Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
7 Really Specific Bad Movie Ideas Hollywood Keeps Repeating
Movie studios' habit of making very similar movies is about to tip from zeitgeist awareness into creepy-twins territory.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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339 7 Reasons Movies Based On A True Story Rarely Are
There's one little thing preventing biopics from being good, and by 'one little thing' we mean several giant problems.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Films With 'Happy' Endings (Until You Think About Them)
Hollywood endings seem to end happily, but only because the cameras cut away right before the whole cast was devoured by the Old Ones.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Chris Berglund, Aatif Zubair
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6 Beloved Movies You Had No Clue Got Remade Overseas
Some of these foreign films have so little to do with the originals that it feels like the makers didn't even bother to see the thing they were supposed to be copying.
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- By Mark Hill
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The Power Rangers Episode That Traumatized A Generation
When you think of Power Rangers, you think of over-the-top action, giant robots, and child murder. Wait what?
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- By Masquerblade
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6 Ridiculous Things Implied By Plot Twists In Famous Movies
Every movie with a plot twist is full of hilariously awkward unseen setups.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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4 Times Movies And TV Got Very Serious Issues Very Wrong
Even the most socially ambitious show or movie still needs to be entertaining, and that leads to some mixed messages.
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- By Stephan Roget
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6 Villain Plans That Make Absolutely No Sense
A lot of movie menaces could have been stopped by simply telling the heroes to stay home and waiting for the villain to step on his own dick.
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- By J. Olasz, Tiago Svn, Aatif Zubair
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6 Children's Movies That Were Nightmares On Set
One might think that making kids' movies is pretty harmless. But no, that's wrong.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Movies That Ripped Off Films You'd Never Compare Them To
Sometimes two movies turn out to be so similar, in such ultra-specific ways, it makes you wonder if, well, there wasn't at least a tiny bit of ripping off going on.
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- By Christopher Charles Slayter, Jon David Garcia
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6 Insane Movie Plots You Won't Believe Happened In Real Life
Sometimes, people end up recreating entire crazy-ass schemes straight out of movies or TV shows -- only to be foiled by a little thing called 'reality.'
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- By JM McNab
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6 Movies For Adults That Sure Seem To Crib Kids' Movies
Sometimes you can pick up a 'mature' film and a family-friendly one and realize they're telling the same damn story.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Complaints About Movies That Have Been Going On FOREVER
Everything was better back in the day. But were they? We're not sure, seeing as how a lot of our complaints about modern cinema go back far longer than you'd think.
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- By Cracked Writers
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The Anne Frank Sex Doll And 5 Other Wisely-Cut Sex Scenes
Sometimes, the stuff the screenwriters originally came up with was so gloriously insane that it almost would have resulted in a different movie. A somewhat sexier, slightly longer, much wronger one.
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- By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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7 Famous Props & SFX (That Were Just Household Items)
It's ironic that some of the coolest special effects in famous big-budget Hollywood movies were done with stuff you could go out and buy right now without going bankrupt.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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