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* ''Franchise/TransformersFilmSeries'':

** [[http://movieweb.com/ghost-in-shell-movie-2017-video-clip-water-fight/ This Movieweb article]] includes the following sentence: ''" The Major's "shell" can render her completely invisible, blending seamlessly into any environment. While we don't know much about the character whom The Major is fighting, he is clearly out-matched, as The Ghost sends this man flying back farther and farther with each powerful punch and kick."'' This seems to indicate the reviewer of the preview clip in question thinks the Major's also called "The Ghost", is the specific "Ghost" of the title, or at least that her ability to turn invisible in her cybernetic body is somehow what the title is referring to. In actuality, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell the title of the original manga]] is a ShoutOut to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine old science fiction novel]], which is referencing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine philosophy concept]]; and further, in the franchise itself, "ghost" is a generic term (read: not referring to any ''one'' character) for the sentient, sapient part of the mind that makes us (legally) human, regardless of whether or not you've had "enhancements". This is the cyberpunk equivalent of calling Frankenstein's Monster just "{{Frankenstein}}"...and much like that common error, it would have been easily avoided by ''Googling'' for basic information about the story.

* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, send subliminal messages to children that are watching them, and usually falling in really bad cases of CriticalResearchFailure. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorous for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "Gender Ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po, or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]], has two fathers. He blatantly ignored the fact that Mr. Ping was Po's adoptive father ''since the beginning of the series'', and Po has found his true father in the third film. Adinolfi did not even apology to angered fans of the film, insisting that he found the film's message to be deviating.

* Some articles about ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' assert that the "a bunch of others we don't need to mention" joke, during which images from various canceled or somewhat controversial ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' lines [[{{Blipvert}} flash on screen]], was a show of SelfDeprecation on LEGO's part, and that the lines in question (for example ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', ''Toys/{{Fabuland}}'' and ''LEGOFriends'') were some of their biggest failures. While it is true that the LEGO fandom is [[BrokenBase seriously divided]] over these lines and some of them have attracted quite a furious {{Hatedom}}, most of them were ''far'' from failures. ''Fabuland'' and ''BIONICLE'' have devoted followings despite the former having been canceled since the '80s, and the latter was one of the company's most successful and top-selling non-licensed properties (not to mention a LongRunner among the action-oriented themes, returning in 2015 for another planned three years), having played a huge part in saving LEGO from going out of business during the early 2000s -- the exact opposite of a failure. The joke was really either the creators poking fun at them or [[spoiler: a reference to how Finn can't play with them since he might not own any of the toys]].

* The Parents Television Council's [[http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/moviereviews/PTC/2006/friedworms.asp review of the film version]] of ''HowToEatFriedWorms'' opens with the following statement: "The beloved children's classic ... has come to life in this faithful adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's novel." If the movie is so faithful, how do they explain the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Eat_Fried_Worms_(film)#Differences_from_the_book differences from the book]] listed on the Wikipedia article?

* A common error is to conflate Disney with Pixar. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the Website/YouTube video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNZ_Nblrs Pixar Trivia]], supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar moviea" -- but one of them was from ''Planes'', which although set in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'' universe, was made by Disney, not Pixar.[[note]]And in any case, a lot of them are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movie.[[/note]] Even worse, many of the more ignorant commenters complained of the "absence" of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' -- nothing remotely to do with Pixar.

** A magazine article on ''The Force Awakens'' featured a graphic of Rey and Finn running from the laser fire of... an X-Wing... which is facing ''away'' from the reader.

** Happens to some elements in ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens]]'', due to the fact that they're similar but not the same as elements from the original trilogy. Jakku is often mistaken for fellow desert planet Tatooine, and Kylo Ren is often mistaken for a Sith Lord (or even Darth Vader himself).

** In a 2006 cosmology book called ''Our Almost Impossible Universe'' the author cites the aliens probably aren't bad saying "It's not like Darth Vadar is going to come down and get us"(sic) which illustrates a real lack of knowledge of the six released Star Wars Movies by 2006, and equating Vader more closely with [[Film/FlashGordon1980 Ming the Merciless]].

** In a 2006 cosmology book called ''Our Almost Impossible Universe'' the author cites the aliens probably aren't bad saying "It's not like Darth Vadar is going to come down and get us"(sic) which illustrates a real lack of knowledge of the six released Star Wars Movies by 2006, and equating Vader more closely with [[Film/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless]].

* The MovieGuide.org review of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. It also claims that "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."

** It's not uncommon to hear people talk about "Dark Vader", "Hans Solo". Even the actors are prone to such mistakes: Creator/JamesEarlJones made the [[http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-01-22-james-earl-jones_N.htm "Dark Vader" mistake]] when referring to his character, and Creator/CarrieFisher referred to Padmé as "Princess Amidala" in a Newsweek interview.

