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Predator (1987) - 40 mistakes

Directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Jesse Ventura, Kevin Peter Hall (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Visible crew/equipment: Mac and Dillon go after the Predator. The Predator is sitting in a tree, and Mac points him out to Dillon. They both agree that they see it and take position. Mac crawls underneath the alien and is killed by his laser. The Predator then sees Dillon and lasers his arm off. Dillon's arm falls to the ground with the gun firing. Quickly Dillon turns and reaches for the machine gun around his neck. When he turns you clearly see his bloody right stump and his right arm sticking out the bottom of his jacket. [Note: As far as I can work out, this has been cunningly edited out of the UK DVD version].

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Continuity: After Mac has stabbed the scorpion that was on Dillon's back, he puts on a box and crushes it with his boot. You see a clear picture before he crushes it and then after he lifts his boot away. It is facing a completely different direction than before he stands on it.

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Other: In the scene where Dutch is being chased by the Predator, near the end, he jumps into a waterfall. When you see him take a high-dive, it is archive footage of a different person, filmed on a different camera. When it cuts straight back to Arnie, you can see that it was a completely different place as well. When you know to look for it, this is really obvious.

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Continuity: When the Predator blasts free of the net and his laser blows off a tree limb; in the first shot you can see the limb is hollow as it is shot off [and I for one have never heard of a hollow tree, but even if they do exist...] as the free limb swings down toward Poncho, you can see that it is no longer hollow, but completely solid.

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Continuity: In the scene where the female prisoner falls to the ground and pretends to be hurt, then throws leaves in the soldier's face and tries to escape. She is stopped by another soldier, standing in her path with a gun in her face. The sequence with the gun pointed at her head is filmed in two shots. One looking up at the soldier holding the gun, the other with the gun hovering in her face. Every time it changes between these two camera angles, we find the soldier's hands in two completely different positions on the gun he is holding.

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Continuity: Billy carries an M-16 with a shotgun attached under it right when he leaves the burned village. When it shows him again the M-16 has no shotgun attached to it. Right after that it shows him again with the shotgun attached.

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Continuity: Near the end of the film, Arnold is lying in wait for the Predator after he lights the bonfire. It is pitch-black, except for the moonlight and the fire. But in the shot when the Predator jumps down through the trees, the skyline is brighter - almost early evening in brightness.

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Revealing: When the Predator self-destructs and the people in the chopper look out at the blast, the "painting" of the explosion is still and does not move or change like a normal explosion would.

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Continuity: On the attack on the village, Dutch fires an RPG at a grass hut and there is a soldier that slowly flips over from the blast. Seconds later, Poncho fires another RPG round, and that same soldier flips over again.

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Factual error: The heat from Dutch's body would warm the mud up in a matter of seconds (tested by the Mythbusters). It doesn't even cover all of his skin or his eyes. And the Predator isn't filtering his input for only large heat sources. His normal vision tracks in on a rat hiding just above Dutch.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the predator has been hit by Arnie, the camera and cable is reflected on his face. This also happens when Arnie is calling for Billy - you can see it reflected on his arm.

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Revealing: After they catch the Predator in the net and it breaks free, the laser blast breaks a big part of a tree and it heads toward a soldier, hitting him head on. If you watch closely when they show an above shot of the tree hitting the guy, you can see an air pressured pad pushing the tree on the ground into him.

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Factual error: Ventura carried the MXU-370A1 Minigun and an ammo pack which holds 500 rounds. At its firing rate, that ammo would be spent within a about ten seconds, not minutes as was seen in the movie.

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Revealing: Watch when the Predator reaches over to activate his self-destruct mechanism. The wristblades clip right through the glowing special effect on his blood.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Dutch is going to check the area of the trap and to lure on Predator, there are visible some boxes at the top right corner of the shot. Probably set equipment.

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Continuity: In the scene at the end when Arnie crawls into the booby trapped gully you can see the predator behind him with the knives on his right arm already extended. The camera then switches to a shot of the predator extending the knives to finish Arnie off.

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Continuity: During the big firefight after Blaine was killed, Dutch moves his hand forward to eject the clip from his weapon. An instant later, the side view shows his hand on the handgrip and the clip being ejected - way too quick to get his hand back on the grip.

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Revealing: When Arnold is heading into the trees after building his bow and arrows you can see a silver eye bolt on the top of the bow were the string would attach.

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Continuity: When Dutch (Arnold) has been shot in the arm by the Predator, the wound changes between shots.

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Continuity: In the scene where Anna tries to escape for the first time, and is stopped by a gun to her head, her hat is hanging down over her right shoulder. In the next shot, as Dillon comes to picker her up, her hat is now on her left shoulder.

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