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  • The Worst Horror Movies Ever, According to Letterboxd

    The Worst Horror Movies Ever, According to Letterboxd

    Letterboxd, the cinematic social media site, is a great place to discover films to watch. You can sort the site’s hundreds of thousands of titles according to their popularity with the app’s users, or according to their highest average rating. And when the leaves start to fall from the trees, and pumpkin spices start to fall into every breakfast cereal and hydrogenated cookie in the land, that means you can also use the site to find horror movies to watch.

    As of this writing, there are over 44,000 movies on Letterboxd categorized under “horror.” And if you sort those 44,000 movies according to their lowest average rating, you can see the movies that users believe to be the worst horror films ever made. Now, if you collect those titles — as I have done below — you will notice that the vast majority of them were released after Letterboxd launched in the fall of 2011. If you feel that makes this list less authoritative about the full scope of crappy scary movies, so be it.

    Personally, I find it refreshing — especially since when you look at the list of what Letterboxd users consider the best horror movies ever you see titles from throughout the 120-year history of cinema and all over the world. In other words, a lot of horror aficionados who use Letterboxd ain’t wasting their time on garbage. And if you heed their warnings and avoid the 25 movies below, neither will you.

    The Worst Horror Movies Ever According to Letterboxd

    Scary? Hardly! These are the worst horror movies in history, according to the users of Letterboxd.

    READ MORE: The Worst Movies Ever Made, According to Letterboxd

    10 Horror Movies That Are Supposedly Cursed

    From mysterious on-set accidents to unexplainable audience reactions, these movies have all gained a reputation for being cursed.

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  • 10 Great Short Films By Famous Directors

    10 Great Short Films By Famous Directors

    Nowadays, names like Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Christopher Nolan are synonymous with the kind of big-budget studio filmmaking that turns movies into grand events. These are the names that draw people back to the multiplex and away from the couch, their grand storytelling skills on full display for two full hours or longer. (Often longer.) But a director’s craft, style, and interests are sometimes best showcased in their shorter works, which is why we delved into the depths of ten celebrated filmmakers’ careers to find the short films that are most indicative of their talents.

    Whether they were film school projects, ideas that they would later evolve into features, odes to a beloved performer, or part of a collection of multiple tales, these shorts are an economical and entertaining way for a director to get at the very essence of an idea. Many of today’s most well-known directors launched their careers with shorts that look nothing like the work that would later make them famous, while some waited until later in their careers to try out or return to the format. In this list, we look at the projects that put names like Tim Burton and Lynne Ramsay on the map, as well as lesser-known work that is well worth checking out if you’re a fan. Most of these shorts are available on YouTube and streaming — whenever possible we’ve included direct links to where you can watch them (as of this writing).

    10 Great Short Films Made by Famous Directors

    We’ve all seen our biggest directors’ biggest movies, but these are the lesser known short films from directors like George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, and David Lynch.

    READ MORE: 12 Directors Who Followed A Classic Movie With a Dud

    “90-Minute Movies” On Netflix

    Netflix added a new genre to its lineup, and frankly, we love it.

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  • Movies That Started Shooting But Were Never Finished

    Movies That Started Shooting But Were Never Finished

    Based on the caliber of movies that are regularly released to theaters and streaming, it’s quite clear that producers will put out anything they think will turn a profit. Obviously, nobody sets out to make a bad movie, but at a certain point, quality no longer factors into the equation. You take what you’ve got, and you hope for the best. (See: Every movie on this list and this list and also this list.)

    Given that fact, you can imagine how rare it is that movie is put into production and then just not released. Something has to go very, very wrong in order for that to happen. And not just the everyday, run of the mill bad that produced films like Gigli or Battlefield Earth or North. After all, those movies are horrible — and they were released in theaters, and on home video. You can watch any of them right now if you want to (and deeply hate yourself).

    So it is highly unusual for a movie to just never come out — but it does happen. In this list, we have collected 20 examples of films that were started, developed, and sometimes filmed and even edited, but for a variety of reasons were shipped off to that warehouse from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, never to be seen again. While we’ll probably never watch any of these movies, we can dream about what might have been; the supermen who might have lived and the Bambis that might have been killed.

    Movies That Were Abandoned During Production and Never Finished

    These movies were started but never completed or released for a variety of reasons.

