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Quentin Tarantino's Foot Fetish. A supercut by Pablo Fernandez Eyre.

Movie genres don't come much more iconic than the classic Western, where gunslingers and cowboys battle bad guys in black hats on behalf of the less heroic people trying to make a home for themselves in the Old West.

Fans know the theme songs, the look that means a shootout is about to go down, and the weather worn face of a Western hero trying to mind their own business in a world full of bandits and scavengers.

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Smash TV put together an action packed, mega sized supercut called "Gunslinger",which is an hour long and made from over 50 classic Westerns so it's guaranteed to blow you away!

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Smash TV's Gunslinger mines more than 50 classic and modern westerns and creates a hypnotic hyper-movie that shows off the formal requirements for a great hay-burner.

It's an hour long, and groups all the tropes of westerns across the genre's history: squinting, riding out, slapping leather, lighting a cigarillo, walking into a saloon and so on. It's a piece straight out of Pirate Cinema -- watch it now before it's forcibly removed from the Internet by a censorship robot run by a humorless corporate conglomerate!

Gunslinger is the ultimate tribute to the Old West. The third installment in Smash TV’s epic VJ trilogy, we present you with a 62 minute behemoth that embodies the spirit and chaos of the Wild West. The Back to the Future III of our trilogy, if you will, Smash TV has bid a fond farewell to the neon excess of the 80s and set the controls of the DeLorean back to 1885. A simpler – and infinitely more dangerous – time.

Painstakingly assembled from more than 50 Western movies, ranging from Sergio Leone’s early Spaghetti Westerns all the way up to 90s reimaginings such as Desperado and Wild Wild West, Gunslinger serves as a humble attempt to pay homage to one of the longest running and most influential genres of the silver screen. Whether your loyalty lies with the trusty sheriff, the dastardly villain, the ruthless mercenary, the opportunistic thief, or the unpredictable vigilante, it provides a thrilling look at heroism, betrayal, greed, loss, and justice in a time when law and order was as rare as the gold men killed for.

Taking a magnifying glass to one of the most prolific genres in film history, Gunslinger aims to preserve the ideals and struggles of a unique time and place in history which becomes more and more foreign to our daily lives with each passing year. Deliberately paced to match the look and feel of a Western, it recontextualizes classic tropes of the genre to deliver a unique and fast paced narrative. A mysterious stranger arrives in town, authority is challenged, vengeance is sought, tensions run high at the saloon, a frantic horse chase ensues, and everything goes to hell in an epic gunfight you’ll have to see to believe.

Gunslinger [Smash TV/Vimeo]

Don't believe me? Just watch.

Imagine if all the movie stars got on the phone with each other at once. That would probably make less sense than this supercut of movie phone calls that are actually strung together in a fairly coherent order. There are classic scenes and great lines from obscure films as well. What they all have in common: talking on the phone. You can probably guess some of the better ones before they appear.   

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Oh by the way, the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! Don’t hang up! -via Viral Viral Videos

Kirby Ferguson writes, "Everything is a Remix has been polished, merged and rereleased for its fifth anniversary." (more…)

8 years ago, Universal Music sent a takedown notice over Stephanie Lenz's 29-second Youtube video of her kids dancing in the kitchen to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Read the rest

If you think sitcoms from the 90s are scary, you'd be right in this case: WorldWideInterweb has recut the TV sitcom Friends into a two minute trailer for a horror movie "Dead Friends."

Classic moments from the series -- including Phoebe's "My eyes! My beautiful eyes!" and the one where Monica wears a Thanksgiving turkey on her head -- get put through a very Hitchcockian, black-and-white lens with the help of a few jump scares and a moody score.

Remember, Friends will be there for you, dead or alive.

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In the original script for the Disney movie Frozen, Queen Elsa is a villain, not a hero. It was after writing her signature song "Let It Go" that the producers realized that they needed to rework her character.

But they didn't have to change the story. As BloodBlitz Comedy demonstrates, Elsa is easily cast as the villain with a bit of digital editing. Now, when she sings "Let It Go," she's telling Anna something much more sinister.

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Jacob Swinney compiled this supercut of the opening and closing shots of 55 films. It's accompanied by Thomas Newman's "Any Other Name."

Films used (in order of appearance): The Tree of Life 00:00 The Master 00:09 Brokeback Mountain 00:15 No Country for Old Men 00:23 Her 00:27 Blue Valentine 00:30 Birdman 00:34 Black Swan 00:41 Gone Girl 00:47 Kill Bill Vol.

