Rohan Ramakrishnan
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5 Movie Villains That Stupidly Sabotaged Their Schemes
While we don't expect our bad guys to be infallible geniuses, we at least expect them to not be actively tripping all over themselves like Super Dave Osborne.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Aatif Zubair
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5 Movie Villains With Really Stupid Master Plans
Every movie villain seems like they have it pretty together. Well, almost ...
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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5 Movie Plots That Rely On People Sucking at Important Jobs
At their best, these movies are about extraordinary situations that require extraordinary men. At their worst, these plots were kicked into gear by people who sucked at their jobs.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Aatif Zubair
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5 'Happy' Movie Endings (That Aren't)
It's pretty much a prerequisite in Hollywood that your movie has to have a happy ending. But all bets are off after the credits are done rolling.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Rohan Ramakrishnan
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6 Sci-Fi Technologies With Suspiciously Unaddressed Problems
There are some admittedly cool future advances presented to us by sci-fi movies that we hope never come to pass.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Chris Rio, Jack Hall
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The 7 Craziest Political Ads in the World (Are All Polish)
Apparently, the Polish political scene (you know the one) is absolutely bursting with insane campaign ads.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Bartholomew B.
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8 Movies Made Possible by Incompetent Background Characters
People tend to be incompetent in movies -- that's how our heroes are able to make so many daring escapes. However, some plotlines are dependent on downright boneheaded incompetence.
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- By David Christopher Bell, Rohan Ramakrishnan
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The 6 Most Accidentally Creepy Movie 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.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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5 Heroic Movie Deaths That Didn't Actually Help Anyone
There's no easier way to make a movie character likeable than by having him heroically sacrifice his own life. Of course, sometimes 'heroically' means 'stupidly.'
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- By David Christopher Bell, Rohan Ramakrishnan
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The 5 Most Needlessly Evil Movie Villain Strategies
In a lot of cases, the bad guy is just an excuse for the hero to do stuff, and so the writers are forced to come up with some flimsy explanation for why this particular guy has chosen to do things that are bad ... even when there are much better and easier ways to accomplish what he wants.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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The 7 Craziest Things Ever Done to Get Laid
Men have gone above and beyond the call of duty -- risking life, limb and country in the name of boobies.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Eddie Rodriguez
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6 Mistranslations That Changed The World
In a rapidly shrinking world, it's becoming more and more important to have translations that are both lightning-fast and actually understandable. Of course, nobody told that to these people.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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7 Movies That Ignored World Changing Discoveries
Writing movies is hard -- we try to point that out in every article like this. And occasionally, the writer will write his characters into a corner, where they can be rescued only by some new science, device or technology. Once they're out of the jam, the tech is usually immediately forgotten. The problem is, sometimes the device itself should have
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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The 6 Most Terrifying Work Commutes in the World
No matter how bad you think your commute is, there's always someone who has it worse. Here's six of them.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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7 Great Foods (That Were Created Thanks to Dick Moves)
Actually, a lot of your favorite foods were created thanks to incompetence, laziness, or just plain simple douchebaggery.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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6 Movie Heroes Who Actually Made Things Worse
Seriously, can you even call these people heroes?
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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6 Evil Corporations in Movies (With Terrible Business Plans)
Remember: Mindless creatures that feed on human flesh shouldn't factor into your business plan, Ever.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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6 Iconic Movie Leaders (Who Aren't Fit To Lead A Parade)
More often than not, the plan of straight-up kicking ass does not make you a great leader. Sending someone to bone your mom doesn't either.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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The 5 Worst Deals In the History of Handshakes
Here are the true stories of the people who actually got the shortest end of history's stick... presumably somewhere in the 'butt' region.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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The 5 Most Famous Musicians Who Are Thieving Bastards
We know musicians 'borrow' music all the time, but this is flat ridiculous.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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