Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 Things Movies Love to Get Wrong About The Workplace
Writers and directors aren't exactly corporate experts and often don't even know what an average office job is like. That's why they've come up with these weird misunderstandings of how companies work.
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- By Christina H
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1217 The 5 Most Horrifyingly Wasteful Film Shoots
It's obvious Hollywood wants us to think it cares about the fragile environment. But when it comes time to getting just the right shot, wiping out a big hunk of ecosystem is considered a small price to pay.
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- By Kevin Forde
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The Top 8 Everything of 2011 (For Better and Worse)
Sometimes the TV show, movie or video game that best represents a year isn’t necessarily the best show of the year. Cracked.com’s editors are more than happy to tell you why.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 'Based on a True Story' Movies with Unpleasant Epilogues
When Hollywood has exhausted its creativity producing prequels and sequels, it often turns to unbelievable real life events for inspiration. And while not all of these are completely embellished, unfortunately, these amazing stories often have terrible aftermaths that even Hollywood wouldn't dare to film.
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- By Mike Cooney
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Star Wars vs Star Trek: An Objective Analysis
Star Wars is 100X the movie franchise that Star Trek is in all the worst possible categories.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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7 Brilliant Movie Lawyers (Who Suck at Their Job)
We have to wonder if anyone even bothered to Google 'lawyer,' 'law' or 'real life' before starting their screenplay.
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- By Chris Radomile
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If Twilight 4 Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
ROBERT PATTINSON: I have to go to my bachelor party. But don't worry, my character has to remain appealing to even the most prudish girls, so there won't be any strippers. Just some good old-fashioned ritualistic animal killing.
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- By The Editing Room
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6 Pop Culture Visionaries Who Get Too Much Credit
We all know that our favorite games, comics, movies and TV shows are probably collaborative affairs. But we as a culture just love the story of the creative genius so much that we heap tremendous praise on the rare few who manage to do it. These ... are not those people.
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- By Jared Whitley
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7 Movies That Put Insane Work Into Details You Didn't Notice
These are seven instances where creators poured their blood, sweat and several other more unsavory fluids into creating something and put it right in front of your face ... and you didn't even notice.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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The 7 Stupidest Attempts to Reinvent Batman
There are people who look at Batman and say, 'Yeah, I see what people like about Batman, but wouldn't he be better if I ruined him?' This article is about them.
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- By Cole Gamble, Diana McCallum
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5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie
We think of Hollywood as a liberal and socially progressive land of hippies, what with its endless fundraisers and giving awards to movies that teach us that intolerance is wrong. Yet in certain ways, movies are still way behind the times.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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6 Happy Endings That Accidentally Screwed The Movie's Hero
We have previously pointed out how many movies only have happy endings because the film doesn't show us what happened after the credits rolled. But as these characters found out, life doesn't stay happy when we fade to black.
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- By J.F. Sargent, M. Asher Cantrell, Steve Hanley
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5 Fictional Devils Who Kind of Seem Like Good Guys
It's one of the juiciest roles in all of human culture. But when you look at some of the movies, TV shows and songs where Lucifer shows up, you realize that they kind of forget to make him evil.
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- By Evan Purcell
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The 5 Most Needlessly Evil Movie Villain Strategies
In a lot of cases, the bad guy is just an excuse for the hero to do stuff, and so the writers are forced to come up with some flimsy explanation for why this particular guy has chosen to do things that are bad ... even when there are much better and easier ways to accomplish what he wants.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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After Hours Halloween Episode: Live Chat!
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- By After Hours
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