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6 Movies With Political Agendas You Didn't Notice
If your movie is about, say, giant robots or ghost police, that's probably not the time to try to cram in some message about how we should vote next November.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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- 1913
5 Great Movie Scenes Made Possible by Reckless Endangerment
Yes, even in the age of computer effects and entire sequences shot in front of a green screen with tennis balls, there is still no substitute for gross neglect of human safety.
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- By Dustin Koski
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6 Pieces of Fan Art That Are Better Than the Original
Sometimes the companies or creators will actually address their fans and say, 'You think you could do better than us?' And sometimes the fans will answer back, 'Um, actually, yeah.'
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Pop Culture Predictions That Came True
We're not accusing anyone of witchcraft -- all we're doing is presenting the evidence ... that these people may be witches.
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- By Erik Germ
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6 Terrible Decisions That Gave Us Great Movie Moments
Apparently, Hollywood makes stuff up on the fly all the time. Here are some examples of memorable scenes (or even entire movies) that only happened because something went wrong.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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9 Actors Who Do the Exact Same Thing on Every Movie Poster
As you'll soon discover, certain actors seem to have amazingly specific and arbitrary elements that must be included at all costs, logic be damned.
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- By Chris Radomile, Kier Harris, Isaac Cabe
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5 Cryptic Movie Tattoos They Didn't Think We'd Translate
We know as well as anyone that tattoos are an instant shortcut to becoming cool, but misinterpretations do happen -- and you've seen more than a few on the big screen.
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- By Preston Xander
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6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
Guess what? There are still filmmakers doing special effects the old-fashioned way -- even if the results are so impressive that you'd never know it's not CGI.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Real People Who Got Screwed by Famous Movies Based on Them
Sometimes things are changed for a good reason -- and other times they just flat-out lie and make real people look like evil, cowardly, petty douchebags for the heck of it.
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- By Orrin R. K., Jim Ciscell
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5 Light-Hearted Movies With Dark Moral Implications
Writers will often do everything possible to avoid pointing out the troubling implications of their innocent plot ... but don't worry, that's what we're here for.
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- By Bill Summerson, Brendan Bourque-Sheil, Chris Hyde
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5 Famous Movies That Shamelessly Ripped Off Obscure Ones
The only problem with a remake is that they don't actually credit the obscure movie they are remaking (or, you know, pay them for the rights).
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- By Robin Warder
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5 Iconic Traits of Fictional Characters (That Are B.S.)
These characters' primary trait exists only in the form of people in the show telling us, despite all evidence to the contrary.
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- By Steve Hanley
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6 Fictional Places You Won't Believe Actually Exist (Part 2)
Here are six more places you thought were fictional, when in fact you could totally roll up to them on a moped and take some obnoxious pictures.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Celebrities Who Got Famous by Being Obsessed Fanboys
The closest any of us will ever get to our idols is when their bodyguards rough us up for trying to get an autograph. Most of us, anyway.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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How 5 Popular Shows Would End (If They Had Balls)
Ending a beloved TV show is tricky business. The challenge of capping off a successful series has made bantha poodoo of some of the best writers in the biz.
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- By James Renner
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- 1335