I wouldn't even call these 'Bizarre' - like it's some sociological issue raised only through the medium of film. It's a 'trend' because those movies made money. The Exorcist hit it big, so the 70s produced a lot of demon child films. The Matrix was huge, so then came a string of action movies that tried to be similar. 10 years from now, (if Cracked, and RUclips is still a thing...) are you going to release a "Bizarre trend of Comic book movies" video? Where's the depth, Cracked? Where's the insight?
+Reel School That's the point. The "bizarre" part is, every time something (new) makes a big hit, it gets overcloned w/o hesitation. Btw, now has to search for World's End (2013).
Then you and I have drastically different definitions of 'bizarre' - because these trends are literally cause and effect... that's the antithesis of 'bizarre'.
The 70s and 90s trends are rooted in what was going on at the time culturally. Specifically, anxiety about children, indie directors reflecting pop culture through their films, and the growing sophistication of video games and the internet providing possibilities of a new virtual reality.
Trends just happen. When some idea is succesfull, others try to jump on the bandwagon. It has always been like that and shouldnt surprise anyone I think.
+Willem Verheij well, sometimes its just the zeitgeist. Like how Armageddon and Deep Impact happened around the same time. Its not that they are stealing from each other (all the time at least) but that the same idea is just hanging in the air.
+Azivegu That's only sort of true. A lot of times, scripts for these movies have been floating around for a while. If one is popular and being passed around, someone else might do their take on the same concept. OR they might've had the concept a long time ago. But they kept it lowkey for whatever reason (other projects, low demand for the genre, still in rough stages, etc.), and this new script brings that old project new life. There's a site called "blklst." It's The Black List of popular scripts being tossed around Hollywood. You might not see some of them come to life, but you'll always see a lot of similar stories get picked up all at once. A good example of this is the superhero genre. We can say that the 2008 sparked it with The Dark Knight and Iron Man, but the scripts for superhero movies has been around for ages. Even in the 90's we had a Justice League script floating around, the Death of Superman floating around, and a Batman v Superman floating around. But one studio buys a superhero script, and other studios are like "OH MAN IS THIS MARKET GOING TO EXPLODE? DO THEY KNOW SOMETHING WE DONT?! BUY A SCRIPT!" And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Don't forget the movies that took place in tiny spaces. Panic Room, Phone Booth, Devil, Buried, Fermat's Room...I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of any at the moment.
+wrzecion9 This format is for lazy people. There could have been a really good, entertaining, article written on their website like with all this information, depth, and some actual jokes thrown in. But because people don't read they dumbed it down into this video. Some of their content, as it is written, should just be text. Other stuff with some actually interesting visuals or dialogue should be videos.
+TheTitanSlayers or you do the same but put it in a video with a video example right With it some people are visual learners and some people like it. So best solution you hate it don't want it :)
Yay These Final Hours got a mention! Heck yeah for Australian cinema! (I worked on that film). Trends in Hollywood are so easy to collate though like pick a decade at any point in time and you'll be able to find a recurring theme in specific genres like sci-fi or drama.
At least in the early and mid-2000s the aftermath of 9/11 and the global war on terror created an angsty zeitgeist, that was reflected in movies becoming darker/edgier and doom-and-gloom fantasies like War of the Worlds that showed attacks on home soil. Also terrorism (obviously). At the same time there was an emphasis on mindless escapism as people wanted to block out all those worries.
Spoiler Alert BUT Correction for you guys at Cracked: in Alice Sweet Alice it wasn't a child who was committing the killings, it was a Adult dressed as a child's character as the twist. Research!
In the late 00s, humans control other beings like muppets: Surrogates - Humans control robots Avatar - Humans control aliens to infiltrate other alien societies Gamer - Humans control other humans and teabags another dead human puppets' face
Specifically 2015 (also includes television): Women escape captivity. Room Mad Max: Fury Road Ex Machina (a robot, but she's a girl robot) The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Jessica Jones HUMANS (robots again) Game of Thrones
The 00's was when the epic trilogies (or more) fantasy world-building began: LOTR, Star Wars prequels, Harry Potter, early Avenger movies, even Twilight, leading to the even more ominous two- or three-part final chapter by the 10's. A century of cinematic excess!
