Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
9 Absurd Movie Premises That Actually Happened
Even a great movie or TV show isn't above throwing in one ridiculous, larger-than-life character who almost ruins any element of realism in the plot. The genius who's TOO smart, the hero who's TOO cool, the rebel who breaks the rules but somehow never gets punished for it. Hey, you know where else you find ridiculous characters like that? Real life
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- By Karl Smallwood, Mohammed Shariff, Drew Miller
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787 6 Myths About Famous Places You Believe (Thanks to Movies)
Surprise, surprise: Hollywood fails to do its homework. Again.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Trends You Think Are Ruining Movies (Are Older Than Film)
A lot of people say they miss the good old days, when the entertainment industry was a bullshit-free zone, and we're here to tell you that that time never existed. Everything we think of as a bad modern trend in Hollywood can be traced back pretty much to the beginning of recorded history.
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- By Diana McCallum
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6 Deleted Scenes That Prove the Book Isn't Always Better
Fanboys love nothing more than to bitch and moan when some nitpicky detail of a novel they love doesn't make it into the final cut of the movie. But the thing is, sometimes those changes happen for the right reasons.
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- By John Donegal
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8 Movie Special Effects You Didn't Know Weren't CGI: Classic
Let's stop and appreciate these mind-blowing scenes that were done the old-fashioned way -- with stunts, models and borderline insanity.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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7 Hotly Debated Movie Questions That Totally Have Answers
Some movie and TV mysteries, however, weren't intended to be mysteries at all, and often are just the result of the director getting cute at the last minute. These mysteries are often plainly explained in the script, and while the answers aren't always definite, they are surprising.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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2011 Movie Generator [CHART]
We're starting to notice a pattern here.
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- By metallicfire
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8 Absurd Jokes That Predicted Real Life Events
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- By Simon Bower
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6 Artists Whose Weird Fetishes Defined Pop Culture
Atists have been flaunting their bizarre fixations in our faces for years but have never been called out on them. Until now.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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8 Famous Movies Made by The Last Person You'd Ever Suspect
Almost every successful person working in Hollywood sticks to his or her thing that they like. But sometimes these folks, with their well-defined comfort zones, lend a hand to movies so bizarrely out-of-character for them it's like they only did it to say, 'There, I can do other stuff too. Happy?'
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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12 Classic Movie Moments Made Possible by Abuse and Murder
Spoiler alert: Assholes produced your favorite movie moments ever -- and some of them did that while putting their cast and crew through relentless horror.
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- By Orrin R. K., Geoffrey Cubbage, Eddie Rodriguez
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6 TV Shows You Won't Believe Saved People's Lives
Sometimes cartoons can have a live-action impact.
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- By Simon Bower
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5 Ways Philip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies
It's pretty much one guy. His movies are on the way to grossing a billion dollars, but the man himself died broke, not having lived to see any of them.
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- By Shane Hyland
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How to Understand Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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5 Useful Organizations You Think Are Evil (Thanks to Movies)
Hollywood does such a good convincing us that some organizations are terrible that we forget about the good they do in real life..
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- By Diana McCallum
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