5 Celebrities Who Get Way More Hate Than They Deserve. 4 Fictional Works People Insist Are Real. People love stories.
Movies and books let us escape our own horrible lives for a few hours. Some people love stories a little too much, however, and eventually begin to forget (or even deny) that they are fictional. 5 Works of Art So Good They Ruined Their Whole Genre. History is filled with influential artists -- people who were so talented, they inspired hordes of others to create.
But sometimes an artist creates a work of art so masterful, it simultaneously defines a style while shutting the door on others who would follow. Sure, people still try, but rarely can they succeed without their attempts being compared, unfavorably, to the masterpieces. GettyThis week, I kept the intro short instead of bitching about people not reading it. 7 Movies That Put Insane Detail into Stuff You Never Noticed. We've mentioned before how film directors occasionally go a little bit crazy when it comes to certain minor details, including ones that 99 percent of the audience are never even going to see.
A horrifying amount of time and work go into things that will be forever unnoticed by everyone except a few members of the crew. So let's again take a moment to appreciate the awesomely obsessive ... #7. 4 Legendary Pranks by Famous Comedians. Office pranks have grown more popular and elaborate since Jim put Dwight's stapler in a Jell-O mold on The Office.
Unfortunately, those perpetrated by people who aren't written by Mindy Kaling and Greg Daniels tend to have a hit-to-miss ratio on par with most "humorous" coffee mugs. But there are those rare occasions when people who are funny for a living unleash their comedic sensibilities on the unsuspecting outside world, and the rest of us can only look on in admiration, and think about trying to start a slow clap ... #4. Trey Parker Introduces Himself to Hollywood in the Most Memorable Way Possible During the first season of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone quickly became two of the most talked about names in Hollywood despite the fact that nobody knew what they looked like.
While researching Orgazmo, Parker became friendly with porn star Tim Lake, who invited him to one of the strangest parties in Hollywood history. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make an entrance. 4 Reality Shows Too Awesome to Actually Exist. #4.
Reality Show: The Reality Show In a Nutshell Every week, a bunch of reality TV show editors are handed many, many hours of raw footage and they compete to see who can edit together the most compelling story. If you work in reality TV, you're probably familiar with the term "Frankenbiting," a practice that involves mixing and matching random bits of audio and constructing an entirely new sentence. The example given in that Time magazine article I just linked to is from a show called The Dating Experiment. GettySandler was never an option. 5 Fan Fiction Sex Scenes You Won't Believe Exist. We assume that the vast majority of you reading this are familiar with the Internet's obsession with fan fiction, where regular people write new adventures involving their favorite characters.
And we further assume that you already know that most of these stories involve characters from one series having all kinds of depraved sex with characters from another. So let us once again take a look at some of the most mind-boggling pairings the minds of fan fiction writers have come up with ... #5. Professor Snape from Harry Potter Diddles the Teletubbies The Scenario: The Harry Potter universe is apparently a favorite setting for writers of erotic fan fiction: We've already told you about the steamy stories where Ron Weasley's brothers hook up with Lance Bass from N*Sync and Indiana Jones molests Lord Voldemort.
Spoiler: SNAPE FUCKS TINKY WINKY. "Jesus, I meant stay home and watch TV, what's wrong with you? " 6 Ironic Coincidences Behind the Scenes of Famous Movies. Some movies seem to be cursed, while others merely predict the future with creepy accuracy.
But then you have the films below, which feature grossly unlikely yet hugely ironic coincidences. What do we mean by that? Well ... #6. Troy -- Brad Pitt Injures His Achilles Tendon While Playing Achilles empiremovies.com. 4 Horror Movie Villains That Aren't Scaring Us Anymore. Getty This is a call to action, which is a buzz term that people in offices use that means "get off your ass.
" For the sake of the horror film industry as a whole, something needs to be done. Horror, as a genre, is suffering through what film enthusiasts might call "shittiness. " There is a lot of shittiness in horror movies because a lot of horror filmmakers insist on repeating the same thing over and over again. Well written, well acted and unique horror is hard to come by, and that's sad. . #4. 6 Movies That Predicted Disasters With Eerie Accuracy.