** Vader ''is'' called "[[DubNameChange Dark Vador]]" in most French versions, which causes ''even more'' of this trope in different French-speaking regions. In France, due to the name's use of GratuitousEnglish (compared to "Darth Vader" not being a very language-specific name itself), quite a few French fans mistakenly label "Dark Vador" as the original English name. Meanwhile, in French Canada, [[InconsistentDub both the English and French names are used]] (with the French name no longer used in official material translated there), causing some people to mix up the two names, leading once again to the "Dark Vader" mistake or variations thereof.[[note]]A French-Canadian movie site, for example, has many reviews referring to the character as "Darth Vader", "Dark Vader" or "Darth Vador" but never "Dark Vador".[[/note]]

** And of course, the countless amounts of people that claim the film is the first R-rated comic book movie despite the dozens upon dozens released in the past, with the honor of being the first (or at least first major release) being ''FilmTheCrow''.

** On the other hand, you have various websites that are also guilty of this who are attempting to defend the films by saying that "everything not in the book comes from the appendices." Well, not everything. Tauriel is a completely original character, meaning that the love triangle between herself, Legolas and Kili is purely an invention by Jackson and company, not to mention most of what goes on in Laketown. Alfrid is also an original character, as are Bard's children. Also, Azog fought Thorin's ''grandfather'', not Thorin himself, and was long dead by the time the story began, and Radagast never meets Thorin and Company.

* Armond White (a film critic who is infamous for panning acclaimed movies and acclaiming panned movies) wrote in his negative review about ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': "The toys wage battle with the daycare center's cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center, he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. Oh, and even more importantly, he's not, nor has he ever been a villain. (A bit of a {{Jerkass}}, yes, but not a villain.) Possibly, he saw Hamm being portrayed as a villain in young Andy's playful imagination at the start of the movie and somehow confused this with the rest of the movie. Also, the villain's name is Lots'''o''' Hugg'''in''' Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.
* In Armond White's review of ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement: 1. The brief narration is done by Creator/SamuelLJackson, who has a distinctive voice to anyone who watches movies. 2. The narration is in English, where Marcel appears to speak only French, 3. There is no narration in the penultimate chapters. The two times Jackson narrates are near the center of the film. Which is of course all lost on the poor basterds who only get to see the film badly dubbed into French/German/Russian/Urdu/... Oh, and [[spoiler:Marcel is implied to die at the end of the film, as all exits are blocked, and he is at the heart of the conflagration.]]

* Before the release of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', a caller to the Radio/RushLimbaugh show claimed that the main villain, Bane, was a derogatory reference to Bain Capital, which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney once ran. This despite the fact that Bane first appeared as a character in 1993, when Romney was running Bain, but the name wouldn't have had much significance to the general public. This got so bad that several people involved in the movie had to [[DeniedParody deny it]].

* ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' was described by a TV magazine as "in a fantasy world, a girl searches the magic dust that enables travelling between worlds." Funny how the movie never even gets to that point in the [[HisDarkMaterials book series]].

* The book ''Film in Australia: An Introduction'' by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth screwed up its section on ''Lantana.'' Apparently, they chose to get most of the cast's names from the end credits instead of actually paying attention to the film, and in the process failed to notice that the cast were billed in order of appearance. Thus, they referred to Vince Colosimo's character Nik D'amato as Steve Valdez and his wife Paula as Lisa, who were the fourth and fifth billed characters, right after Leon, Sonja and Jane (three points of the film's love square), but were fairly unimportant to the story. More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Peter Phelps' character Alex instead of Patrick, even though there's no character by that name in the film. Ironically, they still got most of the plot details right.

* The malevolent entity of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' is a demon, ''not'' a ghost. This hasn't stopped some people - even people who have seen the film(s) - from claiming otherwise.
** The Netflix description of ''Paranormal Activity 3'' says it is a sequel instead of a ''prequel'' to the series, and that ''[=PA4=]'' takes place five years after ''[=PA3=]'' instead of ''[=PA2=]''.
* Advance leaks in the press before ''Film/EyesWideShut'''s release had it that Tom Cruise's character had sex with a woman next to her father's corpse. The press severely garbled the scene in which Cruise's character visited a woman to pay condolences after her father's death. There was no corpse present, and though she tried to hit on him and was immediately rebuffed, there was no sex in that scene.

* A small but still irksome example: In an article covering ''RepoTheGeneticOpera'', Fangoria repeatedly referred to Terrance Zdunich's character as "Gravedigger."