Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

Thankfully, someone decided to change them to keep people from sobbing through several traffic lights on their way home from the theater.

• By Robin Warder
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• April 26, 2013

• By Daniel O'Brien, Mike Dillon
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• April 19, 2013

Authority figures, from police departments to federal agencies, aren't known for making the wisest decisions in movies. In fact, some of them are bafflingly stupid.

• By Robin Warder
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• April 19, 2013

You can watch all of these right now, for free, and in less time than it takes to rub one out! Which I assume you terribly literal bastards will take as a personal challenge.

• By Robert Brockway
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• April 17, 2013

Some characters are so bizarre, improbable, or flat-out impossible that you have to wonder how their creators ever came up with them. In a surprising amount of cases, the answer is that they didn't.

• By Sammy Trujillo
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• April 17, 2013

No matter how cynical you think you are about the influence of advertising on things we consider traditions, it's always surprising how far it goes.

• By Auriane Desombre, Eddie Rodriguez
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• April 15, 2013

A great movie monster taps into our most primal fears, a terrible one taps into equal parts hilarity and sadness.

• By Cole Gamble, Dustin Koski
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• April 11, 2013

Crazy is like currency on the Internet, and among all the garbage, some strangely compelling ideas can emerge, making you rethink shows you thought you knew well.

• By Aaron Short, Dennis Fulton
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• April 11, 2013

Sometimes directors decide that the only way to make sure your actors look like they're about to die is by actually risking their lives.

• By Dustin Koski
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• April 09, 2013

Here are eight fictional weapons that would work only against life insurance claim investigators, because they make your suicide too stupid and confusing to prove.

• By Luke McKinney
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• April 03, 2013

I have managed to glean four totally real, totally useful life lessons from The Running Man. And here they are.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• April 02, 2013

Every once in a while, we come across a mind-blowing fan theory that makes a disturbing amount of sense, casting a movie we've all seen a million times in a whole new light.

• By Adam Wears, Charles Glass, Rich Solomon
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• April 01, 2013

I do this as an optimist. I think these movies deserve another chance. We can rebuild them. We have the technology.

• By Daniel O'Brien
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• March 29, 2013

The best Easter eggs are the ones that were staring you in the face all along, but you never saw them.

• By Aaron Short
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• March 29, 2013

It turns out there are all sorts of things about watching films and television shows that we never consider -- or even outright hate -- that are actually making the whole thing better.

• By R. Jason Benson
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• March 28, 2013