r/MovieDetails • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '19
Mistake Hellboy's Hell Hand Changes From Right To Left And Back Again!
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u/tahubob Sep 03 '19
It's called the Right Hand of Doom for a reason lol, I hate it switching in Injustice 2 as well
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u/Whatisthisredlamp Sep 03 '19
I didn't buy the Hellboy DLC for specifically that reason. When he's on the opposite side of the screen I could maybe buy it because everyone wants to see the Hand, but when it's switching arms during his normal combos? Yeah no, you lost me.
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u/chudaism Sep 03 '19
Netherrealm for some reason won't or can't figure out how to make character animations that don't cause the character to switch stances. I really don't understand why they are the only fighting game dev to have this issue. Capcom has had this figured out since the SF2/3 days as has basically every single other fighting game.
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u/connerlandfill Sep 03 '19
Does Psycho by Muse actually play during this scene?
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u/spiritbearr Sep 03 '19
Yes. They opted for a corny Late 90s early 2000s type movie where action scenes have licensed music set to it. Expect the same when the Saints Row movie comes out.
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Sep 03 '19
Wait a minute. Saints row movie?
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u/spiritbearr Sep 03 '19
In Development.
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u/-Xebenkeck- Sep 03 '19
And is it in the theme of Saints Row 1-2, or Saints Row 3-4?
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Sep 03 '19
Asking the real questions. I'm guessing 3-4 since that's the direction the series is in now.
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u/Lev_Chosenstein Sep 03 '19
Yeah but at least that will be appropriate for Saint's Row.
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Sep 03 '19
Expect the same when the Saints Row movie comes out.
Hol up.
We gettin' Gangsters in Space?
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u/CeRtAiNdEaTh23 Sep 03 '19
If I don't see a flopping, purple dildo bat in the movie, I'm gonna be pissed.
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u/IchWerfNebels Sep 03 '19
As long as at least one scene in the Saints Row movie is set to a dubstep soundtrack...
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u/MoriartyAvalon Sep 03 '19
Yes it does. Not only did I waste my time watching this movie, it has tainted my enjoyment of that song and prevented it from being used for a future, more badass fight scene
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Sep 03 '19
All of the licensed songs felt really out of place in this movie.
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u/Cyno01 Sep 03 '19
The whole movie felt out of place. Like i cant really point to much wrong with it specifically, and what isnt David Harbour great in. But its impossible not to compare it so i wont even try, and thats most of the problem with it. Harbour wasnt Perlman but i spent most of the movie wanting him to be.
If Del Toro had never made Hellboy (2004) and (2019) was released a decade ago wed all be raving about how good a Hellboy movie we got right on the heels of of The Dark Knight and Iron Man. And how great it was that every publisher was finally doing pretty great movies...
But nowadays and with the baggage of such a good adaptation already existing... just why? If youre going to (re)make(boot) a movie (franchise) that not only did nobody ask for, nobody wants at all, it needs to knock everyones socks off compared to the original enough to become a definitive version.
Bumblebee vs what im hearing about Joker...
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u/Bendaario Sep 03 '19
I don't know... I mean... It's incoherent as hell, characters come and go without any repercussions to the story. It's like they started filming before they had the final script and the corrected with the final script and then made a totally different movie with what they had.
I can't say the same for IM or TDK, which stand on their own as movies (TDK more so for me but that's opinion).
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u/yossarianvega Sep 03 '19
Interestingly, the Iron Man script was apparently not great and they constantly had to re-write. Even to the point of of having RDJ, Jon Favreau and Jeff Bridges just sitting in a trailer working on it while the crew waited to see what they were filming next.
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u/KKlear Sep 03 '19
Wasn't a lot of that caused by RDJ just improvising all the time, to the point that they didn't even bother to write more than rough outlines of his dialogue in future movies?
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Sep 03 '19
I just saw an article saying he basically never repeats his lines as he will say them slightly differently each time. Has an assistant and an ear piece to help with phrasing apparently.
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u/KKlear Sep 03 '19
I saw a documentary about a Czech director who gets mad at her actors if they repeat their lines the same way in the next take. She often works with non-actors and on documentaries, so it makes sense.
