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7 World-Famous Movie Props That Were Just Thrown Away
One of the overlooked benefits of CGI is that filmmakers have significantly less crap cluttering their sets.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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63 6 Overlooked Details That Turn Beloved Characters Into Jerks
Like flesh-and-blood people, a lot of our most cherished cinematic heroes have weird, disturbing characteristics we somehow chose to overlook.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Bizarrely Specific Things Every Sci-Fi Movie Does
No matter what obscure corner of the galaxy you warp to, some things never change.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Andrea Meno
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5 Very Stupid Things Hollywood Taught You About Fighting
If we could absorb epic fighting skills through movies, we'd still be screwed.
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- By Mark Hill
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Behold, The Freakiest Moment In Sesame Street History
Generations of children have adored Snuffy for his gentleness, but little do they know he harbors a dark, carnivorous secret.
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- By Cracked Writers
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5 Movie Plots That Played Out Unbelievably IRL
Reality isn't stranger than fiction, it's exactly the same.
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- By James Kinneen, Saikat Bhowmik, Daisy Walters, S. Aslam
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8 Traumatizing Early Versions Of Beloved Kids' Characters
It's critically important not to put anything in a kids' movie that could accidentally scar children for life. Sometimes it takes Hollywood a few drafts before they nail it.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 Superhero Movies With Baffling Tie-In Products
Every now and then, someone tries to get creative, and the results are so bizarre that they make you want to skip the movie out of spite.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 WTF Book Scenes Wisely Left Out Of The Movie Versions
Some books contained scenes so nonsensical, stupid, or dong-filled that filmmakers didn't even try to put them in their adaptations.
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- By Matt Cowan
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7 Famous Shows That Were Total Chaos Behind The Scenes
The reality is usually that these actors barely tolerated each other, and things only deteriorate from there.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Movies And Shows That Explained Plot Holes (In 6 Bonkers Ways)
We get that movies aren't real. But that doesn't stop us from demanding as much logical consistency as possible.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Screwed-Up Messages Hidden In Famous Sci-Fi Films
Some unexpected films actually contain interesting commentary on the world around us.
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- By Alex Hanton, Daniel Dunne
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6 Alt Endings That Would've Changed Everything
Some stories have been so thoroughly altered that the finished product is the exact opposite of what the original writer planned.
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- By Brendan Day, Nathan Wadowski
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GI Joe: The Pro-War Toy Based On An Anti-War Movie
The real G.I. Joe was nothing like his plastic counterpart. Yes, there was a real G.I. Joe.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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5 People Who Ran Side Hustles While Making Movies
Once you've made it, the hustle is finished ... but some Hollywood big shots never stop hustlin'.
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- By Mark Hill
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