Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 Insane But Convincing Fan Theories About Popular Movies
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- By Adam Wears, Aatif Zubair
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1156 5 Movie Plots That Rely Entirely on Luck
Movie characters always manage to succeed at something despite incredible odds ... especially when those 'odds' are logic, reason, and basic common sense.
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- By Robin Warder
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7 Film Adaptations the Author Hated For Insane Reasons
It turns out some of our favorite movies are books that Hollywood 'ruined' in the eyes of their authors.
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- By James Perez
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7 Emails That Prove Space Travel Will Suck in the Future
We narrowly averted disaster this time. I've asked my support crew to look into the matter and issue me some reports on the incident.
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- By Michael Swaim
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How Cracked Is About to Ruin Science Fiction Forever
Isaac Asimov once told me something that has inspired everything we've tried to do here at Cracked: 'Science fiction can eat a dick.'
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- By Jason Pargin
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6 TV Shows That Put Insane Work Into Details Nobody Noticed
This is stuff even the most dedicated fans would need a magnifying glass to catch.
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- By Adam Wears, Amanda Mannen
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5 Famous Movies With Political Agendas You Didn't Notice
Feel free to disagree with us, but we think we've found compelling cases for all of these.
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- By K. R. Kelleher, Phillip Traum, JM McNab, Aaron James
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6 Movies You Didn't Know Had Catastrophic Unofficial Sequels
Not all sequels are some sort of official corruption of creativity ... because sometimes they're not official at all.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Movie Villains With Really Stupid Master Plans
Every movie villain seems like they have it pretty together. Well, almost ...
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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6 Insane (but Convincing) 'Game of Thrones' Fan Theories
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- By Will Lennon
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6 Hilariously Misleading Movie Trailers
Sometimes the trailer editors decide that if nobody will want to see the actual movie that got made, well, they'll just pretend it's something different entirely.
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- By Jonathan Persinger
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7 Directors Who Stole Their Biggest Hits (From Themselves)
There's a line where a filmmaker goes from 'following the same formula' to 'remaking his own friggin' movie.'
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, J.F. Sargent
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5 Old-Timey Movies That'd Be NC-17 Today
It's funny how we rewrite history to make the present look worse. Because that's simply just not the case.
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- By Chris Scott, Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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5 Characters Amazingly Based on Real People
Every story you've ever watched or read includes characters that are, in reality, based on somebody the writer knew. But you'd be surprised to see how totally out of left field the real-life inspirations often are.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Dumb Things Movie Characters Do Only to Advance the Plot
These are the times when the filmmakers are hoping you get so enthralled with the action that you forget how much more easily the whole thing could have been resolved, if somebody hadn't dropped the ball.
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- By Robin Warder
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