Continuity mistake: While hanging off the bridge, Indy's shirt keeps changing from light to dark, and from very dirty to slightly dirty all the time.
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: The raft arrives in a big place with no snow, yet from the opposite front angle there's snow all around.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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.
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