Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 Mind Blowing Ways 'Starship Troopers' Predicted the Future
We're not saying Paul Verhoeven traveled forward in time and then traveled back to film a commentary on a future war (because that would be an absolutely HORRIBLE waste of time travel), but... well, yeah, maybe we're saying he did that. Look how they line up:
- By Andrew Gordon, Harm Nychus
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- July 10, 2011
5 Romantic Movie Gestures That Were Actually Dick Moves
If you sit and think about it, the real-world implications of some seemingly romantic gestures become so unsettling that they start to look about as romantic as an unsolicited boner text.
- By Simon Bower , Megan B.
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- July 03, 2011
10 Movies That Famous People Don't Want You to See
It turns out there are a whole bunch of movies that the stars have been trying to hide from everyone, mainly because they're afraid someone will make fun of them. But that's OK, because that's what we're here for.
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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- June 28, 2011
5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie
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
9 Traumatizing Moments from Classic Kids Movies
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
7 Action Figures That Managed to Ruin Great Characters
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
8 Actors You Won't Believe Voiced Famous Cartoon Characters
What vocal sorcery is responsible for this!
- By Jim Ciscell
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- June 11, 2011
The 8 Worst X-Men Ever
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
25 R-Rated Scenes Cut from Classic Kids Movies
So much harsh reality and unresolved sexual tension has to be smoothed over in family movies to get their G or PG rating. We asked you to show us the scenes that got left on the cutting room floor.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- June 03, 2011
7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows
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
5 Lost TV Pilots That Will Make You Question Your Sanity
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
NBC Cancels 'Outsourced': An Anti-Protest Letter
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
7 Bizarre Early Versions of Famous Cartoon Characters
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
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