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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

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• Crew or equipment visible: During the scene where Danny and Rusty are speaking with Roman in his kitchen, the camera, which is filming from outside the window, zooms in and can be seen in the window's reflection.
  
  
• Continuity: The aerial shot of Las Vegas out of Danny Oceans's aircraft shows a square window frame. However he and Rusty boarded a Gulfstream Jet, which has round windows.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the beginning of the movie, the Banks hotel appears as if it is being built next to the Venetian hotel (you can see the building wrap advertisement for Phantom in background). Once the casino has been built the final location is where the current Planet Hollywood casino sits across the street from the Bellagio.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Basher was "directing" the truck hauling the tunnel boring machine around the turn in the road, he was motioning for it to turn right (from the driver's perspective) when the truck was really turning left.
  
  
• Factual errors: The tunnel boring machines used to make the Chunnel were huge and took months to assemble. There is no way that one could be transported on the back of a single tractor trailer and put into service in a matter of hours (days). In fact there were 11 Tunnel Boring Machines in total. Some of the machines were dismantled and removed. Some were driven steeply downwards and buried clear of the tunnel.
  
  
• Continuity: No guardrail on first shot of heliport with Rusty, next shot has guardrail added.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Rusty explains to Saul about the "Soft Opening" of The Bank Hotel/Casino, Saul replies that when The Flamingo opened, it was open for good. The Flamingo actually opened in 1946 and had to close after only 2 weeks of operation to fix construction defects and finish the hotel.
  
  
• Continuity: Whenever the principals are at the airport, Gulfstream-class private jets await them. Gulfstream passenger cabins have distinctive oversize rounded "porthole" windows. Only such planes appear on the tarmac; however when there is a momentary in-flight clip showing the passenger's aerial view of the passing landscape below, the window is a small "sardine can" window of a typical commercial airliner. Clearly this was generic stock footage of "anyplane" flying over "anycity". When the highrollers are later disembarking, the windows become classic Gulfstream portholes again.
  
  
• Continuity: In Bank's office, where Rusty is claiming to be a seismologist warning Bank of potential seismic activity, Bank's glasses appear and disappear between shots of his face and over his right shoulder.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the airport scene at the end, Linus is holding a Southwest Airlines ticket jacket (and Southwest is highlighted earlier in the film). The gates shown are McCarran "D" gates. Southwest flies only out of the "B" and "C" gates. Also, the VUP is told that he might make "stand by" - another Southwest "familiarity".
  
  
• Factual errors: By 2006 slot machines--especially those at McCarran Airport--had gone coinless, accepting only paper money and dispensing barcoded vouchers that can either be inserted into another machine or redeemed for cash, thereby rendering the Susan B. Anthony con moot.
  
  
• Factual errors: Yen refers to bowling with the 'owner of Samsung' as his connection to being able to obtain the cell phone that Willy Bank covets. Samsung is a huge publicly traded company and does not have an owner.
  
  
• Continuity: Livingston Dell gets picked up by the FBI. Bank tells his guys to run Dell's prints and get info on his associates. When the image's are sent up to Bank's office, Virgil has the images altered and names changed while Bank is distracted. One of the faces altered is Livingston's, despite the fact that Bank already has his name and has seen his face.
  
  

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