Continuity mistake: The movie starts with a guy playing a gong, holding its hammer from the lower part. A frame later his upper hand is holding the hammer from a much higher position.
Sacha
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: While hanging from the bridge, when the Thuggee flies down, Indy is sometimes in a higher or lower place, depending on the shot.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The dozens of balloons next to the gong base suddenly disappear when it falls down.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Short starts to jump on the bridge, the part where he's standing is in the shadows, while the rest is on the sunny side. When he falls through the hole, the whole bridge is shadowy.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Before Mola Ram hides through a trap door on the floor, his hat is off except for a very brief moment when it's on.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the fight on the conveyor belt in the mine, the buckets and huge rock used to defeat the bearded giant keep changing positions all the time.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the rickshaw crashes, the sailor jumps out. One second later, from a different angle, he is inside the rickshaw jumping out again.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Short is in the mine pretending to hammer some rocks and a guard whips at him. Short's fringe style is different depending on which angle focuses.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: After the Indians fire arrows at the bridge, Willie and Short step repeatedly on Mula's hands. The position of his hands changes from spread apart to close together from one frame to the other with no movement in between at all.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: At the bar, Indy punches the cigarette seller and packs fly all over the place. Half a second later the floor is spotless.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indy is in agony surrounded by candles, the three next to his feet change positions between shots.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the mine, while Short punches the Maharaja, the Thuggee smashes a rock against Indy's head, turning it to the right side. A frame later, from a wider angle, Indy is turning his head to the opposite side.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the village, Willie grabs food with her hand and puts it inside her mouth. From the angle behind, the arm and hand are not raised and close to the mouth.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the raft, Willie's hair changes from soaking wet to dry and fluffy right after saying, "I hate you!"
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: During dinner, after the British soldier dips his finger in the cup, Indy's position swaps between frames from looking straight with his right hand raised, to looking to the left side with his hand lowered.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the three are leaning on the mountain with the jet of water, Short's arms are spread apart in the wide angle, but close to his body in the immediate close-up, a frame later.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indy threatens Willie with a fork on her ribs, in the wide angles her arm is down, but in the close-ups it's up to allow for the fork to be seen. This keeps swapping back and forth, with no continuity at all.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the village, the three are surrounded by a huge crowd, yet when Short goes for a walk, half a second later, there's barely a dozen people in front of Indy and Willie. Then it cuts back to the previous wide angle and the huge crowd reappears.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Indy's raft lands on the water, and he is ducking but rises up and rows with his hands for a couple of seconds. Then a frame later he is still ducking and rises up again.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the pilots jump off the plane the flowers on Willie's hair swap positions for a brief moment.
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