Continuity mistake: Short tries to wake up brainwashed-Indy, who smacks him. Short falls on the floor and his hair becomes messy. A frame later it's neatly brushed.
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: Mola Ram throws a Thuggee down the bridge and Indy moves away. The angle cuts to a closer angle and Indy is in the previous position moving away again.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the pilot checks if Indy is asleep he holds the curtain with his thumb inside the cabin and fingers on the passenger part. From the opposite angle he holds it with the side of his hand, all fingers inside the cabin.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the mine, Indy fights against a bearded bad guy, who throws a hammer backwards that lands on a worker's head, knocking him out. The workers are very close together in the wide angle, then equidistant in the close-up when the hammer lands, and then together again in the wide angle. Also the worker that falls unconscious is standing straight a frame later.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the pilots are about to jump off the plane, they walk between Willie and Indy. Her head swaps from tilted to straight from frame to frame.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Short is hanging through a hole in the bridge, his shirt keeps changing back and forth from being motionless in the POV angles, to wildly flickering in the wide ones.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The jet of water comes out through a squared hole on the rocks, and seconds later comes through many other places, making the first hole much bigger, and making pieces of rock fall off. However, when Indy cries, "Let's meet up at the bridge!" there's an aerial shot of him climbing and the mountain has the very same perfect structure as before the jet of water burst.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the plane enters the greenhouse the cabin is empty. Then in the close-up Flash and Dale have appeared inside.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Ming walks in the room where Dale sleeps, her thigh swaps from covered to uncovered and the cushion moves around depending on the angle.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: After the meteorite on Munson's bed starts burning, his hand moves from down to up and is now holding a pen and paper, despite him being asleep. Also the cup on the table moves around between shots.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Flash greets the martians he's handed a gun which makes him crouch and twist to the left. When the angle changes he is now standing tall and his hand is at chest level instead of waist level.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Ming orders to send another charge against Sky City the sky swaps from sunny in the wide angles, to cloudy in the close-ups in barely half a second.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the laser scans Zarkov's jacket to destroy the gun inside, the arm disappears in the close-up angle.
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: The FX of the rainbow coloured dangerous void is missing before the fight starts, revealing a grey coloured, harmless set. (01:09:45)
13th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: Ming kicks a silver cup into the void. When it falls, the cup becomes green coloured.
12th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When lizard man is fried, the position of his tail keeps changing between angles.
12th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: After Barin stands up on the spiked ring his whip keeps changing positions depending on the angle.
12th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: While fighting against Barin, Flash's whip lies on the floor and keeps changing from rolled to straight between shots.
12th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Zarkov is waving a piece of cloth to signal Ming their position, Flash and Barin are standing behind, but disappear when Ming watches Zarkov on his screen, and reappear afterwards.
12th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: After Barin saves Flash from the Arborian beast Flash's shirt is clean, a frame later from a different angle it's covered in mud.
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