"Shadow of the Colossus" in "Kong: Skull Island," the first of a mini-mini-series on uncommon movie

[Dead & Messed Up]

Hey, ladies and gents, I'm making a mini-mini-series on scenes in movies with non-movie influences. I call them "extracinematics," and they're fun and short.
This first one shows how "Kong: Skull Island" borrows a moment from "Shadow of the Colossus."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54LY5OlVxrc

[Lazlo]

Very cool! Chuckled at the "That's it."

[number8]

This is a good idea.

[Irish]

This was so fun I immediately wanted another ~20 videos with similar observations.

Very well produced, too. (I particularly liked the way you display both images so it was easy to track movements across both of them.)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Thanks, guys! I have another four pre-edited and another handful still in progress.

[Skitch]

Fantastic.

[Wryan]

Yes! Excellent!

[Idioteque Stalker]

Cool.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Number two: how Tarsem Singh's "The Cell" borrows from H. R. Giger's "Shaft" series (shut yo mouth).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiYLnirpfGg

[Ezee E]

Whatever happened to Tarsem

[Dead & Messed Up]

Whatever happened to Tarsem

He made The Fall (great), Immortals (inane but memorable), Mirror Mirror (decent), and Self/Less (never bothered).

[number8]

He directed every episode of that new NBC Wizard of Oz show that aired this summer. I've been meaning to check it out, because Tarsem doing Oz sounded wild.

[Sycophant]

I feel like that's something I should've heard about. What the hell.

[Sycophant]

These are very cool, btw.

[number8]

I feel like that's something I should've heard about. What the hell.

They definitely did not publicize his involvement in it at all. I saw ads for the show and people talking about it on twitter, but only found out that it's a Tarsem thing after it was already cancelled.

[Ezee E]

Wow. If that news was after The Fall, that would've been the coolest project ever.

[Skitch]

Self/less was surprisingly decent.

[Dukefrukem]

Keep em comin!

[Dead & Messed Up]

Keep em comin!

One a week is the current plan. :)

[Dead & Messed Up]

And true to my word, that one time Kevin Smith borrowed a line from Grant Morrison for his shit-demon in Dogma:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s3BHVoQGE

[Irish]

Oooooooh, nice one!

[megladon8]

These are so awesome.

[Dead & Messed Up]

These are so awesome.

Thanks, man. :)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Newest boy, and hope to have another one out before the end of the week:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vko7fybsC8o

[Skitch]

Awesome.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Brand new boy, this time about how a key visual in Emmerich's 2012 borrows from the classic nuclear footage taken during the 1953 Upshot-Knothole explosions - y'know, the trees bending against the explosion that you saw at the beginning of Fury Road.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKp4f5EyYx0

[Dukefrukem]

Thanks a lot. Now I want to watch 2012.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Thanks a lot. Now I want to watch 2012.

It's good! I'll got bat for it, even if it's 30 minutes too long. It's the world's bleakest Looney Tune ever, where you're simultaneously giggling at the absurd near-misses of the heroes while sort of shocked by how viciously the film murders cities and middle-fingers religion. (The natural disasters pointedly destroy St. Peter's Basilica, the Christ the Redeemer statue, a Buddhist sanctuary, the roof of the Sistine Chapel, and cuts off the President in the middle of a prayer. Emmerich wanted to include destruction of Islamic sites, but producers feared a fatwa.)

[Peng]

I don't know if I can call it good, but when it came out I still watched it twice in theater just to, at the very least, experience that bugnut, insanely escalating, one-damn-thing-after-another-and-another first city-wide disaster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yZelVCE3o) again.

[number8]

The ground splitting after the line "I feel like there's something pulling us apart" is *chef kissy fingers* cinema.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Newest boy, Gustave Dore in Aronofsky's The Fountain:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSSBtmZIi9o