is in a different position and he's pointing with his right hand. Moments later when he points at the house he lowers his arm but he's again pointing in the next shot that shows it is burnt down, and again even more blatantly after a close-up where his arm is all the way down. (00:29:20)

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Continuity mistake: The two protagonists struck a deal to cooperate. Jackson is saying aloud the caption of a photo from a newspaper, holding it by the length while they walk in a longshot. At the cut he's holding the newspaper by the shorter side, and back to the longer side when they get back to the wider angle. (00:26:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Haley asks "Why not go straight to the police", Amelia has just a bit of her hair in front of her left shoulder, a greater portion of it in the next shot. (01:14:55)

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Continuity mistake: When the older dude tells the protagonists "They can't talk to you, man, they're dead", his pen points down in the wide shot, up in the close-up. (00:28:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Glenn shouts at March for cussing, she points at him with her left hand. Next shot and she's pointing with the right. (01:31:10)

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Continuity mistake: When March says "Tally! Oh my God, you look incredible", he opens his arms, which are still firmly down his sides in the next shot. (01:34:55)

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Other mistake: The Nice Guys have just dropped the disfigured body onto the fancy dinner table of someone. They run away, but before the camera cuts away you can see Ryan Gosling is trying hard not to laugh. (00:47:15)

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Factual error: During the scene with Amelia in Holly's bedroom, on the wall you can see the iconic photo on the cover of the "London Calling" album by The Clash. It's a photo with the bassist smashing the guitar onstage at the Palladium September 20, 1979, almost two years after the movie supposedly takes place. But there's also a Blondie poster on the right of the bed which, while based in fact on a shot from 1976, is a modern cheap styling in pink leopard print widely, marketed on the internet today but that is not appropriate to the time period. (01:14:00)

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Factual error: To show how March was plenty wrong in his deduction about airport traffic, a big plane flies above his head. The plane has the trademark modern South West bright blue livery, but in 1977 it would have the Desert Gold colors. Or no colors at all, since South West didn't serve Los Angeles until 1982. (01:07:20)

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Factual error: March is already wasted at the party, and tells the barman that "it's the killer bees." In the background as he says those lines (and even better when the dancer gets on her knees) you can see a bottle with half its label torn. That's because you can still make out from the bottom (and the shape of the bottle) that it's a bottle of the premium variety of Beefeater gin, Beefeater 24, which was launched only in October 2008, a good three decades after the supposed year of the movie. (00:38:20)

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Factual error: Holland and Jackson drive in 1977 from the protest to the next hint to Amelia's whereabouts, passing through the Chinatown Gateway Monument, which was built in 2001. (00:29:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the Nice Guys in the ending mention Lynda Carter, they are holding their smokes in entirely different ways between shot and reverse. (01:50:25)

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Continuity mistake: When at the end of the movie Kim Basinger sits with the Nice Guys (well, back-to-back with them, kinda), March is already wearing the sunglasses that he puts on when she says "Boys, boys." (01:47:15)

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Continuity mistake: John Boy throws his jacket in the street, but in the brief shot where Jackson tackles him he's still wearing it. (01:44:55)

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