Awesome Edits

Filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu imagines that the Chinese spy balloon actually came from outer space, and it’s not the only one. In fact, an immense inflatable invasion is headed our way. Fabrice used footage from various movies (and music by Danny Elfman) to give his short film a great 1950s sci-fi vibe.

Getty Images makes money by licensing images and videos – including some in the public domain. Filmmaker Richard Misek created this impactful documentary using public domain footage in chronological order. He then explains the origins of some of the clips and how companies can charge what should be free footage.

Time and space travel is a common theme between Doctor Who and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so it makes sense that the Time Lords might know the song Time Warp. Doctor Who Sings edited together footage which makes it look like the Doctors and other characters were singing along with Riff-Raff, Magenta, and Columbia.

This fantastic short film by Fabrice Mathieu tells the tale of a shadow who finds himself frustrated with the actions of his wearer and decides to do something about it. Told using black-and-white footage from more than 60 films, the story unfolds much like a classic film noir, with plenty of action and intrigue.

Mashup maven Bill McClintock combined two highly-incompatible songs into one, amalgamating Wham!’s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Black Sabbath’s Children of the Grave, thus forming a new band called “Blam!” He snuck in a sweet guitar solo from Eddie Van Halen too.

Editor Jon Lefkovitz put together this wonderful supercut of scenes from movies and TV shows where two characters do the same thing at the same time. The 4-minute video features more clips from more than 100 sources. For fun, see how many you can name without looking at the list. The track is Second Song by TV on the Radio.

This video from SentinelOfSomething offers a rapid-fire recap of all 178 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whether you’re a die-hard Trekkie or just a casual viewer, the 9-minute clip offers a hilarious glimpse into the show’s seven-year run. Not every clip is exactly three seconds but Sentinel didn’t want to cut off lines.

Gordon Ramsay is the danger in this hilarious mashup of Breaking Bad and Hell’s Kitchen from Alternative Cuts. Walter White goes up against the always unhinged Tuco Salamanca and his cousin Lalo in a battle for cooking supremacy. But then a wildcard turns up with much more experience in the food service industry.

Fans of the Rocky Horror Picture Show know exactly what to say every time the characters say “Brad” or “Janet.” But you’ll have to accelerate your profanity rate in order to keep up with Bib Dibbler’s edit of the cult classic musical, which does away with all dialogue except the characters’ names being spoken or sung.

The word “stop” has appeared in countless songs over the years, and musicians just can’t resist taking a breath after singing it. Todd in the Shadows put together this great compilation of songs that momentarily stop after the word, including tracks like U Can’t Touch This, Where Is My Mind?, I Try, and Suit & Tie.

It’s been 38 years since Miami Vice hit the airwaves. The NBC cop drama influenced and reflected 1980s fashion, music, and pop culture. It also featured performances from dozens of celebrities who would go on to bigger things. This compilation showcases 55 stars who appeared on the show between 1984 and 1989.

(PG-13: Language/Gore) What would it be like if Billy Butcher and Hughie found themselves facing off against the supes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Alternative Cuts offers their take on how things might go down if The Boys had a run-in with Spider-Man after Peter Parker got shot up with Compound V.

(Spoilers) Now that Better Call Saul is over, we’re thinking about rewatching both it and Breaking Bad from start to finish. Space Ponder re-edited Jimmy and Kim’s final moments with the same song that played at the end of Felina, Badfinger’s Baby Blue, and it works surprisingly well.

Thanks in large part to its interpolation of The Clash’s Straight to Hell, the track Paper Planes has one of the catchiest hooks ever. But M.I.A’s additions make it even better. The Unusual Suspect assembled 210 movie clips to make it appear look like they’re singing the song. The gunfire from Pulp Fiction is most effective.

The final episode of Better Call Saul debuts tonight. We’re excited to see how it ends, but we’ll also miss the Breaking Bad spin-off’s phenomenal writing, acting, and directing. To help send the show off in style, yo chill bruh imagines if the show was created by Disney/Pixar instead of AMC. And then there’s this.

Movie remixer Antonio Maria Da Silva is back with the third part of his epic Hell’s Club series. The feature-length “love letter to cinema” combines footage of such diverse films as Wayne’s World, Saturday Night Fever, Gremlins, Amelie, and Legend. Join a star-studded cast for one more dance before the world goes to hell.

Back in the day, Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein, the Mummy, Mr. Hyde, and The Invisible Man. In the spirit of those unexpected comedy and beast pairings, editor Tvcrazyman combined footage from The Three Stooges with the Incredible Hulk TV series. We kept waiting for Moe to slap Bill Bixby to turn him into Lou Ferrigno.

It’s been rumored that Season Two of Severance will feature some big celebrity cameos. It turns out that Late Show host Stephen Colbert has already been on the show, but the scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. Perhaps it’s because his innie thought he was working at Dunder-Mifflin instead of Lumon.

With news that Deadpool 3 will bring the character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, TortillaDelta13 couldn’t wait for the movie to come out. So they got to work editing footage of Ryan Reynolds’ snarky hero into scenes from The Avengers and other MCU flicks as Nick Fury’s gun-for-hire to take down Loki.

After a two-decade hiatus, Dr. Frasier Crane is back. But the celebrated psychiatrist and radio host has some anger issues to work through, and he’s not leaving Seattle until he gets his tossed salad and scrambled eggs. Click play and enjoy this very clever edit by MP Misc.

The Star Wars movies are so deeply ingrained into pop culture that it’s now possible to create a Star Wars movie without using any actual Star Wars footage. Paulogia proves just that by editing together Episode IV: A New Hope entirely from references in non-Lucasfilm movies and TV shows.

Movies sometimes mention their own title at some point in their dialogue, but it’s not often they do it as many times as they did in the Back to the Future trilogy. I Love Fun compiled this edit that shows just how many times Doc Brown and Marty uttered the phrase.

Editor Casper Langbak of CLS Videos created this montage of scenes from movies that effectively used slow motion to enhance a mood or to punctuate action. That Quicksilver scene from X-Men: Days Of Future Past is still one of the best things ever. The track is Love…Thy Will Be Done by Martika, and here’s the full list of movies.