There are plenty of hack directors, harsh filming locations and hokey scripts waiting to push actors over the edge, cheesy cinema that makes them question why they chose a career in show biz.

Sometimes a young star bites off more than they can chew when they agree to be involved in a project, like when a 36 year old Greta Garbo decided to star in Two-Faced Woman, the film she called "my grave".

The cheesy comedy stars Garbo playing a woman who tries to seduce her husband by pretending to be her own twin sister, and needless to say the critics were not kind.

The role left Greta so embarrassed she never made another movie, and when she was given an honorary Oscar fourteen years later she didn't even show up at the ceremony.

Even a movie industry veteran like Gene Hackman can find themselves involved in a project that is so beneath their talent level it pushes them over the edge.

Welcome To Mooseport is a steaming pile of cinema that closed the curtain on Hackman's movie career, a campy comedy starring Ray Romano that Hackman said he starred in "for the money".

The movie was a total flop and closed the curtains on Hackman's movie career, talk about a fall from grace!

See 5 Movies That Made Huge Stars Quit Acting Forever here (contains NSFW language)

Most Disney villains weren't born bad, they were twisted and gnarled into creeps by the cartoon universe and should really be categorized as misunderstood rather than evil.

And this explanation for their foul deeds would make a great opening statement for the defense if Disney villains like Captain Hook, Gaston and Ursula were brought up on charges.

Redditor ineed_one_more_lette recently started an interesting conversation via Reddit thread by posing the question:

Defense lawyers of Reddit: what would your defense be for various Disney villains?

The responses were surprisingly well thought out and extremely character appropriate, like this defense of Gaston's behavior towards The Beast from DailyBrainGain 1750:

He was a hunter by nature and there was a deadly beast in his village. He rightfully took a militia and attempted to seize the beast. Girl taken hostage, father taken hostage previous to her, the beats servants and maids were all essentially hostages. I mean I still feel for Gaston. If Belle didn't have that weird fetish this would make an awesome rescue story!

Gaston would've called instead of showing up late at night with torches and pitchforks but he didn't know the phone number of the beast.

Suddenly I feel like shaking Gaston's hand for being such a stand up guy!

You can read the original Reddit thread here

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Movie posters don't mean as much to a film's success as they used to, but that doesn't mean movie poster designers should give up their craft, because their artwork is still an important part of a movie's identity.

But some designers have simply given up on making creative movie posters, and instead they spend all of five minutes to create something lackluster, like these two slapped together eyesores.

Some vintage movie posters seem cheesy by today's standards but didn't seem so awful when the movie first came out, so categorizing them as “the worst” isn't really fair, more like "the cheesiest".

But when terrible actors and a terrible Photoshop collage collide on a poster for what is (arguably?) one of the world's worst movies we all win the terribleness trifecta!

See more of the worst movie posters ever made here

Twenty years ago, it was rare to run into an adult who hadn’t seen Star Wars. Now, 40 years on, there have been two generations come of age since George Lucas released his space fantasy, and some folks -and their parents- find that watching six movies to catch up is a bit of a hassle. Charley Locke knew some things about the story, or thought he did, without ever seeing the movies. Now he’s finally watched Star Wars, or as they call it these days, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. And he has some revelations to share.

• “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for”—a quote that I have heard for years—IS A LIE. Those were the droids they were looking for! (The greatest trick Obi-Wan Kenobi ever pulled was convincing the stormtroopers they didn’t exist…)

Lingering Questions:

• Will Leia and Han Solo have a romance? She deserves so much better than his sexist bravado: I hope she’s always as dismissive as when she orders him “Into the trash, Flyboy!” Also, I know Luke has his little crush, but I can’t imagine anything happening between them besides that lovely kiss on the cheek. (I am not going to look up what happens ahead of time, even if it makes me look like an idiot to the whole internet, so don’t ruin this for me in the comments, please.)

• If Darth Vader isn’t in charge of the Galactic forces, who does he report to?

His reactions to the experience are a hoot, but it may also make you feel old. Locke delights in the “hokey visual effects” that astounded us in 1977. Read his account of the movie at Wired. Locke will watch the other five movies in order of release, one per week, and report his reactions to each of them. -via Digg

Back in the early days of geekdom the grand creators didn't take fan submissions seriously, and they saw the more obsessive fans as a nuisance rather than a source of new content.

But as the presence of pop culture grew ever larger in our lives so too did the presence of fan works that fit right in with the content it was inspired by and based upon, and fan works gained validity in the eyes of the creators.

Now, thanks to some creative and tenacious fans we have pop culture themed LEGO sets, one of the most played multiplayer games of all time Counter Strike, and the entire freakin' Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons!

See 7 Fan Works So Good They Were Adopted By The Creators at Cracked (contains NSFW language)

Superman is seen as the golden boy of the superhero world, the ultimate good guy who claims to refrain from killing his enemies at any cost.

But when all those fists and x-ray beams are flying through the air there's bound to be some collateral damage on the battlefield.

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Mr. Sunday Movies put together a supercut of every one of Superman's kills in the movies, which includes every time Supes let someone let someone die, because real good guys don't let baddies die on their watch.

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Okay, I know what you're going to say, something like "enough with the Disney princesses already!" or "really? Disney princesses again? Let it go!"

I hear you and feel your visual pain, but if you are an adorer of the absurd like myself then you'll definitely appreciate this ridiculous Donald Trump Disney Princesses mashup created by illustrator Jen Lewis.

Something about the perfectly Trumpian expressions while imagining the sound of Trump's voice reciting lines and singing songs from a Disney movie really taps my tickle button.

