It doesn’t take a genius to know that Pixar pay homage to other movies in their animations, but you’re never going to get every little subtle reference.
So you have to applaud Spain-based video editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz, who’s put together this montage of all the scenes and instances from Pixar movies that pay tribute to classic films.
If you’ve ever sat through the inexplicable mess that is M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening then you’ll know it’s one of his worst movies.
So it’s the perfect fodder for Honest Trailers to sink their sarcastic teeth into and tear the film a new one.
Following on from Gary and Martin Kemp playing the notorious East London gangsters in 1990s The Krays, Tom Hardy brings his acting chops to interpret these volatile hardmen.
Hardy looks very convincing as the two brothers who became legends after their time dominating, and fascinating, 1950s and 1960s London.
101 iconic one-armed saves from some classic movies are cut together in this epic montage.
Technically some of them are failed save attempts, but hey, who cares when it’s all appropriately set to The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
Cinephile Tony Zhou looks at the expert composition of the shots in Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’.
Refn uses what’s called the quadrant system, balancing each shot from left to right, up and down, to create a subtle effect for the viewer.
Try telling the kids of today that at one point you had to physically walk into a store and actually search for films, moving around with your FEET, and they won’t believe you.
And if the video you wanted to watch wasn’t there, you just had to wait for its return before you could see the movie. What a world.
From Ferris Bueller giving life advice (“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”) to Tyler Durden giving the audience some home truths about consumerism, characters love breaking the fourth wall.
Meaning, they love crossing that fictional line and addressing the audience head-on because, you know, movies are actually real. And here’s ten of the best moments of that, picked subjectively by a random stranger who you’ll probably disagree with.
This looks like a stupidly brilliant attempt to make with the lolz. Move over Indiana Jones as Stuart Ashen, AKA “Ashens” goes on an insane fictional search for a piece of electronic tat, the fabled Game Child, an old handheld video game.
It’s a new full length comedy adventure with a hint of road movie that’s been partially crowd-funded and will be coming free to YouTube on 8th August 2013. Set your geek dial to 11.
