Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
5 Famous Movie Locations (With Horrible Secret Backstories)
It turns out that many movie settings have lives that are just as exciting, and in a few cases, just as tragic, as anything that happened in the films.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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142 6 Ways Movies Hilariously Misunderstand How The News Works
These fictional newsrooms are run by complete maniacs who shouldn't be trusted with an elementary school newsletter.
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- By Spencer Thew, Sam Hurley, Quinn Knobbe, Mike Bedard, Ed Stevens, S. Aslam
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24 Times Hollywood Lost All Fashion Sense
Thankfully, these fashion trends stayed fake.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Simple Movie Scenes That Were An Insane Pain To Shoot
Sometimes, it's the simplest things that end up causing the biggest headaches.
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- By Chris Radomile
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6 Hollywood Depictions Of Donald Trump
Trump was the rich bully of his time (and still is), which inspired many fictionalized versions of him as villainous characters meant to symbolize the greed and cynicism of 1980s capitalism.
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- By Cedric Voets
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7 Secret Tricks Movies Use To Convince You They're Mad Deep
These are the equivalent of wearing glasses when you don't need them and using fancy words you don't know the meaning of.
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- By Saikat Bhowmik, Jordan Breeding, Dan Hopper, Avery Hayden Pierce
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7 Iconic Scenes (We Only Got Because The Movie Was Broke)
Obi-Wan only heard millions of voices cry out in terror because George Lucas' wallet was empty.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Great Ideas That Started As Throwaway Jokes
We also look to sci-fi to predict the future, but it turns out we should've been paying closer attention to our comedies.
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- By Michael Dawson , James Kinneen, Michael Garowee, E.M. Caris, Barry Scott
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All The Ways Hollywood Keeps Getting Your Life Wrong
Pop culture: good for entertaining us and reinforcing terrible stereotypes.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Recent Movies (You Never Realized Were Completely Insane)
Spoiler alert for the seven of you who wanted to see these movies.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Counterintuitive Pop Culture World Records
'Super Smash Bros.' is one of the greatest franchises of all time. But it's produced some strange offshoots.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Superpowers You Never Noticed All Movie Characters Have
Even if you aren't watching a superhero movie, literally every movie character still has superhuman abilities you never considered.
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- By Ryan Lichtenstein, Maxwell C. Rettig
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5 Ads That Tried To Be Sexy But Were Just Disturbing Instead
If there's anything we don't need 'sexified' it's the products we use to unclog our toilets after a night of Taco Bell.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Scott Elizabeth Baird, Mike Bedard, Ivan Farkas, E.M. Caris
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6 Ways Movie Trailers Always Lie (That You've Never Noticed)
The trailer editors for 'Rogue One' should've been sued off the planet for the piles of deception they created.
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- By Tiago Svn, Zanandi Botes, Michael Battaglino, S. Aslam
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23 Reused Props And Sets Movies And TV Thought You Wouldn't Notice
These things have IMDb resumes an 'actor' working at In-N-Out Burger would murder for.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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