Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

5 Sequels That Didn't Know They Were Ripping On Themselves
Every successful film deserves a sequel or ten. And sometimes, the sequel itself accidentally tells you everything about the whole franchise.
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- By Jeremy Herbert
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6 BS Psychology ‘Facts’ (You Believe Because Of Movies)
Science's understanding of mental health has improved greatly in the past century. Hollywood's, and thus society's, has not.
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- By Nimby Smith, Carolyn Burke
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7 Famous Movies (That Turned Into WTF Comic Books Overseas)
Instead of sticking to the script, these back-alley adaptations went with some crazy interpretations.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Plotlines Where The Creators Secretly Trolled People
What's the point of having a massive, loyal audience if you can't use that power to settle petty scores and/or randomly insult your peers?
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- By B.T. Doran
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7 Movies That Secretly Hid Big Actors Under Special Effects
Surprisingly, some moves have gone out of their way to eclipse their star power using elaborate disguises.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Seriously Flawed Moral Decisions By Movie Superheroes
The worst things superheroes do are often totally ignored by the film.
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- By Nathan Wadowski, Stephan Roget
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7 Secret Jokes You Never Noticed In The Background Of Movies
Did you squirm as the Millennium Falcon flew through a field of potatoes? Yes, yes you did.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 Dumbass Legal Mistakes Movies Keep Making
The jury finds the defendant to be total pop culture nonsense.
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- By Nick J., Jordan Breeding
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Bang Moms, But NOT Dads: 5 Weird Lessons From Movies
Movies have (evil) ways of telling you a lot about a character without saying a word.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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6 BS Movie Plots (Hollywood Keeps Insisting Are Realistic)
Movies write a lot of checks reality won't cash.
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- By Nimby Smith
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Any Franchise Left To Its Own Devices Will Go Off The Rails
Every piece of pop culture from the past few decades is, for better or worse, constantly getting a reboot. (Most for worse.)
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- By Jonathan Wojcik, Adam Koski, Chris Sutcliffe
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7 Famous Movie Props That Were (Somehow) Abandoned
The fate of these things is just way too close to Toy Story. We can't handle it.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 Sci-Fi Movie Technologies That Went Stupidly Backwards
You can keep your junk, sci-fi future.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Jordan Breeding, Dan Hopper
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7 Insane But True Stories About Famous Movie Costumes
Sometimes a movie costume has an insane backstory deserving of its own film.
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- By JM McNab
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How 5 Potentially Great Movies Got Derailed By Offscreen Nonsense
Some of the stories behind these non-adaptations would make pretty good movies of their own (mostly comedies, with some hints of psychological horror).
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- By Jordan Breeding
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