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Top 50 movie special effects shots. CRITERIA FOR THIS LIST:This is not a list of 'iconic' SFX shots, such as the opening shot in Star Wars or the final shot in Back To The Future, etc.

Top 50 movie special effects shots

25 ways to travel through time: a catalogue of choices. In sci-fi films and shows, time travel is a frequent and recurring factor in some of our favourite stories.

25 ways to travel through time: a catalogue of choices

But with so many methods of zipping through minutes available, from inborn or acquired natural abilities to all shapes and sizes of vehicles and machines, what's the best way to travel? 10 most redundant things that are put on movie posters. The 10 worst traits of the modern day movie snob. There aren't many points throughout the short history of this site where we've feasted on quite the diet of double standards we're about to.

The 10 worst traits of the modern day movie snob

8 warning signs that a movie will be terrible. No one sets out to make a terrible movie.

8 warning signs that a movie will be terrible

Not even Michael Bay. 10 classic ad-lib and off-script movie moments. Sometimes, the genius moments of a film weren't in the script, and happened in an off-the-cuff moment on the shoot itself.

10 classic ad-lib and off-script movie moments

Here are 10 examples of when an ad-lib or off-script moment went very, very right... Taxi Driver: "You talkin' to me? "(Martin Scorsese, 1976) Arguably the most famous cinematic quote of all time, "You talkin' to me? " was actually improvised. Director Martin Scorsese has always encouraged Robert De Niro's creativity, proving that actors can contribute more than just their performance, and in this instance it paid off. In the original script Schrader had simply written "Bickle speaks to himself in the mirror. " Top 5 hardest things to do in acting. 1: LaughingBeing convincingly overcome by laughter remains for me one of the most impressive tricks I ever see in movies.

Top 5 hardest things to do in acting

10 tricks alien invaders could learn from the movies. Sci-fi cinema is filled with attempts by extraterrestrials to take over our leafy, mineral-rich planet.

10 tricks alien invaders could learn from the movies

One or two of these gambits have proved successful, but the vast majority of them have ended in ignominious failure for the away side. As Battle: Los Angeles menaces cinemas, we therefore offer a few timely words of advice for any aliens thinking of invading earth... IF YOU’RE ALLERGIC TO WATER, AVOID EARTHSigns If water even so much as brings you out in hives, invading a planet that’s composed of approximately 70 percent of the stuff is probably a bad idea. Den of Geek. So you want to be a big screen super villain?

Are you a small time crook whose recent job was foiled by a superhero, resulting in a highly characteristic disfigurement?

So you want to be a big screen super villain?

Was the love of your life killed in an experiment gone awry during which a costumed vigilante intervened? 27 taglines to put you off a film. We've been thinking quite a lot about taglines recently in the land of Den Of Geek.

27 taglines to put you off a film

25 more honest taglines for the movies. The Dudley Moore comedy Crazy People has always appealed to me, even though it seems that virtually no one else I know has ever seen it.

25 more honest taglines for the movies

It’s the one where he becomes a brutally honest advertising executive, coming up with slogans like “Buy Volvos. They’re boxy, but they’re good”. But what if such thinking was applied to the movies? Shrek The Third "It’s got fewer ideas than the last two, and isn’t as funny, but the kids won’t mind" Star Trek"It is really something to do with the TV series, despite what our earlier advertising might have led you to believe" Genuinely terrible movie taglines. The art of the movie tagline is a tricky one that generally involves locking clever people into a room until they come up with something catchy. Yet, sometimes the coffee machine isn't working. Everyone is in a bad mood. Top 10 most ubiquitous objects in videogames. There are objects that define the way we think about videogames, structures and shapes that we could not imagine our gaming world without.

Then there are others that get used so often they become cliché, and snobbish journalists write top ten lists defaming them. If you can think of any more, add them in the comments section below. The Health Pack Taken too many bullets to the face? Demons hacked at your arms and chest for a bit too long, leaving you a mess of stringy flesh and bone? Sure, the actual form of the health pack is open to wild interpretation, from whole chickens stored in bins to ATM-style, wall mounted dispensers that spew out the get better juice to anyone wearing the right suit. The ten best Blackadder episodes. 10. Beer The fifth episode of season two, Beer sees Edmund trying to juggle two nights in one. A sitcom cliché, I grant you, but watching Blackadder flip between his all-out debauched drinking party, complete with comedy boobs, and his puritan Aunt and Uncle Whiteadder is a great laugh. 9.

Money Another episode from season two, this episode is Miranda Richardson at her best. 8. Number three on our list comes from the final season.