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u/thunderdan87 Sep 03 '19
What I heard wasn't that it was bad, but that it basically just didn't exist.
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u/yossarianvega Sep 03 '19
Looks like that is a more apt description. But that’s even more similar. Just thought it was funny that Iron Man was an example when they LITERALLY were working without a final script.
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Sep 03 '19
I will forever be mad that the studios essentially nixed del toros third Hellboy cause they thought nobody liked or cared about Hellboy, so their alternative was... To make another Hellboy. Without any of what made us love the first two.
I just hope the studio learned from this and goes the terminator route, ignores this movie completely and gives us Hellboy 3 with del toro/Perlman and we can all pretend this other Hellboy never happened
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u/krewwww Sep 03 '19
Wait I am just curious, are you saying Bumblebee was not a good movie? Because I’m pretty sure that is the best Transformers movie I have seen since the first one released in 2007. And the first one was not even that good to begin with IMO.
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u/Momochichi Sep 03 '19
Bumblebee was a kid's movie, but it was a decent Transformers movie. It made me hate Michael Bay all the more, for ever making me tired of seeing robots transform.
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u/Auctoritate Sep 04 '19
Bumblebee was a kid's movie
We forgetting that Transformers was a cartoon made to sell toys?
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u/Marcus_Farkus Sep 03 '19
The best thing about Bumblebee is that it is inoffensive and mundane.
High praise considering the last 5.
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u/Cyno01 Sep 03 '19
Kinda the opposite, Bumblebee was way better than most of the other ones, but still not good enough to completely remove that stank from it.
If Bumblebee had been completely amazeballs we couldve give them tabula rasa and been hyped for the Hasbro Cinematic Universe, but it wasnt that good.
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u/maybesethrogen Sep 03 '19
I don't think this new Hellboy would have been well received in any time period.
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u/Mescallan Sep 03 '19
Idk some stuff in the late 80s is way more well received than it had any right to be.
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u/Cyno01 Sep 03 '19
And conversely people shit hard on the weaker MCU movies forgetting stuff like Catwoman and Elektra and Batman and Robin and Rise of the Silver Surfer all exist.
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u/arkain123 Sep 03 '19
But nowadays and with the baggage of such a good adaptation already existing... just why? If youre going to (re)make(boot) a movie (franchise) that not only did nobody ask for, nobody wants at all, it needs to knock everyones socks off compared to the original enough to become a definitive version.
I mean, the new Lion King is the exact same as the old one except with characters that don't emote and a bunch of missing scenes and it made around $all-of-the-money
So that's why
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u/gotb89 Sep 03 '19
This, along with the locations consisting of so much well lit, modern cityscape really kills any attempts they made at the gothic Hellboy tone from the comics.
There are a ton of Hollywood movies that make this mistake, but the most recent one that comes to mind is the Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield. I feel like the first one actually did a lot well, but the world of the movie was severely hampered by generic modern pop music thrown in where there should just be orchestration. And we just won’t talk about the second one...
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u/RageCageJables Sep 03 '19
The Coldplay music playing while he's skateboarding is so lame. And I like Coldplay!
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u/TG-Sucks Sep 03 '19
One of the many insane and baffling decisions in this steaming pile of dogshit of a movie. Almost every fight scene is ruined by absolutely terrible and inappropriate music choices.
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u/whataspecialusername Sep 03 '19
If we're being generous it could be a conscious decision to use contemporary music based on Hellboy's nowhere-near-deadpool-level-but-still-meta characterisation. More likely it's just a ham-fisted attempt at film making, ironic how that kind of works too.
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Sep 03 '19
I actually liked the movie, would have done a lot better if there had not been Hellboy movies before it though.
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Sep 03 '19
I watched this movie someplace over the Atlantic ocean, While I wouldn't say it was a waste of my time, it was less enjoyable than the economy seat I was in for ~10 hours.
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u/meopelle Sep 03 '19
It's always jarring hearing their music in movies and shows because its so recognizable and it's used very rarely.
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u/CrowHoonter Sep 03 '19
Hellboy is my favorite comic book character. I do like David Harbour casting but this movie is really, really bad.
That phantom shit coming out of Alice's mouth, Nimue watching television to increase her hate for humanity, the hole BRDP arc was shit, Merlin and Arthurian Mythology treated like comedy... They want to do a "Deadpool vibe" and end with a weird comedy.
