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Dogma (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: After Rufus falls to earth, when he is reading the Aramaic to Bethany, he concludes by pointing out Jesus' name Left-to-Right while Aramaic is read Right-to-Left.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bethany is at Mass, the priest says, following the homily, "Let us now rise for the recession of faith." The correct wording is "Let us rise for the PROFESSION of faith," which is then followed by the recital of the Apostles' Creed. This was most likely done to satirize and/or draw attention to the idea that people's faith had faltered at the time the film takes place (hence "recession").
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the church massacre, Bartelby tears his shirt to reveal the metal chest plate. In the next shot when he yells at Loki the shirt is shown with no tears in it.
  
  

• Continuity: At the end of the movie where Bartleby gets his wings shot off by Jay, just afterwards you see him brush two feathers out of his hair. Then they cut to Jay again, and when they go back to Bartleby you see him brushing two feathers out of his hair as he stands up.
  
  
• Continuity: Rufus disappears briefly during confrontation on the train.
  
  
• Continuity: When Silent Bob sprays the Golgothen, his finger holding the button switches to his thumb then back to his finger when the camera angle switches.
  
  
• Continuity: The puddle in front of Bethany's car keys after the Stygian Triplets knock her down appears and disappears in between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A wooden board is seen being moved against the doors in the board room to prevent them from swinging open, just before the blood is splashed on them.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bartleby is holding Serendipity by the throat the metallic object that holds his wings in place is revealed.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflection of camera and dolly operators visible in the "Wisconsin Winter Magic" poster on the airport (right after Bartleby and Loki passed the Cheesehead Country guy).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bartleby turns around to confront Jay, Bartleby props his wings up, and the mechanics can be seen by his right shoulder.
  
  
• Continuity: When Metatron wakes Bethany the phone on her nightstand moves from scene to scene.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Mooby headquarters, the glass that covers some of the posters (the Surly Duck poster in particular) is seen in some shots, but removed in others. (This was done to prevent reflections of the crew from being seen.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Rufus falls to Earth, both of his feet are facing the same way. In the next shot, both his feet are facing inward.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A rubber hand can be seen next to the fallen Loki after Bartleby stabs him.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Bartleby kills Loki, the body Loki is lying next to is a mannequin.
  
  
• Continuity: In the boardroom scene, Loki is carving the voodoo doll, and just before Bartelby stands up, the head falls off of the doll. However, the dolls head is back on when Loki places it on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Wisconsin airport, the same couple walks behind Loki and Bartleby twice in the same direction.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Wisconsin airport, when Loki steps over the seats to sit next to Bartleby he steps over with his left leg first in one shot and in the next shot he is stepping over with his right leg first.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Metatron walks across the water you can see a dark platform in the water where he is walking.
  
  
• Continuity: Changing shadows and sunlight throughout the movie, especially when Rufus falls to Earth and at the St Michaels church.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of Rufus' "Egg A Mooby Muffin" changes inconsistently between shots when he, Bethany, Jay and Silent Bob are eating breakfast.
  
  
• Continuity: When Azrael is holding Rufus, Bethany, Jay, Silent Bob and Serendipity hostage, Jay's positioning in the chair changes between shots. In several shots Jay is clearly seen sleeping, while in others he is looking at Azrael.
  
  
• Continuity: When Loki shoves Bethany down into the row of chairs outside the church, her hair comes out of the barrette on her right side. In the next shot (and after that) it's neatly back in place.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The cables lowering down the "flying" Bartleby in front of the church near the end of the movie are clearly visible.
  
  
• Factual errors: "Seraphim" is actually the plural form of "seraph".
  
  
• Continuity: In the airport, Bartleby reveals an envelope with an address written on it. When he draws it, the envelope is facing away from him, at the camera. In the next shot, the address is facing Bartleby.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the disclaimers at the beginning of the film, the word "judgment" is spelled "judgement". This is the UK English spelling of the word and is the spelling found in the King James Bible - it was clearly used for effect.
  
  
• Continuity: When Metatron first visits Bethany in her room it is clearly nighttime. Shortly after she turns on her lamp and stands next to her window, there are obvious times when the light is clearly coming from outside and others when it again appears to be dark outside again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Loki and Bartleby talk in the bus, the bus's interior lights are on. But, when Loki exacts vengeance on the passenger in front of them, the bus's interior lights are off.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The gun that Loki uses appears to be a Desert Eagle .50 caliber, however, every time he shoots it, it emits little more than a "pop" similar to perhaps a .22 or maybe a .38. A Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol emits a very distinctive "boom" much closer to that of a shotgun.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Silent Bob is placing the dead body of Bethany down in front of God outside the church, Bethany's hand clearly moves as Bob sets her down.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jay wrecks Bethany's car and in the following scene when Bartleby and Loki are on the bus, it is dark/night, but when the movie cuts back to Jay, Silent Bob and Bethany (presumably immediately afterward since the car is still steaming), it's light out.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When God is preparing to clean up the mess made by Bartleby at the end of the movie, the call letters on the news van behind her read "KREL". A TV or radio station in New Jersey would have call letters starting with a W. "K" is reserved for stations west of the Mississippi River.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the camera zooms in on God about to clean up the mess outside the church you can see dead Loki's right leg moving in the lower right corner.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Catholic concept of a Plenary Indulgence is incorrectly described. When Bartleby describes the Plenary Indulgence offered upon passing through the doorway of the Cathedral during Cardinal Glick's rededication ceremony, he states that by passing through the doorway "all their sins will be forgiven." Additionally, Grant Hicks describes plenary indulgence as a "clean slate." However, an indulgence is not the forgiveness of sins, it is the removal of the need for temporal punishment for sins that have already been forgiven through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, i.e. confession and absolution by a priest. The indulgence allows the removal of the need for punishment through penance in the current life, or through Purgatory in the world to come.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bartleby is holding Bethany at knifepoint near the end of the movie, he says he has been dealing with the pain of being cast aside for "A millennia". "Millennia" is the plural of "millennium".
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the movie it is stated that, as a result of Loki's actions, all angels were forbidden to imbibe alcohol. Toward the end of the movie it is verified that even Loki (and Bartleby) are still subject to that decree despite their banishment, based on Serendipity's comment about Loki's drunken state and it revealing he'd transubstantiated to human form. However, when Bartleby and Bethany are on the train talking, several EMPTY beer bottles are sitting on Bartleby's side of the table, while it is evident that Bethany's doing shots, not drinking beer. Bartleby couldn't have drank the beer due to the decree, but the spitting out of the beer (similar to the Metatron's tequila-spitting at the beginning of the movie) would have been a dead giveaway to Bethany of Bartleby's angelic nature. No containers are shown holding spit-out beer, so where did the beer go?
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bartleby mentions all the Mooby establishments and merchandise in front of the Mooby Inc board, he and the board never mention the fast-food restaurant seen earlier in the movie.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: As God prepares to clean up the mess made by Loki and Bartleby, she is standing next to the murdered Loki. Just as the camera zooms in to a close-up, you can see the body's right foot move, as if to get up
  
  

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