Continuity mistake: In Hangar 51, the size and position of the text in the Ark's box changes between shots.
Big Game
23rd Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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This is not the same mistake as the one you listed. Yours speaks about the style of the box (that changes from vertical planks to horizontal planks). Mine speaks about the size and position of the text.
Mine is about the box and the text "The 'Top Secret' sign is put on the crate across vertically laid planks. A shot later the sign appears slanted." Yours is a duplicate.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the temple collapses, Satipo is crouching looking at the chaos. Indy starts to run and there's a wide angle of the passage ahead but Satipo is nowhere around. He couldn't have managed to run that distance in half a second.
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Suggested correction: He had a couple of seconds to run away from that spot.
Corrected entry: During the AT-AT attack scene, Luke says "Rogue 3, Wedge, I've lost my gunner". Then seconds later when he flies through the walker's legs, he calls him Rogue 2.
25th Jan 2016
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end when Rathe is about to fight Sherlock, among several things a sword magically appears at Holmes' feet.
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Suggested correction: This is incorrect. Holmes carries a sword from the moment he and Watson leave the pyramid. He drops it to the ground when Elizabeth is shot and picks it up again to fight Rathe.
2nd May 2010
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Col. Landa hands himself over to Lt. Raine, Utivich cuffs Col. Landa. Then when Lt. Raine is carving the swastika into Col. Landa's forehead, you can see him clutching at grass with his right hand, which isn't cuffed. (01:09:20 - 01:11:40)
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Suggested correction: There is a clear time gap between Aldo threatening Landa with the knife and Aldo carving the swastika into Landa's forehead. It is entirely possible that his handcuffs were removed between the two scenes.
27th Oct 2021
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Indy sits down in the seat of the plane look behind him, there is nobody holding a Life magazine or fitting the description of the man later shown watching him from the other seat.
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Suggested correction: This is not true. Dennis Muren enters just before Indy and sits down. The camera focuses on Indy, giving Muren enough time to grab the magazine and cover his face.
Trivia: The Aztec chest that the medallions are in is the same chest used in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Suggested correction: Actually, the only chest in Raiders of the Lost Ark (the one that contains the Ark) is totally different from the Aztec chest.
31st Mar 2008
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Corrected entry: When Indiana breaks in through the window, he lets go of his whip, yet he has it through the rest of the film despite us never seeing him retrieve it.
Correction: Just because we don't see it onscreen doesn't mean it didn''t happen. He could have retrieved it anytime after killing the guards.
Well... don't they immediately leave the room, before their escape is foiled?
The moment when Indy picks up his whip, it's actually shown. While Henry Jones is studying the broken jar, Indy is coiling the whip in the background.
11th Jul 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Trivia: As Sallah leaves Indiana's place, he can be heard singing the same song that he sings in Raiders of the Lost Ark (when Marion gives him a thank-you kiss).
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Suggested correction: This is not true, he's actually singing "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream".
18th Jul 2024
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the library before he goes through the hole in the floor, Indiana takes the map out of the diary and gives the diary to Marcus. When Indiana gets caught trying to rescue his dad, they take the diary from him and say Marcus has the map.
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Suggested correction: You've forgotten the scene at Donovan's apartment. There, Indy could have cut the page and give it to Brody off-screen.
23rd Jan 2008
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Other mistake: In the cut scene at the end of "Rescue the Princess" in A New Hope, Leia shoots the grate and gives the gun back to Luke before she jumps down it. However when they show the hole again,the gun Leia used can be seen sticking just out of the top of the hole.
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Suggested correction: This entry is incorrect. In the first place, Leia never gives the gun back to Luke in the cutscene. In second place, there's no gun sticking out of the top of the hole after Leia jumps through it.
7th May 2006
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Continuity mistake: While being sorted into houses, Harry looks up at the Sorting Stool, and there are only three people left to be sorted. Professor McGonagall then calls out the names of four more kids.
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Suggested correction: This is incorrect. After Harry is selected for Gryffindor, McGonagall calls Lisa Turpin, Ron Weasley, and Blaise Zabini, three students.