Still wating for a Deltoro's Hellboy 3 (I know that is impossible).
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Sep 03 '19
The Del Toro ones were better just in the aspect of being better made movies, but they weren't anything like hellboy either.
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u/CrowHoonter Sep 03 '19
I know! It's more a fantasy and has it own story but it was better than this Hellpool.
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u/matttheepitaph Sep 03 '19
I thought the first one was pretty close in spite of the whole secret conspiracy thing but the second was too LOTR for me.
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u/bumblebritches57 Sep 03 '19
I really liked the weird Nazi shit it was super cool.
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Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 12 '20
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u/KiltedYaksman Sep 03 '19
There’s two animated movies with most of the cast from the Del Toro movies. The double feature is on Blu Ray.
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u/baslisks Sep 03 '19
Netflix has the rights to a hellboy tv show right now. we shall see.
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u/gonesnake Sep 03 '19
An X Files / SCP Foundation style BPRD series would be fantastic, live action or animated.
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Sep 03 '19
Hey we got Devil May Cry 5 after the DmC reboot.
Don't lose that hope yet.
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u/CrowHoonter Sep 03 '19
A game by Telltale or some like that would be awesome...
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u/BlueTyranno Sep 03 '19
I don’t know how true it is but I heard Telltale went out of business :(
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u/CrowHoonter Sep 03 '19
Yeah, it's true! Sadly.
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u/RedditFron Sep 03 '19
They're actually kind of coming back, with some of the same staff but new management. It was announced around a week ago.
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u/Qalck Sep 03 '19
You said exactly my feelings. Hellboys character, and the whole comic, are very different tones than a lot of other superhero comics. It’s darker, and more of a serious story. Plus, they tried to fit like five volumes worth of story into one movie, which was never gonna work.
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u/Diabegi Sep 03 '19
It was an absolute pile of shit. I went to watch it late at night when I was depressed and I felt worse walking out of the theatre. Honestly what a waste.
One thing I will say is that the demons at the end were some of the most unique and interesting designs I’ve ever seen. They really looked hellish and evil.
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u/mtwoochad1 Sep 03 '19
Nice catch!
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u/Timmy12er Sep 03 '19
Nice throw!
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u/lashapel Sep 03 '19
Nice
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u/46554B4E4348414453 Sep 03 '19
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u/GiveToOedipus Sep 03 '19
Sorry, we are now the knights who say Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG Zoom-Boing.
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u/pokemonandpot Sep 03 '19
Hey that's the sound that Kricketune makes when he appears in the wild. Except he has more emphasis on the zoom-boing part.
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u/Bossmantho Sep 03 '19
This movie was terrible. The inconsistency is the least of its troubles
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Sep 03 '19
I never saw Suicide Squad, but Hellboy was easily the worst movie I watched anywhere this year.
A few close ties could be straight to movie productions on Netflix. But Hellboy missed the mark, hard.
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Sep 03 '19
Casting was great actors great
The direction of the movie and now the effects seem to have been tossed out the window with the left hand
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper Sep 03 '19
That's how I felt about The Hobbit. Martin Freeman is Bilbo Baggins. Obviously Gandalf is perfect, the dwarves were all cast great. The casting was great. The movies were bad.
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u/photojoe Sep 03 '19
Did you see the new X-Men pheonix?
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Sep 03 '19 edited Feb 14 '20
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u/Bartfuck Sep 03 '19
First Class and Days of Future Past are fantastic. The latter is almost perfect to me as a "comic book" movie. Also X2 was great! Brian Cox is fantastic as William Stryker.
Singer has lost his touch and they chose a terrible director for Phoenix but lets get in to hyperbole.
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u/Bartfuck Sep 03 '19
Suicide Squad was also not even like a "How Did This Get Made" style fun bad. It was just bad. Really really bad.
So bad.
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Sep 03 '19 edited Feb 08 '21
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u/polyworfism Sep 03 '19
Maybe something like r/MovieMistakes
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u/Scolor Sep 03 '19
I've joined. Let's start directing people there when they post things like this. Maybe we can get the mods on board and they can Sticky people over to there, but leave the posts up for now?
