Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

If you've watched movies in the past 10 years, you've probably at some point complained about horrible CG, because you movie viewers are ungrateful little jackanapes. Well, here's why it's so bad.

• By Christina H
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• July 24, 2012

Like many arguments online, one side is backed up by intelligence and careful preparation while the other only keeps going because arguments just bounce off its stupid invulnerable skin.

• By Luke McKinney
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• July 21, 2012

I've thought a lot about this trilogy. So you'll have to trust me when I say that, as much as I've been looking forward to the conclusion of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, I've also sort of feared it.

• By Daniel O'Brien
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• July 20, 2012

Some of these duds just don't deserve their reputations. Instead, the public had some agenda for hating that far outweighed anything that ever happened on screen.

• By Gladstone
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• July 20, 2012

Apparently, no '80s film was complete without a moral message slapping around in your face like a dying fish.

• By Robert Brockway
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• July 18, 2012

If you're one of these creators, you have to hate that your lighthearted entertainment now just winds up reminding people of something awful. Especially when websites like this one keep bringing them up.

• By Robin Warder
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• July 16, 2012

There is one inviolable rule in comic books: Batman never loses.

• By Brendan McGinley
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• July 15, 2012

There's no easier way to make a movie character likeable than by having him heroically sacrifice his own life. Of course, sometimes 'heroically' means 'stupidly.'

• By David Christopher Bell, Rohan Ramakrishnan
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• July 13, 2012

If your movie is about, say, giant robots or ghost police, that's probably not the time to try to cram in some message about how we should vote next November.

• By J.F. Sargent
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• July 11, 2012

I understand something people don't want to acknowledge: Hollywood sucks. And it's all our fault.

• By Robert Brockway
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• July 10, 2012

Yes, even in the age of computer effects and entire sequences shot in front of a green screen with tennis balls, there is still no substitute for gross neglect of human safety.

• By Dustin Koski
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• July 05, 2012

Sometimes the companies or creators will actually address their fans and say, 'You think you could do better than us?' And sometimes the fans will answer back, 'Um, actually, yeah.'

• By Jacopo della Quercia
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• July 03, 2012

'We just spent two years in a frozen state -- did none of you know what we were doing out here?'

• By Daniel O'Brien
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• June 29, 2012

We're not accusing anyone of witchcraft -- all we're doing is presenting the evidence ... that these people may be witches.

• By Erik Germ
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• June 29, 2012

Apparently, Hollywood makes stuff up on the fly all the time. Here are some examples of memorable scenes (or even entire movies) that only happened because something went wrong.

• By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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• June 26, 2012