Visible crew/equipment: Indy is at the nuclear test site and exits the house and comes out front. He knocks over the boy on the bike and air raid siren goes off. Just as he stands upright, in the window with curtains, you can see a reflection of a crew member walking by.
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23rd Jun 2024
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Factual error: Although Dieter Hellstrom is a Gestapo Major, he has the SS runes on his uniform instead of a blank square.
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Suggested correction: Nowhere in the movie is he said to be a Gestapo Major. He is SS. Even if he was part of the Gestapo, he could still be an SS officer, as the Gestapo fell under the SS and RSHA.
10th May 2003
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Factual error: The evil SS officer is addressed as "Herr Oberst" (Colonel) throughout the movie. In the SS, however, this rank was called "Standartenfuehrer". (00:56:40)
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Suggested correction: In fact, Oberst is the literal translation of the word "Colonel" into German. It would not be unusual for Germans to call a colonel by his rank in his native language (even if he is an SS colonel).
This correction doesn't address the mistake, which is the rank on his uniform isn't what he's addressed as. It has nothing to do with what the word translates into (which the mistake even points out).
3rd Jul 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Factual error: Colonel Weber is not an Oberst, but an SS-Oberführer. Given all his men are also SS, there is no likelihood they would use an army rank to address him, especially one that is junior to his actual rank.
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Suggested correction: In fact, Oberst is the literal translation of the word "Colonel" into German. It would not be unusual for Germans to call a colonel by his rank in his native language (even if he is an SS colonel).
There is no chance that SS men would use an army rank when referring to an SS officer. That would be like a sailor calling a naval captain "colonel" because the ranks are equivalent.
8th May 2019
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Arnold holds a hot stick of metal to Marion's face in her bar, threatening her. In the opposite angle, the metal is nowhere to be seen when it should be right next to her face. Cut back to the other angle and we see it again.
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Suggested correction: This entry is incorrect; the poker is always on screen, it never disappears.
9th Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Other mistake: The Angel of Death attacks the altar and Toht and Dietrich scream because of its revelation, but Belloq, for some reason, doesn't seem to see it. Just before the fire column rises, he's still calm. (01:47:10)
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Suggested correction: If you don't know the reason, perhaps you should ask a question instead of assuming it is a mistake. Belloq studied the ark and probably better predicted what might come out of the ark. He is also looking directly into the ark and is mesmerized by what he is seeing, until eventually he does scream before his head explodes. The other two are terrified at seeing the apparitions.
Actually, it's pretty impossible that Belloq studied the Ark. If he knew what would come out of it, he literally committed suicide by opening and watching the Ark open, which doesn't make sense. He believed during the whole movie that the Ark contained the Ten Commandments tablets, not some kind of ghastly things.
He didn't know what would come out, but it doesn't mean that he, like Indy, expected just 2 stone tablets. He expected power, for him mostly.
16th Sep 2021
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Other mistake: After getting on aboard the dirigible, Henry is holding a German newspaper when addressing Indy. But he'd have a hard time reading it as it's upside down. Even if he's just trying to hide, holding an upside-down newspaper would draw the attention of suspicious guards.
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Suggested correction: Henry Jones Sr. doesn't have his glasses in this scene. He can't really see anything on the newspaper, that's why he is holding it upside down.
I'd say that, more than anything, a hasty attempt to blend in would be more likely the culprit. Even without the spectacles, Henry, being the fastidious person he is, would have righted the paper, with or without eyewear.
But since he couldn't see the letters, how would he have righted the newspaper (or even noticed it was upside down)?
Ipon! (Japanese for "point.") I can see your point; however, I would ask that the following be considered: that there is usually more than just letters and words in newsprint. Even if not viewed, pictures are good indicators of the newspaper's orientation.
27th Aug 2001
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Sallah and Indy are peering into the well of souls. Sallah is to the right of Indy. Indy then drops the torch into the well, and when the camera comes back up, Sallah is on the left of Indy. (01:00:00 - 01:00:45)
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Suggested correction: Indy and Sallah spent several seconds off-camera, enough to move around the hole and switch places.
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