Frequently-featured video editor Zach Prewitt's latest montage makes us the passengers on a three-and-a-half minute thrill ride of chasing, racing, and occasionally smashing into robots with various motor vehicles. Mom driving us around is never this exciting! But it is more productive. We needed socks.
None of the writers of any Law & Order series have ever used computers or the internet. But, as compiled by editor Debbie Saslaw, here are their terrifying, paranoid visions of what they think it probably looks like.
If you prefer your supercuts with a bit of awed wonder, not just a bunch of people saying the same shit for five minutes, have a look at editor Zach Prewitt's latest supercut, "Back-to-the-Camera Shot." As its name implies, it collects together nearly a hundred shots of characters with their back to the camera--usually centered and gazing upon something grandiose. It's sort of beautiful. Especially because he didn't call it "Taking it from Behind."
Ever wonder why episodes of Fraggle Rock always leave you in a somber silence, gloomily contemplating that we, like Doozer construction, are ephemeral, existing only to be too-quickly destroyed? Well, here's the likely answer in Of Fraggles & Death, a supercut that collects the show's shockingly frequent mentions of death and dying into a single morbid montage, setting the groundwork for the Boober-Ross model of grieving mortality. Sure, you can dance your cares away, but you can never escape time itself, Gobo.
Mostly Goodman; purely fat men (howling).
This is how people go crazy. Or convert to Judaism. Either way, you have to watch the whole 44-minute thing for it to work, so get started.
He's famous for disappearing into a wide range of varied parts, but if there's a unifying thread running throughout Gary Oldman's career, it's probably that, like Nic Cage, the guy really loses his shit. Or so it seems after seeing this supercut from Jason Bailey, featuring over three minutes of pure Oldman-freaking-the-fuck-out. Watch with the knowledge that Oldman is soon going to star as the human resistance leader in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Those dumb CGI orangutans have no idea what's coming.
For those aspiring Zack Morrises out there, here's Leigh Singer's supercut of film characters breaking the fourth wall, metaphorically and/or literally winking at the audience like they can see you through the screen. They can't, though, so you can stay naked as you watch this:
First introduced in the mid-70s, the Steadicam brought about something of a revolution in film, allowing for tracking shots without the prohibitive track of dollies, and without the shakiness you usually get when you follow someone around with a camera trying not to be caught. In appreciation of the invention, Refocused Media has put together a ten-minute montage of some of its best uses, featuring the works of greats like Scorsese, Kubrick, and also a few episodes of The West Wing to make you say, "Dammmmmmn, that's steady." Say it below.
With the 85th Annual Academy Awards this Sunday crowning a new Best Picture, perhaps you'd like to catch up on some of the prior Best Picture winners you missed. And perhaps you would also like to do all that catching up in under five minutes, because we've all got shit to do, and watching Forrest Gump in its entirety at this point just seems stupid. Well, now you can do both those things with this Best Picture tribute, featuring clips from every winner yet, from 2012's The Artist, to 1927's Wings, to also Crash. Enjoy:
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If you saw Dredd and thought, "Couldn't they have cut out all the parts without gratuitous CGI blood, and still pretty much have the same movie?": Yes! And now someone has proven that, cutting out all the film's superfluous legal system explanation and not-CGI-blood-soaked parts, leaving us with just a frowning core of Karl Urban morosely killing a bunch of people. (Spoiler: all these people die horrible deaths.)
Supercut whiz Harry Hanrahan returns with a crash course on the oft-taught film lesson of looking both ways, lest you obliviously get struck by a vehicle that will probably be a high-speed bus, with the aptly-titled Hit By a Bus. Somehow it's over twelve minutes long. That is how often people in movies are getting hit by buses.
While we await the final half-season of Breaking Bad--which still isn't coming until summer, no matter how much we need it, man--find comfort in knowing that Jesse Pinkman still definitely thinks we're bitches with this all-inclusive "bitch!" supercut. You're welcome (bitch).
As a follow-up to the "There's no time to explain" supercut, here's is its antithesis, the "I can explain" supercut, offering evidence that while some movie characters do not have time to explain, others do have the time, and would explain given the opportunity. It's just that kind of mixed up and polarized place we live in, fictionally.
In honor of Django Unchained and its many delightful references to the retro phenomena of slavery and casual ethnic slurs, CollegeHumor has put together a supercut of all of Tarantino's prior pop culture nods to date--arranged in chronological order by reference. Turns out the guy really likes referencing pop culture!
Do you like it when you see a celebrity in a movie and it turns out they're just playing themselves, mercifully sparing you the effort of learning a fake name and/or pretending Shaq is somehow not Shaq? Good news, then! Here's a video of a bunch of that.
Spike Lee and Yasujirō Ozu: Do those guys respectively love dolly shots and passageways or what? Answer: Yes. Yes, they do. And here's some proof in supercuts showing off the directors' use of their signature techniques. Striking hallways and intense Denzel stares await below.
Because what you're looking for this week is obviously another reason to stare into your computer screen with a bleak sense of absolute, hopeless despair, a supercut of 50 of film's most heartbreaking moments. Spoiler alerts: the heartbreaking parts usually take place near the end and are sad.
A tribute to the trite saying that, over its decades of use, has no doubt saved us days of expository dialogue. Thanks, movies, but if I wanted to hear explanations, I would listen to people after I ask questions.
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