These trends aren't specific to the decades you mentioned. Every decade since the 70s has movies that have dealt with all these themes. Freaky Friday in the 70s dealt with body swapping. Pop culture was also discussed in 70's flicks like Saturday Night Fever and Taxi Driver and in countless 80's movies. Disaster films were also popular in the 90's with films such as Armaggedon, Deep Impact, Volcano, etc. Old guys were kicking ass in the 80's, too. Have you ever heard of Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery?.
Am I the only one who noticed the key clacking was gone and that cracked actually paid attention to it's audience? Well if no one else says it thank you
I envy the guy making these videos. So little effort yet I'm sure he gets paid a comfortable amount for each one. Most of the time there isn't even research involved. It's just rip a two year old Cracked article and paste it's summary into the editor.
To be fair, we've been making "end of the world" movies for a LONG TIME! That's not just a 2010's thing. When we aren't actively causing the end of the world, we're fantasizing about it.
What about the blockbuster disaster trope of the late 90s? That era (tragically) defined my formative years! A few notable examples: Outbreak (1995) Twister (1996) Independence Day (1996) Mars Attacks (1996) Dante's Peak (1997) Volcano (1997) Titanic (1997) Armageddon (1998) Deep Impact (1998) Godzilla (1998 remake) Deep Blue Sea (1999) Every year the planet was about to explode, or blow up, or we were about to get taken out by animals. Stressful time to grow up in!
The other replies to your comment are forgetting one of the biggest trends ever! Zombies! The entire 00s basically popularized the love affair media is still having with zombies. A notable selection: 28 Days Later (2002) Resident Evil (2002) Shaun of the Dead (2005) Land of the Dead (2005) Fido (2006) 28 Weeks Later (2007) Diary of the Dead (2007) Pontypool (2008) Zombieland (2009) Dead Snow (2009) There are plenty more than just those, too. How could they leave out the beginning of the modern zombie obsession?
There are hundreds if not thousands of movies in a certain level of quality in any given decade. You can choose any five movies and fit it into whatever trend you want. This was kind of pointless.
Where was "Franchise movies from 2008-2013 in which the villain is captured as part of their scheme" (The Dark Knight, Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness)?
You should do one for television trends. The 50's and 60's had westerns.The 70's had cop shows. The 80's had private eye shows. The 90's had stand up comedian driven sit-coms. Then the 2000's began the era of the anti-hero.
I don't know if this stuff is "bizarre" more like in hollywood if something is successful you can expect to see studios replicate (aka copy it with a slight change) over and over again. You might have noticed Disney made a lot of money off some universe building superhero films, so Sony, Fox and WB all have or are trying their hand at doing the same thing.
The last one is a genre; not a trend, and it is by no means limited to a single decade. You only listed films to support your theory, and ignored anything else. That's called confirmation bias. Also, those guys are classic action stars who grew older and kept being action stars. Not a trend; just the passage of time.
***** actually, they're also educational. Things can serve more than one purpose, smartass. If all you want is comedy, then CollegeHumor is the place for you, my friend. Cracked is all about criticism, so it would be pretty hypocritical of them to not allow others to dissect THEIR work.
I'm glad you got Slacker in there. People always talk about Tarantino ripping off John Woo and Leone, etc. but I thought his most original move was ripping off Linklater.
I like this format. I don't mind reading while listening part at all because, well, I've been trained by life to do just that. I just wish there was a series title.
+Kieran Tobin I guess it depends on who's watching. For me it was quite interesting. (and I also discovered the name of a movie that was stuck in my head for YEARS and didn't know how it was called / didn't find it :) )
okay hey, you removed the annoying typing and constant pauses, huge improvement to the format. but, like everyone complaining keeps saying, your subscribers would like you to put something in the title, so we can identify this series, without having to click on it. also, a narrator.