Please forgive me for exposing you to the Donald's mug (and more Disney princess art) if you disagree about the funny...

See Donald Trump Disney Princesses here

Filmmakers are often forced to create fictional media franchises for their movies, so their characters can enjoy TV shows and video games that come from the same fictional world they do and don't cost money to use.

These fictional franchises are usually just mentioned by the characters, but when it's an integral part of the movie, like the game being designed by the main characters in Her and Grandma's Boy, we get to see more of what we're missing in real life.

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WatchMojo has put together a collection of fabulous looking video games that appeared in movies and have yet to make the transition into reality, the ten best fictional games that gamers desperately want to play!

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Harry Potter fans know an awful lot about Harry, but very little about his family background. How did a kid who inherited magic powers end up with a Muggle name, anyway? As an orphan raised by Muggles, Harry himself doesn’t know much about his ancestors, either. But JK Rowling knows. Today she posted a look at the Potter family history and genealogy that explains the name and where all that money came from. Both have been around for a long time.  

In the Muggle world ‘Potter’ is an occupational surname, meaning a man who creates pottery. The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, a locally well-beloved and eccentric man, whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’. Linfred was a vague and absent-minded fellow whose Muggle neighbours often called upon his medicinal services. None of them realised that Linfred’s wonderful cures for pox and ague were magical; they all thought him a harmless and lovable old chap, pottering about in his garden with all his funny plants. His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune. Historians credit Linfred as the originator of a number of remedies that evolved into potions still used to this day, including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant pile of gold to each of his seven children upon his death.

A few more generations are covered (and more money amassed) before we get to Harry’s father. You can read the rest at Pottermore. -via Geeks Are Sexy

The Disney Princesses seemed a lot cooler before that amazing animated fantasy series Adventure Time came along and showed us what it actually means to be an awesome princess.

Princess Bubblegum made the Candy People like some sort of confectioner Dr. Frankenstein, Lumpy Space Princess is so glob darn sassy and fabulous she oozes swagger, and Marceline is...well, she's technically a Vampire Queen so not quite a princess but close enough!

Illustrator Maritsa Patrinos, creator of the webcomic Seasonal Depression, didn't feel like the other Adventure Time/Disney princess mashups were quite Adventure Timey enough, so she started zapping 'em into fun nonhuman forms that embody their story.

So Snow White is a shiny red apple, Belle is a book, and Mulan is still a badass warrior princess only in a strange, noodle limbed new form!

See more from If Disney Princesses Were "Adventure Time" Princesses

Celebs are used to dressing up for roles, and getting all fancied up for awards night, but when they get dressed up for Halloween most stars spare no expense on their costume.

It makes sense that someone who has access to the best costumers and makeup artists in Hollywood would want to look their best when going out on Halloween night, but sometimes the best are busy and you're left with a person who makes mascot costumes.

And nothing says celebrity Halloween costume like a sexy version of something, like this strappy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle number worn by Rihanna, a costume designed to make fans question their feelings for the TMNT.

See all the good, bad and ugly Celebrity Halloween Costumes of 2014 here

There are tons of scarier and (arguably) more powerful movie monsters out there, and yet Godzilla and King Kong endure because they epitomize the beastly basic, a creature that should not be yet smashes cities and kills people anyway.

The two monster kings squared off in the 1962 film King Kong Vs. Godzilla, and might be squaring off again in an upcoming movie by Warner Bros., so the question has come back around- who would win in a fight, Godzilla or King Kong?

(Godzilla Vs. King Kong by Chet Phillips)

Granted, Godzilla is 300 feet tall while King Kong is somewhere between 25 and 148 feet tall, depending on the movie, but I like to think Kong could take down the kaiju king with tenacity and some sort of island virus. But who would you put your money on, King Kong or Godzilla?

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You came with that thing? You're braver than I thought. It doesn't have a knife blade. Otherwise, this multi-tool sold by Firebox is remarkably well equipped even without special modifications. This Millennium Falcon features 11 tools, including a can opener, wire strippers, a ruler, and 5 hex wrenches. It also has earbud wrappers that will help you avoid Imperial entanglements.

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A group of British university students have declared that in the Star Wars universe, Leia is  1.75 years older than Luke by the end of the original trilogy, despite the fact that they are twins, born on the same day. The reason involves Einstein’s theory of relativity. And math.  

Students at the University of Leicester made their calculations based on the twins’ journeys to Cloud City. Leia travels from the neighbouring system of Anoat and arrives at Cloud City in around 6.72 hours, while Luke travels from the much more distant planet Dagobah, which takes around one week.

Additionally, as Leia travels in the Millennium Falcon, a much larger ship with more powerful engines than Luke’s X-Wing Starfighter, the students assumed that it reaches a higher speed.

Leia’s journey yields a time dilation of 62.6 days; however Luke experiences a time dilation of 700.8 days.

The students concluded that Luke is therefore 1.75 years younger than Leia, possibly rendering them the first twins ever to have more than a year between their ages.

Oh, there’s more, which you can read in the original research paper (downloadable here) or in shorter form at the Telegraph. There are, of course, arguments in the comments, about George Lucas’ lack of familiarity with astrophysics and the the difference between hyperspace drive vs. warp drive vs. jump drive, as everyone tries to out-geek each other. The first thing I thought of was that Leia, being a princess and a Senator from Alderaan before it was destroyed, probably traveled through the cosmos a lot while Luke was growing up as a moisture farmer, which probably skewed their ages way before they met.