Continuity mistake: After Joan and Jack jump out of the car in the waterfall, Jack exits the water, stands on a rock, and waves at Joan. When the angle changes he is coming out again, repeating all the movements.
Sacha
31st Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
31st Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Jack and Joan's Renault takes a nose-dive in the river, Elaine's hair is dry and fluffy in the angles shot from behind, but drenched in water in the ones shot from the front.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: After zooming through the cornfield in the SUV, the windshield swaps from dry and clean to covered in water between frames.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: Joan asks the bus driver where her blue suitcase is and takes her left hand to brush her hair. When the angle changes, the hand is down holding her bag firmly.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the people step off the crashed bus, depending on the shot they're either outside the bus or coming out again. Furthermore, once outside, their positions change randomly depending on the shot.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Joan's bus crashes, the film editing becomes chaotic: suitcases on the roof fall in one shot, then remain in place on the other; the stuff on the ground keeps appearing/disappearing randomly, and Joan's blue suitcase swaps from laying horizontally to diagonally.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Joan's bus crashes, the parrot on the jeep keeps changing positions in every single shot.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the bus crashes, the sign on its roof falls, yet when the angle changes it's back on its place.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Joan is about to get in the bus at the airport, there's a man in a red shirt walking from right to left who can't help staring at the camera and grinning all the time. (00:19:25)
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Character mistake: The map has the word Corazon missing the accent: "Corazón". This is so basic grammar that maybe it was done on purpose.
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Joan arrives at Cartagena, Ralph exits his car and asks a guy if the plane has landed. In the first shot there's a huge crowd surrounding him, a frame later the place is empty. (00:19:20)
26th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Audio problem: When the military asks Jack where the heart is, after he replies it's in a safe place, another guard uses his rifle to hit him in the groin - the hit is clearly fake.
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