+Ebon Hawk As a business that runs on views, you should know they wouldn't want people to not click on these videos. I have no problem with them, but I do find the overly vocal opposition to these videos to be generally more amusing than the videos themselves. Perhaps the folks at Cracked feel the similarly & are just making these videos to watch the disapproving minority riot in the comments, they certainly enjoyed trolling cat owners until their latest cat/dog debate.
Thanks for taking out the typing noise, and underneath that surface we got... a series of glorified buzzfeed lists that ruin key plot points for movies without actually commenting on reasons behind mentioned phenomenon. Coming up, a list of 6 bizarrely specific color fruits and vegetables. Spoilers! That list would suck less than this garbage.
They're just trends. One movie comes along and does something new and is succesful and then everyone else jumps on the bandwagon because they rather play it safe and make a movie that they know people will be interested in. I don't know if these trends are "bizarrely specific".
***** I feel like these videos are thought up when the people from cracked are just sitting around smoking a joint like "Duuuuuddee, what was up with all those demon movies in the 70s???" "Riiight??? Dude, that's SO true!"
sakecity7 I feel like that's giving them too much credit. I think, more likely, they're in the toilets and someone says 'you ever think....' and the person in the next stall agrees. Pot would make it more interesting.
Are face palm and head desk still a thing? Because i think seeing all of those clips in one sitting just made me combine them into one. Going to try and text an ambulance now
I noticed all the world-ending movies were in 2011-2013. That means that they were either made before 12/21/12, or most of the storywriting/production were done before that date.
In your "Old Guys Kicking Ass" segment you forgot to mention Stallone in the newest "Rambo" movie. He was like 65 and he killed around 200 dudes single-handed.
Kim Sharpe Outliers are anomalies though. They happen, but they're not very common. For example, the early 90s had some pop culture references, yes, but recent movies had even more. Juno from 2007 all the way up to the Deadpool movie that just came out. There are even entire comedy series that weren't around in the 90s where pop culture references are the main part of its success like The Big Bang Theory, Archer, Family Guy, Arrested Development etc etc
Yeah, but they are focusing on that time period specifically. Just because another decade had more pop-culture references, that doesn't affect the trend shown in the late nineties. The only qualm I have about it is that it's not really a bizarre trend.
About the 2010's thing about Violent Old Mans... it's that you can't find Violent Young Mans to step up to the plate and be that particular kind of badass. OR the freaking studio system is hostile to new talent because it clearly wants to keep banking on its previous safe bets.
+Ironed Sandwich well that's seems like a personal issue rather than cracked's choice of formatting. why should their style change just BC you are too busy to actually watch the video?
The 90s seem like they were really trying to be meta without being meta. Aside from that, it's basically like Hollywood movies are all one person. Just beginning to figure things out as a child (1900s-1960s). Rebelling in as an pre-teen (70s). Trying to fit in by becoming someone you're not as a young adult (80s). As an adult, attempting to find meaning in the world (early 90s) and questioning reality (late 90s). Getting old and saying "fuck it" and doing whatever the hell you want (2010s).
It's not rocket surgery. Scripts get tossed around a lot. Writers steal or get notes from their agents to meet coming trends. Movie productions get funded then rushed to beat other similar ones to the punch, per example, Observe and Report and Paul Blart Mall Cop.
so many negative views on the format. get over it, enjoy reading from time to time. I for one have no qualms about the format. it's succinct, clear, and unique.
trends like these are often representative of cultural attitudes, ideals, worries and issues of the time. Movies demonstrate social trends. they just follow the people. nothing bizarre about that.
The trends are specific, but not unpredictable or weird. What happens in EVERY single case is that something unique happens, turns out to be a hit, then every dickhead and their brother tries to do it too.
+Hugo Patterson I want good content. I don't like this format, but if they're going to put it out they need to make it at least decent content instead of rubbish. If they're going to use narrators, fine, no problem, just make good content. My personal complaint with these formats is that they're boring, feel under-researched, slapped together with little to no care, and shoved out with little interesting content. I don't care if I have to read, I care if I'm bored.
