Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
5 Downsides To Being A Movie Monster Nobody Brings Up
As wild and sexy as werewolves are, the only thing you'd be able to do with them nowadays is put them out of their misery.
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- By Steven D Jackson
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177 6 Barely Noticeable Ways Movies And TV Messed With Your Head
Stanley Kubrick, mad man that he is, mapped out the Overlook to subconsciously mess with the audience's brains.
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- By Adam Wears
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7 Hilariously WTF Ways TV And Movies Dealt With Censorship
When you're trying to avoid showing a lesbian couple on TV, of course the obvious solution is to change their relationship to 'incestuous cousins.'
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Movie Critics Whose Reviews Were Acts Of Pure WTF
Gene Siskel was unnecessarily doxxing people way before the basement-dwelling denizens of Reddit were.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Insanely Topical Movie Lines (That Are Now Just Confusing)
Centuries from now, our grandchildren's grandchildren will be watching beautiful people erotically waterboard one another on the beach, and they'll have no clue where it came from.
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- By Rani Baker, Wes Corwin, James Kinneen, Dan Hopper
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6 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Pranks That Were Total Madness
Here's photographic evidence that the people making our favorite movies and TV shows are some goofy motherflippers.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Unnecessarily Horrifying Episodes Of Beloved Kids Shows
In the same way there's no shortage of horrifying moments in your actual childhood, there are a lot of creeptacular moments in the family friendly shows we used to watch.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Deleted Scenes That Would've Made Movies 10 Times Darker
Thankfully, not every human-turned-furniture needed screen time in the newest 'Beauty And The Beast.'
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- By Jordan Breeding, Nathan Wadowski
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5 Famous Movie Locations (With Horrible Secret Backstories)
It turns out that many movie settings have lives that are just as exciting, and in a few cases, just as tragic, as anything that happened in the films.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Ways Movies Hilariously Misunderstand How The News Works
These fictional newsrooms are run by complete maniacs who shouldn't be trusted with an elementary school newsletter.
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- By Spencer Thew, Sam Hurley, Quinn Knobbe, Mike Bedard, Ed Stevens, S. Aslam
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5 Simple Movie Scenes That Were An Insane Pain To Shoot
Sometimes, it's the simplest things that end up causing the biggest headaches.
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- By Chris Radomile
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6 Hollywood Depictions Of Donald Trump
Trump was the rich bully of his time (and still is), which inspired many fictionalized versions of him as villainous characters meant to symbolize the greed and cynicism of 1980s capitalism.
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- By Cedric Voets
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7 Secret Tricks Movies Use To Convince You They're Mad Deep
These are the equivalent of wearing glasses when you don't need them and using fancy words you don't know the meaning of.
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- By Saikat Bhowmik, Jordan Breeding, Dan Hopper, Avery Hayden Pierce
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7 Iconic Scenes (We Only Got Because The Movie Was Broke)
Obi-Wan only heard millions of voices cry out in terror because George Lucas' wallet was empty.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Great Ideas That Started As Throwaway Jokes
We also look to sci-fi to predict the future, but it turns out we should've been paying closer attention to our comedies.
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- By Michael Dawson , James Kinneen, Michael Garowee, E.M. Caris, Barry Scott
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