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20. Fallout 3 Is In The Movie (But Wasn't Released Until 2008)

As much as David Fincher has a sure eye for detail, even he wasn't able to prevent a few factual errors slipping through the cracks, largely pertaining to things appearing in the movie which didn't actually exist in 2003.

Any gamers watching should keep their eyes peeled for a blatant mistake during the early Facemash montage sequence, where a Harvard student can be briefly seen playing the video game Fallout 3.

Except, as even a fairly casual gamer would know, Fallout 3 wasn't released until five years later in 2008.

Elsewhere there are other noticeable anachronisms, such as Dennis de Laat's 2008 song "The Sound Of Violence" being played during the main nightclub scene, while the "@harvard.edu" e-mail address Mark (Jesse Eisenberg) uses wasn't actually instituted until a few years later - in 2003 it was actually "@fas.harvard.edu."

Nitpicks? Perhaps, but such are the issues involved in making any period movie, especially one set in such relatively recent times.