Movies & TV
6 Giant Blind Spots In Every Movie Alien's Invasion Strategy
With a few alien-invasion movies on the horizon, this is a good time to ask ourselves why exactly the alien invasions we see on the silver screen always seem to end in disaster for the invaders, despite their ridiculously advanced technology.
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- By S Peter Davis
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6 Artists You Didn't Know Made Your Favorite Movie Moments
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- By David Christopher Bell
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7 Lessons About Communication Technology Learned from Movies
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- By Conrad Schickedanz, CRACKED Staff
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5 Insane Early Drafts of Famous Movie Characters
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
Green Lantern vs. Green Hornet: Telling Them Apart [CHART]
So far, 2011 has been a very good year for things with the first name Green, and a somewhat confusing year for the rest of us.
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- By metallicfire
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6 Plot Threads Famous Movies Forgot to Resolve
Writing a movie is hard work, and when all is said and done, there are always going to be a few small subplots that get ignored in the third act. But sometimes a filmmaker forgets an important plot thread. And by that, we mean something way more important than the main plot.
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- By Joe Oliveto, Nick Slawicz
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The 7 Most Ridiculous Movie Character Overreactions
People in movies often wind up making grossly illogical and often utterly insane choices purely to spice things up. These are the characters who probably should have taken a moment to think things over.
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- By Fitzgerald Smith
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5 Reasons 'Gymkata' Is The Funniest Movie of the 80s
In the '80s your special skill would save the day no matter how ridiculous it was, and skills don't come more ridiculous than male gymnastics.
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- By Luke McKinney
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17 Images That Will Ruin Your Childhood
It's always good to take a moment and take a look at our chilhood icons through adult eyes. OK, maybe 'good' isn't the word for it ...
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- By Jason Pargin
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8 Famous Fictional Archaeologists Who Suck At Their Job
Archeologists are after information about ancient cultures. When you spend half a movie destroying stuff like that, you're probably not good at your job.
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- By Luke McKinney
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6 Famous Movies With Mind-Blowing Hidden Meanings
It's easy to forget that almost every movie has some kind of subtext. Even if that subtext involved a cyborg that punces people.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Reasons There Must Be Corpses Buried Under the Batcave
the entire appeal of Batman is that he's the ultimate geek superhero; he's an antisocial loner whose strength is nothing compared to supernatural peers like Superman. Yet, he gets by on his intelligence. And he does it alone, with no help from anyone other than two employees. No family, no friends.
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- By Jeff Bennion
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6 Badass Movie Scenes With Horrifying Unseen Consequences
We don't often pause to think about the faceless civilians who get killed in movies, and there are some movies that go so far out of their way to ignore these deaths that we can't help but wonder about the mental stability of the writers.
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- By Mark Hill
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9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along
Being a movie villain is not easy. Nobody respects your work, women refuse to date you, and the heroes are always in the business of trying to straight up murder you.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Things TV Writers Apparently Believe About Smart People
The key here is the characters aren't just really smart, they're incredible and borderline supernatural scientific ubermenschen who are better at their jobs than anyone has ever been at anything.
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- By C. Coville
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