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Ghost Rider (2007)

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• Factual errors: During one of the stunts a character is knocked out hitting the fence. The crew immediately remove his helmet. You should *never* remove the helmet of an unconscious biker unless there are problems with their airway.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the long shot of the rain in the desert (which later turns to falling fire) the rain is quite pronounced and heavy, yet the splashes in the puddles are only from a light drizzle.
  
  
• Continuity: Before the big jump Johnny drinks out of a coffee pot, spilling coffee on the front of his jacket. In the next shot there is no coffee on the jacket.
  
  

• Continuity: After getting his shoulder sewn up, Johnny goes home and looks in a mirror. When he turns there is no wound that is stitched up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny Blaze first meets the caretaker he has a knife wound that he got from the street punk he confronts as Ghost Rider. Later in the film Ghost Rider is riddled with bullets and yet when he becomes Johnny Blaze again he has no injuries.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, the young Johnny Blaze has brown eyes. Later on, the older Johnny Blaze has blue eyes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During his first night as Ghost Rider, Blaze whistles for his bike to come and get him. A neat trick considering he has no lips or a tongue. However, the same lack of lips and tongue does not hinder his ability to speak. One can simply assume the same power that lets him speak lets him whistle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Ghost Rider gets the leather jacket with the spikes on the shoulder you can see his chain pass through one of the spikes in scenes where he wraps his chain around himself, revealing the CGI effect.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Ghost Rider is walking towards Roxanne after riding down the skyscraper she is clearly in the line of fire from the cops behind her. They are later seen shooting freely without hitting her.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Johnny's helmet visor smashes during the stunt in the beginning of the movie the sound effects make it sound like the visor is made of glass. Helmet visors are made of plastic.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Ghost Rider takes Blackheart's souls, images of the previous kills he made are seen in the fire. However these kills would be credited to Blackheart's own soul, which is in hell (revealed the first time Ghost Rider tries to punish Blackheart earlier in the film). The souls Ghost Rider is taking are those of the villagers, and so the images that Blackheart would see in Ghost Rider's eyes would be their kills, not his.
  
  
• Continuity: When the birds-eye camera moves through the city, and at several other points in the movie, the cars are on the opposite sides of the road. While the movie is set in America, the film was shot in Melbourne, Australia.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the end, when Blaze/Rider burns the souls of Blackheart, while they show what Blackheart’s seen, and you can hear what he says, in the middle of all chaos he says "Oh My God".
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny Blaze falls while trying to land he slides up and hits his back against a wall. In the next shot he is seen lying on his back several feet away with obvious drag marks made by his helmet when some crew member dragged him away from the wall.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny and Mack are talking after Mack turns off the chimp video, Johnny has his martini glass of jellybeans. The shot over Mack's shoulder shows the top layer of jellybeans is almost all yellow, most notably the beans nearest to Johnny. In the reverse shot (as Johnny's speaking and the shot switches to a low shot near the arm of the chair) there are red jellybeans that should be visible in the other shot, but are not. This could be due to the glass turning though.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blaze Sr. is crashing, in the rear view you see him clear the launch ramp and start to fall to the side and off of his bike, both still well within the flaming hoop. When Johnny rushes in and sees the aftermath the hoop is severely warped at the top and a piece of it can be seen at the side of the ramp. The bike is seen further down the ramp from Blaze Sr. and couldn't possibly have done that kind of damage.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After young Johnny Blaze takes off down the road leaving his girlfriend behind, it is raining quite hard and his hair is wet, but there is no rain hitting him in the face as he drives.
  
  
• Factual errors: Six Blackhawk helicopters cannot fit into a 300 ft span. Each one has a wingspan (rotors) of 54 feet. Allowing for absolutely zero space in between their rotors, that would total 324 ft. However, an actual goalpost-to-goalpost jump would be 360 ft, so they would narrowly fit.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny is cut by the punk purse snatcher's knife and has to be sewn up by the Caretaker, his leather jacket never shows any place where the knife enters.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blaze steps on his bike and says "Let's ride", he turns into Ghost Rider, and you can see his skeletal hands on fire (no gloves). In the very next shot, as Blaze and Slade are riding through the desert, Blaze suddenly has gloves on.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the stadium roof opened up to let the helicopters land, it opened immediately. There is no stadium retractable roof that opens that fast.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The motorcycle young Johnny Blaze is working on when he meets the Devil is an Evolution Sportster, introduced in 1986. That particular engine configuration was made between 1991 and 2003.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Blaze gets arrested, the Captain shows him a Deputy Sheriff badge but calls the other cop and officer. Police Officers and Deputy Sheriff's badges are totally different. Also the cars said Police on the light bar, but said Sheriff on the side of the car. It is not possible to be both.
  
  

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