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6 Classic Movies Made Possible by Reckless Endangerment
Sometimes directors decide that the only way to make sure your actors look like they're about to die is by actually risking their lives.
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- By Dustin Koski
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5 Fan Theories That Make Classic Movies Even Better
Every once in a while, we come across a mind-blowing fan theory that makes a disturbing amount of sense, casting a movie we've all seen a million times in a whole new light.
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- By Adam Wears, Charles Glass, Rich Solomon
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5 Recurring Movie Extras You Won't Believe You Never Noticed
The best Easter eggs are the ones that were staring you in the face all along, but you never saw them.
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- By Aaron Short
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5 Factors That Secretly Influence How Much You Like a Movie
It turns out there are all sorts of things about watching films and television shows that we never consider -- or even outright hate -- that are actually making the whole thing better.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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The 6 Stupidest Plots of Supposedly Smart Movie Villains
More often than not, you'll realize that these genius schemes would have fallen apart all on their own.
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- By Robin Warder
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Movie Character Overreactions
We understand why these absurd overreactions happen. We really do. But that doesn't mean we can't make fun of the most ridiculous ones.
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- By Robin Warder
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6 Sci-Fi Technologies With Suspiciously Unaddressed Problems
There are some admittedly cool future advances presented to us by sci-fi movies that we hope never come to pass.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Chris Rio, Jack Hall
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The 5 Stupidest Decisions You Didn't Notice in Famous Movies
There are countless movies that hinge on an obsessively detailed master plot, which mostly turn out to be really, really awful ideas.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Patrick Thomas
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7 Amazing Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
It seems some directors will go to insane lengths to avoid using CGI, seemingly just so they can point at the screen during the premiere and say 'yeah, a real guy totally did that.'
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- By David Christopher Bell, Karl Smallwood
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The 6 Most Badass Ways Anyone Has Ever Escaped the Country
You didn't have to be crazy to attempt an escape from one of these places. But it sure as hell helped.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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29 Glaring Mistakes In Famous Movie Scenes
The background of a great movie can be a tricky place to work. Nobody wants to end up as the guy who failed to add bullet holes correctly on the set of 'Pulp Fiction' or the now iconic stormtrooper who accidentally nailed his head on a door in 'Star Wars'. Each screw up is like a tiny accidental easter egg for the obsessive compulsive troll who liv
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Depressing Realities Behind Popular Reality TV Shows
It turns out, the truth behind most of these shows is more depressing than the Nirvana 'reunion.'
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- By Karl Smallwood, Mohammed Shariff
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6 Huge Movie Plot Twists That Caused Even Bigger Plot Holes
It turns out that sometimes in order for a film to really shock us with its ending it has to fudge the facts a little bit.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Movie Characters You Didn't Know Died Horrible Deaths
For every graphic movie death that graces our screens in glorious Technicolor, there's an even more gruesome one that happens just outside of frame.
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- By Davidb Marchetti, J.F. Sargent
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If The Hobbit Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
RICHARD ARMITAGE: That does it, Manu, I'm challenging you! There's no way we'd do an entire movie without accomplishing SOME benchmark, so either YOU'RE gonna die, or I'M gonna die, or at least SOMEONE will ACTUALLY ACHIEVE SOMETHING!
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- By The Editing Room
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- 849