Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

5 Film Franchises Based on One Character's Stupid Decision
We see it all the time in Hollywood: One poor decision leads to an entire film series worth of conflict.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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7 Movies That Put Insane Detail into Stuff You Never Noticed
We can't stress this enough: A horrifying amount of time and work go into things that will be forever unnoticed by everyone except a few members of the crew.
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- By Karl Smallwood, J.F. Sargent
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The 6 Most Accidentally Creepy Movie Romances
We've seen movies about aliens doing it with human women, 100-year-old vampires dating high school teens and Woody Allen hooking up with young starlets, among other unlikely atrocities. And yet, somehow, the writers always find new ways to top themselves.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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5 Powerful Sci-Fi Technologies Wasted by Their Own Movies
How many times have we seen James Bond pick up some incredibly useful new technological gadget that ends up saving his life, only to completely forget it exists in his next movie? But it isn't just Bond -- action heroes do this all the time. What's worse, some of this tech could change the world.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic
Here are some mind-blowing moments from real life that Hollywood decided were too fantastic, even for their movies.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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6 Ironic Coincidences Behind the Scenes of Famous Movies
Get your tinfoil hats ready, because these can't just be a coincidence.
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- By Diana McCallum, Howard L.
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If 'Dark Knight Rises' Was 10 Times Shorter and More Honest
'I had a speech prepared to talk about Aaron Eckhart, but then I realized it would be the film's third podium speech in less than nine minutes.'
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- By The Editing Room
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5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies
As it turns out, some of the most nightmarish cartoons predate even your grandparents/
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- By Vincent Pall, Dustin Koski, Jim Ciscell
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The 7 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Movies of the Decade
Here now are unintentionally hilarious movies -- movies that missed the mark so widely all you can do is cackle through confused tears of joy, delighted by the raw, stupid chaos of the void.
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- By RiffTrax
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6 Crucial Movie Scenes That Never Made It Out of the Script
Well look at that, it's not the writer's fault after all!
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Celebrity Instructional Videos They'd Like You to Forget
These celebrities just couldn't turn down the chance to whore themselves out for ridiculous instructional videos that, deep down, they knew would help no one except future comedy writers.
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- By Robin Warder
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6 Movie Heroes Saved by Gaping Plot Holes
You'd be surprised at how many classic movies break their own rules when it's convenient to the writers
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- By Xavier Jackson, Douglas A. McDonnell
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5 Inexplicably Creepy Episodes of Family Friendly TV Shows
Sometimes, the makers of these cartoons or sitcoms flip out and decide to create something nightmarish in an apparent 'screw you' to the audience. But what's surprising is that these episodes then get greenlit and air on national television.
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- By Chris Rio
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5 Villains Who Went Out of Their Way to Screw Their Own Plan
If you're the type of person who enjoys picking apart movies, by far the easiest (and most amusing) starting point is to simply rewatch the movie from the villain's perspective. What does the villain actually want? Does the way he's going about it make sense at all? The answers are usually ridiculous.
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- By Robin Warder
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The 6 Most Important Sci-Fi Ideas (Were Invented by a Hack)
Many fundamental elements of science fiction as we know it can be tracked back to a cheap knockoff of the classic, 'War of the Worlds.'
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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