<![CDATA[io9: clips]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: clips]]> http://io9.com/tag/clips http://io9.com/tag/clips <![CDATA[Witness Denzel's Batman Whisper And Rafiki Moves Behind The Scenes Of Eli]]> The days of heroes who talk normally are gone, thanks to the raspy Christian Bale. Check out Denzel Washington's take on a sore-throated hero, in this video peek at the making of Eli. Then watch him disarm 16 post-apocalyptic henchmen.


I know there's probably a term for this type of fighting, and someone who did it first. But, watching Denzel fight all I could think of was, "Get 'em Rafiki!" Wise old dude who makes spiritual references and fights with his hands, and a knife. And that's not a bad thing, because Rafiki is the shit. Here's a video for comparison.


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<![CDATA[5 New District 9 Deleted Scences And Making-Of Clips Take Us Inside MNU]]> Check out these never-before-seen District 9 deleted scenes and behind the scenes features from the D9 DVD release. Watch the creation of the mysterious aliens via mo-cap suits, the assembly of the mothership, and our protagonist's painful transformation.






The DVD is loaded with even more video including 23 deleted scenes which expand the back story of that alien race. Also there's plenty of art, commentary plus an in-depth look inside the mothership hovering over Jo-Burg. District 9 will be available on December 22, 2009.

[Two Videos via UGO and Scifi Wire]

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<![CDATA[Nic Cage's Little Girl Drops The C-Word And Kicks Some Ass]]> The latest clip from Mark Millar's live action adapted movie is out, featuring Hit-Girl. It's like she's stepped straight out of the bloody comics — serving up hard, cold death. We're just terrified of little Mindy and her skeevy pops.


The actress climbing the walls, smashing mobsters through glass tables and throwing knives, is Chloe Moretz. We just adore her, plus she's the most intimidating Kick-Ass hero, thus far. The 12-year-old's character name is Mindy Macready, but her street name is Hit-Girl. When she's not fighting crime she's taking bullets from her dear old Dad, Nic Cage. So far, so good — and it doesn't hurt that the clips have all been almost direct translations of the comics foul-mouthed dialogue, as you can see above.

Kick-Ass will be in theaters April 16th.

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<![CDATA[70-Minute Review of Phantom Menace Is The Only Prequel I'm Ever Watching Again]]> This astounding Phantom Menace video review has been making the rounds, and for good reason. This wickedly brutal analysis splits the film wide open, with clever edits and behind the scenes footage including Lucas' melt down at a PM screening.

Part 1

Part 2 - And FINALLY Someone breaks down the horrible space taxes plot.

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

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<![CDATA[3 Clips From BBC's Day Of The Triffiids]]> Watch the world go blind while Eddie Izzard tries to save himself from a crashing plane, in the first clips from the BBC's Day of The Triffids Remake. And ask yourself: What would you do in Izzard's shoes?

Here's the official synopsis from the BBC, which will be airing the two-day special December 28th and 29th:

The world is struck blind by a solar storm, and millions of man-eating mobile plants are released to roam Britain.

As an expert on the Triffids, Bill Masen knows that salvation rests in the hands of the father he hates, who mutated the Triffids in the first place to produce a green source of oil that the world craves.




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<![CDATA[Who Lives And Who's Thrown Away: First Look At Toy Story 3]]> It's the Sophie's Choice of Toy Story. Andy must decide which toys lives, and which toys will die the horrible toy death of storage, trash or good will, and in this first clip he decides quickly.


What? Woody over Buzz? But — Buzz has wings and a voice box! Bad choice, Andy. But no doubt this isn't the final word on everyone's favorite playthings. Toy Story 3 comes out June 18 2010.

[via Coming Soon]

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<![CDATA[Your 5-Year-Old Knows More About Doctor Who Than Catherine Tate]]> David Tennant and Catherine Tate participate in a new Doctor Who-themed outing of quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks... and Tate's only just realized that "Who" isn't the Doctor's last name. Plus see a scary new "End Of Time" clip.

Here's the latest clip from "The End Of Time Part 1". As some of the trailers have shown recently, the Master has new lightning hand powers, which seem to gain strength from rubbing his palms together. And the Doctor is forced to his knees!

[Buzzcocks clip via Oh No They Didn't , thanks to CJ for "End Of Time" clip]

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<![CDATA[Ranking The Creep Factor Of Human CGI: The Uncanny Valley Effect]]> The more realistic a CG human is, the creepier they become. There's nothing spookier than a half-computer half-child CG face on the big screen. We've ranked all the worst CG humans, in order of creepiness.




