Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

6 Sad Facts About Beloved Characters (Proven By Fans)
Some of our favorite pop culture series have their joy forcefully ripped from them whenever they face the harsh light of arithmetic.
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- By Israel SH, Jordan Breeding
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5 Oddly Specific Tropes Famous Directors Slip In Every Movie
If you ever meet Wes Anderson, keep your pet away from him.
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- By Barry Scott
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5 Movies That Are 99% Harmless And 1% Horrifying
Turns out movies like 'Fried Green Tomatoes' and 'Cocktail' are a lot more sinister and depressing than we first thought.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Dan Hopper
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6 Throwaway Jokes That Ended Up Predicting Huge Plot Twists
WARNING: This is an article about plot twists. Expect some!
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- By JM McNab
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6 Movie Plot Holes That Have Explanations
Movies are filled with truly confusing moments. Which is why we made heads or tails of them by poring through websites, director's commentaries, and, unfortunately, tie-in novels.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Huge Problems In Movies They Could've Solved Way Easier
Movies have a tendency to shatter their own realities by having every character ignore the most obvious solutions to their problems.
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- By Jordan Breeding, Mark Bradley
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6 Fan Theories (That Improve Movies)
Some fan theories are like the cherry on top of the sundae, only you got this cherry from a random stranger you met on the internet.
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- By JM McNab
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7 WTF Game Of Thrones Theories (That'll Probably Come True)
While many can simply watch 'GoT' and go about their lives, the less fortunate among us must endure a fate much worse: an insatiable hunger for totally jackass fan theories.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Movies That Taught A Lesson Its Characters Totally Ignored
Sometimes the lesson the writers think we should be learning isn't the one the characters themselves learn.
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- By James Kinneen
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The 6 Lowest Of The Many Low Points In Reality Show History
You might be shocked to read this, but it turns out a lot of unscripted television is made by people you might describe as scumbags.
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- By Alyssa Feller
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6 Disney Scenes That Are Way More Tragic Than You Realized
Disney stabs you with the overt malice, then twists it with the subtler cruelty.
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- By Jordan Breeding, Liam Ross
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6 Famous Movie Scenes You Never Knew Were Different Overseas
Making a Hollywood blockbuster for multiple countries isn't as easy as dropping the whole damn script into Google Translate.
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- By Kelly Stone, Carolyn Burke
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A ‘Cars’ Holocaust? 5 Insane Implications In Famous Movies
Movies are most interested in exploring the central conflict. We're more interested in exploring the bizarre subcultures that would absolutely follow.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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6 WTF Scenes That 100% Happened Off-Screen In Big Movies
Unfortunately for Hollywood film editors, we're extremely curious about all the hilariously dumb stuff that inevitably happens in-between movie scenes.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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Hollywood Was Making Movies Avengers-Style 75 Years Ago
Classic movie monsters helped propel the MCU to where it is today.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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