Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt exit the bar, there's a man and a young girl close to each other, plus a man in brown 4 metres behind, running towards them. A shot later, the man and girl are a metre apart, and the man in brown is right next to the young girl. Also, the man in a gabardine that walks by when Mutt gets on his motorbike has no continuity between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After they fall inside the temple, Mac steals gold from the skeleton and turns around. Shot changes, and he is turning his back on us, repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

Factual error: Skara Brae is on Mainland Orkney not the West Coast of Scotland as Indy states in class just before he's let go from the university.

Continuity mistake: A car ploughs through huge iron gates, ripping them from the their hinges. Seconds later the car is pristine.

Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt are seated in the diner, Mutt stands up fast in an argument between the two, causing the bottles of ketchup and mustered to be knocked over. The shot then alternates from different directions, making the bottles appear as both standing and knocked over. When Mutt finally sits back down Indy sets the bottles back upright.

Maren Kristine Ruen Nymoen

Continuity mistake: In PerĂº when Mutt is sweeping the floor Indy holds the map with one hand. A shot later he holds it with both.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When the baddies are chasing Mutt's bike, right after they exit the cafe they skid to the left. Skid marks from previous takes are visible on the road.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: As the Dean enters, several pictures hang on the wall. When they leave the pictures have been changed. (00:24:40 - 00:25:45)

Continuity mistake: When Indy tells the group to run away from the ants by jumping off the truck, Mutt jumps out, followed by Oxley. Shot changes, and Mutt is back in the truck, and Oxley is already out.

Sacha

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.

TD9898

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Suggested correction: I'm watching the Disney+ copy frame by frame, and there's no reflection anywhere.

Sacha

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Revealing mistake: During the campus chase scene, Mutt skids his bike and turns left to drive under a stone arch. Multiple skid marks are seen on the pavement from previous shots.

Sacha

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Trivia: When in the tent and forced to face the Crystal Skull, Indy dismisses the skulls as being from "Saucer Men From Mars". Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars was actually an early title for the film.

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Question: Why did the nuke fridge scene cause so much controversy?

Answer: People felt it was ridiculous and cartoonish, even by Indiana Jones standards. Even if it was possible to survive a nuclear blast via the lead lining of a fridge (it's not), or that the fridge would simply be thrown away rather than be melted/torn apart like everything else in the vicinity (it wouldn't), the impact of being flung what appears to be a mile or so through the air, then violently crashing into and rolling over the ground, would certainly kill anything inside. The controversy arose because usually, in "classic" Indy films, the fantastical elements were exactly that: fantastic, magical, and/or supernatural. This was presented as taking place in our reality, with no "power of God" or magic spells, and for many, that was just too much disbelief to suspend.

Answer: Another problem is that people couldn't articulate what they didn't like about the film, and point to the "Nuke the Fridge" scene as a quick example of what they think is bad about it. In the realm of Indy, it's really no more outlandish than jumping out of a plane in an inflatable raft like in Temple of Doom.

It's considerably more outlandish. The raft scene was recreated/reviewed by Mythbusters, and they found that the raft floated down at a mere 22 mph. It would be hard/impossible in real life to stay on the raft, sure, but if you buy that bit of movie cheekiness, it would definitely slow their descent enough to survive, especially since they land a) on a slope and b) on soft snow. The fridge scene, however, has no such saving grace... it's completely ridiculous and unrealistic in every detail.

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