    READ MORE: 20 Actors Who Quit Movies In the Middle of Production

    Huge Hits That Initially Flopped in Theaters

    These movies prove that sometimes word-of-mouth hype or a couple decades of reclamation can turn a flop into a runaway hit.

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  • The 10 Weirdest TV Shows Based on Beloved Movies

    The 10 Weirdest TV Shows Based on Beloved Movies

    These days, it feels like every time a movie finds any sort of success at the box office or on streaming, we’re likely to see a spinoff or two on television within a couple of years. Peacock’s miniseries The Continental is a John Wick prequel/spinoff, Amazon’s A League of Their Own was a spinoff/remake of the beloved classic movie, and Disney+ has been churning out Marvel and Star Wars TV shows since it launched. We’re tempted to say it hasn’t always been this way, with television drawing inspiration from cinema, but it kind of has. Tons of your favorite shows, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Cobra Kai, started off as movies before anyone saw the potential to expand their storylines.

    But it’s not always easy to translate the charms and excitement of a feature film into longform storytelling, and TV spinoffs don’t always work out. In fact, many of them don’t last longer than a season (or an episode) or two, their home networks quickly realizing that maybe their storylines fit better on the big screen. We’ve gathered a list of ten of the oddest TV shows based on beloved cinematic classics, from the forgotten to the unloved to the completely incomprehensible. We can’t necessarily recommend that you immediately go watch all of these, but there are a few hidden gems whose mere existence makes them worth checking out.

    The 10 Weirdest TV Shows Based on Beloved Movies

    A RoboCop animated kids’ show? A TV sequel to The Crow? These oddball TV spinoffs based on famous movies prove anything is franchise-able.

    READ MORE: TV Spinoffs That Are Better Than the Show They Were Based On

    Forgotten Movie Remakes

    These movie remakes replaced the films they were inspired by in the minds of absolutely no one.

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  • The Craziest ‘American Horror Story’ Stunt Casting

    The Craziest ‘American Horror Story’ Stunt Casting

    Twelve seasons into Ryan Murphy’s camp-laden horror anthology series American Horror Story, in which every season dives into a different type of horror narrative ready to form familiar threads into new shapes, we ask ourselves the question we’ve been asking for years: Why do we still keep tuning in?

    AHS isn’t always what anyone would call a “good” show, leaning heavily on shocks and twists rather than coherent storylines, and even long-time fans admit now and then to being frustrated by it. But the show’s ability to make headlines was always its biggest strength, and what better way to stay at the top of every media outlet’s landing page than by using the age-old technique of stunt casting?

    Murphy himself is no stranger to the art: Every season of his high school choir club musical-satire Glee had its share of celebrity cameos that tended to outshine the main cast, and that was the entire point. If you want to make something more than a little outrageous, you have to do it with some one a little outrageous, and American Horror Story’s casting department is always on the hunt for the weirdest celebs they can rope into their twisted schemes. From world-famous reality stars to platinum-rated musical artists and everyone in between, we’ve narrowed down a list of the wildest members of American Horror Story’s cast through the years.

    The Craziest American Horror Story Celebrity Stunt Casting

    From Stevie Nicks to Trixie Mattel, you never know who’s going to pop in on American Horror Story.

    READ MORE: How American Horror Story’s Seasons Are Connected

    The Scariest Movie Vampires of All Time

    From Dracula to Jerry (yes, Jerry), these are the vampires that’ll have you stringing garlic around your windows.

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  • Movies That Flopped on Opening Weekend But Became Huge Hits

    Movies That Flopped on Opening Weekend But Became Huge Hits

    When we separate successful movies from failures, we look at a few key factors. Sometimes the movie just isn’t very good. Sometimes it was a critical bomb but a hit with the everyman. Sometimes the box office take is enough to say whether a movie was worth its own budget. Plenty of cinema’s great classics and modern masterpieces were immediate theatrical hits, from Gone With the Wind to Jurassic Park to Titanic to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. For others, it takes a little longer for everyone to catch up with their genius.