Just in case you are unfamiliar with the Uncanny Valley, we've added the 30 Rock Clip which expertly illustrates this phenomenon.


Additional reporting by Julia Carusillo.

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<![CDATA[Harry Potter Deleted Scenes Showcase Hogwarts' Glee Club]]> We've got all the deleted scenes from the DVD release of Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince. Including a beautifully chilling tune from the Potter choir titled, "In Noctem."


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<![CDATA[New Avatar Clip Takes Us Under The Floating Na'vi City]]> Did you know there were other characters in James Cameron's Avatar besides blue people and Sigourney Weaver? People like Michelle Rodriguez and geeky Joel Moore? See them now, before Cameron undoubtedly kills them off. Plus Sigourney narrates "Planet Earth" Pandora.

More Avatar Videos


Now let's take bets, how much screen time do we think Michelle Rodriguez will get until she is killed off in a flurry of shouting and gunfire?

Plus here are two new featurettes one about the story and another about the planet in particular. The first is actually quite brilliant because it has Sigourney Weaver narrating like she would for The Planet Earth documentaries.



[via IGN]

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<![CDATA[Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation]]> Lady Terminator: She's the reincarnation of an ancient killer, thanks to a revolting incident involving a snake, a bikini-clad anthropologist, and a rose-petal-strewn "When Doves Cry" bed. She climbs naked out of the sea and kills men... with sex.

The English-dubbed version of Indonesia's Lady Terminator contains the only English phrases you'll need to get through your day: "Is there any man who can satisfy me?" "I'll come back in a hundred years and have revenge on your great-grandaughter." Oh also, "I'm not a lady, I'm an anthropologist." And: "Hey listen, Jack and I have seen more dead bodies than you've eaten hot dogs. So just shut up and eat."

"It says here all three of these guys died with their cocks bitten off. Could be a small animal." "An eel?" "I've heard of the ultimate blow job, but this is too much."

Lady Terminator, made in Indonesia in the late 1980s, is that rare rip-off of a U.S. movie that forges off in a new direction, and approaches its own levels of sublimeness. The slogan, "First she mates, then she terminates," pretty much says it all. I love the flickering blue lightning coming out of her eyes and trashing the room — not to mention the "if the car is rocking" scene. Oh, and the guy scratching his head with a submachine gun.

Grad Student Madness explains what the hell this movie is about:

Here's the story: Years ago, the South Seas Queen, a figure from Javanese folklore, was perfectly happy killing men by letting the snake in her vagina bite off their dingly-danglies during intercourse. Unfortunately, some jerk yanks the snake out of her cootch and turns it into a dagger. She's pissed (who wouldn't be?) and vows revenge on his great-grandaughter. His thought, no doubt, at this point is, "Okay, Crazy, good luck with that grandaughter thing!"

Fast-forward to the 80s, when Tania, an anthropologist, is investigating the South Seas Queen. We know she's an anthropologist because of the immortal line: "I'm not a lady! I'm an anthropologist!" Anyway, Tania is scuba diving in the general vicinity of the old South Sea Queen place when her boat is capsized by a tsunami and she is dragged to the bottom of the sea and onto a bed in a perfectly dry room (No, I can't really explain that) where that sea serpent enters her vag (via really bad animation) and possesses her.

Tania emerges from the surf possessed and naked and the film proceeds to blatantly rip off entire sequences from Terminator as she hunts the grandaughter, who is an Indonesian pop singer, and get hunted by a cop with the worst mullet this side of country music. Countless people get shot, numerous scenes get lifted, clothes get shed with abandon. What's amazing to me about Lady Terminator is how it adapts James Cameron's movie for the Indonesian working-class audience by incorporating so much local mythology. It looks like the film we know until it gets into sea serpents and witchy queens who live at the bottom of the ocean. It's all fairly strange.

Big props to YouTube user Slasherfan, who put up 20 minutes of the best moments from this instant classic online. Here's another 10 minutes of Lady Terminator goodness:

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<![CDATA[Japanese Monsters Catch On To The Thriller Dance Craze]]> Stormtroopers, prisoners, Lego people — it's hard to find a group of folks who haven't danced to Michael Jackson's Thriller. And now rubber Japanese monsters have joined the ranks of dancers hoping to channel the late King of Pop.

In honor of the upcoming Ultraman movie, Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie, several monsters from the Ultraman franchise appeared on a Japanese variety show to "audition" for parts in the movie. They showed off their most menacing dance skills for the assembled Ultramen, an impressive feat given those unwieldy-looking rubber suits.


