"Two please."

July 16, 2013 2:30 PM

Movies in movies: A montage (SLYT).
posted by feelinglistless (16 comments total)

Brilliantly, for once, this supercut includes a list of all the films included with embedded links back to their position in the video.
posted by feelinglistless at 2:35 PM on July 16, 2013

I don't quite understand why but I absolutely love it when there's a movie inside of the movie I'm watching. It's like ultra-distilled whiskey or something

/knows nothing about whiskey
posted by Doleful Creature at 2:42 PM on July 16, 2013

normally i love things like this but in this case I don't think I could be less impressed. Maybe movies in movies are just... really boring?
posted by rebent at 2:46 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

I was expecting to see the scene from "O' Brother Where Art Thou" in there somewhere, but didn't see it.
posted by spock at 2:57 PM on July 16, 2013

DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE
posted by Elly Vortex at 3:04 PM on July 16, 2013 [3 favorites]

They showed a substantial part of Dawn of the Dead in 40 Year Old Virgin.
posted by HuronBob at 3:27 PM on July 16, 2013

This was awesome, fantastic, perfectly paced. I like how the background music helped unify the whole thing.
posted by KokuRyu at 3:40 PM on July 16, 2013

That was nice, I liked the scenes from Explorers that were included.
posted by smoothvirus at 3:42 PM on July 16, 2013

I was expecting to see the scene from "O' Brother Where Art Thou" in there somewhere, but didn't see it.

Pretty sure it was there. Unless period Clooney watching a movie is in another film I'm unfamiliar with.
posted by dobbs at 3:43 PM on July 16, 2013

That was excellent, but all the clips involving Gremlins made me hope they'd include the best movie within movie scene of them all, brother.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 4:02 PM on July 16, 2013

"Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic. But scream! Scream for your lives!

The Tingler is loose in this theater!"


Also: The One True Blob.
 
posted by Herodios at 4:47 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

That totally had an "Academy Awards opening montage" feel to it.
posted by davebush at 5:20 PM on July 16, 2013

I like Ryan North's take on this:

you’ve got to love a plot for a movie that slows down SO MUCH that the main character actually gets bored and starts killing time by HIMSELF WATCHING A MOVIE.

(yeah, this is about a character watching a movie in a book, not watching a movie in a movie. But the book's a novelization of a movie, so it almost counts)
posted by aubilenon at 5:22 PM on July 16, 2013

That totally had an "Academy Awards opening montage" feel to it.

Movies make us laugh and make us cry... But when we see a movie in a movie... That's when the real magic happens.

[/wooden_oscar_night_speech]
posted by hot_monster at 6:24 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

Caprice starring Doris Day had a scene with the self-referential movie playing in the theater, for that meta-level-ness thingy...
posted by ovvl at 7:00 PM on July 16, 2013

Cleverly conceived, brilliantly paced and with marvelous editing. A triumph!
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 9:38 PM on July 16, 2013