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6 Spectacularly Bad Ideas Movies Convinced You Are Badass

The next time you're trapped in a building with German terrorists, remember that you'd be better off not trying to do any of these things.

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By Adam Wears, Karl Smallwood
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June 02, 2013

4 Reasons 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' Is Secretly About Drugs

By Gladstone
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May 24, 2013

5 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Movies

It's hard to blame the internet for spoiling movies when these movies did it to themselves.

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By J.F. Sargent, Dennis Fulton
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May 21, 2013

The 5 Ugly Lessons Hiding in Every Superhero Movie

Is the sudden, raging success of this genre a sign of a toxic corruption in the collective soul of our society? Probably!

By Jason Pargin
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May 20, 2013

5 Horrifying Implications of the 'Star Trek' Universe

It turns out there are some horrible implications behind all that awesome technology and progressive ideology that are never addressed.

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By J.F. Sargent, Kier Harris
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May 17, 2013

5 Classic Movies That Ruined Their Makers' Careers

So before you quit your day job and move to LA, let us tell you about the filmmakers who put their blood, sweat, and tears into something great, only to be rewarded with nothing but a middle finger.

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By Sammy Trujillo
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May 16, 2013

3 Reasons It's So Hard to Make Superman Interesting

As counterintuitive as it sounds, there is only one way to make a great Superman movie, and that's to make a movie about someone other than Superman. Let me try to explain.

By Soren Bowie
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May 14, 2013

7 Classic Movies That Are Shameless Ripoffs

There are times when a big-budget movie has incredibly specific similarities to some more obscure work, to the point that it's really hard to swallow that it could be coincidence.

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By Aaron Short
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May 13, 2013

The Most Hilariously Bad Batman Comic of All Time

Sometimes Batman's a weird super-strong baby with a grown-up brain who fights crime in Mickey Mouse pants.

By Chris Sims
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May 11, 2013

5 Monster Movie Ideas Hollywood Should Be Making Next

Horror is, perhaps more than any other genre, often dissatisfying. Every year the same old monsters slouch into theaters.

By Brendan McGinley
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May 08, 2013

The 4 Types of TV Shows That Need to Go Away

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the reason certain shows get confused in my head isn't because I watch too much television; it's that television isn't different enough.

By Daniel O'Brien
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May 03, 2013

5 Marvel Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball

Sometimes the characters in these movies seem to know less about what they're doing than we do, and for every sensible decision they make, they stumble through a series of catastrophically terrible blunders that defy explanation.

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