Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

There are basic elements of these movies that you probably took for truth just because you've seen them over and over, for decades.

• By Ricardo Oskam, Martin Olsen
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• September 14, 2016

What the balls happened to this genre? How is it that the original 'Blair Witch' managed to remain the highest-grossing found footage film by a large margin?

• By David Christopher Bell
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• September 13, 2016

Let's take a moment to celebrate the projects that only got made because the filmmakers went a little crazy.

• By Raoni Lacerda, T.D. Woodward, Adam Koski, Mitch Anderson
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• September 11, 2016

The greatest horror protagonists are actually the actors in the background that we get only a glimpse of before we go back to the main story about unsafe summer camp conditions.

• By Daniel Dockery
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• September 10, 2016

Characters in movies say things all the time that you and I don't say, because our lives aren't dictated by a script some coke-head wrote out on a napkin at Starbucks.

• By Felix Clay
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• September 09, 2016

The MCU has avoided dealing with some of the inevitable life-changing implications of its stories.

• By Stephan Roget
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• September 06, 2016

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

• By Adam Koski, Markos Hasiotis, Nathan Wadowski
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• September 04, 2016

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.

• By Isaac Cabe
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• September 04, 2016

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.

• By Carolyn Burke
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• September 02, 2016

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.

• By Tara Marie
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• September 02, 2016

She's really kind of a few steps away from becoming George Lucas too.

• By Amanda Mannen
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• August 31, 2016

Some blockbusters have surprisingly rich layers of meaning hidden under all those one-liners and explosions.

• By JM McNab
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• August 29, 2016

The insanity of these shows deserve to be documented, so that our descendants can look back on us and figure out exactly where we failed them.

• By Daniel Dockery
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• August 27, 2016

Drive-in theaters seem cool. But what went wrong with the whole automotive theater experience?

• By Evan V. Symon
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• August 27, 2016

Whether they made a masterpiece or a turd, apparently 'Sausage Party' was done by treating the animators like trash.

• By Christina H
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• August 25, 2016