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pretty sure "the world ends a lot" just encompasses every decade since cgi got big
+Roenais also before that, but it was especially big around 2012
+Ebon Hawk And 1995-2001
I wouldn't even call these 'Bizarre' - like it's some sociological issue raised only through the medium of film. It's a 'trend' because those movies made money. The Exorcist hit it big, so the 70s produced a lot of demon child films. The Matrix was huge, so then came a string of action movies that tried to be similar. 10 years from now, (if Cracked, and RUclips is still a thing...) are you going to release a "Bizarre trend of Comic book movies" video? Where's the depth, Cracked? Where's the insight?
+Reel School I don't know why, but that last line cracked me up! "Where's the depth? Where's the Insight?" Dramatic, but not incorrect.
+Reel School That's the point. The "bizarre" part is, every time something (new) makes a big hit, it gets overcloned w/o hesitation.
Btw, now has to search for World's End (2013).
Then you and I have drastically different definitions of 'bizarre' - because these trends are literally cause and effect... that's the antithesis of 'bizarre'.
You're falling off a little, Cracked. You forgot to mention The Truman Show in the Late 90's.
+The SureFire Gamer Also, Cypher.
And the pop culture discussions continued throughout the 90s in movies. Scream?
The 70s and 90s trends are rooted in what was going on at the time culturally. Specifically, anxiety about children, indie directors reflecting pop culture through their films, and the growing sophistication of video games and the internet providing possibilities of a new virtual reality.
Trends just happen. When some idea is succesfull, others try to jump on the bandwagon. It has always been like that and shouldnt surprise anyone I think.
+Willem Verheij Still interesting to think about. Even if it doesn't perfectly match your definition of a what a mystery is.
+Willem Verheij well, sometimes its just the zeitgeist. Like how Armageddon and Deep Impact happened around the same time. Its not that they are stealing from each other (all the time at least) but that the same idea is just hanging in the air.
+Azivegu That's only sort of true. A lot of times, scripts for these movies have been floating around for a while. If one is popular and being passed around, someone else might do their take on the same concept. OR they might've had the concept a long time ago. But they kept it lowkey for whatever reason (other projects, low demand for the genre, still in rough stages, etc.), and this new script brings that old project new life. There's a site called "blklst." It's The Black List of popular scripts being tossed around Hollywood. You might not see some of them come to life, but you'll always see a lot of similar stories get picked up all at once.
A good example of this is the superhero genre. We can say that the 2008 sparked it with The Dark Knight and Iron Man, but the scripts for superhero movies has been around for ages. Even in the 90's we had a Justice League script floating around, the Death of Superman floating around, and a Batman v Superman floating around. But one studio buys a superhero script, and other studios are like "OH MAN IS THIS MARKET GOING TO EXPLODE? DO THEY KNOW SOMETHING WE DONT?! BUY A SCRIPT!" And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Don't forget the movies that took place in tiny spaces. Panic Room, Phone Booth, Devil, Buried, Fermat's Room...I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of any at the moment.
+Pokerface cube, circle.
conCERN Exam
+Pokerface saw?
NaptimeGaming Not technically, with all the flashbacks. It would have made the movie more interesting if they had, though.
i love the format! Keep it coming!
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+Percy Trujillo gR8* shm...
I actually love this format... are people too lazy to read or what?
They are lazy this is a nice format and it's different
+Ary Burr agreed
+wrzecion9 This format is for lazy people. There could have been a really good, entertaining, article written on their website like with all this information, depth, and some actual jokes thrown in. But because people don't read they dumbed it down into this video.
Some of their content, as it is written, should just be text. Other stuff with some actually interesting visuals or dialogue should be videos.
+TheTitanSlayers or you do the same but put it in a video with a video example right With it some people are visual learners and some people like it. So best solution you hate it don't want it :)
+TheTitanSlayers Not as much for lazy viewers, but lazy writers haha
Yay These Final Hours got a mention! Heck yeah for Australian cinema! (I worked on that film). Trends in Hollywood are so easy to collate though like pick a decade at any point in time and you'll be able to find a recurring theme in specific genres like sci-fi or drama.
