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* One of the YouTube comments on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epZxUhCE5l8 this video]] is basically "Jake La Motta is not pleased" despite the fact that the video is a reference to RobertDeNiro's role as Travis Bickle in TaxiDriver and not Jake La Motta in ''Goodfellas''.

* One of the YouTube comments on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epZxUhCE5l8 this video]] is basically "Jake LaMotta is not pleased" despite the fact that the video is a reference to Robert DeNiro's role as Travis Bickle in TaxiDriver and not Jake LaMotta in Goodfellas.

** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review for ''[[Film/{{X-Men}} X2: X-Men United]]'' by Stephen Hunter of ''The Washington Post'' it quickly became clear that he [[DidNotDoTheResearch did not bother to watch the movie]], or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind." He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]).

** Another blame for this is the InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt for ''Nightmare''. (In other words, its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas''. Mind you, Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' of that movie as he was busy directing ''BatmanReturns'' at the same time.)

* The Netflix blurb for Kingdom of Heaven states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade-it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land *from* Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century.

* Marcus Berkmann in the ''Daily Telegraph'' reviewed ''BatmanAndRobin'' without, apparently, bothering to see the movie, as he confidently informed readers that Mr. Freeze was motivated to avenge the death of his wife, whereas in the movie the fact that his wife is very much alive (albeit, y'know, frozen) at the beginning and end of the film is an important plot point.

* A review of ''Fanboys'' by Robert Wilonsky shows that he neglected to watch the full film. At this point in time to save from possible spoilers here is the link to the review for those of you who have seen the movie [[http://www.movietome.com/pages/tracking/index.php?tid=23&ref_id=362251]]

** For Transformers 3, we have Movie Juice's negative review that tells us that you can disguise the fact you didn't watch a film with a series of jokes about it. The reviewer called Megan Fox a Decepticon, made jokes about Rosie Huntington Whitely wearing tight dresses and high heels during battle scenes including the scene with the colapsing building, and made several jokes about how silly a lot of the character's names are. To those who haven't seen the film, let me explain these problems: Megan Fox was a human girl in the first film who sided with the good guys, the Decepticon's are ''aliens'' and ''bad guys''. RHW did wear a couple of form fitting dresses and high heels in one scene that you could call a fight scene, but that was between humans, consisted of two holding one down while a third punched him, and her involvement in the scene was her leaving a party and being abducted by a Decepticon before she's even left the premisis. The collapsing building scene is right after she's been rescued, to which she's already changed into more casual clothing. The characters with funny names are all ''alien robots'', it would be weird if they ''didn't'' have alien sounding names. This was, of course, not helped by the reviewer basically trolling anyone who called them out on it.

* 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 ''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.

** Another blame for this is the InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt for ''Nightmare''. (In other words, its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas''. Mind you, Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' of that movie as he was busy directing ''Film/{{Batman}} Returns'' at the same time.)

** In fairness, he was probably too busy looking up synonyms for "soul-destroyingly bad" to remember all the little details of the flick.

*** To be fair, look at your keyboard. The E and R keys ''are'' right next to each other. It's not like otherwise-innocent typographical errors have never slipped by a writer and a publisher before, so this might well be excusable.

*** Actually the ''book'' was anarchist, the movie really wasn't. The author wasn't too happy about the movie making turning the struggle of the anarchist V working against evil in general into only a struggle against modern right-wing extremists.

*** ''Only'' one line?

* [[http://animatedviews.com/2011/superman-the-motion-picture-anthology-blu-ray-collection/ This review]] of the ''{{Film/Superman}}'' Motion Picture Anthology Blu-Ray keeps crediting Bud Collyer as the lead of the 1940s serials and portrayer of Lois Lane's father in the extended version of the first movie. However, Bud Collyer voiced Superman in the radio series, as well as some cartoons from the 1940s and '60s. Kirk Alyn actually acted as the lead in the serials, and Lois' father in the first movie.

* The ''Christian Review'' website complained in their review of ''{{Shrek}} 2'' that Donkey having children with Dragon implied that he was a "Freewheeling playboy" despite the fact that Dragon is the only romantic partner he has and that two people who love each other having children is [[OlderThanDirt something that's gone on for ages untold.]] They didn't seem to have a problem with the end of ''ChickenRun'' though, in which the island the chickens land on is swarming with chicks, despite the fact that Rocky is the only fertile rooster in the bunch...

* David Edelstein, reviewing the ''{{Bewitched}}'' movie in ''Slate'': "Using R.E.M.'s impassioned 'Everybody Hurts' -- written by Michael Stipe after the suicide of Kurt Cobain -- to underscore shots of Kidman and Ferrell feeling blue about their inability to pair off is an aesthetic crime." Take Th... uh, wait a minute, that song was recorded in 1992, while Cobain died in 1994. In fact, the album that "Everybody Hurts" is on, ''Automatic for the People'', was found in Cobain's stereo and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kurt_Cobain#Discovery_of_Cobain.27s_body was apparently the last album he ever listened to]]. To his credit, [[http://www.slate.com/id/2121389/ Edelstein quickly issued a (very snotty) retraction.]] "I don't like having to change something after it's published." Dude, then don't make a mistake on an easily checkable fact.

* Roger Ebert's review of ''{{Labyrinth}}'' contains this quote: "One of the key characters in this film is Toby (played by Toby Froud). Froud is a midget who has been given a Muppet head to wear." The character he's thinking of is Hoggle, played by Shari Weiser. Toby is Sarah's baby brother, played by non-midget baby Toby Froud.

** A review decried the fact that Arwen gets such a small role (whereas in the books, she has all of ''one line'', near the end of ''Return of the King''). Another assumed that Eowyn's killing of the Witch-king was an [[AffirmativeActionGirl expansion of her role in the books]], but her role in the film was actually reduced for the films. In the film, she kills the Nazgul Lord and sort-of-generally pines for Aragorn. In the book, she slays the Nazgul Lord and delivers a badass speech on how men get all the glory and heroism, whereas women's right is, once men fail, "to be slaughtered at the threshold of our own home."

* the repeated insistences that the flying ship in {{Stardust}} is original to the movie and not featured in the book. While Gaiman doesn't elaborate on Tristran and Yvaine's adventure on the ship, its captain has a different name and it isn't a pirate ship, it does in fact appear in the book, and serves roughly the same purpose in the plot

* Siskel and Ebert had never heard of WeirdAlYankovic when ''{{UHF}}'' came out, and derisively assumed that his name sounded so ridiculous that it had to be a made-up name like "Yahoo Serious" ("Weird Al" is indeed a nickname, but Yankovic is his real last name). Their entire perception of the film seemed to be colored by thinking of Al as basically being Yahoo Serious.

* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.

* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.
* When CBS ran YellowSubmarine for the first time on October 29, 1972, it warranted a "close-up" in TV Guide, which listed "Only A Northern Song" among the songs featured. The song was featured in the film as released theatrically, but CBS edited it and the sequence out. (CBS really cut the film to ribbons when they screened it just to accomodate a 90-minute broadcast window.)

* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.

* Movie cirtic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.