Revealing mistake: When Indy is put inside a cage Short Round comes to hug him. There's a shot of Indy from behind and he is a noticeable stand-in: Thinner face, clean hair, no sweat, and clean shaven instead of stubble.
Sacha
26th Aug 2019
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
23rd Aug 2019
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: After the man is burnt in the lava pit, Indy says the word 'diamonds'. Willy comes closer and then turns her head to the right. When the shot changes she's facing straight.
13th Jul 2019
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the mine cart, after Willie cries "Hurry" there's an aerial shot of the cart and Short Round has vanished.
13th Jul 2019
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indy is stopping the mine cart with his foot Willie's hand is on top of Indy's or not depending on the shot. This swaps back and forth.
22nd Nov 2018
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indy falls inside the mine cart, the protruding log disappears. A shot later it reappears, but when Indy hits the railroad switch with the shovel it disappears again.
11th Oct 2017
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Audio problem: Indie lifts Willie from the lava pit, she is semi unconscious. She slaps him weakly but instead a loud and strong punch is heard.
16th Feb 2017
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: On the ladder, when Mola Ram tries to grab Indy's heart, Mola's hands and Indy's chest are very sweaty and dirty in the close-ups, but dry and quite clean in the wide angles.
23rd Jan 2017
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Factual error: After Willie and Shorty step on mola Ram's hands and make him fall off the bridge, a jet airplane is seen on the right side.
6th Nov 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: On the bridge, when Indy threatens the Thugees to drop the bag, they're a couple meters away from his back, but in the next angle they're further away.
12th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Short Round breaks the Maharaja's spell, the blood on the side of his mouth swaps from a thick strand to a thin one between shots.
12th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: After Indy escapes from the conveyor belt, he runs on some suspended planks while being shot at. Watch the planks: There's black masking tape where the explosives are (which disappear in later shots). Furthermore, right before he takes out his whip, he grabs a railing where the bullet has just hit, and you can see that the black tape is dangling loose after the spark.
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Mola Ram falls off the bridge-ladder when a step breaks in two, but from the immediate wide angle it just moves slightly out of place. Furthermore, in the next angles the step is perfectly fixed.
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Right when Indy cuts the bridge and it dangles loose towards the rocky wall, notice that Willie is above Shorty, both in an X position (very likely replaced with dolls). In the close-up of the real actors, both are very close parallel to each other.
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Willie crosses the bridge, right when Indy threatens to drop the bag, her hair style changes completely.
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: During the mine chase, after Indy cries to Shorty "Let it go, our only chance!" the wig of the doll replacing Willie flies away. (01:35:59)
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the thug jumps on Indy's mine cart, Indy's hat gets loose, but in the following shot it's perfectly tucked in.
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Shorty is saved from the thugs' mine cart, a baddie jumps from an elevated cart situated on the right side, but when the angle changes he is coming from the left side. Also, Indy is looking sideways instead of upwards, as if the bad guy was parallel to him.
11th Oct 2016
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Audio problem: In the mine chase scene, when both carts are parallel to each other, Indy punches a thug. A frame later, from a different POV, two quick punches are heard, but no one is punching anybody.
6th Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indy throws a flaming skewer at the Chinese guy, the right side of his scarf runs down to his waist, yet in the close-up it's shorter and stops by the ribs, check out the black lettering embroidered on it.
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