Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

5 Creepy Superhero Origin Stories The Movies Wisely Left Out

There's something to be said about the sacred nature of a superhero's origin story. It's the one thing that Hollywood won't mess with. (Unless it's too disturbing to put on camera.)

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Diana McCallum
Published: May 04, 2012
Comments: 1036

5 Movie Apocalypses That Would Defeat Themselves

The apocalypse can be kind of a downer, but if you want to make yourself feel better, all you need to do is remember that almost none of the familiar scenarios actually work.

Authors: By Preston Xander
Published: May 01, 2012
Comments: 2052

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.

Authors: By Carl Hoff
Published: April 30, 2012
Comments: 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.)

Authors: By Carl Hoff
Published: April 18, 2012
Comments: 1791

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.

Authors: By Robert Evans
Published: April 16, 2012
Comments: 1872

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.

Authors: By The Editing Room
Published: April 12, 2012
Comments: 1083

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.

Authors: By David Christopher Bell
Published: April 09, 2012
Comments: 896

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.

Authors: By Evan V. Symon
Published: April 02, 2012
Comments: 762

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.

Authors: By C. Coville
Published: April 02, 2012
Comments: 2789

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.

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Diana McCallum
Published: March 28, 2012
Comments: 842

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.

Authors: By Mike Cooney, Dustin Koski
Published: March 22, 2012
Comments: 1057

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.