What happened in the 2000s? No trends at all? I'll have to look into that decade...
At least in the early and mid-2000s the aftermath of 9/11 and the global war on terror created an angsty zeitgeist, that was reflected in movies becoming darker/edgier and doom-and-gloom fantasies like War of the Worlds that showed attacks on home soil. Also terrorism (obviously). At the same time there was an emphasis on mindless escapism as people wanted to block out all those worries.
So basically what you're saying is.. Cracked is perpetually stuck in the early 90's?
I like these videos not only because I have nothing against reading, but to also spite the haters ;)
I like multitasking and doing other things while watching the video, but here i am forced to sit tight and read the whole time.
Spoiler Alert BUT Correction for you guys at Cracked:
in Alice Sweet Alice it wasn't a child who was committing the killings, it was a Adult dressed as a child's character as the twist. Research!
In the late 00s, humans control other beings like muppets:
Surrogates - Humans control robots
Avatar - Humans control aliens to infiltrate other alien societies
Gamer - Humans control other humans and teabags another dead human puppets' face
6 Bizarrely Specific Trends that are not bizarre at all, and not trendy enough by the number of examples given.
And now 2010-2020- superheroes
There's some real irony in saying someone can't read, while failing to read what they're actually complaining about.
Because this what I want in a video... reading.
you forgot the whole "bad guy wants to get caught and escape later under everyone's nose" ploy that was used in the dark knight
+TheycallmeRisky
And Skyfall.
And Marvel's Avengers.
THANK YOU SOMEBODY NOTICED
this video seemed really incoherent, like someone thought "hey I need to make all this shit fit together in one video" and then gave up.
Specifically 2015 (also includes television): Women escape captivity.
Room
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ex Machina (a robot, but she's a girl robot)
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Jessica Jones
HUMANS (robots again)
Game of Thrones
The 00's was when the epic trilogies (or more) fantasy world-building began: LOTR, Star Wars prequels, Harry Potter, early Avenger movies, even Twilight, leading to the even more ominous two- or three-part final chapter by the 10's. A century of cinematic excess!
Cracked! You did it! You listened! You got rid of the annoying typing noise!
THANK YOU!
:D
Didn't do the Truman Show or Vanilla Sky for the reality isn't reality one.
And no mention of the movie 2012?
These trends aren't specific to the decades you mentioned. Every decade since the 70s has movies that have dealt with all these themes. Freaky Friday in the 70s dealt with body swapping. Pop culture was also discussed in 70's flicks like Saturday Night Fever and Taxi Driver and in countless 80's movies. Disaster films were also popular in the 90's with films such as Armaggedon, Deep Impact, Volcano, etc. Old guys were kicking ass in the 80's, too. Have you ever heard of Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery?.
lol This is starting like "6 Bizarre CIA Psy Op's foisted on an unsuspecting public" :P
Am I the only one who noticed the key clacking was gone and that cracked actually paid attention to it's audience? Well if no one else says it thank you
+Cameron Howard If Cracked was paying attention we wouldn't have gotten this video in the first place and we would have gotten another OPCD.
If I wanted to read one of your articles I would go to your own site
Look up "tinpan alley", it's a similar concept, when one idea is successful they just keep re-selling the same idea until the public catches on
I envy the guy making these videos. So little effort yet I'm sure he gets paid a comfortable amount for each one. Most of the time there isn't even research involved. It's just rip a two year old Cracked article and paste it's summary into the editor.
To be fair, we've been making "end of the world" movies for a LONG TIME! That's not just a 2010's thing.
When we aren't actively causing the end of the world, we're fantasizing about it.
What about the blockbuster disaster trope of the late 90s? That era (tragically) defined my formative years! A few notable examples:
Outbreak (1995)
Twister (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Mars Attacks (1996)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Volcano (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Armageddon (1998)
Deep Impact (1998)
Godzilla (1998 remake)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Every year the planet was about to explode, or blow up, or we were about to get taken out by animals. Stressful time to grow up in!
Where's the early and late 00's?