#3. Wag the Dog Predicts a Sex Scandal and a Convenient Bombing There should be a name for that very specific genre of movie that accidentally satirizes a news story before it even happens. People tend to think The China Syndrome was playing off of the fears of nuclear power in the wake of the Three Mile Island incident, but the movie actually came out two weeks before.
We previous pointed out how Starship Troopers plays like a parody of the War on Terror, even though it came out four years before 9/11. Which brings us to Wag the Dog. Which came out three weeks before Dustin Hoffman was invented. In Wag the Dog, the president of the United States gets caught trying to sleep with a Girl Scout, so in order to distract the public and the media from the scandal, a political publicist (Robert De Niro) hires a Hollywood producer to stage a fake war with Albania. SodaheadYou might remember him from several episodes of Saturday Night Live. #2. 6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI. Computer generated images are like the foam sets of the present era: 20 years from now, people are going to laugh their asses off at the fact that this stuff looked even remotely real to us.
That's why, as we've mentioned before, 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. There's CGI in Cracked's new Adventures in Jedi School mini-series, but the humor is all a practical effect. #6. Inception -- The Dream Collapsing. 6 Terrible Decisions That Gave Us Great Movie Moments. Remember the awesome scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy shoots the swordsman?
Yeah well, the only reason they included that in the movie is that Harrison Ford had the shits -- as we've mentioned before, Ford had dysentery and didn't feel like performing a sword fight like the script called for, so they improvised that joke on the set. Apparently that sort of thing happens in Hollywood all the time: Here are some examples of memorable scenes (or even entire movies) that only happened because something went wrong. (Something went right with Cracked's new Star Wars mini-series. See exactly what by clicking right here.) #6.
The carbonite scene in The Empire Strikes Back is arguably the most iconic moment in the entire movie that doesn't include the words "I am your father. " Princess Leia is there, too. 5 Classic Movies That Seemed Like Terrible Ideas At The Time. The thing about a huge pop-culture phenomenon is that it seems so obvious after the fact.
It's impossible to imagine people not going wild for something like Star Wars. But at the time, when the checks were being written and not a single ticket had been sold? Yeah, it was a different story. In fact, a lot of the biggest hits in Hollywood history sounded absolutely ridiculous in concept. 5 Famously Terrible Movies (That Actually Don't Suck) There have been lots of articles about big film flops and/or the worst movies ever made. Usually, they're filled with stats about inflated budgets, production problems and crappy box office returns. Or sometimes, they're just long-winded rants about substandard writing, directing and acting, regardless of box office returns. But over the years, I've noticed that a handful of these movies not only don't suck, but are actually enjoyable.
Don't get me wrong, Waterworld, Gigli and Matrix 3 are all as terrible as everyone says, but a "bad" movie's reputation doesn't always go hand in hand with reality. Some of these duds just don't deserve their reputations. But, again, Waterworld did indeed suck. #5. In 2001, we got to see the third installment of the Jurassic Park series. Why People Hate It: Unlike the first two movies, Jurassic Park III was not based on a book by Michael Crichton or directed by Steven Spielberg. Jurassic Park III understood this. . #4. 6 Crucial Movie Scenes That Never Made It Out of the Script. There's a saying in Hollywood: "Cut what you love. " No, it's not about cocaine. It means that it doesn't matter how expensive, beautiful or awesome a scene is -- if you can cut it and still have the movie make sense, then cut it. It's actually pretty common for perfectly good scenes to end up on the cutting room floor simply to shave a few minutes off the total running time or speed up the pace of the movie.
7 Celebrities Who Invented Amazing Things on the Side. 5 Famous Movies That Shamelessly Ripped-Off Obscure Ones. So, Hollywood likes remakes, apparently. 6 Fictional Places You Won't Believe Actually Exist (Part 2) 6 Absurd Movie Plots You Won't Believe Are Based on Reality. 7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows. We've already told you about some of the most mind-blowing Easter eggs hidden in music albums, classic works of art and video games, so it was just a matter of time before we explored our favorite Easter Eggs from the world of television and film. Captain, unleash the list. Hidden Faces and Naked Women in Movie Posters. 5 Celebrities Who Got Famous by Being Obsessed Fan Boys.