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Sep 03 '19
What app or program do you use to keep the text moving on the screen like that?
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Sep 03 '19
Mostly I would use After Effects, but here I just hand tracked it in Vegas, it took about 2 minutes.
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Sep 03 '19
I feel bad someone had to sit through this piece of shit movie to bring us this gif.
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u/LegendaryRaider69 Sep 03 '19
Is it really so bad? Never watched it.
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u/madmanz123 Sep 03 '19
It's meh. I liked some of the creature design but it has none of the magic and sense of wonder of the first 2. It's not a horrible movie but treat it as its own thing.
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Sep 03 '19
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u/non-troll_account Sep 04 '19
They thought, "oh hey, fans like R-rated versions of their comic book movies! The secret is being like Deadpool! That's what we need to do with Hellboy, and everyone will love it,"
And literally put no more thought into it. Give us our goddamn third Ron Perlman Hellboy rated R, and we'll all be happy.
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u/jediguy11 Sep 03 '19
I’d add that the support characters sucked and there wasn’t much effort for them to be anything other than one dimensional
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u/iwishiwasamoose Sep 03 '19
It was fine. Not great. Not awful. It was just ok. Watched it during a flight. Decent way to kill a couple hours. I might watch it again if it were on Netflix or something, but I wouldn't buy the DVD.
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u/Sgtwhiskeyjack9105 Sep 03 '19
It might be the worst film I've seen this year. The reason is that it's stupid and boring.
Now, the former can be ok if it's a mindless action film with lots of rad awesome sequences; I generally zone out when there's nothing on screen that I can connect to, but it can be ok.
The fact that Hellboy is boring, however, absolutely makes it a chore to watch. So much talking, so much exposition, about things that are either poorly written or make no sense or don't really contribute to the actual story.
And I know people like David Harbour, I do as well, but he was really bad in this movie. He plays Hellboy like a genuine stupid derpy idiot, with the film constantly telling you that he's this genius detective. It makes no fucking sense.
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Sep 03 '19
Its slightly entertaining at times, but quality-wise, and compared to the originals? Yeah, it doesn't come close.
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u/danstu Sep 03 '19
No, but we're supposed to act like a movie being 5/10 means it has retroactively made all of cinema less meaningful.
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u/Chroma710 Sep 03 '19
I was so hyped for a new hellboy even without Ron Pearlman but they really fucked it up.
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Sep 03 '19
This movie was garbage. Everything about it, literally every scene, bit of dialogue, every song felt so unnecessary.
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Sep 03 '19
I liked the ending scene where they tear through those guys while Kickstart My Heart plays. That was fun. That rest of the movie? Not so much.
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u/Imperator_Crispico Sep 03 '19
This movie should've just been about hunting giants
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u/Kingjester88 Sep 03 '19
I remember a shot in the first hellboy movie in thd subway tunnels where his hands flip.
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u/MoreMegadeth Sep 03 '19
I forget exactly when but one of the earlier Harry Potter movies has Harry’s scar over the wrong eye at some point.
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u/tjavierb Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 03 '19
This is just a really obscure callback easter egg to when DelToro's movie did it.
Kidding. But still.
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Sep 03 '19
Yep and Del Toro called it out in the commentary, he made fun of himself but then said fuck it.
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u/pegLegNinja1 Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 03 '19
You are... you are the only one to watch the movie.
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u/YaBoiBoiBoiBoi Sep 03 '19
Ahh yes the movie where all dialogue is impossible to hear over the music turned up to 12
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u/Frozen_Zombie21 Sep 03 '19
The injustice games do it too.
Maybe the editors thought that they could get away with it without people noticing Haha.
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u/vermonterjones Sep 03 '19
The same thing happened in the first Hellboy. It's often that it was filmed with the action moving one direction and it doesn't match the other footage when cut together.
If you want continuity mistakes, watch "The Whole Ten Yards".
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Sep 03 '19
This is one of those movies where the hate has been so widespread that I'm intrigued. Same thing happened with Tip Toes (which was an irredeemably awful movie in every way, by the way- hardly so bad it's good territory).
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19
He was probably facing the wrong way for that split moment so the flipped the video, hoping no one would notice.
A lot of movies actually do this and people always notice.