    Some movies wait decades for their time to shine after being deemed critical and/or commercial flops. Some only have to wait until they’re released on DVD or streaming. When a flop unexpectedly, improbably turns into a hit, it’s a different story every time. Maybe a slew of DVD extras are enough to get a loyal fanbase to cough up a few million dollars. Maybe television syndication is enough to pull public domain movies out of the archive of no return. Maybe a movie that looked like a failure at first turns into a hit through steady ticket sales and word-of-mouth hype. These ten movies originally flopped during their theatrical run, but went on to become certified classics in their own right, proving that sometimes it’s worth it to just be patient.

    Huge Hits That Initially Flopped in Theaters

    These movies prove that sometimes word-of-mouth hype or a couple decades of reclamation can turn a flop into a runaway hit.

    READ MORE: The Box Office Flops That Deserved to Be Big Hits

    DVDs That Sold For Shocking Amounts of Money

    These DVD discs and box sets recently sold for hundreds of dollars eBay.

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  • 20 Actors Who Quit Movies During Production

    20 Actors Who Quit Movies During Production

    LIke Yogi Berra said, it ain’t over till it’s over. Take a big Hollywood movie. An actor might have signed on the dotted line to play a role, they might have shown up for costume fittings and rehearsals — they might have even started shooting some scenes — but until the film is edited and released, you just never know what might happen.

    Take, for example, the 20 actors listed below. They’re all big names who agreed to appear in one form or another in some very well-known films — most of which you have surely seen before. But somewhere between that initial deal and the movie’s opening date, something went wrong. Whether it was a scheduling issue, personal problems, studio meddling, or good old fashioned “creative differences,” another actor entirely wound up playing the parts they had previously planned to perform. (In at least one case, they had performed it, and fully finished their work, before they walked away from the movie. And the film in question was scheduled to open in theaters in only six weeks!)

    Bear in mind that in a few of the cases below, there is some dispute over the exact nature of the actors’ departures. (Ask the actor and they might say they quit, while if you ask the director, they might say they fired Shia LaBeouf, to name one purely hypothetical example.) Whenever possible, I’ve done my best to present both sides of those debates. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the stars who dropped out of movies and had to be replaced:

    Actors Who Quit Movies During Production

    These actors were all set to play key roles in famous movies — until they dropped out at the last minute. (Or, in some cases, after the last minute.)

    READ MORE: 15 Movie Stars Who Made Commercials Before They Were Famous

    Forgotten Movie Sequels

    Although few of them are remembered well (or at all) these sequels all exist.

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  • The Worst 2010s Movies, According to Letterboxd

    The Worst 2010s Movies, According to Letterboxd

    As of this writing, the film-centric social media app Letterboxd lists 239,369 films released between January of 2010 and December of 2019. That’s a whole lot of movies — more than double the amount of films Letterboxd’s database contains from the 2000s. So to rank among the 25 worst films out of all of them … that puts you in the bottom 0.01 percent of movies on the entire site. In a perverse way, that’s almost an impressive accomplishment. Not even the worst of the worst; at that percentage, it’s more like the worst of the worst of the worst of the absolute dregs.

    If you want to explore the worst (or, if you’re feeling really wild, the best) movies of any decade on Letterboxd, it’s not hard to do. Go to “Films” in the top menu then click “Browse By Year” and choose “2010s.” Then at the next screen go to “Sort By” and pick “Average Rating – Lowest First.” That’s it. (If you want to compare the broader website to your own favorites or least favorites just pick “Your Rating – Lowest First” instead.”) It’s also possible to sort by release date, length, popularity, or even popularity among your friends on the site.

    The aggregate of all those individual ratings is what gives us the list below; the 25 worst movies of the 2010s, according to users on Letterboxd. And if you’re thinking about trying any of these movies after you read it … beware. Take care. Stay far away. Maybe watch Lady Bird or Mad Max: Fury Road instead.

    The Worst 2010s Movies, According to Letterboxd Users

    According to the users of the cinematic social network Letterboxd, these are the worst movies released during the 2010s.

    READ MORE: The Worst Movies That Grossed $1 Billion Worldwide

    The Worst 2000s Movies, According to Letterboxd

    According to users of the movie social networking site Letterboxd, these are the 20 worst feature films made in the 2000s.

