Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
If The Hobbit Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
RICHARD ARMITAGE: That does it, Manu, I'm challenging you! There's no way we'd do an entire movie without accomplishing SOME benchmark, so either YOU'RE gonna die, or I'M gonna die, or at least SOMEONE will ACTUALLY ACHIEVE SOMETHING!
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- By The Editing Room
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849 The 6 Dumbest Mistakes of Supposedly Smart Movie Characters
Some of these characters, in the midst of using their wits to topple complicated obstacles, manage to inexplicably overlook some painfully obvious things that come back to bite them directly on their brilliant asses.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Alex Race, T.D. Woodward
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6 Insane Disney Comics You Won't Believe Are Real
Is it still amazing to see that there was a time when Disney had no problem depicting Mickey Mouse getting venereal diseases and attempting shotgun suicide? You bet!
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- By Drew Anderson
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6 Unknown Artists Who Made All of Our Favorite Movie Moments
These people have worked tirelessly to help create some of your favorite moments in film, only to have their names scroll by in eight-point font while the audience files out, or, at best, patiently waits for that five-second scene where Iron Man eats a burrito.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Actors Who Play the Exact Same Role in Multiple Movies
Some actors find themselves in the same oddly specific situations in different movies. Not because they're typecast, but seemingly by pure coincidence.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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If 'Django' Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
CHRISTOPH shoots all the SLAVE TRADERS and FOUR GALLONS OF BLOOD spurt onto the screen, followed by SIX MORE GALLONS of BLOOD.
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- By The Editing Room
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6 Deleted Backstories That Totally Change Classic Movies
Sometimes important stuff is cut from films, and sometimes that stuff includes character moments and backstories that kind of change the whole way you look at the film.
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- By Robin Warder, Patrick Thomas
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5 Little-Known Sequels That Ruined Iconic Stories
These are the sequels that seem like they were written by someone whose only knowledge of the original came from overhearing a drunk hobo explain the plot an hour before their assignment was due.
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- By Anthony Scibelli
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The 5 Most Badass Movie Scenes That Happened in Real Life
Sometimes, real life does in fact resemble a Michael Bay movie, only minus the giant robots (usually).
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- By Xavier Jackson
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- 534
The 5 Craziest Ways Famous Actors Got Into Character
Actors are crazy, yes, but these actors adopted a special kind of "woo-hoo" and turned it into genius.
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- By Carl Hoff
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6 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
Here are six locations with more robust IMDb pages (and better managers, apparently) than 80 percent of Hollywood.
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- By Erik Germ
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The 5 Most Baffling Pieces of Christmas Themed Fan Fiction
Without further ado, let's see the genital-shriveling ways your favorite characters celebrate the holidays.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Ways 'Inspector Gadget' Totally Predicted the Future
Despite originally airing in the early '80s and having a shamelessly implausible cartoon premise, this cartoon managed to correctly predict more trends in the modern world than most serious speculative fiction novels.
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- By Chapman Templer
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- 425
6 Terrible Plans in Movies That Just Sort of Work Out
We suspect that the real reason we aren't privy to movie character plans out front is because, most of the time, they'd sound pretty stupid if you said them out loud.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Insane Game Shows You Won't Believe Were Allowed on TV
In general, we have zero expectations about the quality of television programming. This goes double for game shows.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Meg Anastasia
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