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Only the music makes it creepy. The voice could be GLaDOS, and she won awards for singing "Still Alive". Just looks like some SFX artist wanted to put an animatronic bot through its paces, videotaped for a portfolio or posterity. Probably built for some TV or movie production, hence having a set handily available for use after-hours.

Try your luck with a random creepypasta:

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random
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All those years... All those revisions... And yet they still couldn't install $10 seat belts, so the crew doesn't go flying across the bridge and getting injured, every time there's some tiny impact or explosion.
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I never "got" City Slickers. It deals with very dark, adult themes, but at the same time, they very carefully dance around some of the topics, trying not to quite say it, as if there are children in the room... That gives it a strained, attempted Disney family-friendly feel to it, which really doesn't work, and doesn't make it any more suitable for younger audiences who won't understand the main topics at all.
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First, it was TWO MMA women attacking a man, (not just one as most of the accounts makes it sound), and included "a soccer kick to the man’s groin":
http://mmajunkie.com/2015/06/the-story-of-the-time-leslie-smith-beat-up-a-handsy-hippy-in-san-francisco

It could have gone very, very wrong. Two trained fighters attacking one man is probably good enough legal justification for him to pull out a knife and kill them both on the spot...

And they were also lucky he was either drunk or just a poor fighter, as the tables could easily have turned. With women's lib, it has become politically incorrect to point out that just about any adult man is stronger than two women. You need look no further than the military, where women who are trained to fight, never-the-less get raped all the damn time.
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This is downright silly. They're putting a heck of a lot of effort into curing one insignificant symptom. The underlying problem is much more serious, and toilets don't help to fix it. Forget the toilet, I'd want a crowbar available in any elevator I was stuck in...
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I'd have to give Cracked a 2/5 on this one, their facts are awfully lacking in facts:

#1. WRONG: People listening to music on headphones are often (but not always) massively oblivious to what's going on around them. It's got more to do with the focus/distraction than sound-proof headphones.
#2. MOSTLY TRUE: Most modern fire sprinklers are individually activated, but deluge systems were previously more common, and still used for critical locations (eg. pathways).
#3. MOSTLY WRONG: The video actually disproves the claim and shows a nail gun as a passable weapon from a few feet away. Just need to choose just the right type of gun and nail.
#4. MOSTLY WRONG: The test video was BS. OF COURSE a pillow AN INCH away from a gun isn't going to silence anything! That's never been how it was meant to work. This guy tries it without the idiocy, and instead finds a pillow to be pretty effective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMeTlXsXC8
And of course you CAN suffocate someone with a pillow... That Hollywood doesn't show the whole process in absolutely agonizing real-time and detail, is hardly a sane criticism, as NOTHING in the movies is real-time, and both ratings and good taste prevent realistic portrayals of violent, murderous deaths.
#5. HALF TRUE: Cheaper annealed glass is dangerous and will slice and probably kill you, but tempered glass is required in large commercial-building windows precisely because it shatters into tiny, non-jagged, and not very dangerous pieces. OTOH, tempered glass is a lot stronger, so expect bruises and concussion braking through it.

Hollywood massively exaggerates all of these, certainly, but Cracked is just as bad, or worse, and they're the ones pretending they're not spouting pure fiction.
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Not too fond of their list, but I'm not even sure where the genre starts and ends. How much of the movie must the disaster take-up? What kind of disasters count? How many people have to be involved? With both Titanic and Airplane in there, the definition must be pretty wide-open. I'd say most popular movies probably include something crashing and/or several people dying for some reason, at some point, but are they all disaster movies?

If any of these count, I'd vote for:

Abyss (1989)
Pitch Black (2000)
Sum of all Fears (2002)
Fortress 2 (1999)
Resident Evil (2002)
Prometheus (2012)
Alien (1979)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Poltergeist (1982)
Hero (1992)
Soldier (1998)
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
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Absolutely insane. One little spot of dust, moisture, or flake of paint anywhere, and he's gone. Some people just can't conceive of how easily they could be killed by mundane trivialities, but the base jumper casualty stats say otherwise.
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Soldier #1: Where'd you get the coconuts?
Arthur: We found them.
Soldier #1: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
Arthur: What do you mean?
Soldier #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
Soldier #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
Soldier #1: A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
Arthur: I'm not interested!
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Independence Day is where I recall the industry first eating it's tail... Before then, the advertising matched the quality of the movie. Here, they first got the idea that they could churn out a complete piece of junk, but make awesome-looking trailers, and advertise the hell out of it, and people would still buy tickets, no matter how horrible it was... Since then, it's been a long slide into mindless, formulaic crud, with the industry profits shrinking, and consumers assuming the worst and foregoing trips to the theatre.

And in the current climate of wringing every bit of money out of a franchise, and especially making horrendous sequels, I can't imagine this one would be worth picking up when it is eventually released inside boxes of breakfast cereal... But hey, at least it's not a remake, or prequal, or "reboot", or "re-imagining", or similar.
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