Other mistake: Colonel Ky fires his gun at Magnum a first time when he is picking up the handkerchief. In the background, a woman in brown is walking peacefully. Cut to scared crowd all over the place. Magnum turns the corner and from the new cover shoots a couple times at Ky. Next shot Ky returns fire, but it's just another take of the first shot; the woman in brown is again walking where she was, and reacts to the gunfight only at that point. (01:30:40)
Sammo
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the sudden 'Nam flashback, the helicopter is hit and everyone starts shooting. Rick in close-up is shooting holding the M16 with his right hand for support and the left hand on the trigger, while in the following POV shot the person shooting is doing it the other way around. (00:16:15)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Character mistake: Higgins holds his glass of brandy with Magnum's photos in the other hand and says "I don't know if you're pulling my leg, as you Yanks put it." It's really not an exclusively or typically US expression; in fact it originated in England. (00:27:35)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Other mistake: In the scene in the study at the beginning of the episode, Magnum just ran from the ocean to the house, but his swimming trunks are barely wet at the border of the leg. (00:05:40)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the alley fight, TC runs chasing a bad guy past an upturned cart. He is slowed down by a guy with a hat; when he has his arms around his shoulders, you can see that Roger E. Mosley (or his leaner stunt double) is not wearing a bracelet on his right wrist anymore. (00:39:10)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Audio problem: Magnum approaches Rick and TC at the table playing cards. TC's voice says "Fourteen bucks up on ya", but Roger E. Mosley's lips don't match and are the audio is Out of Sync, since he continues moving his mouth while Rick is saying something. (00:14:00)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: The blood on Magnum's shirt when he lies in the middle of the street changes from the beginning to the end. For instance, the corner of his collar has a more sparse bloodstain in the close-up rather than at the beginning. (01:33:30)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: There's a cut when General Hue flips Magnum on his back; the crowd witnessing the event changes from one shot to the next. (01:33:00)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the close-up of Magnum's hand on the ground, he is looking at Ky and Michelle's feet, but there's no other person lying on the ground, contrary to the rest of the scene. (01:32:20)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: When Magnum shoots the agent in front of Bully's Tattoo Shop, he gets propelled in the air at impossible distance in a very fake trajectory with obvious wirework. (01:31:50)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Other mistake: In the streets of Little Saigon in the climax with TC and Rick involved, you can spot the same passersby they met with Magnum a couple days before, same clothes and all. (01:30:35)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Buck Greene is face to the ship, held at gunpoint. When he turns around in the next shot, his right hand is significantly above the previous position (look at the yellow tag for reference). (01:24:30)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: To make his escape from the church, Magnum turns the Mercedes around. You can distinctly see at the driver's seat the driver, which is not Tom Selleck but someone who seems to be wearing fake moustache. (01:10:50)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Ky is leaning against the church wall motioning Magnum and Lady Hue to move. In the two shots, his shadow shifted noticeably. (01:10:15)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum's wife is praying in the chapel, the Virgin Mary statue bare casts a shadow on the right part of the corner in close-up, while in wider angle casts a large shadow on the whole arch. (00:47:40)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the crowd at Little Saigon, the same extras can be seen appearing multiple times. A particularly obvious one when TC surprises Magnum and stretches his arm trying to stop him from walking away. Right in front of them, there's an old woman with a younger female in a black shirt with a diagonal stripe. Several seconds pass and those two are in the little crowd that witness Rick and Thomas fighting over the kid. (00:34:50)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum shows the picture to the old lady in the street by holding it from the top corner in the first shot, the bottom in close-up. (00:33:50)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Other mistake: Magnum and his bride seek shelter under table during the bombardment; if it happened the way it is shown, with a model completely torn to pieces, and with flames in frame during the first table shot, they would surely not be able to stay there, nor would have taken refuge there to begin with - if the roof did not kill them already falling on them. (00:25:10)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Other mistake: The US delegation pops from behind some trees with military copters that are explicitly presented as deafeningly noisy; it's just silly and internally contradictory. Even if we forget how underplayed helicopter noise often is in Hollywood, here we go from zero to thunderous in a split second. (00:21:40)
17th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Gen. Hu is teasing Col. Ky about his need to justify his lack of results, the shadow cast on his chest changes heavily with the camera angle. (00:21:15)
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