Continuity mistake: The crater Indy's car falls into becomes bigger and way deeper between the first and second shot.
Sacha
31st Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
29th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the temple collapses, Indy is holding the idol with his right hand against his chest, and the left hand free and arm extended. A frame later, both arms are extended and holding the idol.
29th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: The distance between Indy's boat and the big red and white ship keeps increasing and decreasing randomly.
29th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the catacombs, Indy finds the tomb and blows dust away from the shield, cleaning the sides of the engraved cross, but leaving the rest very dusty. A frame later, the whole cross is spotless.
29th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: While the propeller chops the boat, Indy grabs Kazim and lifts him up saying, "This is your last chance." But from the opposite angle Kazim is still seated.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The amount of moss behind the idol increases between shots.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the temple collapses, Satipo is crouching looking at the chaos. Indy starts to run and there's a wide angle of the passage ahead but Satipo is nowhere around. He couldn't have managed to run that distance in half a second.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: After Indy replaces the idol for a bag filled with sand, the position of the bag changes between frames.
27th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: When young Indy discovers the thieves in the caves, the pot on the right swaps from laying horizontal on the ground to slanted and back to horizontal, depending on the angle.
27th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: Young Indy grabs the Coronado cross, but from the next angle his hand is away about to grab it, and also its position has changed.
27th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: When young Indy says, "Cortés gave away the cross in 1920.", the thief is holding it with both hands. A frame later he holds it with just one hand.
27th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Indy escapes out of his office through the window, there are no shadows around. Half a second later, from a different angle, two long shadows have appeared underneath the window.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Other mistake: During the truck scene, after the German officer hanging onto the door falls down and another guy crawls over the roof, palm trees are reflected on the windshield, but wide shots show not a single tree around because the palm trees area was left behind a while ago.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The 'Top Secret' sign is put on the crate across vertically laid planks. A shot later the sign appears slanted across horizontally laid planks. Though it could be argued that there could be a second sign on the opposite side with horizontal planks, when the warehouse guy turns left to store the crate, we get a glimpse of the left side and it's not painted.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: During the shooting at the bar, Marion covers her ears to muffle the sound, but a frame later they are around the wall in front.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: After the door to the Well of Souls is opened, Indy and Sallah take a sneak peek at the inside, immediately after, from a new angle, Indy sneaks in again.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Indy climbs on a plane's wing and a German officer arrives and asks him what's he doing, raising his left arm ordering him to approach. A frame later the arm is down.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: In the map room, after Indy has discovered where to put the stick in, the sun rays lights the head and shoulder of a painted figure and the whole body of the figure to the right of it. A frame later the first figure is now completely lit. Too fast a change.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: While Indy is in the Well of Souls, Belloq greets him and is standing by one of the four sides of the rectangular hole. A frame later he stands by one of the corners.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: From the outside, the sides of the hole to access the map room are in shadows, from the angle inside they are sunny.
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