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100 Years of Film History Retold with the Best Shot in Each Year

If you want to go through the history of cinema, you could easily just check out who won what when. There are awards given out to films every year and the importance we place on those awards allow those films to live on long after they’re first made. But this video compilation of 100 shots … Continued

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Visual Effects Reel Reveals How They Make a Dog Attack a Person

Dogs are friendly, lovable best friends. They don’t want to hurt anyone! So how do movies get dogs to attack people? With visual effects. A special effects team basically creates a digital double of a real dog and then makes it so that the CG-created dog attacks the actor in the way that the movie … Continued

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Why Superhero Movies Suck

Let’s be honest. These days, superhero movies have become 2-hour long trailers for their next movie which in turn will be a 2-hour long set up for a bigger movie and other movies in their universe. Which will then lead to another movie! It’s endless. And maddening! And a lot of them aren’t even good … Continued

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Seeing Sprinkles Mix Together Is So Much Trippy Fun

The whirlwind of colors comes in waves. The giant mixing bowl takes in all the colors of sprinkles and then starts spinning like a laundry machine to combine them. You can see the layers slowly merge together, blue crashes into white, pink merges with orange and yellow, until everything is evenly mixed and ready to … Continued

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Crude Animation Summarizes Hardcore Henry in 60 Seconds

Not too many people saw Hardcore Henry, that action movie shot in a first person view. It’s probably because though that gimmick looks cool as hell in trailers and short clips, an entire movie’s worth of seeing out from the character’s perspective can get tiring. But! It sure looks fun in this super crude animation. … Continued

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100 Hilariously Great Movie One Liners Made After a Kill

Following up their 100 best one liners made before a kill in movies, Burger Fiction has now done it up with the magically hilarious lines people say right after an on-screen kill. There is so much Arnold in here, it makes me happy. I guess, a lot of James Bond too. And Bruce Willis. Apple … Continued

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Just a Mouse Trap Slicing and Smashing an Egg

I really shouldn’t enjoy this as much as I do but you don’t choose what you love, you know? Seeing a mouse trap crack open an egg is so much fun and so perfect that I want to break all my eggs like this every morning. It happens so fast, the trap snaps in place … Continued

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20 Totally Silly Movie Mistakes That Somehow Made It Into the Final Version

Oopsies in movies are the best because they’re so hilariously out of place. Like having a car in the shot of a Braveheart battle sequence or having a camera man inside Hogwarts in Harry Potter or seeing a human arm pat down a velociraptor in Jurassic Park. These little big errors don’t always ruin a … Continued

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Truly Interesting Animation Breaks Down the Story Behind Zero and Why It’s So Important

The story of how zero came to be and the history of math is actually quite fascinating! They should have taught us that instead of actual math in high school, if you ask me. Thankfully, Hannah Fry tells us in the animation story below all we need to know. There’s fascinating bits about how the … Continued

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Watch a Light Bulb Totally Disintegrate a Ping Pong Ball

Here’s a 500 watt halogen light bulb vaporizing a ping pong ball. The wimpy plastic ball starts melting and then completely vanishes in seconds, leaving behind no evidence that it ever existed in the first place. It’s like the coolest way to dispose of anything. You can see it in slow motion at the end … Continued

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This 360-Degree View of Game of Thrones’ Opening Credits Is Totally Awesome

The opening credits for Game of Thrones is such a fantastic sequence in that it lays out the map of the Seven Kingdoms and does so in a board game-esque fashion. You gain a sense of distance and try and understand each location’s importance but it all happens so fast that you don’t really get … Continued

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10 Silly Fun Science Experiments You Can Easily Do at Home

Other than youth and recess and summer vacation and nap time and candy and junk food and energy and fast metabolism and hope and excitement and bubbles and being with your friends every single day and first memories and playgrounds and no worries and probably a million other things, one of the things that you … Continued

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Here Are 10 Original Movie Scenes That Became Popular Memes

Ever wondered what exact scene condescending Willy Wonka came from or what Buzz and Woody were talking about in that Toy Story everywhere meme? Wonder no more. Here are 10 original movie scenes that became memes thanks to the power of the Internet and the curious filtration system it uses to transform ordinary scenes into … Continued

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Seeing Random Objects Get Cut in Half with a Powerful Waterjet Cutter Is Always Fun

Do you know what you learn when you see totally random objects like a shoe or an airsoft gun or a golf club or a computer speaker get cut in half by a powerful waterjet cutter? That there’s a lot of space in these things. Just big hollow areas next to the parts of the … Continued

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Watch the Grossness That Is Fish Decomposing Over Time

Why can’t I look away? Maggots and bugs and creepy crawlers gross me out in every which way and yet I’m so fascinated with seeing how they attack a John Dory and Gunnard fish over a multiple week period. The fish are wiped completely clean, there’s not a single bit of flesh on them after … Continued

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The Terrifying Climb Up the Old Spire of the World’s Tallest Church

It’s not as scary tall as climbing oversized skyscrapers but climbing churches can be just as frightening because the buildings are so much older and the spire is totally not meant to be climbed. Plus, what if one of those things he stood on just snapped off because, well, they’re old!? But one thing that … Continued

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A Rapid Fire Look at the Different Ways to Make Coffee

There are a lot of ways to drink coffee but most of us don’t put much thought into it. Here’s a quick burst of different brewing methods, from the common cappuccinos and espressos to the always trendy aeropress and v60 pourovers to the more unique coffee cezve and siphon coffee. It’s a fun look at … Continued

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5 Fascinating Film Scenes That Show So Much with So Little

When you’re looking at movies directed by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love) and Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather II), you know you’re watching true masters of their craft at work. Everything matters, every detail is important. Even if you’re not well versed in filmmaking, your eyeballs are being led … Continued

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Watch A Yellow Rubber Ducky Somehow Sort of Survive the Hydraulic Press

Don’t get me wrong, it’s totally smushed. But yet the vaunted (?) yellow rubber ducky doesn’t explode like how the previously impenetrable hockey puck nor did it get destroyed to smithereens like every other object that’s been put under the hydraulic press. Instead, after going through a few bouts with the smasher of all smashers, … Continued

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Just How Many Cigarettes Did Matthew McConaughey Smoke in True Detective?

This is totally silly because it was two years ago but anyone who saw True Detective season one knew a few things to be true. That Matthew McConaughey was going to win an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club because of his performance as Rust Cohle in True Detective and that as foul as cigarettes are, … Continued