+DRA485 2000's?
um, well it was filled with terrible superhero movies...
No kidding I was thinking the same thing..
The other replies to your comment are forgetting one of the biggest trends ever! Zombies! The entire 00s basically popularized the love affair media is still having with zombies. A notable selection:
28 Days Later (2002)
Resident Evil (2002)
Shaun of the Dead (2005)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Fido (2006)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Pontypool (2008)
Zombieland (2009)
Dead Snow (2009)
There are plenty more than just those, too. How could they leave out the beginning of the modern zombie obsession?
+DRA485 No one remembers cuz it was forgettable.
Again, thanks for pausing the video so I can read!
2000s -2010s - Superhero obsession
X-Men (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Spiderman (2002), X2 (2003), Daredevil (2003), Hellboy (2004), Spiderman 2 (2004), The Punisher (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Constantine (2005), Elektra (2005), Superman Returns (2006), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Spiderman 3 (2007), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man (2008), Hancock (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), Watchmen (2009), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
There are hundreds if not thousands of movies in a certain level of quality in any given decade. You can choose any five movies and fit it into whatever trend you want. This was kind of pointless.
+NightWatch707 This is what Cracked's whole thing is...grouping things together and forcing a trend.
Where was "Franchise movies from 2008-2013 in which the villain is captured as part of their scheme" (The Dark Knight, Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness)?
How many videos has cracked made on this exact same topic? I swear this is like the 3rd or 4th.
You should do one for television trends. The 50's and 60's had westerns.The 70's had cop shows. The 80's had private eye shows. The 90's had stand up comedian driven sit-coms. Then the 2000's began the era of the anti-hero.
I don't know if this stuff is "bizarre" more like in hollywood if something is successful you can expect to see studios replicate (aka copy it with a slight change) over and over again.
You might have noticed Disney made a lot of money off some universe building superhero films, so Sony, Fox and WB all have or are trying their hand at doing the same thing.
The last one is a genre; not a trend, and it is by no means limited to a single decade. You only listed films to support your theory, and ignored anything else. That's called confirmation bias. Also, those guys are classic action stars who grew older and kept being action stars. Not a trend; just the passage of time.
***** actually, they're also educational. Things can serve more than one purpose, smartass. If all you want is comedy, then CollegeHumor is the place for you, my friend. Cracked is all about criticism, so it would be pretty hypocritical of them to not allow others to dissect THEIR work.
I love these types of videos
I'm glad you got Slacker in there. People always talk about Tarantino ripping off John Woo and Leone, etc. but I thought his most original move was ripping off Linklater.
Got another one from the 1980's, hitting a line of parked cars will always result in you flipping up and over them.
I like this format. I don't mind reading while listening part at all because, well, I've been trained by life to do just that. I just wish there was a series title.
Here's trends of each decade: 3 to 4 films that back up my theory
I continue to hate this format ):
+Bishop Gale Same, it's lazy and soulless.
quit hating, embrace differences, or just stop watching them?
+wzx33 or +Bishop Gale, do whatever the eff you want because it really doesn't effect anyone one way or another.
+Bishop Gale i hate this format as well. i think most do.
+wzx33 but they aren't labelled so i don't know whether it's in this format or not
i love this format, instead of listening to someone you just read
make more of this
+thir Thir Troll
+animeviewer66 no, i really like this format
This was in no way entertaining.
or even that interesting.
+Kieran Tobin I guess it depends on who's watching. For me it was quite interesting.
(and I also discovered the name of a movie that was stuck in my head for YEARS and didn't know how it was called / didn't find it :) )
+Kieran Tobin Agreed. It was a minor tingle.
+Kieran Tobin Well at least there wasn't someone telling us how horrible all white people are like half of the other Cracked videos.
okay hey, you removed the annoying typing and constant pauses, huge improvement to the format.
but, like everyone complaining keeps saying, your subscribers would like you to put something in the title, so we can identify this series, without having to click on it.
also, a narrator.
+Ebon Hawk As a business that runs on views, you should know they wouldn't want people to not click on these videos. I have no problem with them, but I do find the overly vocal opposition to these videos to be generally more amusing than the videos themselves.