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  • The Worst Live-Action Anime and Manga Adaptations

    The Worst Live-Action Anime and Manga Adaptations

    Next to video games, anime and manga are some of the most difficult storytelling mediums to translate into live-action. Where there have been many successes—Takashi Miike’s samurai flick Blade of the Immortal, Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, Higuchinsky’s delightfully gross version of Junji Ito’s horror manga Uzumaki, the Wachowskis’ acid trip Speed Racer—there have been even more failures, especially when iconic Eastern stories are retooled to appeal more to Western audiences.

    Because we’re both fans and haters, we compiled a list of the ten worst live-action anime and manga adaptations of all time featuring critical and commercial failures from otherwise storied directors, major studio flops based on beloved classics, and universally derided disasters that simply never should have been made. At least we’ll always have the (much better!) source material to scratch the itch — in these ten cases, you might as well just stick with the originals.

    The 10 Worst Live-Action Anime and Manga Adaptations

    Like video games, the complex storylines and exaggerated characters of even the best anime and manga out there can be difficult to translate to the screen. Here’s the proof…

    READ MORE: The All-Time Worst Sequels Ever Made

    The Best Movies Based On Toys

    Although they’re sometimes associated with craven financial motives, there have been some really good movies based on children’s toys.

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  • VHS Tapes That Are Still Worth a Lot of Money

    VHS Tapes That Are Still Worth a Lot of Money

    A couple of decades ago “streaming” meant something water did in a small river. Back then, you didn’t watching movies on streaming; no one had even conceived of such a thing. If you wanted to watch a movie, you went to a theater — or if you were too lazy to do that, you watched it on television, mostly likely in pan-and-scan format that cropped out half the picture and looked like low-definition garbage and was interrupted every 15 minutes by ads for Hefty bags and Bufferin.

    If you wanted to watch a movie at home on your own schedule, you needed to take a trip trip to a video store, either to buy or rent a VHS tape — short for “video home system.” Although VHS eventually gave way to DVD and Blu-ray, and now streaming, several generations of cinephiles who were raised on home video remain extremely nostalgic for it. And now that they’re older and have a little money of their own, they’ve started collecting VHS tapes the way our parents became obsessed with old baseball cards or comic books.

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    READ MORE: 25 Hilarious Bootleg DVD Covers

    Like any other collectible, an old VHS tape is only worth someone is willing to pay for it. So the list of 25 valuable VHS tapes below are based on recent sales on eBay — with best offer prices found, in some cases, on the website 130point.com. Which is to say that someone did pay a lot of money for these cassette tapes, streaming be damned.

    VHS Tapes That Sold For Shocking Amounts of Money

    These VHS tapes recently sold for hundreds of even thousands of dollars.

    10 VHS Tapes You Totally Owned As A ’90s Kid

    These movies were part of every ’90s kid’s VHS collection.

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  • Actors Who Performed While They Were Really Under the Influence

    Actors Who Performed While They Were Really Under the Influence

    Actors are hard workers, throwing themselves into their characters day after day and night after night to make sure they get the best, most authentic performance. Sometimes, this quest for authenticity goes a little too far, though, causing even the most accomplished performers to take a few sips of liquid courage now and again — or a few hits of the good stuff during a slow shoot.

    Some of the examples of actors who performed under the influence may come as a surprise — Margot Robbie? Nicolas Cage?!? — while others are maybe not so surprising — Billy Bob Thornton’s sloshed performance in Bad Santa is no secret. Any one of us would have considered knocking back a few during Robert Eggers’ horror film The Lighthouse. We would die to have late-night margs with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, or share a couple of martinis with Cate Blanchett and Sarah Paulson. From shocking to not-so-shocking to dang-I-wish-I-had-been-there, we’ve compiled a list of the most iconic times when accomplished actors were a little or more than a little under the influence while making their best movies.

    Actors Who Performed Scenes While Under the Influence

    Plenty of actors filmed famous scenes while under the influence of some substance or another. Could you tell from their performances?

    READ MORE: 10 Stars Who Had Surprising Careers Before Hollywood

    Movies That Were Changed Due to Controversy

    These movies were very famously changed after public controversies.

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  • 25 Movie Remakes You Forgot Existed

    25 Movie Remakes You Forgot Existed

    When you get right down to it, remakes are about one thing: Brand recognition. A studio or a producer believes there is money to be made in releasing something with the same title and/or concept as an old hit. And that’s exactly what they do.

