Visible crew/equipment: When Flash is attacked by the alien he falls on a noticeable brown safety mat.
Sacha
11th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: Zarkov tells Dale to press the button to launch the shuttle, and Flash leaves the place with a big cloud of smoke behind. Half a second later, from a different angle, the smoke is gone.
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Factual error: A meteorite zooming through the atmosphere would crash on the ground at a high speed and with a really high temperature, not like a cardboard orange-painted ball thrown from a couple meters away, as it happens in the movie.
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Flash's plane lands in Zarkov's lab the amount of leaves on the windshield increase dramatically between one frame and the other.
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the meteorite falls on Munson's bed the glasses and papers on the blankets keep changing positions between angles.
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.
8th Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see Flash waiting to ride in the plane he has no sports bag next to him, but the next shot he does, and in the wide outside angles of his car the bag is nowhere to be seen.
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.
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