Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Continuity mistake: Indy's horse gallops past a blue car, and then a white one. Shot changes, and now it's metres behind, riding past the white car again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the Nazi holds the pocket watch in front of Indy, the length of the chain hanging loose changes between shots.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Indy is shot, he falls with the strap of his satchel running down the side of his body. A shot later, he lies with the strap running across his chest. Then, a shot later, the strap is nowhere to be seen.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Indy tries to make a phone call but is abducted by the baddies. There's a close-up of the phone and blood has suddenly appeared all over it.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Indy stops Basil from hammering the dial and makes the left side of his jacket open to reveal his shirt. Shot changes, and now the opening has swapped sides.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Indy horseback rides past a truck with a flag, then between a dozen of musicians while chased by a motorbike. When he looks behind him, the band has vanished and the truck is next to him again. This last shot belonged in the first place.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Gunther exits the van and shoots a mechanic in the airfield, in his full movie costume. However, just a few seconds later, he's fully dressed as an SS Sergeant.

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Continuity mistake: When Indy is hanged, the bomb falls downwards slowly. Check the writing on it, and you'll notice that a shot later, the bomb has moved upwards and is repeating the previous movement.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy is hanged, the bomb is stuck parallel to the ground. A shot later, it's perpendicular to the ground.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While on top of the train, Basil waves one arm, pleading for the train to stop. The shot changes, and he's waving both arms.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the farewell celebration for Indy's retirement, the dean calls for the gift to be presented to him, mentioning it is "a token of our gratitude." There's a cut in the middle of the sentence, and Prof. Plimpton is waving a young student in with his left hand, then the right hand.

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Teddy is abducted, Indy runs towards the car, past a hat lying on the street. The shot changes, and he is metres behind, running towards the hat again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Indy melts the wax and reads the dial, he is holding it with his right hand in one shot and with both hands in the immediate angle.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Indy and Helena find the antikythera in Archimedes' tomb, it's covered in dust and no features are visible. When Indy reaches for it, it's just slightly dusty.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Indy rides on horseback through a banner held by a women and rips it apart. The shot changes, and the women and the broken banner have all disappeared.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Indy closes the cap of the whisky bottle and watches the separation agreement. The shot changes to a close-up, and he is closing the cap again.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: A woman is shot at at the college and lies down with her right leg bent. A man tries to move her but is killed before he does. The shot changes and her right leg has swapped to lying straight.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the chase in Tangiers, after the stolen watch discussion, Indy's tuk tuk stops next to a street where a man approaches. The shot changes and the street is replaced with a wall and the man is gone.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: During the parade, a red convertible skids and stops in front of Indy. Shot changes and it's skidding and stopping again.

Sacha

Plot hole: At the start of the film, a young Jürgen Voller gets hit square in the face, at high speed, by trackside equipment and gets knocked off the train. But somehow, he isn't killed and survives without so much as a scar on his face.

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Indiana Jones: I've believed in magic a few times in my life. I've seen things... things I can't explain. I've come to believe it's not so much what you believe... it's how hard you believe it.

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Suggested correction: This is not true, he's actually singing "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream".

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Question: Maybe I missed some dialogue, but why exactly did Voller think the fissure they were flying towards would take him to his desired date in 1939? I get that the dial detects fissures in time, but why would he think that particular fissure was the one he needed to travel through?

Phaneron

Answer: There is a bit of dialogue en route to the airport when Voller sets the instrument that says, "the first hand sets the destination," as in the time you want to travel back to. This would make the device completely absurd in principle if true (that's why I wanted to mark it as a plot hole/stupidity). Since it's supposed not to open portals but just detect them, it can't be that there are infinite portals for every moment in time you can choose to go back to (and they even close). The sky, while vast, is not infinite. We then find out that it is a trick since it is set to actually bring you to just one destination, but they don't know it yet.

Sammo

Answer: We're supposed to accept that the dials are pointing to the rift in the sky, which is what makes this plot decision so ridiculous. There's no common reference point (magnetism wouldn't be discovered until and used in compasses for another 2,000 years), and the dial is 2-dimensional. Thus, you could turn your body 90 degrees and aim it down, and there's no indication from the movie that the dial would in any way turn to face the previous rift.

I think, technically, the fact that there's no common reference point is addressed when Voller mentions that the coordinates given are 'Alexandrine coordinates'... which I think might be another anachronism since all I can think it means is the ones used by Ptolemy in his Geography, which was hundreds of years after Archimedes' time. The dial is 2-dimensional, but there are 3 hands. It can be argued that when all 3 align, it does show that the direction you are headed is definitely correct, including the height you are pointing at. I definitely think it's entirely implausible, but the way the unknown mechanism works, attuned to something that does not exist such as time rifts, is kind of a lesser problem. Even if it is supposed to work by some mathematical principle, and then acts as some dowser rod.

Sammo

Not true. The Chinese were using compasses around 200 BC, and Vikings are believed to have had them as well.

Answer: As they approach the rift, all three of the dial's hands are suddenly pointing towards it. If that is no clear indicator, then what is?

Daniel4646

The dial pointing towards it only indicates that they are heading towards the fissure. How does that give Voller any certainty that this is the exact fissure he needs to travel through in order to reach his desired destination, especially considering it ended up not being the one he needed? Were there coordinates in Basil's diary that indicated where the exact fissure would open? I only recall the date of August 20 (?), 1939 being written down.

Phaneron

Only the time is written in the diary (the date you mention is next to August 20, 1969, which would be then supposedly when the finale of the movie takes place). For the coordinates, you need to have the device, which, apparently, allows you also to input with firsthand your desired destination. Voller couldn't know that to concoct his plan, though, since he did not have the diaries at the beginning of the movie.

Sammo

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