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6 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Remakes

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.

Authors: By Jeff Beauvoir
Published: May 15, 2011
Comments: 614

5 Things That Aren't Nearly As Dangerous As Hollywood Thinks

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.

Authors: By Martin Bear
Published: May 14, 2011
Comments: 1081

6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy

Writing is hard, we know. That's why Hollywood writers have to rely on tricks to get you to root for the vampires in one movie, when in another they are terrible innocent-killing machines.

Authors: By C. Coville
Published: May 10, 2011
Comments: 1499

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

Authors: By Karl Smallwood, Mohammed Shariff, Drew Miller
Published: May 05, 2011
Comments: 787

6 Myths About Famous Places You Believe (Thanks to Movies)

Surprise, surprise: Hollywood fails to do its homework. Again.

Authors: By David Christopher Bell
Published: May 02, 2011
Comments: 1482

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.

Authors: By Diana McCallum
Published: April 27, 2011
Comments: 694

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.

Authors: By John Donegal
Published: April 25, 2011
Comments: 1417

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.

Authors: By David Christopher Bell
Published: April 18, 2011
Comments: 781

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.

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
Published: April 17, 2011
Comments: 1195

2011 Movie Generator [CHART]

We're starting to notice a pattern here.

Authors: By metallicfire
Published: April 12, 2011
Comments: 288

8 Absurd Jokes That Predicted Real Life Events

Authors: By Simon Bower
Published: April 10, 2011
Comments: 913

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.

Authors: By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
Published: April 08, 2011
Comments: 750

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?'

Authors: By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
Published: April 07, 2011
Comments: 690

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.