The movies explain it all for you

August 22nd, 2008 at 02:57pm Will Pfeifer

Here’s a great little bit of film clip editing from Matt Zoller Seitz (the guy behind the excellent House Next Door blog) with expository scenes from everything from JAWS to PSYCHO to THE MATRIX. (Link courtesy of Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog.)

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I have to admit, it’s been a lot of years (and a lot of bad movies) since STAR WARS, but I still get a little chill when Alec Guinness explains what the heck The Force is. And Reese’s suitably intense description of The Terminator to a terrified Sarah Conner is a sci-fi classic. Hammiest bit? No contest — it’s the late Richard Crenna chewing up the scenery as he tells the cops what a tough guy John Rambo is. A billy goat puke? Really, Col. Troutman? Really?

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