Best movie revealing mistakes of 1983

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Flashdance picture

Revealing mistake: During Alex's dance at the committee, the dancing doubles are quite clear, evident by the obvious wigs and change in height of legwarmers. (01:23:20)

Hamster

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Revealing mistake: When Aurora sees Breedlove off at the airport they say good-bye and he walks through the door, which closes after him. After a few seconds she comes back to talk to him once more, and you can see through the tinted glass panes that he had been waiting right behind the door to come out again. (01:44:20)

NancyFelix

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Revealing mistake: The little sister says she didn't mean to back into the record player, but just before, she very noticeably makes an obvious move toward the record player. (00:53:30)

William Bergquist

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Revealing mistake: In the scene in which Alan Shepard is about to land his jet on the aircraft carrier, the plane seen from the outside is a single-seat A-4 attack plane. But inside the cockpit actor Scott Glenn lowers his sunshade, and reflected on the shade can be seen the wings of a two-seat jet trainer, the T-33A.

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10 to Midnight picture

Revealing mistake: For the first kill, Warren is chasing the naked girl while being equally naked. And yet, in the side view of his run in the woods, Gene Davis' pants pop in frame a couple times. (00:08:00)

Sammo

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The Day After picture

Revealing mistake: When Denis runs out into the field after the nuclear attack, she brushes up against a dead cow, and the cow moves like a stuffed prop. Real cows are much heavier than that.

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Doctor Detroit picture

Revealing mistake: When Doctor Detroit and his girls make their escape from the automobile salvage yard, they drive a wrecker straight through a large sliding wooden gate, which punches a perfectly clean outline of the truck and Doctor Detroit through the gate. Problem is, the resulting (pre-cut) hole does not match the dimensions of the wrecker or Doctor Detroit at all. In fact, at the point of impact, the stuntman playing Doctor Detroit hugs in close to the wrecker for protection as it plows through the gate, and the outline of his body just magically opens up two feet away from him.

Charles Austin Miller

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Revealing mistake: During the last Race (the Agua Caliente), Phar Lap's hoof was re-opening from a crack earlier in the movie. When they show the close up of the leg/hoof during the race in slow motion, the "blood stain" keeps moving around on the leg wrap and hoof area.

Appyluver

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Revealing mistake: As Mr. Connor flies into the retaining wall after being thrown from the Vietnam setting, you can see the "stone" structure wobble.

Movie Nut

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Revealing mistake: When Nicole Kidman shows the kids some tricks she is replaced by a very obvious stunt, older, taller and... a man. Confirmed by Nicole Kidman, who said her stunt double was "a teenage boy wearing a padded bra." Source https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/kidman-s-made-off-like-a-bandit-in-hollywood-all-without-the-bmx-20211216-p59i2t.html. (00:36:58)

Sacha

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Porky's II: The Next Day picture

Revealing mistake: This sequel is supposed to take place around 1955 or 56. However, Ballbreaker sports a very 1980s long jumper sweater and leg warmers (popular fashion trend during the 80s) throughout much of the film. Instead of the traditional era coach's jumpsuit worn in Porky's.

pgsgrad16

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Revealing mistake: During the brawl in the 'saloon', the protagonist frees himself from the predicament that had him with a knife pointed at his throat. Cut to one of his friends who punches away one baddie, parries a strike and then "punches" someone else. Sarcastic quotes are needed here, because the straight punch misses its target. (00:44:35)

Sammo

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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone picture

Revealing mistake: During the Amazon women sequence, when Niki gets pulled underwater you can tell by the movement of the water that it was shot in reverse. (00:49:32)

Jack Vaughan

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Revealing mistake: A woman cuts her finger on a miniature ninja doll sword, but she only touches the blunt back of it. (00:18:45)

HellZone72

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