Perhaps the folks at Cracked feel the similarly & are just making these videos to watch the disapproving minority riot in the comments, they certainly enjoyed trolling cat owners until their latest cat/dog debate.
I like the content just wish that there was narrator it would the length of the video to read the a script in a sound booth.
How the fuck did you forget 2012?
+Avi Mittal Because everyone wants to.
Cooldrop02 i know but that movie didn't come to their mind when they were writing about other 2012 apocalyptic movies?
or the Truman Show?
+Avi Mittal 2012 came out in 2009
CheezeBurgerman1 i know. but they would be reminded of 2012 by the other 2012 apocalyptic movies. and there was so much hype around 21 dec 2012.
The one and only Hollywood trend is success --> copycats and eventual remakes when the copies don't do as well.
the late 1990s was also riddled with apocalyptic films. I don't feel like naming them all, so have fun looking them up.
+shas1882 Most of those late 90's films were incredibly upbeat and invariably had mankind winning against the odds.
Thanks for taking out the typing noise, and underneath that surface we got... a series of glorified buzzfeed lists that ruin key plot points for movies without actually commenting on reasons behind mentioned phenomenon. Coming up, a list of 6 bizarrely specific color fruits and vegetables. Spoilers! That list would suck less than this garbage.
They're just trends. One movie comes along and does something new and is succesful and then everyone else jumps on the bandwagon because they rather play it safe and make a movie that they know people will be interested in. I don't know if these trends are "bizarrely specific".
+sakecity7 Exactly. They really need a good researcher and a MUCH better title guy who doesn't only use click bait.
***** I feel like these videos are thought up when the people from cracked are just sitting around smoking a joint like "Duuuuuddee, what was up with all those demon movies in the 70s???"
"Riiight??? Dude, that's SO true!"
sakecity7 I feel like that's giving them too much credit. I think, more likely, they're in the toilets and someone says 'you ever think....' and the person in the next stall agrees.
Pot would make it more interesting.
***** Pot makes everything more interesting
sakecity7 True.
So the 2000s didn't exist and neither did the trend of film series from teen books or comic book hero movies?
What are you on about?
Dick Grayson they skipped an entire decade and a huge theme that has existed for many decades
Are face palm and head desk still a thing? Because i think seeing all of those clips in one sitting just made me combine them into one. Going to try and text an ambulance now
I thought I'd seen all the old Cracked vids, but this is the first time I saw this
So out of 1000 movies released in 10 years time, only 8-10 have something common and suddenly it becomes the trend?
1 Bizarrely Shitty Video Format in Cracked History
I noticed all the world-ending movies were in 2011-2013. That means that they were either made before 12/21/12, or most of the storywriting/production were done before that date.
Of course you put in Seeking a Friend For The End of The World because I needed to cry today.
Damn you.
So Cracked is basically the 90s. XD
...and made by those that grew up in the 90s. Interesting
Thank you for the Alice sweet Alice reference. I,ve been looking for it for as long as i can remember.
interesting definition of... "Hollywood"... I didn't know it included scandinavian arthouse scifi...
+jmalmsten They don't do research at +Cracked.
Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood
In your "Old Guys Kicking Ass" segment you forgot to mention Stallone in the newest "Rambo" movie. He was like 65 and he killed around 200 dudes single-handed.
The thing is, a lot of movies with similar themes happened in other years too. The list is completely moot
+TheMightyWill The thing about trends, though, is that they have outliers.
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Outliers are anomalies though. They happen, but they're not very common. For example, the early 90s had some pop culture references, yes, but recent movies had even more. Juno from 2007 all the way up to the Deadpool movie that just came out. There are even entire comedy series that weren't around in the 90s where pop culture references are the main part of its success like The Big Bang Theory, Archer, Family Guy, Arrested Development etc etc
Yeah, but they are focusing on that time period specifically. Just because another decade had more pop-culture references, that doesn't affect the trend shown in the late nineties. The only qualm I have about it is that it's not really a bizarre trend.
