6 Movie Mysteries the Characters Should've Solved Way Sooner. Secrets drive the plots of some of the best movies.
Memories are erased, alibis are fashioned, characters are killed or imprisoned and Jedi knights are kept working on farms for far too long, all to keep us guessing, interested and watching. That being said, sometimes a secret is only as good as the writers' ability to cover huge gaps in logic -- gaps that, when you think about it, are so huge that you can drive a bus through them, such as how the hell no one figured out Bruce Wayne was Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy. #6. The Dark Truth Behind Robert's Magic Trick in The Prestige Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) is a magician hell-bent on winning a battle of wits against a rival magician to see who can better perform a specific trick, because this is 19th century England and women would have sex with you for such a thing. "No syphilis and magic tricks? "I'M ALIVE! Perhaps because the greatest sin against nature is hiding your sin against nature. #5.
. #4. It sucks, but it makes sense, right? 5 Film Franchises Based on One Character's Stupid Decision. Remember that flashback scene in The Lord of the Rings when Elrond and Isildur are right at the center of Mount Doom, and all Elrond needs to do to save Middle-earth from centuries of war is elf-kick that dipshit and his ring-coveting ass into the boiling lava of oblivion?
Had he just done what everyone in the audience was screaming at him to do, the movies would have just been 10 hours of hobbits getting drunk. Well, this kind of thing happens all the time -- one poor decision leads to an entire film series worth of conflict. For instance ... #5. Batman Exists Because Ra's al Ghul Doesn't Screen His Applicants. 5 Terrifying Implications of Surviving a Horror Movie. At the end of a romantic movie, the goal is pretty much to be in love with someone, even if you win the booby prize and get Molly Ringwald.
The end of an action movie usually sees a character vindicated in some way, having overcome nefarious asshattery. From Jackie Chan to Carrie Fisher: The 10 Most Unlikely Celeb Porn Stars. Post-Fame Porn Stars There are various reasons a recognizable actor might appear in pornography.
Maybe their career has slowed a bit and having sex is the only way they can get anyone to point a camera at them, maybe they have a crippling sexual addiction, or were simply too dumb to know how to work the "delete" button. The 6 Most Accidentally Creepy Movie Romances. Hollywood is no stranger to creepy 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, coming up with new and more disgusting ways to creep everyone out without even meaning to. Here are six more famous movies where the filmmakers tried to add a little romance and ended up unleashing unintentional nastiness at best, pure existential horror at worst. #6. Source Code -- Jake Gyllenhaal Kills a Man, Then Steals His Life and Girlfriend The Movie Romance Source Code is about a time-altering device that can't send a person's body back, but can transport his mind. Time travel, brought to you by math and the color blue. The Filthiest Joke Ever Hidden in a Children's Movie. One of the most beloved and oft-quoted moments in the ridiculously beloved and oft-quoted film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is the sequence in which the unbalanced candymaker displays his newest invention: lickable wallpaper.
As the children and their guardians go to town on the wallpaper, Wonka declares: "Lick an orange. It tastes like an orange. The strawberries taste like strawberries! The snozzberries taste like snozzberries! " We laugh, because "snozzberries" is obviously a fanciful, fictional word, and nobody knows what they really were. It turns out the guy who thought a story about an insane recluse casually murdering a group of children had a pretty fucked up sense of humor. The 5 Most Excessively Creepy Children's Educational Videos. The 6 Creepiest Things Ever Slipped Into Children's Cartoons. Whether they realize it or not, parents leave their children in the care of cartoon writers for several hours every week--which is about as wise as telling your kids that a candy-dealing leprechaun lives at the bottom of the swimming pool.
X More inexplicably horrifying episodes of TV shows (ph) If you think that watching nothing but family-friendly shows with your children or younger siblings is hell, imagine what it must be like to actually make those things for a living.
5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies. Entire television empires now exist thanks to cartoon characters cursing and taking on dark subject matter.
Shock humor works best when it's coming out of a character from South Park or Family Guy because we still think of cartoons as wholesome kid stuff.