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by gariisenab


Ultra Monsters dance to ‘Thriller'
[Pink Tentacle]

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<![CDATA[The Ex-Wife From Hell]]> There's nothing worse than marrying someone whose ex won't stay away... especially if she's been horribly deformed as a result of a botched teleportation experiment. Curse Of The Fly shows why it's best to keep your partner's exes at bay.

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<![CDATA[Josh Holloway Felt Ridiculous Pretending To Have A Time-Travel Migraine]]> New clips from the Lost Season Five DVD set prove that pretending the time/space continuum is turning the sky white and splitting your head open is harder than you'd think. And discover the secrets of the Kate/Juliet 'ship.

Lost Season Five comes out on DVD next Tuesday, Dec. 8, to give you a couple of months to relive the time-traveling insanity before the show returns for its last season. Here are some early preview clips:

Bloopers:

Filming the "White Light" sequences was a major headache:

Building 23 And Beyond with Michael Emerson:


The Others' Secret:

Kaliet:

Deleted Scenes:

Behind The Scenes: He's Our You:

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<![CDATA[Sigourney's Extended Avatar Clip Explains Why The Na'vi Speak English]]> Sigourney Weaver and Giovanni Ribisi battle it out in this new Avatar clip, arguing about about money and blue aliens, ultimately revealing how the Na'vi learned English, and each party's secret motives.


Sigourney Weaver plays the Na'vi sympathizer, Grace, and Giovanni Ribisi plays the money-hungry CEO, Parker Selfridge. It's actually pretty fun to see Ribisi in this sort of role. Either way, now we know how the Na'vi learned English and that there had been better relations between the two species, until now... but why?

[via MSN]

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<![CDATA[Dollhouse "Public Eye/Left Hand" Clips]]>

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<![CDATA[Cyborg Assassins Are Really, Really Good In Bed]]> He's an unstoppable cyborg killer, whose brain is in his stomach... but he's also a sex machine. In 1986's Assassin, a cyborg death-monger needs a place to recharge his batteries, and finds a little romance, in a surprisingly cute scene.

The little interlude in the middle of that clip involves Robert Conrad and his partner investigating the cyborg killing spree... which, whatever. But the subplot, about the cyborg and the woman who loves him, is actually surprisingly great. (In a bit of forced irony, in a later scene she tells the cyborg he's a wonderful man and laments that all the men she usually meets are "so plastic.")

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<![CDATA[Susan Sarandon's Alcohol-Soaked Lovely Bones Grandmother Makes Her Debut]]> The best character from Peter Jackson's "purgatory is pretty" film Lovely Bones is by far Susan Sarandon's nicotine powered, boozed up 1970s grandma. And now a new clip showcases Sarandon in action.

Through the midst of this heartbreaking work, one character stands out as the trouble yet hilarious family member, thank goodness they got Susan Sarandon...


Plus she also helps capture the feel of the 70s, or in her case the 60s, that this movie is beautifully set in. Here's another video that properly breaks down the family dynamic and the tragedy that befalls the Salmon family. The Lovely Bones, which is based off of Alice Sebold's novel, comes out in limited release Dec. 11 and wider release on Dec. 25.


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<![CDATA[The Crawler Makes His Descent 2 Video Debut]]> It's about time we caught a new glimpse of the cave monster people. In four clips from the sequel to The Descent, we get to see how our pasty human-eating friends have grown — and they've gotten a lot louder.

The sequel takes place right after the last film, with Sarah running for her life out of the Appalachian cave system. Remember, in the U.S. release of The Descent, Sarah got out — she was saved, not doomed to live trapped by her own insanity inside the depths of the cave, food for the Crawlers, as in the U.K. ending. But her memory is now gone and the cops are forcing her back into the darkness to find her buddies, naturally.

Here are a few clips from the sequel, which comes out in the USA December 4th:

Hospital:

Getting Ready

Down Under

Cave In

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<![CDATA[10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar]]> This fascinating behind the scenes look at Avatar is like a crash course in motion-capture, in which James Cameron breaks down his favorite scene in the film and shows you how it was created. And there's tons of new footage.

Don't get put off by the first two minutes, I promise you it pays off around 4:03 when you get to see a side-by-side break down of Zoe Saldana flipping out as herself, and as her alien character Neytiri. I think I've watched that part 30 times. Say what you will about the plot or the blue people, you can't deny that the technology in this film is pretty impressive. Especially since Cameron can basically pick any shot he wants from any angle, and the computer will recreate the scene. But on the downside, why does Neytiri sound like Natasha from Bullwinkle?


Found the youtube version for those that have trouble viewing Hulu:

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