    That line of reasoning is not without some justification. Many of the biggest box-office hits in history are remakes. The 2019 remake of The Lion King grossed $1.64 billion worldwide. Two years earlier, the live-action Beauty and the Beast grossed $1.26 billion. War of the Worlds. King Kong. Clash of the Titans. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Ocean’s Eleven. The Mummy. The Karate Kid. All hugely successful remakes. And on and on and on.

    Of course, it doesn’t always work out that way.

    READ MORE: The Worst Movies That Grossed $1 Billion at the Box Office

    Just because a film was popular once is no guarantee it will be again. Occasionally, a film’s popularity works against a remake’s viability. If people love a movie, does that mean they want to see it again, with other (possibly less charismatic) actors, directed by a different (possibly less talented) filmmaker? Not necessarily. And when that happens, the results can be underwhelming, disappointing, or downright forgettable.

    Collected below are 25 examples of exactly those sorts of remakes. Some were box-office bombs, but others did reasonably well in theaters, propelled by the very sort of brand recognition that got them made in the first place. But even then, they could never live up to the movies that inspired them — nor could they replace them in the minds of viewers. Instead, they live on right here.

    Forgotten Movie Remakes

    These movie remakes replaced the films they were inspired by in the minds of absolutely no one.

    Forgotten Movie Sequels

    Although few of them are remembered well (or at all) these sequels all exist.

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  • Directors Who Followed a Classic Film With a Total Dud

    Directors Who Followed a Classic Film With a Total Dud

    Show me a great director and I’ll show you a great director who’s made a few missteps along the way. It’s inevitable, really; even the all-time legends of cinema had made their fair share of bad movies. Every single artist you love has a skeleton or two in their closet they’d rather forget and hope you never find out about. And sometimes those duds have come immediately following some of their biggest and most beloved hits.

    This is an interesting phenomenon to consider. Does success cloud an artist’s judgment? Once you’ve had a major hit, do you stop taking constructive criticism, or listening to your trusted collaborators? Do you try too hard to please the audience instead of yourself? Do you get distracted by the trappings of wealth and fame?

    READ MORE: Successful Movies That Switched Directors in the Middle of Production

    Who knows. All I do know is the 12 incredibly talented and hugely popular directors below all followed one of their biggest hits with one of their biggest commercial or critical flops. (Or, in a lot of cases, both.) To find your name on this list is not something to be embarrassed or ashamed about. In a weird way it’s actually more like a badge of honor. Because you had to be enormously successful to then have bombs this notable and famous. And if no one ever screw things up, how would we ever recognize and appreciate when they got things right?

    Directors Who Followed a Classic Film With a Dud

    Some of the greatest filmmakers of all time followed up beloved favorites with stinkers. It happens.

    The Best Sequels Not Made By the Original Movie’s Director

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  • The Most Underrated Superhero Movies

    The Most Underrated Superhero Movies

    At this point, it might be a bit of a pointless exercise to single out any superhero movie as “underrated.” The fact is there are so many comic-book films these days, and they dominate so much pop culture conversation online (See: A large portion of what is published every day on this website) that really no film of this genre is ever truly overlooked and need of reassessment.

    AND YET! There are some superhero movies that, for one reason or another, do not get the love and respect that they deserve. Maybe they followed a more successful and popular entry in a long-running franchise, and they looked inferior in comparison. Maybe they were besieged by bad publicity prior to their release. Maybe their marketing was terrible, and as a result few people actually saw the finished product. Maybe they feature an old and not particularly well-liked costumed crime fighter. Whatever the reason, these movies are far better than their consensus reputations.

    READ MORE: The Most Overrated Superhero Movies of All Time

    The 12 titles below, for example, are all widely regarded as flops or flubs, but are actually pretty darn entertaining — or at least a lot better than you would be led to believe if you took the fan ratings on IMDb or Letterboxd as gospel. The next time you’re sick of rewatching The Avengers and you’re looking for a new superhero movie to try, any of these would make excellent options.

    The Most Underrated Superhero Movies

    Comic book fans need to make sure they have seen these movies — no matter what they’ve heard about them elsewhere.

    The Most Underrated Disney Movies Of The Last 25 Years

    No one considers these Disney movies “classics” — but they should.

