Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
There is a thriving culture of fan theories that flood the Internet in anticipation of every show, movie or book. Those theories are wrong approximately 100 percent of the time, but sometimes the fan theory is far more coherent and satisfying than what the writers actually came up with.
- By C. Coville, Kevin Bell, J.F. Sargent
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- June 27, 2011
Allow us to once more explore the moments from kids' movies that left many a child traumatized.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- June 22, 2011
Sometimes, the writers of a show, movie, comic book or whatever will put a lot of effort into creating an enigmatic character with an air of mystery surrounding it ... only to have the marketing department kill all the mystique by putting out a stupid action figure.
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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- June 15, 2011
What vocal sorcery is responsible for this!
- By Jim Ciscell
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- June 11, 2011
For every Cyclops whining about how he can literally kill things as soon as he looks at them, there are numerous genetic disasters sitting around Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters putting quotation marks around the word 'gifted.'
- By Luke McKinney
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- June 07, 2011
We've shown you mind-blowing Easter eggs in everything else on this planet. It was only matter of time before we brought you ones from movies.
- By Marconi Rebus, Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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- May 25, 2011
Dozens of pilot episodes get produced each year, and only a tiny handful are ever broadcast. Sometimes it's because network executives are talentless morons, and sometimes it's because the shows are impossibly and hilariously shitty. Here's a few from that second group.
- By Sean Thomason
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- May 21, 2011
TV is littered with the corpses of beloved shows with lousy ratings. You can't mention Terriers around one of its 10 viewers without hearing the president of FX is worse than Robo-Hitler. But what if programming did something smart?
- By Brendan McGinley
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- May 20, 2011
Some of the best-loved characters of today are practically unrecognizable from their original forms.
- By Anthony Scibelli, Brian Daniel
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- May 20, 2011
We almost got Nic Cage as Superman. We don't say it often, but thanks, Hollywod.
- By Aaron Bland
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- May 17, 2011
A lack of creativity in the entertainment world is nothing new -- people have been doing adaptations, reboots and remakes since the first stories were told. What you may not have realized, however, is that some of the great landmark motion pictures were themselves just remakes of originals that nobody remembers.
- By Jeff Beauvoir
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- May 15, 2011
For some reason, it's not a big deal to jump away from an erupting fireball, but we're supposed to believe that encounters with the things on this list are certain death.
- By Martin Bear
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- May 14, 2011
Cartoons prepared us for real-world problems exactly as well as you'd expect from men in fur underwear with magic swords.
- By Luke McKinney
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- May 11, 2011
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