5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie. At some point, we've all seen the finale of a TV show or movie and thought, "I could have written a better ending than that. " (We're still bitter about 24 not ending with Jack Bauer exploding from all the accumulated urine in his body, like our write-in campaign suggested.) That's why there is a thriving culture of fan theories that flood the Internet in anticipation of every show, movie or book.
Though these theories turn out to be wrong approximately 100% of the time, we like to point out the ones that really do seem to improve on what the actual writers came up with. Tell us the below movies or series wouldn't be improved if it turned out... (To watch Cracked improve Star Wars, click here.) In the world of Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom is the resident doofus. He's not really good at magic, he constantly forgets stuff -- even Rowling hates him, as evidenced by the fact that she included a synonym for "ass" in his name.
Also to make Harry Potter look like less of a dork in comparison. 9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along. Some people complain about movies having simple stories and not challenging the audience, but really that's why we like movies in the first place -- most people find the real world to be plenty challenging all on its own. Hell, just developing an opinion on today's big important issues (like the crisis in Ukraine, the Academy Awards and Gwen Stefani's new kid) requires research and thinking and potentially being wrong about something, all of which are terrible. It's way nicer to just watch a movie because an unambiguously noble hero means never having to argue about Woody Allen or imagine Gavin Rossdale's O-face. Except it never really works out that way because our world is so messed up and confusing that we can't even make up a good-versus-evil story without accidentally giving the villain just cause.
Being a movie villain is not easy. Of course, the villains deserve it, right? Edward Rooney (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) The "villain": Mr. Above: The eyes of an educator. And you know what? 6 Myths About Famous Places You Believe (Thanks to Movies) The Pyramids at Giza Are Deserted, Majestic and Accessible Remember that movie The Bucket List? The Joker and Lucius Fox are dying of some kind of old-person disease, and luckily for them, one of them happens to be stupid rich, so they go romping around the globe for one last kick before they get stuffed in a casket. One of the things on their list has them hanging out on one of the pyramids.
Looking over the landscape of old tombs, they decide that they have witnessed something majestic. "Check this shit out. " That's how we like the pyramids -- the last wonder of the world sticking out from a deserted and endless sandbox that, if we are lucky enough to visit first-hand, can be scaled and explored. Not to mention the hundreds of local merchants and the array of buses that bring thousands of people to and from Cairo, which, by the way, is like right next door.
Oh, and did we mention the security and the admittance fees? His bucket list apparently includes transients and a gate. Getty Yep. 7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows. The Hidden Madness in Apocalypto The only background information you need about this Easter egg is this: Mel Gibson is insane. GettyHe may also be Snidely Whiplash. Got it? OK, we're good to go.
After the success of The Passion and faced with the impossibility of doing a sequel without pissing off the movie's considerable fanbase, Gibson decided to direct another long, violent film set hundreds of years in the past and spoken in an ancient language: Apocalypto. It's a very serious, very tragic film about the last days of the Mayan civilization.
However, as soon as the movie's teaser trailer was released, some people noticed something ... disturbing about it. Don't see it? Yes, apparently, Mel Gibson slipped a subliminal image of his crazy beard in the trailer for his movie. "I like groping people. " OK, that has to be a hoax, it was probably shot by some bored guy in his backyard or some- Nope, that doesn't look like someone's backyard. Didn't think so. Inception's Hidden Soundtrack Getty. 8 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI. Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Everything The year was 1992, and digital effects were on the rise, with Jurassic Park and the aforementioned Terminator 2 changing the game forever. Francis Ford Coppola was in the process of making the gothic masterpiece Bram Stoker's Dracula while Keanu Reeves was simultaneously working on ruining the very same masterpiece.
Come on, act! At least move an eyebrow! The big-budget project was to have a stylized, surreal look in every frame. In response, Coppola fired every one of them and replaced them with his 29-year-old son, Roman. That's a shot out the window of the train where we see Gary Oldman's stare, hovering in the clouds for some reason. Normally, this book-train montage shot would be a cinch: You shoot your train, shoot your book and put it all together in the computer. Fuck that! Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Freaky Dream Transitions In some ways, its the most accurate portrayal of therapy we've ever seen. No, really. See? 8 Absurd Jokes That Predicted Real Life Events. MADtv Predicts Jason X Say what you want about MADtv, but the sketch comedy show (with no real connection to the old MAD Magazine except for the name) ran for an astonishing 14 seasons, from 1995 until 2009. A few of those seasons were even good. In their very first season, and just their third episode ever, they did a fake film trailer for Apollo the 13th: Jason Takes NASA.
The premise seems to be based entirely off the fact that the movie Apollo 13 had the number 13 in the title, so they thought, Hey! 13! Friday the 13th! What if we did a mashup of those two movies, and wound up with a laughable premise where Jason goes to space?!?! "And then maybe we do a mashup of Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. And no matter how cheesy the franchise got with each sequel, the idea of a Friday the 13th movie on a space station populated by bouncy co-eds having sex with each other would be ridiculous. Bouncy co-eds may be the only true constant in all of space-time.