Dave from EFF writes, "More than 125 Dragon Con cosplayers posed for privacy during EFF and Access Now's Project Secret Identity 2015 campaign." Read the rest

Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "2600 Magazine is being threatened with legal action for using bits of ink splatter on the Spring 2012 cover that Trunk Archive Images claims it has the rights to. That's right, ink splatter. The sophistication of the tracking software in actually being able to detect specific splotches of ink throughout the entire Internet is as astounding as it is scary. But it also happens to be dead wrong as the ink splatter in question actually belongs to an artist in Finland." Read the rest

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This supercut of female seduction scenes in film is a virtual enclyclopedia of sexy actresses working their feminine wiles onscreen, to the excitement of their filmic counterparts. Revisit some of the film industry's sexiest scenes, set to the song "Wetter" by the band The Singularity. Via Laughing Squid

Well-funded arguments are often made that copyright should last forever, replacing its original purpose (encouraging the creation of new works) with a plainly proprietary system of cultural ownership.

Unless you're looking at an officially licensed Disney tutorial you'd better put your pencils and your eyeballs away and stop looking at the screen, now!

Just kidding, it's nothing more than an innocent comic drawn by a non-Disney artist, to be filed under "satire".

This silly yet oh so true comic by Mauricio Abril shows the not so fun side of that empire Mickey Mouse built, and I know more than a few NeatoShop artists will totally relate to the punchline!

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On the mean streets of the City of Brotherly Love, you'd better come prepared to handle yourself in any rough situation. That means hugging.

Rocco Avallone's security cameras captured this footage late on Thursday night in Philadelphia. Two men who are just possibly intoxicated get into a fist-fight.

Then they hug it out.

This is a lesson for us all. Tonight, go outside and hug someone.

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Call up whichever pop star is hot this summer, because these cows are ready to be featured on his/her next single!

Several Vimeo members whose videos had "pixels" in the title are victims of the latest overly broad DMCA takedown request by Entura International, working on behalf of Sony's summer schlockbuster Pixels. Read the rest

These major key versions of theme music from The X-Files, Halloween, Saw, The Exorcist, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, are the outwardly sunny siblings of their sinister brothers and sisters, which make them even creepier.

The studio behind "Dallas Buyers Club" will be able to demand that people caught downloading the movie without permission pay for the cost of a legit download, plus a small surcharge to cover the cost of getting their details through a court. Read the rest

Video game players tend to be a passionate bunch, and when they’re on the edge of the sofa tap-tap-tapping away and trying to take out the competition things can get mighty heated.

Lorne knows I’ve broken a controller or ten by throwing it at the wall, swinging it by its cord and smashing it into the ground, or stomping it into oblivion with the heel of my boots, but some gamers make me look mellow by comparison.

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These are the hotheaded gamers who let the anger (and the cursing) fly with reckless abandon in the face of games that cheat or simply aren’t fair. (Sarcasm, in case you were wondering)

World Wide Interweb created a supercut of The Ultimate Gamer Freak Outs, and it kinda makes you wonder- isn't gaming supposed to be fun?! (Contains NSFW language)

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70 of the worst: "Men should be able to veto women's abortions", "Know your role and shut your mouth", "Women are victims of violence all the time-maybe they should make better decisions", etc.

Pac-Man seems like it has a pretty simple storyline- hungry round-headed dude goes on a munchies tear, which upsets the resident ghosts who have sworn to protect the pellets they use to propagate their unique spectral species.

Oh, and sometimes the ghosts make themselves some tasty food like pretzels or glazed cherries which Pac-Man proceeds to gobble up like a fiend.

Turns out I've had the tale of that Pac attacker all wrong since childhood, because according to this radical strip by SMBC comics the Pac-Man storyline is “like Kafka wrote a Lovecraft story”.

Now I'm going to have nightmares about Pac-Man!

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The company is shotgunning DMCA notices against journalists and others who reproduce even the tiniest fraction of the dump of users who signed up to find partners with whom to cheat on their spouses -- included in the dump are thousands of people who paid $15 to have their data permanently deleted from the service. Read the rest

World of Dance just held their World Finals in Los Angeles, and the breakout team in the Youth competition brought insane levels of energy and breakdancing precision to win their division. Read the rest

Darren Dutton outdoes himself with a very funny pastoral pastiche, handmade from 100% recycled materials.

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