Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 Disturbing Unanswered Questions from Children's Movies
While the protagonists of kids movies are learning important lessons and living happily ever after, some overlooked characters end up suffering fates that are often worse than death.
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- By Carl Hoff
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1433 6 Terrifying Children's Cartoons from Around the World
Allow us to present the following traumatizing scenes from cartoons around the world. (Because we like the taste of your despair.)
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- By Carl Hoff
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6 Stupid Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
All the lessons about guns you've learned from movies are wrong. That's right: Hollywood wants you dead.
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- By Robert Evans
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If Hunger Games Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Percent Honest
Every so often, The Editing Room swings by to give us abridged versions of popular movies. And we're all better people for it.
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- By The Editing Room
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7 Artists Who Secretly Made Your Favorite Movies
If you've ever bothered to stick around through the scroll, you may have realized that some of the same names keep popping up in all your favorite movies, and they aren't next to jobs like 'director' or 'Indiana Jones.' In fact, you've probably been a diehard fan of the following seven people your entire life without ever realizing it.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Iconic Pop Culture Moments Improvised at the Last Second
It turns out that some movies and shows that became enduring classics were dangerously close to being terrible, and we probably wouldn't be talking about them today if a few folks hadn't switched gears on the fly.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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7 Ridiculously Outdated Assumptions Every Movie Makes
No teenager still owns a stack of skin magazines, unless that teenager insists on living an ironic 1985-lifestyle.
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- By C. Coville
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The 7 Biggest Dick Moves in the History of Superheroes
Old-time comics may be less violent and explicit than current ones, but that doesn't mean the heroes weren't sometimes colossal dicks while they saved the universe. If you don't believe us, let us tell you all about it.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Diana McCallum
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6 Unlikely Friendships in Movies (That Make No Damn Sense)
Often the weirdest partnerships are the ones the movies don't seem to think are wacky at all. These are the cohorts and conspirators that, in real life, would have no reason to trust each other with a lunch order, let alone their lives.
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- By Mike Cooney, Dustin Koski
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6 Horrifying Implications of the Harry Potter Universe
We have a feeling that Harry Potter is never going away. Which is fine because we love talking about how pants-crappingly terrifying that whole universe is.
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- By Micah Kolding, Michael Greenbrier
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4 Superhero Reboots We'll See Next
For all the gritty realism in comic book movies these days, they're not exactly realistic ...
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- By Winston Rowntree
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5 Movies That Accidentally Killed Innocent Characters
Occasionally, a movie chooses to kill completely innocent characters in the most horrible way possible for no discernible reason.
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings: The Final Showdown
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- By Jeremy Kaplowitz
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6 Ridiculous First Drafts of Famous Movie Monsters
It's hard to imagine the Predator or Jabba the Hutt as anything other than the iconic beasts we know and love. But they and others evolved from ideas that at the concept stage were very, very different. And very, very stupid.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Amazing Performances From Actors Who Weren't Acting
If you're ever employed in an Alien film, be on your toes ALL THE TIME.
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- By Ian White
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