Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
5 Great Movies That Were Turned into Terrible Books
These authors were being asked to produce a full novel based on someone else's screenplay ... why wouldn't they completely tank the job in the most hilarious ways possible?
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- By JM McNab
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533 6 Sneaky Ways Movies and TV Shows Outsmarted the Censors
It turns out some come creatives aren't so easy to push around -- they have a message, dammit, and they'll do anything they can to get it to the people.
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- By Andy Kneis, Ryan Menezes
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- 955
5 Famously Terrible Movies That Were Almost Great
All great movies are walking a razor's edge, and just one step in the wrong direction will send you plummeting into the darkest depths of absolute stupidity.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Aaron Short
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- 1678
5 Classic Movies Made By People Who Wanted Them To Bomb
Can a movie succeed if the very people behind it are doing everything in their power to make sure that it fails? (Hint: Yes.)
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- By Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon , Soon Van, Ryan Menezes
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Attempts to Censor Popular Cartoons
Sometimes the desire to protect children's sensitive brains turns into bizarre self-parody.
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- By Steve Shapiro, Aaron Short, Ivan Farkas
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- 710
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5 Movies That Cause Gaping Plot Holes in Their Own Sequels
It turns out, some sequels only exist by feeding off the carcass of the original's now-mangled plot.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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- 1058
5 Awesome Things Invented by the Last People You'd Expect
Great inventions can come from anywhere. Even the last place you would ever expect.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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- 668
5 Clever Movie Schemes You Didn't Realize Were Stupid
People in movies can be pretty dumb.
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- By Steve Hanley, Aatif Zubair
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- 1183
6 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Movies
Half the fun of watching a movie is later poring over the DVD frame by frame for hours and hours so that you can pick up on the Easter eggs hidden within.
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- By Aaron Short
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- 541
6 Real Serial Killers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
The following people and their bone-chilling exploits are totally real, and at least three-quarters of them are totally still alive.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Ivan Farkas
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- 1369
5 Photos That Shatter Your Image of Horror Movie Locations
Sometimes seeing where these horror movies were filmed is so jarring that it makes it impossible to think of them the same way.
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- By JM McNab
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- 454
5 Movie Deaths That Should Have Been Really Easy to Avoid
Even we aren't dumb enough to die like these people.
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- By Robin Warder
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- 1051
5 Famous Movie Scenes Made Possible by Reckless Endangerment
These directors turned their sets into torture chambers for artistic purposes, and/or because they just hated actors.
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- By Mitch Anderson, Sam Jackson
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- 530
5 Movies That Cut Insane Twist Endings at the Last Second
We'll let you decide whether these would have been an improvement.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Brendan Day
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- 575
5 Ridiculous Martial Arts Myths You Won't Believe Are Real
Some martial arts are much more
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- By Jacob Trowbridge
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- 1261
