What do you get when you mix illegal movie downloads, editing software and obsessive fans? You get really funny little clips on YouTube, obviously.

Five-second movies are feature films edited down to their essentials. The Godfather series is Marlon Brando mumbling and getting older. Fargo is a lot of people saying “ya” in funny accents, until someone gets killed. 2001 is monkeys, spaceman, computer, psychedelic bit, baby. The auteur of five-second movies is known only as thatguywithglasses . His YouTube account was banned after the copyright owners complained, but he’s now back with his own site , and many, many fans making their own five-second movies.

10 Great Five Second Movies:
(some links may contain bad language)

1. 2001 A Space Oddysey
2. Fargo
3. The Godfather series
4. Total Recall
5. Star Wars
6. Titanic
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8. All three Die Hard movies
9. James Bond
10. Scarface (Contains a lot of violence and swearing, and is considerably longer than five seconds...)

Supercuts are obsessive tributes to a favourite film: a 95-second edit of every single “dude” from The Big Lebowski (link contains a lot of swearing), or all the “smegs” in Red Dwarf . The work involved is mind-boggling, but the results are only mildly diverting and largely ignored. The Red Dwarf edit, which would have required watching 24 hours of footage, has been viewed only 1,000 times.

The term 'supercut' was coined by blogger Andy Baio , who collected the videos in the list below.

10 Great Supercuts
(some links may contain bad language)

1. Every 'turbo boost' from Knight Rider
2. Every reference to 'Lupus' from House
3. Every time Jack Bauer says 'Damn it!' in 24
4. (Almost) every Simpsons opening credits
5. Every cheesy one-liner from CSI Miami
6. Every 'Flash' from Flash Gordon
7. Every 'He's dead' from Star Trek
8. 100 numbers from 100 films
9. All Sawyer's nicknames from Lost
10. Every 'Yeah' from Fargo

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