Revealing mistake: The huge UFO opens its door and a brilliant light comes out, but from the opposite angle, the reflection on the people's glasses is a black landscape and a tiny spot of light.
Sacha
29th Sep 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
21st Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: When the movie ends and the Hakwmen say thanks, watch for the people on the far left: they become greenish transparent because of the blue screen.
21st Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: While Dale and Zarkov fly to Arboria against a blue screened backdrop they become transparent.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the plane lands against the snowy mountain, no parts fly all over and no snow shatters at all, revealing the composite trick.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: At the bar Indy has swords thrown at him. The string to make them fly is visible attached to the sword on the left side. Also, the swords disappear in the next angle.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When leaning against the mountain, in the wide shot Short's face turns totally black, Willie becomes semi-transparent, and Indy's chest becomes greyish colour, all because of the blue-screen effects.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the yellow raft slides down the snow, in the close-ups it turns white because of the blue-screen effect.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the rickshaw crashes, neither the driver nor the girl move at all. Instead the sailor stands up by his own means and jumps, which is a really bad stunt.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Willie and Short escape the jet of water and Indy climbs the mountain alone, the river below is totally still (impossible because of the huge amount of water that's falling on it), revealing it's a still image.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: After Indy drinks the antidote, many of the chase-scenes are obviously sped up, watch the way the actors move.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Flash takes a beating after saving Dale, all the kicks he receives are very poorly performed, most of them never reaching his body.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: When the spaceship flies, Zarkov keeps warning about the g-force and Dale and himself suffer it, yet when he tells Flash to step on a pedal, Flash manages to lift his foot and do everything effortlessly, g-force magically gone.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: Flash flies on the Cosmo-mobile and half of it becomes transparent due to the blue screen behind.
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: In the plane, when the eclipse occurs, the inside of the plane including Flash and Dale's faces turns to a bright fakish red; an impossible situation that gives away the lighting filter used to dramatize the eclipse effect.
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: When the movie starts, hot hail starts to fall, but in the close-ups it just falls on a tiny area on the ground, in the rest of the wide angles the hail is gone, it neither falls nor is seen on the ground.
2nd Sep 2010
The Joneses (2009)
Revealing mistake: When Larry floats drowned in the pool, his face remains motionless until the very last second, when he starts to chuckle: probably a flaw of the actor straining for the last bit of air.
21st Aug 2010
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Revealing mistake: Joan gets splashed by Jack's water skis and goes inside the boat to watch a picture of the two of them on a tropical beach. The picture is blatantly fake: Jack's legs become invisible at one point, his skin looks wiggly were it's been pasted and no shadows match at all.
21st Aug 2010
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Revealing mistake: Jack is on a platform next to the burning stage. In the close-ups it's Michael Douglas, but in the wide angles it is a skinny stuntman with light hair who looks nothing like him. (01:34:10)
21st Aug 2010
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Revealing mistake: Inside the train, a couple of the musicians can't help staring at the camera.
30th Jul 2010
Knight & Day (2010)
Revealing mistake: Inside the tunnel, Roy is on the car's hood, with the car swerving all the time. When the angle changes to a POV of the baddies he doesn't move, as if he was glued to the roof, revealing the security trick.
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