Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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)

Sacha

21st Aug 2010

Jewel of the Nile (1985)

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.

Sacha

23rd Jun 2010

Mary Poppins (1964)

Revealing mistake: After the credits all the smoke coming out of the chimneys remains still, revealing it's a painted set.

Sacha

23rd Jun 2010

Mary Poppins (1964)

Revealing mistake: Mary takes a huge mirror out of her bag and the kids stare in awe. Problem is that Michael's view points in a different direction, giving away that they were looking at the void and Mary was a superimposed image to achieve the effect.

Sacha

13th Jun 2010

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Revealing mistake: When the kids are playing around with the plane and make it move along the grass field, tracks from previous takes are visible in front of the plane. When the angle changes the tracks are gone.

Sacha

13th Jun 2010

Speed (1994)

Revealing mistake: The whole structure surrounding the elevator appears shiny and spotless, with the wires lacking a single spot of grease, revealing it's a set. (00:04:25)

Sacha

29th May 2010

Splash (1984)

Revealing mistake: When Allen is in the park and drives backwards to avoid the MPs, there's a closeup where the pigeons fly backwards, revealing the angle is the previous one with the birds taking off but played backwards.

Sacha

29th May 2010

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Revealing mistake: When the Lion runs out of the Wizard's room, the group disappears because it is an obvious backdrop.

Sacha

27th May 2010

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Revealing mistake: When Dorothy's bedroom is flying away to Oz, there's wind blowing everywhere and bits of hay falling. However, the hay is coming from inside the room, instead of outside, and the papers on the table next to the window don't blow away nor move an inch.

Sacha

26th May 2010

Lost (2004)

The End (1) - S6-E17

Revealing mistake: When Desmond moves the rock, Smoke-Locke and Jack fight outside the cave while an earthquake shatters everything. Watch the leaves around and you'll notice that they don't move at all, giving away the camera effect. This also happens later on when Hugo, Ben and Jack are about to fix the cave of light.

Sacha

25th May 2010

Splash (1984)

Splash mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When Hanks drives through the city escaping form the MPs, the guy driving is a very obvious stuntman.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When Indy's car is about to crash against Mac's, there's a wide angle where the car is seen totally black inside, revealing it's empty.

Sacha

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