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.
Sacha
23rd Aug 2019
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
3rd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The side of the mountain with the bridge is irregular with rough edges when seen in the wide angles, but smooth in the close-ups.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the mine cart, when Indy hits a tank with a shovel, the Thuggees behind raise their arms, yet a frame later, from a wider angle the arms are lowered.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Before the water tank falls, there's a shot on Mola Ram and his people next to it. Then there's a wide shot of the tank about to burst and the people running away from the area. Then the previous shot of Mola Ram standing calmly with his men by the tank is repeated, which makes no sense.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Mola Ram tells the Thugees to get to the huge cauldron, there's big clouds of smoke all around it, which disappear a frame later from a different angle.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the mine race, the cart behind Indy's flips over and is launched far away from the tracks, yet a frame later it's laying down right on the track for a second cart to crash against it.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indy throws a block of wood on the rails, it lays parallel, yet a frame later, from a different angle, it lays sideways.
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