Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
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
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
The point when everybody gets bored during the Academy Awards is when they give out all of those technical awards to people you've never heard of. Surprisingly, though, you're fans of some of these people. Hug fans, in some cases. You just didn't know it.
- By David Christopher Bell
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- February 08, 2011
Movie and television cliches have been unable to keep up with the rapid advances in communication technology.
- By Conrad Schickedanz, CRACKED Staff
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- February 04, 2011
It's easy to think of pop culture icons as having just walked onto the scene fully formed. But some of the early versions of these characters weren't just different, but were utterly freaking insane.
- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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- February 01, 2011
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So far, 2011 has been a very good year for things with the first name Green, and a somewhat confusing year for the rest of us.
- By metallicfire
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- January 28, 2011
Writing a movie is hard work, and when all is said and done, there are always going to be a few small subplots that get ignored in the third act. But sometimes a filmmaker forgets an important plot thread. And by that, we mean something way more important than the main plot.
- By Joe Oliveto, Nick Slawicz
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- January 28, 2011
I was in the bar the other morning and noticed that the closed captions for comedy shows either don't match the original script or leave out important details to a joke. For example, <strong>{{muttering}}</strong> is an inadequate way to describe the late Estelle Getty clearing her throat to secretly call the dead Rue McLanahan a slut.
- By Seanbaby
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- January 27, 2011
People in movies often wind up making grossly illogical and often utterly insane choices purely to spice things up. These are the characters who probably should have taken a moment to think things over.
- By Fitzgerald Smith
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- January 26, 2011
In the '80s your special skill would save the day no matter how ridiculous it was, and skills don't come more ridiculous than male gymnastics.
- By Luke McKinney
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- January 25, 2011
It's always good to take a moment and take a look at our chilhood icons through adult eyes. OK, maybe 'good' isn't the word for it ...
- By Jason Pargin
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- January 24, 2011
If we had these products, movies would finally make sense. You're welcome, movies.
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- January 21, 2011
My prediction for the next big fad is 'all of them, combined.'
- By Cody Johnston
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- January 21, 2011
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