THE BEST Edits

Over the course of a year, Matt MacMillan captured sounds his baby son Ryan made, not just so he’d have the memories, but so he could catalog the samples by pitch, and turn them into a cover version of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck, thus immortalizing his tot in the Internet’s meme hall of fame.

(PG-13: Language) Editor Sleepy Skunk recently bestowed us with his regular end-of-year movie trailer mashup. But since it’s the end of a decade, he decided to do one better, and put together this epic and emotional montage of movie moments from the past 10 years as a bonus. How many of these movies did you see?

(PG-13) Despite Hollywood’s unhealthy obsession with reboots, remakes, and sequels, there have been some pretty great movies in the past decade. Little White Lies‘ Luís Azevedo put together this all-too-short compilation of some of the best, from The Grand Budapest Hotel to Mad Max: Fury Road to Get Out.

Comedian and wacky weed enthusiast Gadi Wilcherski cleverly reworked footage from America’s Got Talent with footage of himself taking bong hits, scoring big with the judges along the way. He also showed off his talents on The Voice Israel.

(PG-13) Editor Sleepy Skunk is back with his annual supercut of movie trailers, paying tribute to the the wide range of cinema splashed up on screens of all sizes over the course of 2019. Like every year, there were some greats and some stinkers, but the trailers inevitably thrill. Keep an eye on his Tumblr for the full list of films.

YouTube channel EveryOtherBeat has a single gimmick – removing every other beat from popular songs. Sometimes it works, and other times it’s downright strange. But in the case of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal, the result is simply magical.

After taking us back in time to 1979, The Hood Internet dips their toe into the decade of big hair, Pac-Man and Rubik’s Cubes. As the 1980s kicked off, the transition to new wave and power pop is in full force, but disco isn’t quite ready to give up the fight.

Lewis Wake has taken a variety of clips from movies, and swapped out the music with other songs that play at a similar number of beats per minute. Some of our favorites are Back to the Future with Beastie Boys, Napoleon Dynamite’s dance with Cher, and Blues Brothers with Kaiser Chiefs.

While Kaboom Percussion seems perfectly capable of playing songs without such trickery, they decided to skip a traditional performance for this clip, instead recording each note of Toto’s Africa individually, then chopping it all together in video editing software.

Editor The Unusual Suspect diced up bits and pieces from 156 different movies in order to replicate the vocals from one of the greatest one-hit wonders of all time – Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega, replacing the names of his female conquests with those of various movie characters.

Video editor Matthijs Vlot aka “Unusual Suspect” must have spent a ton of time finding all the movie clips needed to create this version of M.I.A.’s hit track Paper Planes, sung by the characters on screen. The gun fire from Pulp Fiction was perfect.

It is kind of strange to see award-winning actor Ray Liotta in those commercials for Chantix. Editor Joey Lindquist decided to weave the commercial and its many side effect warnings in with footage from Goodfellas to make it a bit more compelling.

You know a TV series is memorable when you can extract tiny sound bites from every episode, and get a laugh out of almost every one. Editor Estelle Grignon compiled this laugh-packed reel which features a just about a second from each of the NBC comedy’s 201 episodes.

While busy working on their upcoming Doctor Who Honest Trailer, Screen Junkies took a little time out to make a clip which envisions evil Daleks assimilating other iconic robots from TV and movies. The Johnny 5 bit is the best. Unstable!!! Unstable!!!

It’s a simply matter of physics – if you drop a rock from up high, it will fall – eventually crashing to the ground. In this fun edit from Nerdist, actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does exactly that, as realized through footage from a number of his movies.

YouTube is chockful of videos claiming to be supremely satisfying. But if you’ve had more satisfaction than you can handle, Luksan Wunder’s clip should cure you of that good feeling, and just simply leave you hanging in the worst possible ways.

Editor TheGaroStudios pays tribute to the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, condensing Bat’s origin story, his darkly-heroic rise, and his conflicts with the Joker and Bane into a impactful 3-minute short film.

(PG-13) Film editor Antonio Maria Da Silva of AMDSFILMS presents his latest masterpiece, a single film that combines scenes from classic horrors, thrillers, and other films envisioning all the creepy stories are flowing forth from the twisted mind of The Shining’s Jack Torrance.

(Gore) Video essayist Rick Perales presents a crisply-edited look at the role that vehicles, driving, and roads play in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen. Take a wild ride from Blood Simple to Raising, Arizona to Hail, Caesar!, and everywhere in-between.

(Flashing Images) We have no idea how much time it took Candice Drouet to edit this 5-minute compilation, but she claims it features a million still images from various movies, each shown in rapid succession. Your mission – identify as many of the movies as possible.

YouTuber BroccoliBoys condensed the plot of Stanley Kubrick’s 161-minute opus 2001: A Space Odyssey down to just under 8 minutes, and transformed it into an unofficial music video for Tame Impala’s track Let It Happen. The result is shockingly good.

Mylo the Cat presents another Muppet mashup, this time giving Miss Piggy the perfect song to sing, Rihanna’s 2012 megahit Diamonds. We’re pretty sure that Piggy would throw a major hissy fit if she found out her tiara was made from Cubic Zirconia.

Editor Bill Smith makes the already uncomfortable setting of pitching a business idea on Shark Tank and makes it truly unsettling by removing all dialogue, and just focusing in on the most awkward reaction shots. And Robert Herjavec could use some antiperspirant.

What happens when you take a pint of Britney Spears, a cupful of Rob Zombie, and 4 tablespoons of The B-52s and puree them in the blender? Musical magic in the hands of the massively talented DJ Cummerbund, that’s what. A tasty treat that’s anything but toxic.