History CoversAlwaysLie / LiveActionFilms

* [[https://cdn.europosters.eu/image/750/posters/james-bond-007-a-view-to-a-kill-i3427.jpg One poster for]] ''Film/AViewToAKill'' clearly exaggerates on May Day's height, as Creator/GraceJones is tall, but not enough to almost reach Creator/RogerMoore, even with the heels.

* ''Film/TheMeg'': The poster exaggerates the size of the Megalodon quite a bit, making it seem to be the size of a blue whale when it's actually the equivalent size of a modern whale shark.

** The 2011 Echo Bridge release of the film on Blu-ray mistakenly included a picture of Rebecca Gayheart on the back cover even though she doesn't actually appear in the film. The picture was taken from the prequel ''[[Film/FromDuskTillDawn3TheHangmansDaughter The Hangman's Daughter]]''.

* The Hong Kong war epic ''Film/AnEmpressAndTheWarriors'' depicts Leon Lai's character clad in armor similar to Creator/DonnieYen's and KellyChen's, and facing the enemy army in the wide deser, implying he will join the Royal Army at some point or at least put on armor and enter the battlefield. Nope, his character is a Robin Hood-esque thief who spends the whole movie in casual clothing and never leaves his forest.

* Star Trek

* One the most widespread movie poster images for ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' depicts a space battle between the Enterprise and the Regula I space station instead of the stolen starship Reliant. Regula I was an unarmed science research station.

* The cover of a live-action adaptation of ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' made the movie seem like any other nice, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids kid-friendly]] movie about {{talking animal}}s. The plot summary on the back even used words like "delightful" and "charming" in its description...

* In the advertisements for ''Film/Eurotrip'' former Hollywood adorable moppet Michelle Tractenberg's burgeoning beauty is heavily played up, the Special Edition DVD/Bluescreen cover even implying a scene where she strips off her bikini. In fact she's the only one of the main cast who never gets naked onscreen, even when her character flashes motorists for a lift we never see anything.

* The [[http://www.disneystore.com/adventure-movies-entertainment-return-to-oz-dvd/mp/1312587/1013316/ cover]] for the DVD release of ''Film/ReturnToOz''. There, we see Dorothy, Billina, Tik Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead flying over The Gump, but then you see the Tin Woodsman among them... Why? The Tin Man appears about a total of a minute or so in the whole movie, he doesn't take any important part in the plot and doesn't even have lines. Someone in the Design Department for some reason photoshopped the Tin Woodsman in there...

* The [[http://content6.flixster.com/movie/10/98/65/10986520_det.jpg cover]] of the film ''Slaughter In The Ring'' declares the star of the film to be a muscular fellow named Lee Van Dorn....except no one named Lee Van Dorn is in the movie. The cover also features a blonde woman holding a shotgun who doesn't appear in the movie, and the back cover has a picture of a funeral scene that is nowhere to be found in the film.

* Of the five "[[http://gamesyouloved.com/media/178857/pixels_movie_arcade_posters.jpg Arcade posters]]" for ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', three show the aliens attacking cities they don't even visit in the film itself, and two have VideoGame/PacMan and VideoGame/DonkeyKong as an AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever instead of being barely twice the height of human as they are in the film. Moreover, Donkey Kong is seen attacking a city, while in the movie [[spoiler:he's the final boss and doesn't leave the Mothership.]]

* [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T1/images/I/819MESTxxrL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg This VHS cover]] of ''Film/{{Julius Caesar|1970}}'' starring Creator/CharltonHeston. The problem: the cover art proclaims that Heston plays Caesar; he actually plays ''Mark Antony''. Just because he has top billing doesn't generally mean he played the title character.

* This [[https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cloud-Tim-Mcgraw/dp/B0013VC8SC DVD cover]] for the boxing film ''Film/BlackCloud''. Although Cloud is the main character, of the four characters displayed he is pushed all the way to the back. Music/TimMcGraw and Ricky Schroder occupy more of the cover than the protagonists.

* ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor'' is a drama about the massive breakout of prisoners from a Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland in 1943. At least one particularely puzzling poster depicts its most recognizable star Creator/RutgerHauer (who plays a captured Red Army soldier) in a wife beater and holding a {{BFG}} while he runs away from a huge explosion. Needless to say it's far from an 80s action film...

* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' has this problem since it’s poster, DVD cover and [[NeverTrustATrailer general advertising]] from Touchstone Pictures portray it as some kind of supernatural PsychologicalHorror film à la ''Film/TheSixthSense''. While the film is dark, somber and frightening at times it’s actually a {{Superhero}} film at its core, but that doesn’t come across in its official covers [[note]] keep in mind back then superheroes movies in the weren’t the box office juggernauts they are nowadays [[/note]]. The advertising also effected ''Unbreakable'' [[VindicatedByHistory initial]] critical response with some detractors believing they’d been tricked into watching a superhero movie, director Creator/MNightShyamalan also blames Touchstone Pictures marketing for some of the backlash to the film upon release. Although regardless the film was still a success, became a cult classic, won multiple awards and [[SequelGap eventually]] got a [[Film/{{Glass}} sequel]].

* ''Film/TheMagicCrystal'' have it's posters depicting the titular object glowing blue. In the film itself it glows green.

* The [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fd1FInwiL._SS500_.jpg Blu-Ray DVD cover]] for ''Film/NearDark'' is apparently meant to appeal to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fans, who may be in for a bit of a shock.

* [[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1057/4964/products/goldfinger-vintage-movie-poster-original-french-mini-16x23-6286.jpg?v=1621437074 This French poster]] of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' shows Bond seemingly overpowering Oddjob. That's not the case in the film, Oddjob easily {{no sell}}s Bond's physical attacks (he only manages to kill Oddjob when electrifying bars with a loose electric cable).

* The original poster for ''Film/TheFinalSacrifice'' depicts
a warrior holding a sword in a mystical city. Neither the warrior nor the sword show up in the film, though the city does appear to resemble the Ziox civilization model seen briefly at the end of the movie.

** A different release of the film, ''Quest for the Lost City'', depicts ''[[Evita, none]]'' of the actual actors in the film and appears to depict a Grecian ruin as the supposed city. In fact, the only thing on the cover that does appear in the film is the crude map that starts the plot in the first place.

* The original poster for ''Film/TheFinalSacrifice'' depicts [[http://www.cultreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The-Final-Sacrifice-poster.jpg a warrior holding a sword in a mystical city]]. Neither the warrior nor the sword show up in the film, though the city does appear to resemble the Ziox civilization model seen briefly at the end of the movie.
** A different release of the film, ''Quest for the Lost City'', depicts ''[[http://www.cultreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The-Final-Sacrifice-poster-1.jpg none]]'' of the actual actors in the film and appears to depict a Grecian ruin as the supposed city. In fact, the only thing on the cover that does appear in the film is the crude map that starts the plot in the first place.