+TheMightyWill I don't think you're using "moot" correctly.
Haha people seriously can't handle a little reading like their heads gonna implode!
Love these videos
i really like this format
some of those sounded like spoilers.
No Children of the Corn? Or was that the wrong decade?
Children of the Corn kinda fits. Stephen King wrote it in 1977 following the trend, but the movie was made in 1984.
how do you forget children of the corn for the first one lmaooo
cabin in the woods is such a cool movie
This is more movies than I knew I missed. Where any of these any good though?
Wait, seriously no mention of the turning cartoons into live action movies where the villain is out to frame/rob the main characters?
no clicking! yes!
About the 2010's thing about Violent Old Mans... it's that you can't find Violent Young Mans to step up to the plate and be that particular kind of badass. OR the freaking studio system is hostile to new talent because it clearly wants to keep banking on its previous safe bets.
I'm fine with the content of this video but for fuck sake add a narrator. This feels unfinished
doesn't bother me any, reading is a good thing.
+wzx33 not if you're multitasking
+Ironed Sandwich exactly I rarely just watch a video I'm always doing something else.
+Ironed Sandwich well that's seems like a personal issue rather than cracked's choice of formatting. why should their style change just BC you are too busy to actually watch the video?
wzx33 true, true.I doubt I'm the only one, but true.
And now we also have the gruff deep unrealistic voice as shortcut to having tough bad-ass superhero. Thanks Batman!
The 90s seem like they were really trying to be meta without being meta.
Aside from that, it's basically like Hollywood movies are all one person. Just beginning to figure things out as a child (1900s-1960s). Rebelling in as an pre-teen (70s). Trying to fit in by becoming someone you're not as a young adult (80s). As an adult, attempting to find meaning in the world (early 90s) and questioning reality (late 90s). Getting old and saying "fuck it" and doing whatever the hell you want (2010s).
In the 2000s, society clinged to what worked in the 80's and 90's for "nostalgia"
Seeking a friend for the end of the World was a surprisingly good and emotional film.
I loved "the cabin in the woods"
It's not rocket surgery. Scripts get tossed around a lot. Writers steal or get notes from their agents to meet coming trends. Movie productions get funded then rushed to beat other similar ones to the punch, per example, Observe and Report and Paul Blart Mall Cop.
5:26 a pretty chill what? w-what's chill? CRACKED PLEASE TELL ME
so many negative views on the format. get over it, enjoy reading from time to time.
I for one have no qualms about the format. it's succinct, clear, and unique.
I think the trend of the world ending is never ending and started since early age of film making
You forgot the natural disaster and asteroid trends of the late 90s.
there was also that plot around 80's - 90's, where the good guy always got the girl and the bag with 1 million dollar at the end of the movie.
Glad the typing sound is gone, though I still wish these videos had a name/category/whatever. Most other Cracked videos have.
Soo did nothing happen between 2000 - 2010?
Yep, they forgot warewolves and vampires lol
trends like these are often representative of cultural attitudes, ideals, worries and issues of the time. Movies demonstrate social trends. they just follow the people. nothing bizarre about that.
+Stephen Bowie You can't expect them to use logic and be reasonable, can you? If you do, you'll be disappointed.
Not a fan of this format, but at least they ditched the obnoxious key typing throughout the whole thing
The fifth item on this list should have just been titled, "Washed-up Action Heroes in Terrible Movies We Just Saw."
The trends are specific, but not unpredictable or weird. What happens in EVERY single case is that something unique happens, turns out to be a hit, then every dickhead and their brother tries to do it too.
You people complain about the narrators, then you complain when there isn't one. What do you want?
+Hugo Patterson I want good content. I don't like this format, but if they're going to put it out they need to make it at least decent content instead of rubbish.
If they're going to use narrators, fine, no problem, just make good content. My personal complaint with these formats is that they're boring, feel under-researched, slapped together with little to no care, and shoved out with little interesting content. I don't care if I have to read, I care if I'm bored.
All these things have existed in movies for many decades, except maybe the old guy murder spree.