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  • The 13 Scariest Movie Vampires Ever

    The 13 Scariest Movie Vampires Ever

    Vampires, immortal as they are, will always be a part of horror cinema, either sparkling in the sunlight to woo teen girlfriends or trapping real estate agents in their ancient castles so their army of undead wives can suck their blood. They’ve made their way from whispered warnings in fairy tales and folklore to the biggest movie screens, and we haven’t gotten bored with their undead antics yet. (Although we could do with more vampires in capes; no one has cool capes in movies these days.)

    With The Last Voyage of the Demeter offering yet another twist on the vampire genre, we figured we would honor the O.G. scary vampire (that’s Dracula, if you’re wondering) by counting down the scariest movie vampires of all time, starting with a classic from 1920s German Expressionism and traveling through Sweden, South Korea, snowy Alaska, and post-Apocalypse New York City to bring you the spookiest of the spooky, those fanged freaks that keep us up at night long after the credits have rolled. As one Abraham Van Helsing once said, “The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.” Hopefully, this list will convince you otherwise.

    READ MORE: 10 Horror Classics That Probably Couldn’t Get Made Today

    The Scariest Movie Vampires of All Time

    From Dracula to Jerry (yes, Jerry), these are the vampires that’ll have you stringing garlic around your windows.

    Popular Movies That Were Supposed To Be Way Darker

    Things might have turned out differently for these hit films if they’d stuck with their original (darker) scripts.

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  • 12 Movies That Were Changed Due to Controversy

    12 Movies That Were Changed Due to Controversy

    There are controversial movies and then there are movies that are so controversial that people get upset about them before they even see them. And then there are movies that are so controversial that people get so upset about them before they even see them to the point that the studios releasing those movies decide to change them before they get released to theaters.

    This is a list about that last kind of controversial movie.

    Some of the changes to these movies listed below amount to very little tangible differences in the grand scheme of things; swapping out some stock footage here or tweaking the look of something there. But in other cases, these pictures were given radical overhauls before the public were allowed to get a look at them. We’re talking characters getting totally redesigned — or actors being replaced after the entire film had already been shot — and delays of months upon months as creators scrambled to fix whatever had angered potential customers in the first place.

    READ MORE: 10 Movies That Became Infamously Bad Broadway Musicals

    Sometimes these changes amounted to much ado about nothing; even after they were altered to meet perceived viewer demands, they still bombed in theaters (or weren’t even released to theaters at all). But other times, these last-minute cuts turned potential bombs into massive hits. And that is why producers keep changing movies at the last minute when controversy arises. The potential long-term financial benefits outweigh the short-term costs.

    Until the next scandal breaks, here are 12 notable examples of films that were changed as a direct result of loud public controversies.

    Movies That Were Changed Due to Controversy

    These movies were very famously changed after public controversies.

    Iconic Characters in the Public Domain

    These characters were created so long ago that their original texts are now in the public domain and no longer protected by copyright.

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  • The 10 Worst Fictional Planets to Live On

    The 10 Worst Fictional Planets to Live On

    These days, our home planet of Earth is looking a little dire. Climate change and a wobbly economy (and the Pentagon finally admitting that aliens exist) are causing some of us to look to the stars and wonder what’s out there, and if it could possibly be better than what we have going on down here. Movies like Avatar imagine lush extraterrestrial environments full of fantastical creatures and fascinating local inhabitants that seem like great places to take a quick vacation on, if only they existed. But the jungle moon of Pandora is an outlier: most science fiction takes place on planets you’d rather escape from as soon as possible.

    Because this phenomenon is pretty entertaining — and because it makes us feel much better about the world we live in now, we found the ten worst fictional planets you could possibly get stuck on, from the waterlogged death trap of Christopher Nolan’s most ambitious space opera to the volcanic setting of Star Wars’ greatest tragedy. While so many fictional worlds are meant to be places we’d want to escape to, these ten planets are places we’d rather escape from.

    10 Worst Fictional Planets to Live On

    Watching people try to survive on these cursed worlds will make you happy you live on Earth.

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    The Worst Disney Live-Action Remakes

    Disney has made billions repackaging their animated classics as live-action movies. But the results haven’t always been good…

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  • The Most Overrated Superhero Movies of All Time

    The Most Overrated Superhero Movies of All Time

    There was a time not that long ago that a comic book fan would endure whatever superhero slop Hollywood produced and respond with “Please sir, I want some more.” Maybe once a decade a studio would release something of merit. In between it was all Judge Dredds and  and Fantastic Fours so bad they were never officially screened in any legitimate format. Those were rough years.

