Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
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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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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6 Classic Kids Shows Secretly Set in Nightmarish Universes
Being a cartoon isn't an easy gig.
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- By Preston Xander
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6 Classic Kids Shows Slapped Together From Recycled Material
A lot of these shows weren't so much 'made' as 'shoddily slapped together from some older bullshit (usually from Japan).'
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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5 Classic Movies That Were Made Possible By Insane Schemes
For the aspiring filmmakers who don't happen to have wealthy friends or connections at a studio, securing funding is by far the biggest obstacle between them and the fulfillment of their vision. Sometimes that means getting creative. Horribly, horribly creative.
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- By Jim Ciscell
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7 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs
How would you like it if we said we invented anorexia and scientifically impossible explosions, huh Hollywood?
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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Presenting The Most WTF Trailer Ever: 'John Dies at the End'
WARNING: The following contains numerous monsters and implied male nudity. Also may contain implied gore and implied flamethrower and implied interdimensional travel and the evil prison guard from The Shawshank Redemption and award-winning actor Paul Giamatti.
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- By Jason Pargin
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The 6 Most Ridiculous Superhero Weaknesses
For whatever reason, comic book writers ran out of weaknesses that make any kind of sense at all right around the time that Green Lantern became weak against yellow.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Jesse Clark
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6 Movie Plot Holes You Never Noticed Thanks to Editing
The casual jump from A to B is often used as a writer's crutch to gloss over the stuff they didn't have the time to think through -- little things like 'continuity,' 'logic' and 'whether or not our protagonist just did some accidental murder.'
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies
These are the episodes that scarred an entire generation.
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- By Nick Nafpliotis
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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America
Horror movies play off of the social anxieties of the times. And who makes us anxious the most? The highest political leader in the land, of course.
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- By S Peter Davis
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6 Terrifying Sci-Fi Predictions (About the Year 1997)
According to a lot of science fiction movies, comics and TV shows, 1997 was the single most eventful year in the history mankind. Why did they all pick 1997? Who knows? They certainly didn't anticipate the Spice Girls.
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- By Jim Ciscell
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- By CRACKED Staff
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