Revealing mistake: When Ming dies, one can see his real left eyebrow. The makeup covering it is missing.
Sacha
24th Apr 2024
Flash Gordon (1980)
24th Apr 2024
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: Zarkov's rocket blasts through the greenhouse ceiling, but doesn't burn or scorch a single millimeter of the place.
5th Sep 2011
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Flash and Vultan are watching the battle, Flash is on his bike with moving hair and all, but the distance to the shuttle never decreases, revealing he's really not moving. (01:27:35)
5th Sep 2011
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: Flash is inside his car reading when hot hail starts to fall in front of the camera. Problem is, the shot is from inside the car, which is absurd.
21st Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: When the movie ends and the Hakwmen say thanks, watch for the people on the far left: they become greenish transparent because of the blue screen.
21st Sep 2010
Flash Gordon (1980)
Revealing mistake: While Dale and Zarkov fly to Arboria against a blue screened backdrop they become transparent.
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)
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.
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)
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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