Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 Ways The Creator of 'Sharktopus' Invented Modern Cinema
If we told you that the man behind some of the cheapest, crappiest and most ridiculously named movies ever made is also responsible for classics like The Godfather, would you believe us? You totally should.
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- By Garin Pirnia
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415 6 Movies That Inadvertently Remade Other Movies
Apparently, there are movies, sometimes decades apart, that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with each other ... and yet, when you look at them carefully, they turn out to be the exact same thing.
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- By Christopher Daed
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6 Pop Culture Mysteries That Were Solved by Fans
We bring you the answers to questions that remarkably few people were asking.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Insane (But Convincing) Theories on Children's Pop Culture
It turns out that many well-adjusted, serious academics really are spending their free time running around and ruining the stuff we loved as kids with their brains. Unfortunatelier, when you actually hear their arguments, you almost want to agree with them.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Real Places Plucked Straight Out of Fairy Tales
Ever play Mario and want to hop in the toilet? Well, the following are just as cool outright fantasy locations that are just plane tickets away (and cleaner).
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 6 Most Counterproductive PSAs of All Time
To public service announcement creators: The more tempting you make your subject matter appear, the more likely your PSA will fail.
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting
There is a big difference between choreographed movie fighting and real fighting. In the real word, it's worse than you think.,
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' In Under 5 Minutes
DAVID FINCHER: I don't know if you guys have seen the box office, but you may want to hold on to that money if you're planning on getting me to direct the other two books.
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- By The Editing Room
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6 Absurd Movie Scenes (That Actually Happened)
It's almost as if someone saw a movie and said, 'Hey, let's do that, too.'
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- By Karl Smallwood, Mohammed Shariff, Drew Miller
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6 Fictional Places You Didn't Know Actually Existed
Part of what makes fantasy and sci-fi appealing is that it's not just a bunch of characters -- it's a whole world. One you want to live in. And while that's not possible, you can come pretty close, because it turns out a lot of these fantasy settings were based on real places.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , David Christopher Bell
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5 Badass Movie Heroes (Who Were Actually Just Really Lucky)
Even a hero who is specifically described as 'down on his luck' will routinely defeat the overwhelming odds thanks to a long list of coincidences falling his way.
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- By Steve Hanley, Jake Ferretti
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5 Ridiculous Origins of Movie Sound Effects
All of this stuff has to be created from scratch, usually by just one or two people. And usually, the high-tech sounds are created by whatever random crap they have nearby.
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- By Oliver Kealey
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6 Insane Batman Villains You Won't See in the Movies
We all know that sooner or later, the Batman movies are going to run out of interesting villains to feature and will be forced to start scraping closer to the bottom of the barrel. Whoever they end up choosing, we hope it's not any of these guys.
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- By Sean Warhurst
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6 Horrible Aftermaths Implied By Movies With Happy Endings
It's amazing how you can ruin a movie's perfectly happy ending with a little bit of analysis.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Chris Radomile
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8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (from the Bible)
More than just occasionally, people in the bible are killed in ways so innovative and gruesome that they could've been filmed as a scene in a slasher movie. And, as we'll show you, some have done exactly that.
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- By Matt Cramer
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