Continuity mistake: While Roadblock is first talking to his brother on the street, one shot shows a group of people walking up behind Roadblock. A couple of shots later, that group has suddenly vanished. (00:43:40)
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4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Cobra Commander asks, "How's our former president?" Zartan says "Worth his weight in platinum". As he does in the wide shot, he turns away from the Commander and faces the nuke. In the close up following that shot, he turns towards the nuke a second time. (00:40:25)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Warden James is giving "Snake Eyes" a tour of the prison as he is leading him to processing. They enter a room and James talks about the temperature: "kept to a crisp 68. Almost calls for a... a Snuggie". He is pointing to both the yellow tubes at the walls when saying the first sentence. But it cuts to a wide shot for the second sentence and suddenly his arms are at his side. (00:27:30)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: To escape the assault of attack helicopters, Flint, Jaye, and Roadblock jump down a well. it is night time, but the sky is bright orange from fire and explosions all around, even visible as Roadblock is falling down the well last. But when they surface from the water mere seconds later and look up, and there is only a lower blue light in the sky, where it was bright orange from fire moments earlier. (00:20:45)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Duke pushes Flint out of the way as a chopper hits the Hummer he is next to. Duke is engulfed in flames. As Roadblock is seeing this, there is smoke all around him so thick you cannot even see 2 feet past him. Then only a moment later as he begins to run, the smoke/sand is all gone and you can see he is next to a vehicle. (00:20:00)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Duke and Roadblock are having a contest to see who can shoot a cupcake at the end of a shooting range. In the shot from their perspective, there are some orangeish pink cross shaped targets mid range. The one on the far left is crooked and leaning sideways. But in shots from the cupcake's perspective, that same cross is standing straight up. (00:13:30)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: While after the first nuke, Flint pushes an enemy solder over a railing to plummet to his death. He falls face down, but in the next shot, he is falling face up. (00:11:15)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Question: When the revelation is made about how Storm Shadow was framed for the murder of Hard Master, did the leader then already know it was Zartan and made the accusations to coax a statement from Storm, or did they really not know yet? Then entire scene felt rushed, and like they figured out what happened and who did it too quickly.
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Question: Zartan asks the real president where the prison is where Cobra Commander and Destro are held. But didn't Zartan take the president's place at the end of the first movie, before those two were captured between films? So if that is something that would be told to the president, wouldn't Zartan already know? Or is this a major plot hole?
Chosen answer: Zartan is assuming the identity of the President. He doesn't have access to every single piece of information that the President knows. That's why the real President is kept alive in the case that Zartan needs information he doesn't know. Zartan can only do so much to look like and act like the President, but he has no idea about top secret information such as that. As for why Zartan would wait so long to free Cobra Commander and Destro, either that was part of Commander's plan, or Zartan has his reasons.
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: Jaye says, "We didn't. We did. Distinguished marksmen". As she does, Flint reaches towards her and Mouse is looking up at her. the next shot, Mouse is looking down. (00:08:10)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Duke and Roadblock are playing video games in Roadblock's house, Roadblock's kids come up and start messing with Duke. They knock Duke's headphones off and comment about his big ears. But then Duke stands up with them on his back and his headphones are on his head again. The next shot, they vanish. (00:05:20)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Continuity mistake: After Mouse snipes the cup from an enemy solder's hand to cause a diversion, Duke and Roadblock rush off and get into a fight with two other Asian solders. Roadblock pins one against a vehicle and pounds his face with his heat gloved hands. The solder's hat comes off, but in the next shot it is on again. (00:02:35)
4th Aug 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Factual error: In the beginning scene, Roadblock melts through the fence using some high tech gloves. The design and application of these gloves make no sense realistically. For one, the gloves are open fingered, thus causing great risk to Roadblock of even just a melted metal drip with a slight breeze. The intense heat, even if directed down towards the fence metal, would still be enough, if able to melt through metal in an instant, to burn his fingers as well, even from behind. It would be much safer, much easier, and much more practical to have the same type of device as an external stick or long object, or even an extension of a gun, keeping the hands out of harm's way. (00:01:50)
30th Jul 2013
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Continuity mistake: While Ganon has the King tied up, the rope is on the outside of the Unicorn's wing that he is sitting on. But once Link gets up on the level with him, the rope is suddenly behind the Unicorn's wing. (00:03:20)
30th Jul 2013
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Revealing mistake: Ganon gets a rope around King Harkinian and is sitting on his Pegasus Unicorn. In a few frames as the King and rope move around, you can see the rope pass right through the Pegasus' wing. (00:03:15)
30th Jul 2013
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Continuity mistake: After Link crashes down on Zelda's table, he is lying flat and the window he just came through is right there beside him. But when Zelda leans in during a close up to try and give Link a kiss, it is suddenly just solid wall on that same side of Link. (00:02:40)
30th Jul 2013
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the King first hands the flowers to Link, the detail on them is not drawn out very much. The peddles and center look like almost one solid pink piece. But a couple shots later, and being from the exact same angle and distance, the details on the flowers as Link holds them is suddenly much clearer. Individual peddles are visible, and the centers are more pronounced. (00:02:15)
30th Jul 2013
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Link is looking down at Zelda, her larger window is separated into two parts by a column between them. When Link swings in and it shows an interior view of that window, the column is suddenly skinnier. The window itself is also smaller. (00:02:15)
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Chosen answer: The Blind Master says to Storm, "You will tell us Cobra's endgame or die by the same sword you once used to kill our master" near the start of this scene, meaning they really did not know that Zartan killed the Hard Master.
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