    These days, the standards have changed. Back then, it was considered a victory if a movie superhero looked vaguely like the character from the comics and the people involved didn’t openly mock graphic novels while publicizing their films. These days, Marvel and DC regularly produce enormous blockbusters; often two or three mega-movies every single year. It’s not enough for a superhero film to be faithful anymore. In this hyper-competitive environment, basic competency just isn’t enough.

    Warner Bros.

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    Comic-book fans are so spoiled now, and have so many legitimately great films to choose from, that they can afford to be a little more critical about the rest. This list is about the rest — superhero movies of the past that have gotten to be a bit overrated.

    Now these movies are, in most cases, not bad. Most are at least okay; a few are solidly good. But all of them, for one reason or another, have garnered somewhat inflated reputations. I’ll get into the specific reasons why in the actual list. So let’s dive right in…

    The Most Overrated Superhero Movies

    While all of these films are varying degrees of okay to good, they’re not nearly as great as their reputations suggest.

    The Worst Superhero Movie Costumes

    Superhero movies costumes have gotten incredible sophisticated in recent years. But they weren’t always that way — and even today, there are still some costumes that don’t quite work out.

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  • 10 Comedies That Are Surprisingly Deep

    10 Comedies That Are Surprisingly Deep

    Sometimes, we’re in the mood to watch something that will make us feel all the big feelings. Other times, we want a movie that’s fun, light, and uncomplicated. In a couple of rare cases, we get both — a comedic, fast-paced film that still manages to incorporate a powerful message. In fact, some of your favorite feel-good comedies are surprisingly deep.

    Let’s take Greta Gerwig’s Barbie for instance. When the movie hit theaters in July 2023, fans of all ages rushed to see it. But not everyone knew that there were some hard-to-swallow truths right beneath the film’s bubblegum pink veneer. These unexpectedly complex comedies may be entertaining, but they can also teach us a thing or two about the meaning of life, love, and happiness.

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    We’ve come to expect this delicate balance of humor and depth from a majority of Disney Pixar films — they’re oftentimes hilarious and moving, joyous and serious. They’re comedies with a huge side of genuine life lessons. There are other films that aren’t made by Disney/Pixar that fall into this category, too. Below, you’ll find 10 popular comedies that may seem simple on the surface, but are actually much deeper than they let on.

    Comedy Movies That Are Surprisingly Deep

    These movies are good for a laugh — and a whole lot more.

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    Claire Epting

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  • The Worst TV Superhero Costumes of All Time

    The Worst TV Superhero Costumes of All Time

    Look! Up in the sky!

    On second thought, look away. Look away.

    Throughout the first century of the television medium, it has proven exceedingly difficult for many shows to accurately and convincingly create superhero costumes. To be fair, that’s been a tough task for a lot of major theatrical movies as well, and those are typically made with budgets many times larger than the ones available for TV shows. If a movie like Green Lantern — which had a reported budget of $200 million — couldn’t get a Green Lantern suit right, what chance does some cheapo TV pilot have?

    (Wait, they spent $200 million on Green Lantern? Guys, I could have made you a terrible Green Lantern movie for $20 million! Hell, you could have given me $2 million, pocketed the other $198 million, and we all would have come out ahead.)

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    Anyway, you can’t always say that if a TV show has bad superhero costumes it’s doomed to fail. Sometimes some really enjoyable superhero series have screwed this up — although there are definitely examples where a really hideous costume served as the kind of Black Canary in the coal mine.

    So the terrible TV superhero costumes below come from series (and TV movies [and busted pilots]) both good and bad. The suits themselves though? They are all uniformly terrible. (You heard me; uniformly! If we can’t enjoy a good clothing pun in a list of bad superhero TV suits, what are we even doing here?)

    And now, let’s get to our picks for the worst TV superhero costumes…

    The Worst TV Superhero Costumes

    These costumes from superhero television shows, films, and pilots, were absolutely awful.

    The Worst Superhero Movie Costumes

    Superhero movies costumes have gotten incredible sophisticated in recent years. But they weren’t always that way — and even today, there are still some costumes that don’t quite work out.

    Matt Singer

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