History CowboyBebopAtHisComputer / FIlm

* A ''History's Mysteries'' episode on zombies has somebody say that the North American image of zombies was something like "Freddy from ''Friday the 13th''..." Freddy's in ''ANightmareOnElmStreet''. Jason Voorhees is in ''[[FridayTheThirteenth Friday the 13th]]''. At least they could both be considered [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent depending on who you ask]].

* A "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids parent's review]]" of the ''{{Watchmen}}'' [[Film/{{Watchmen}} movie adaptation]], instead of reviewing the actual film, listed every single instance of violence or sexual content without mentioning anything else, then concluded that the ultimate message of the story was that "humankind is inherently savage". What? Even more hilarious, another blurb stated the movie's premise as: "After the death of one of his colleagues, the masked vigilante Rorschach sets out on a mission to kill all superheroes."

*** Though, to be fair, dragons are classically described in English literature as giant serpents.
*** To be accurate, they are depicted in the west as large, winged lizards capable of breathing fire. The above troper appears to be thinking of the eastern dragon.

* A continuity announcer on [=ITV2=] claimed that {{Goldeneye}} was about "Pierce Brosnan running around the Arctic with Famke Janssen trying to save the world (and his libido)." The whole sentence is a research failure, especially considering that ''Famke Janssen's character is a villain from the start.'' Also, the Arctic NEVER appears within the entire movie; it's set in Siberia.

* ''Film/IronMan'', starring Robert Downey Jr. as [[http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/57/1210171758386fy6.png Tony]] [[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22iron+man%22+%22tony+spark%22&rlz=1R2GGLL_en-GBGB376&aq=f&aqi=g-sx10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Spark]]. EVen worse is when the review in Swedish ''Metro'' called him Robert Frost.

* The author of ''The New York Times''' [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/movies/14dvd.html review]] of some remastered RodgersAndHammerstein [=DVDs=] expressed disappointment when he read the back cover of ''{{Carousel}}'' saying that it came with a film adaptation of its predecessor, ''Liliom'', assumed this referred to the 1930 adaptation, but then found himself watching FritzLang's 1934 movie. One must wonder why he felt surprised, since the back DVD cover and the insert listing production notes and DVD features and chapters clearly state list the 1934 adaptation among the bonus features. (Granted, other people anticipated the inclusion of the 1930 movie, but they did so ''before'' obtaining the DVD.)

* The MovieGuide.org review of ''[[SouthPark South Park]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. [[ItGotWorse and]] claimed that and I quote "the whole point of SOUTH PARK is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see SOUTH PARK, [[AnimationAgeGhetto even though it is rated R.]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear]]: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up. "

** This is true of most films with a romantic subplot, no matter how minor. It's automatically labelled as a "romance" or

"romantic comedy", even if the romance in question has no impact on the main story.

* ''Film/IronMan'', starring Robert Downey Jr. as [[http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/57/1210171758386fy6.png Tony]] [[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22iron+man%22+%22tony+spark%22&rlz=1R2GGLL_en-GBGB376&aq=f&aqi=g-sx10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Spark]].

** This is true of most films with a romantic subplot, no matter how minor. It's automatically labelled as a "romance" or "romantic comedy", even if the romance in question has no impact on the main story.

* The MovieGuide.org review of [[SouthPark South Park]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut refers to Big Gay Al as being black. [[ItGotWorse and]] claimed that and I quote "the whole point of SOUTH PARK is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see SOUTH PARK, [[AnimationAgeGhetto even though it is rated R.]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear]]: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up. "

* More Roger Ebert. In [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091223/REVIEWS/912239991 this review]] of Guy Ritchie's SherlockHolmes movie, he accuses the movie of tossing 'aside the deerstalker hat and meerschaum calabash' (neither of which were ever mentioned in the novel) and also that 'Watson has decided for once and all to abandon the intimacy of 221B for the hazards of married life' (he was married at least twice in the books). Also apparently originally Watson was always 'fretful and frightened' - a base libel against Watson who fought bravely in the Afghan war and was always staunchly by Holmes' side whatever the danger.

* There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' is a TimBurton film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''{{The Nightmare Before Christmas}}''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Film/Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it's been [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] in webcomics.

* There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that ''{{Coraline}}'' is a TimBurton film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''{{The Nightmare Before Christmas}}''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it's been [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] in webcomics.

* A talking head on CNBC reported that the then-just released ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' movie had broken the opening box office record held by the movie "{{Aquaman}}". However, ''Aquaman'' was a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] within the universe of ''{{Entourage}}'', and has never actually been made, to say nothing of breaking any box office records.

* The MovieGuide.org review of [[SouthPark South Park]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut refers to Big Gay Al as being black. [[ItGotWorse and]] claimed that and I quote "the whole point of SOUTH PARK is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see SOUTH PARK, even though it is rated R. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear]]: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up. "

* The MovieGuide.org review of [[SouthPark]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut refers to Big Gay Al as being black. [[ItGotWorse and]] claimed that and I quote "the whole point of SOUTH PARK is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see SOUTH PARK, even though it is rated R. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear]]: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up. "

* The MovieGuide.org review of [[SouthPark]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut refers to Big Gay Al as being black. [[ItGotWorse and]] claimed that and I quote "the whole point of SOUTH PARK is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see SOUTH PARK, even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up. "

* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary from [[Film/HowToTrainYourDragon How to Train Your Dragon]]: "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a right of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.

*** Incidentally, Darth Vader ''is'' officially known as Dark Vador in most French-language versions, leading to another straight example of the trope: the universal French dub of the original trilogy uses the aforementioned DubNameChange for Vader (as well as for other characters). However, in [[CanadaEh Quebec]] a local dub of ''RevengeOfTheSith'' was produced that used the original name, and all subsequent French-Canadian material followed suit - even original trilogy-related material (presumably making the French name non-canon in the area). This has lead some French-speaking Quebecers to mix up the two names, calling him "Dark Vader" (as above) or "Darth Vador" in material related to the original trilogy.

*** Incidentally, Darth Vader ''is'' officially known as Dark Vador in most French-language versions, leading to another straight example of the trope: the universal French dub of the original trilogy uses the aforementioned DubNameChange for Vader (as well as for other characters). However, in [[CanadaEh Quebec]] a local dub of ''RevengeOfTheSith'' was produced that used the original name, and all subsequent French-Canadian material followed suit (presumably making the French name non-canon). This has lead some French-speaking Quebecers to mix up the two names, calling him "Dark Vader" (as above) or "Darth Vador".

*** Incidentally, Darth Vader ''is'' officially known as Dark Vador in most French-language versions, leading to another straight example of the trope: the universal French dub of the original trilogy uses the aforementioned DubNameChange for Vader (as well as for other characters), but in Quebec a local dub of ''RevengeOfTheSith'' was produced that used the original name, and all subsequent French-Canadian material followed suit (presumably making the French name non-canon). This has lead some French-speaking Quebecers to mix up the two names, calling him "Dark Vader" (as above) or "Darth Vador".

*** Incidentally, Darth Vader ''is'' officially (and in Canada, [[{{InconsistentDub}} inconsistently]]) known as Dark Vador in most French-language versions.