7 movies that got studio heads fired

7 movies that got studio heads fired

How Hollywood Glamorizes Hacking – And Why This Is Deeply Wrong

I grew up in the 1980s generation, when technology really started to become “cool”. You had Max Headroom, Tron and of course the very first video game console – the Atari. It was the dawn of the technology boom, when those that had to suffer through being a bullied as a 1980s nerd grew into adulthood and transformed into ultra-cool geeks.

However, part of that transformation included a fascination with hacking. For me, it started with the 1983 film War Games. It was a movie where David Lightman, played by young Matthew Broderick, hacked into the U.S. military supercomputer WOPR. What he thought was nothing more than a cool video game turned out to be a computer system capable of predicting outcomes of a cold-war nuclear conflict scenario.

7 Ridiculously Outdated Assumptions Every Movie Makes

Have you ever watched a movie set in the present where a guy was, say, using a pay phone, and thought, "Man, how old are these writers? Use your cellphone!"
The thing is, writers often reference not real life, but the shows they grew up watching as kids. So they wind up writing scenes that made sense in the 1970s, but are hopelessly out of date today. That's why in movies and TV ...

#7. Psychiatrists Make You Talk About What Your Dreams Mean

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As Seen In: Analyze This, Bones, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Sopranos, Two and a Half Men, Desperate Housewives, Numb3rs, Dexter

Movie Characters Worth Idolizing

Every once in awhile, there are movie characters that stick with us. Whether it be because of the role they played, or we vicariously want to live through them, we pretty much develop a quiet (sometimes loud) crush the second we lay eyes on them.

It can be the fact that they take on an entire army of jocks to win the super hot girl, is the coolest chick on the block, or just happens to be mega-cool that you want to try and emulate his or her every move.

Since we all can’t maintain whatever these characters have, we can at least try to duplicate them… and here are a couple we’d suggest studying up on if you want to seem like you’re cooler than you probably really are.

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The 10 Best Special Effects Movies Ever

Ask any fanboy and they’ll tell you that one of the big reasons they go see a science fiction or genre movie is to have their face melted off by awesome special effects. Over the years there have been some amazingly convincing effects created, and we’ve compiled a list of the 10 movies that pulled off their special effects so well that they still hold up years after the original release.

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