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The 5 Most Ridiculous Movie Character Overreactions
We understand why these absurd overreactions happen. We really do. But that doesn't mean we can't make fun of the most ridiculous ones.
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- By Robin Warder
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1080 6 Sci-Fi Technologies With Suspiciously Unaddressed Problems
There are some admittedly cool future advances presented to us by sci-fi movies that we hope never come to pass.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Chris Rio, Jack Hall
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The 5 Stupidest Decisions You Didn't Notice in Famous Movies
There are countless movies that hinge on an obsessively detailed master plot, which mostly turn out to be really, really awful ideas.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Patrick Thomas
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- 1033
7 Amazing Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
It seems some directors will go to insane lengths to avoid using CGI, seemingly just so they can point at the screen during the premiere and say 'yeah, a real guy totally did that.'
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- By David Christopher Bell, Karl Smallwood
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The 6 Most Badass Ways Anyone Has Ever Escaped the Country
You didn't have to be crazy to attempt an escape from one of these places. But it sure as hell helped.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Depressing Realities Behind Popular Reality TV Shows
It turns out, the truth behind most of these shows is more depressing than the Nirvana 'reunion.'
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- By Karl Smallwood, Mohammed Shariff
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6 Huge Movie Plot Twists That Caused Even Bigger Plot Holes
It turns out that sometimes in order for a film to really shock us with its ending it has to fudge the facts a little bit.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Movie Characters You Didn't Know Died Horrible Deaths
For every graphic movie death that graces our screens in glorious Technicolor, there's an even more gruesome one that happens just outside of frame.
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- By Davidb Marchetti, J.F. Sargent
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If The Hobbit Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
RICHARD ARMITAGE: That does it, Manu, I'm challenging you! There's no way we'd do an entire movie without accomplishing SOME benchmark, so either YOU'RE gonna die, or I'M gonna die, or at least SOMEONE will ACTUALLY ACHIEVE SOMETHING!
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- By The Editing Room
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The 6 Dumbest Mistakes of Supposedly Smart Movie Characters
Some of these characters, in the midst of using their wits to topple complicated obstacles, manage to inexplicably overlook some painfully obvious things that come back to bite them directly on their brilliant asses.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Alex Race, T.D. Woodward
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- 1391
6 Insane Disney Comics You Won't Believe Are Real
Is it still amazing to see that there was a time when Disney had no problem depicting Mickey Mouse getting venereal diseases and attempting shotgun suicide? You bet!
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- By Drew Anderson
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6 Unknown Artists Who Made All of Our Favorite Movie Moments
These people have worked tirelessly to help create some of your favorite moments in film, only to have their names scroll by in eight-point font while the audience files out, or, at best, patiently waits for that five-second scene where Iron Man eats a burrito.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Actors Who Play the Exact Same Role in Multiple Movies
Some actors find themselves in the same oddly specific situations in different movies. Not because they're typecast, but seemingly by pure coincidence.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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If 'Django' Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
CHRISTOPH shoots all the SLAVE TRADERS and FOUR GALLONS OF BLOOD spurt onto the screen, followed by SIX MORE GALLONS of BLOOD.
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- By The Editing Room
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6 Deleted Backstories That Totally Change Classic Movies
Sometimes important stuff is cut from films, and sometimes that stuff includes character moments and backstories that kind of change the whole way you look at the film.
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- By Robin Warder, Patrick Thomas
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