Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
6 Insane Stereotypes That Movies Can't Seem to Get Over
It turns out there are subtle ways that Hollywood has been enforcing wrongheaded ideas right under our noses, and sometimes in our favorite films.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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5434 8 Movies Made Possible by Incompetent Background Characters
People tend to be incompetent in movies -- that's how our heroes are able to make so many daring escapes. However, some plotlines are dependent on downright boneheaded incompetence.
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- By David Christopher Bell, Rohan Ramakrishnan
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6 TV Shows You Won't Believe Were Actually Made
Herein are just a few of the ugly bastard progeny that the unholy union of sitcom writers and head trauma victims produced over the years.
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- By Robin Warder
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6 Movie Mysteries the Characters Should've Solved Way Sooner
Secrets drive the plots of some of the best movies. That being said, sometimes a secret is only as good as the writers' ability to cover huge gaps in logic.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Pop Culture Creations Spoiled by Their Own Creators
Surprisingly, networks, studios or publishers are in a rush to give away the endings to their own creations.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge
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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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