Sacha

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Dale hugs Flash before his fight in the ring, the position of both of her hands is inconsistent between shots.

Sacha

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

Flash Gordon mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Ming is about to die, he slips away from the spike, which has parts of it covered in green blood. When Flash sees him, the spike is fully covered in green blood.

Sacha

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

Flash Gordon mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The pilot hands Flash a People magazine to sign. When Flash sits down to autograph it, one can see it's already signed (seemingly from previous takes). Then he scribbles on the same spot again.

Sacha

24th Apr 2024

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When the movie begins, Flash is reading a newspaper, sitting sideways, his back leaning on the door. When Dale's van arrives, he is facing straight, with the paper resting on the steering wheel. Then the shot changes to the first position and he turns sideways towards the wheel.

Sacha

2nd Oct 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: While Dale is watching the destruction of the palace, her head is either tilted or looking straight, depending on the angle.

Sacha

21st Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Flash is seated inside the gas chamber and a hood is being put over his head, he swaps from facing to the left to straight between one frame and the other.

Sacha

21st Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Dale escapes and fights the guards, the editing is really awful: first she knocks a guard, who later on changes positions. Then she walks away, leaves her shoes on the floor, and hides against a wall, but after a brusque cut she appears somewhere else, the shoes are 15 meters away and the guard from before lies in front. (I guess that some of the fighting in between was deleted.)

Sacha

21st Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: In Arboria, while Aura kisses Barin she says "I brought you a present", then her left arm swaps from being up to down between angles.

Sacha

21st Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: During the plane flight, the sky outside keeps switching back and forth between cloudy or puffy clouds opening to let a red light, depending on the angle.

Sacha

21st Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When the plane enters the greenhouse the cabin is empty. Then in the close-up Flash and Dale have appeared inside.

Sacha

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Ming walks in the room where Dale sleeps, her thigh swaps from covered to uncovered and the cushion moves around depending on the angle.

Sacha

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: After the meteorite on Munson's bed starts burning, his hand moves from down to up and is now holding a pen and paper, despite him being asleep. Also the cup on the table moves around between shots.

Sacha

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Flash greets the martians he's handed a gun which makes him crouch and twist to the left. When the angle changes he is now standing tall and his hand is at chest level instead of waist level.

Sacha

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Ming orders to send another charge against Sky City the sky swaps from sunny in the wide angles, to cloudy in the close-ups in barely half a second.

Sacha

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: When the laser scans Zarkov's jacket to destroy the gun inside, the arm disappears in the close-up angle.

Sacha

13th Sep 2010

Flash Gordon (1980)

Continuity mistake: The FX of the rainbow coloured dangerous void is missing before the fight starts, revealing a grey coloured, harmless set. (01:09:45)

Sacha

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