Robert De Niro in Midnight Run alone accounts for nearly a dozen of the epithets spouted in this new supercut, the happiest/angriest/bitterest/goofiest/meanest/most exhilarating — OK, fine, the only — "son of a bitch" collection you'll see all day. Needless to say, it's NSFW, though it's probably not too far afield of the general mood at most workplaces on an average Monday morning, so you tell me.
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Ah, supercuts. Sometimes done well, too often not, the art of the pop culture-mashing video meme rarely achieves such simple brilliance as it does in this version of Lionel Richie's "Hello," as pieced together from scraps of movie dialogue here and there. It's like an alternate reality fever dream in which John Cusack's Being John Malkovich puppeteer, Elvis, Neytiri, Tippi Hedren, Gandhi, and Borat (to name a few of the folks immortalized herein) come together to record a cover of the soul-searching 1984 slow-jam.
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One of the more famous staples of Michael Bay's visual vocabulary is, without a doubt, the 360-degree spinning shot, in which the camera circles actors as they stare meaningfully into the distance -- one of the most instantly recognizable directorial flourishes around (also see: J.J. Abrams and those damn lens flares). Within, marvel at the signature circular hero shot in a supercut edit piecing together said shot for a minute and a half of Michael Bay epicness.
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