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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.
- By CRACKED Staff, Eric Yosomono
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- March 17, 2011
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.
- By Luke McKinney
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- March 12, 2011
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.
- By Anthony Scibelli
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- March 09, 2011
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.
- By David Christopher Bell
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- March 04, 2011
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.
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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- March 01, 2011
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
- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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- February 27, 2011
Was 'Arrested Development' A Remake of a 70s Sitcom?
It's called Soap and it was the greatest sitcom of the 70s. Also, the 2000s when it was called Arrested Development.
- By Gladstone
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- February 26, 2011
20 Funny Movies That Take a Minute (Total) To Watch: Part 4
5 Second films should be nominated for tiny Oscars.
- By Brian Firenzi
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- February 25, 2011
Oscar Nominee Venn Diagram: Weirdly Specific Similarities
this year the Academy seemed to go for movies about a few bizarrely specific topics ...
- By The Furlinator
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- February 25, 2011
6 Awards That Would Actually Make The Oscars Worth Watching
Apparently, some of the greatest moments ever captured on film haven't gotten so much as a validated parking ticket from the Academy.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- February 21, 2011
5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck
You can write off everything Hollywood does as greed and poor tate, but there are other factors that make Hollywood the soulless blockbuster machine that it is. Some of which you'd never suspect.
- By C. Coville, Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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- February 21, 2011
6 Giant Blind Spots In Every Movie Alien's Invasion Strategy
With a few alien-invasion movies on the horizon, this is a good time to ask ourselves why exactly the alien invasions we see on the silver screen always seem to end in disaster for the invaders, despite their ridiculously advanced technology.
- By S Peter Davis
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- February 12, 2011
4 Great Artists Who Make it Really Hard Not To Hate Them
Daniel Day-Lewis is not the badass we want him to be. For one thing, most of the time he dresses like some kind of weird Lumberjack Glam Cowboy.
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- February 11, 2011
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