Movies & TV
13 Fictional Mentors Whose Teachings Were Utterly Useless
The fictional mentor creed: Phone it in and hopefully they'll die.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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7 Movie Violence Tropes (That Are BS IRL)
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- By Ricardo Oskam, Martin Olsen
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5 Deeply Troubling Questions The Marvel Movies Don't Address
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- By Stephan Roget
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 'FUN FACTS' About Movies That Are Extremely Not Facts
The following pieces of trivia have been repeated so often that they've all been accepted as fact, even though in reality they're just as stupid
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- By Adam Koski, Markos Hasiotis, Nathan Wadowski
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6 Beloved Kids' Characters Who Received Baffling Reboots
While children need to learn that life isn't all baby-powered sunshine and rainbows, we're still pretty sure we could've done without these.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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Super Dark Deleted Scenes You Won't Believe Existed At All
Sometimes cutting scenes can save a movie from epic stupidity. And sometimes cutting scenes can save these films from plunging into a bottomless hole of sadness.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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5 Famous Sci-Fi Devices That Totally Ignore Actual Science
Just like in the real world, these fanciful Hollywood inventions would have terrible unforeseen consequences that would make living in a sci-fi universe a waking nightmare.
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- By Tara Marie
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21 Cringeworthy Moments In Otherwise Great Films
Hey, you can't get it right all the time, you know?
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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7 Films With Symbolism You Didn't Notice (And Can't Unsee)
Some blockbusters have surprisingly rich layers of meaning hidden under all those one-liners and explosions.
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- By JM McNab
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7 Random Pieces Of US Culture That Are Weirdly Huge Overseas
Some pop culture just doesn't translate well to foreign audiences. But sometimes the most unexpected pieces of American culture end up being inexplicably huge overseas.
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- By Mark Hill
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JK Rowling Just Undid Every Harry Potter Story You Know
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the new Harry Potter play. Since reading this is way cheaper than taking a plane to London and buying a theater ticket, we thought you wouldn't mind.
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- By JM McNab
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8 On-Set Photos That Break The Spell Of Famous Horror Films
Turns out horror movies are filled with a bunch of regular people. (Terrifyingly regular.)
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- By Carolyn Burke
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5 Insane Game Of Thrones Scenes Deleted From History Books
What's actually dark and full of terrors is the average history book.
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- By Kelly Stone
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10 Batshit Crazy Comic Panels We Couldn't Stop Laughing At
We thought it might be fun to take some of the most inexplicably shithouse crazy panels from comic book history and try to make sense of them through the eyes of someone who's completely unfamiliar with the context.
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- By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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