Raiders of the Lost Ark

Watch the shadow of the stone Indy pushes out to escape from the Well Of Souls...it bounces down the sand dune!

This is supposed to take place in the 1930's, but the map says Iran, Iraq, and I believe Israel too. Naturally, Israel didn't receive statehood until 1948, and at the time Iran/Iraq was Persia.

When Indy first falls in the Well of Souls and is face to face with the cobra, you can see the snake's reflection on the glass dividing it and Harrison Ford, also some fingerprints and stuff like that.

Sallah and Indy are peering into the well of souls. Sallah is to the right of Indy. Indy then drops the torch into the well, and when the camera comes back up, Sallah is on the left of Indy.

Indy's gun is frequently knocked away from him and lost, yet in the next scene, his gun is back.

In the shoot out in Marion's bar, Indy's gun has only 6 shots, yet he fires off about 20 shots without reloading.

In the scene on the streets of Cairo, when Marion is kidnapped, Indy is confronted by a man wielding a scimitar. The guy is being very fancy with it, and Indy just shoots him. This was funny, but originally he was supposed to fight him with the whip. Harrison Ford was suffering from a bad case of the flu, felt too bad to use the whip, pulled out his gun and created one of the most memorable moments of the film.

When Indy is dragging along the ground, hanging onto the Nazi soldier's truck with the Ark inside, you can see the pad that he's being dragged on.

When Bellocq is yelling at Indy on the island from down in the canyon, you can see a fly crawling about his face. He flinches not, nor does he make any attempt to shoo it.

Before the shoot-out in Marion's bar, after the creepy Nazi asks her for the amulet, she's sitting alone at the table. She pulls the amulet out of her shirt, the chain still around her neck, and stares at it in the candlelight. The next moment the chain is not around her neck and she hangs the necklace onto the table centrepiece.

When Marian is being held captive she is gagged, and in one scene her hair is held near her ear. In the next scene it is closer to her nose.

In the well of souls, you can see hieroglyphics of C3PO and R2D2 on the wall.

In the shoot out at Marian's bar Indiana starts with a revolver then switches to a semi-automatic pistol halfway through.

As they come out of the "mapping room" in the tomb, there is an extra crouched down by the door, apparently hiding. It seems as if it was a quick fix for someone who was where they weren't supposed to be.

When Indy is running through the streets of Cairo looking for the men carrying Marion in a basket, the sweat stain on the back of his shirt shrinks and grows.

Indy and Sallah visit the old man and find out that the Nazis' headpiece to the Staff of Ra has only one side. This means they have a six foot high staff (as one side of the headpiece orders to build) but have not subtracted one foot (making it a five foot staff) as the other side of the headpiece says. When Indy goes to the map room the staff he is holding is well over five feet tall. It towers over Indy's head.

When Indy swims from the ship to the submarine which the Ark is now on there immediately follows a scene where the German captain gives the order for the submarine to submerge. Indy meanwhile is on top of the submarine and would have drowned, unless he has gills.

The stunt where Indy pushes the statue through the wall in the Well of Souls happened too quickly. If you watch the stunt man, he slips and almost falls off the statue, because it fell before he was ready.

When the Well of Souls is opened it makes a vacuum sound. This would be impossible if the snakes were entering from outside, or if they were to survive.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The restaurant at the beginning is called the Obi-Wan (from Star Wars) and the plane they get on is also called something Star-Wars related.

Indy's bridge breaks and he is hanging by it with the natives shooting arrows at him. If you look closely you can see two arrows bounce off his back.

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

In the beginning, when he is fighting aboard the Coronado ship, he is punched in the face and bleeding on one side. The camera then changes views, and the next time it shows him, he is bleeding out the other side of his mouth.

In the temple in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon, Indiana Jones rushes to his father's aid with the Holy Grail filled with water. He is shown pouring every last drop onto his father's wound by turning the Grail upside down, yet another camera angle shows his father clutching the grail to his chest, and there's still a bit of water in it.

In the catacombs underneath the library, when he find the "X" on the wall, he is shown ramming the wall twice to break through. The first time he rams it, however, the wall looks as if he had already had a few goes already.

Don't you think he would've been able to see that bridge?

In order to avoid a giant spinning blade, he must "Kneel before God." He does, and the blade goes whizzing over his head, yet he also rolls forward to avoid a second blade that pops up out of the floor. Does that mean The Penitent Man Kneels and Rolls Before God? Why did he roll?

At one point, Indy rolls off of the side of a tank, and somehow gets a strap around one of the guns pointing out from the sides. The end of the barrel has already been blown open by the rock he shoved in earlier. How did the strap get around that big cluster of metal, and then back again so he could climb back on the tank?

Indy and Marcus seem to have no problem getting into Italy. Italy at this time was already a Fascist country, which would have made it quite difficult for two Americans to get in.

In the catacombs of the library, Indy and Elsa are waist deep in petroleum. Indy has a torch, and if you look carefully, you will see burning pieces of the torch fall and hit the petroleum. Wouldn't this start a fire?

When the flames are shooting down the tunnel, they overturn the coffin for protection. Just before this, however, Elsa is holding the torch, the next second it's gone.

When the tank falls off the cliff, the turret falls off, but when they look back down shortly thereafter the turret is still intact.

When they are first looking over the cliff at the tank, Sean Connery's beard is quite full, and in a shot moments later, still looking off the cliff, it has been trimmed.

When looking for a clue in the library, the large "X" disappears from the floor when Indy starts smashing it up.

When Indy's dad is shooting that machine gun on the plane he accidentally shoots the tail. It goes to another shot and it's fixed and then it's broken again.

When they go under the coffin you see the flame of the torch in the background. How could the flame go under the petroleum without burning it?

When Indiana is showing Marcus the Grail Diary in his fathers home, he closes the book 4 times in a row without opening it - first 3 times inside the room, and then once on exit.

When Indy is stepping on the letters at the end, trying to spell out God's name, he steps on J, incorrectly. When he falls through, however, he grabs onto another letter so as not to fall down. The letter he grabs onto and pulls himself up with is not in the word iehova.

How do Elsa and the other guy get through that part without knowing to spell out God's name?

When Indy and Elsa are in the tunnel under the library, they find the second marker which is inside the knight's tomb. Indy takes out tracing paper and rubs it to get the information off the second marker. Then when the fire breaks out in the tunnel, they are forced to swim to safety under water and then out of pot whole in the middle of an outdoor restaurant in Venice. Yet when they get back to the hotel and Indy and Marcus are looking at the paper it is completely dry and unsmudged. How is it that both Elsa and Indy were soaking wet, and the paper survived in spite of being in Indy's coat the whole time?

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES