Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 TV Shows You Won't Believe Saved People's Lives
Sometimes cartoons can have a live-action impact.
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- By Simon Bower
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850 5 Ways Philip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies
It's pretty much one guy. His movies are on the way to grossing a billion dollars, but the man himself died broke, not having lived to see any of them.
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- By Shane Hyland
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How to Understand Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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5 Useful Organizations You Think Are Evil (Thanks to Movies)
Hollywood does such a good convincing us that some organizations are terrible that we forget about the good they do in real life..
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- By Diana McCallum
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6 Groups Who Don't Work as Movie Bad Guys Anymore
The biggest tragedy of the 90s was the loss of Russians as a viable movie villain.
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- By Christina H
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5 Technologies That Prove We've Caught Up With Star Wars
Since the day the first Star Wars movie was released, fans have been donning bathrobes and making lightsaber noises with their mouths while swinging broom-handles around their kitchens. it turns out that science is no exception to fandom: They've been working 'round the clock to bring Star Wars tech to life, and they're actually succeeding
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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Best View on the Starship Enterprise [COMIC]
A new side to some of the crew of the Enterprise ...
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- By Space Avalanche
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8 Actors Who Look Exactly The Same on Every Movie Poster
It turns out that some of Hollywood's most iconic actors are no different than your duck-facing Facebook friend when it comes to selling their movie.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Eric Yosomono
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6 Studies That Prove Reality TV Is Causing the Apocalypse
Lots of people joke about reality TV being the end of civilization, and many of them are us, but we weren't really worried. Until we found out what smart people like scientists were saying.
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- By Luke McKinney
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6 Insane Versions of Famous Cartoons They Almost Made
In a business full of endless reboots and remakes, maybe nothing in Hollywood gets recycled more than animation. Since cartoon characters aren't associated with any one actor (in the audience's mind) studios feel even more free to come up with endless revamps starring the same characters. Here are the ones too ridiculous to see the light of day.
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- By Anthony Scibelli
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6 Movie Guardians Who Shouldn't Be Allowed Near Children
Movies need excitement, sure, but all too often do see a child ending up in a dire circumstance for no reason other than that the grown-ups don't seem to give a damn.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Classic Series You Didn't Know Were Made Up On The Fly
It turns out that the creators of these shows had nothing in mind at all while writing, figuring they could throw out the mystery now and figure out the rest when it got closer to deadline.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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7 Movies That Ignored World Changing Discoveries
Writing movies is hard -- we try to point that out in every article like this. And occasionally, the writer will write his characters into a corner, where they can be rescued only by some new science, device or technology. Once they're out of the jam, the tech is usually immediately forgotten. The problem is, sometimes the device itself should have
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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20 Funny Movies That Take a Minute (Total) To Watch: Part 4
5 Second films should be nominated for tiny Oscars.
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- By Brian Firenzi
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Oscar Nominee Venn Diagram: Weirdly Specific Similarities
this year the Academy seemed to go for movies about a few bizarrely specific topics ...
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- By The Furlinator
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