50 Most Distracting Movie Gifs
Thor's Hammer Drop
The Gif: With one colossal hammer fumble (not a euphemism), Chris Hemsworth reminded everyone that regardless of rippling muscles and flowing golden locks, he's a mere mortal after all.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you deliver the perfect retort to your trolls, but accidentally use "your" instead of "you're". So. Close. To. Victory.
Fantastic Mr. Fox's Wolf
The Gif: The strange but beautiful finale of Wes Anderson's 2009 stop motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel gets the Tumblr treatment with this perfectly timed loop of fox greeting wolf.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you join forces with that sweet Lithuanian kid you met on Reddit, bring down a notoriously dickish cyber bully together and want to share a long-distance victory hurrah together. This is the perfect gif for that special moment of solidarity.
Orlok's Staircase Climb
The Gif: How's this for retro?
Taken from the 1922 German expressionist horror movie Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauen s , this gif depicts bloodsucker Cound Orlok (Max Schreck)'s shadow creeping up the stairs to the ill-fated Ellen (Greta Schröder)'s room for the most unpleasant kind of midnight feast.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you come home from a big boozy night out and have to creep up the staircase so as not to disturb your housemates. We've all done the Nosferatu silent stair climb claw hand.
The Joker Clap
The Gif: Heath Ledger's near perfect portrayal of the Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight gets the gif treatment thanks to this captivating clip of his "Congrats Commissionaire Gordon" clap.
How To Use It On Tumblr: The combination of the slowest of slow claps and Ledger's disgruntled expression make this the perfect gif to use for a very, very begrudging acknowledgement of greatness.
Find yourself out-witted by a long-time rival and in need of a dignified surrender? Look no further.
The Wolf's Wedding Dance
The Gif: Here's five time Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio throwing some seriously questionable shapes as King of Greed Jordan Belfort in The Wolf Of Wall Street . This is truly a gif of beauty.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you hear your jam. Regardless of whether it's in a club, the supermarket or even just cruising home on the bus, if there's a song that just gets you shaking that tailfeather, then chances are this is the gif for you. And you probably don't look this cool dancing to it either.
Professor Porter's Happy Dance
The Gif: Tarzan 's Professor Porter is straight out of the Disney adorable old man collection, and his crowning moment has to be his so-cute-it's-given-me-a-stomach-ache happy dance from the 1999 cartoon.
How To Use It On Tumblr: There's no debate around this one. Ever found that one of your all-time favourite tunes makes your best mate curl up on the floor with hatred? This is the greatest gif representation of that moment we have ever come across.
Olive Penderghast Meets Her Dinner
The Gif: The leading lady of the interweb (sorry J-Law, you put up a good fight but this title belongs to Ms. Stone) gets her drool on over a succulent plate of lobster in Will Gluck's wickedly naughty teen comedy Easy A.
How To Use It On Tumblr: You've got two options with this one.
One: go literal, and post it underneath every gratuitous foodporn photo the internet has to offer. Two: objectify, objectify, objectify. Just rediscovered the screencaps from Ryan Gosling's shirtless Crazy, Stupid Love scene? This is the perfectly pervy gif for you.
The Face Melt
The Gif: Arguably one of cinema's most iconic scenes (not to mention the one that traumatised 80s kiddies the world over) there are few movie moments better suited to giffage than this from Raiders Of The Lost Ark .
How To Use It On Tumblr: Save this one for the wide-eyed 4am Wikipedia visits, where you stumble across a page featuring every horrifiying and ghoulish urban legend based in your vicinity. You'll be so terrified at what you just discovered you'll feel exactly like poor Toht getting a face full of Ark spirits. Shudder.
21 Jump Street's Middle Finger Move
The Gif: Man mountain Channing Tatum gives us some drug-fuelled sass with a middle finger move that's almost dance-like in its gracefulness.
Or it would be if it wasn't for the whole, y'know, swearing thing.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Post it when you're reaching breaking point with your office jobsworth - after weeks of calmly giving him a polite nod-and-smile after all of his passive aggressive putdowns, furiously writing an essay detailing the extent of your rage for him, adding this gif and sharing it on the web is the ultimate release of tension.
The News Team Jump
The Gif: "There's only one thing a man can do when he's suffering from a spiritual and existential funk...Buy new suits!"
The news team club together to cheer Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) up when he's down in the dumps in the only way they know how - visiting the suit shop. Cue girlish squeals of delight and one outrageous unanimous celebratory leap.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you and your gang all manage to bag tickets to Glastonbury (or something far more niche and incredibly weird that you're far too embarrassed to admit to so you'll pretend it's Glastonbury).
Emma's Sexy Bling Ring Dance
The Gif: When the trailer for Sofia Coppola's black comedy The Bling Ring landed back in 2013, the internet lost its collective mind.
It seemed that within seconds, every Tumblr dashboard from Hertforshire to the Philippines was crammed with the image of a post-Hermione Emma Watson shaking her stuff suggestively on the dancefloor. This, ladies and gents, is gif royalty.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Surely no-one could deny its power as a flirtation device?
Let all the web's nerds and introverts use this as a way of giving a cyber come-on and guaranteed it'd allow a whole bunch of Tumblr users to profess their attraction to each other. Gold.
Jay Gatsby's Toast
The Gif: Leo actually gives Emma Stone a run for her money in terms of Tumblr popularity but, after sifting through countless "poor Leo still doesn't have an Oscar" posts ( including one rather spectacular McConaughey / Wolf Of Wall Street taunt gif that everyone should see ), we couldn't ignore the simple brilliance of this charmer from The Great Gatsby.
How To Use It On Tumblr : DiCaprio is giving full Hollywood superstar in this, so it needs to be reserved for a really special moment. It's a genuine, heartfelt, "congratulations on your new job / relationship / Macbook Pro", and it needs to be given without any trace of internet snark.
The Incinerator
The Gif: Toy Story 3 sees Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen) and the rest of the gang facing their imminent doom in the trash incinerator and simultaneously breaking the hearts of every single viewer, regardless of age or mental stability.
How To Use It On Tumblr: BEFORE, AFTER AND DURING A SCREENING OF TOY STORY 3 .
There is no group activity more painful and emotionally challenging, and there ain't nothing that can be done except to hold each other and wait it out.
The Citizen Kane Applause
The Gif: Orson Welles' determined clap from Citizen Kane is one of the internet's all-time favourite gifs - we love the gravitas using such a celebrated movie gives to our giffing.
After his young wife puts in a stunningly average performance in her opera debut, Kane attempts to persuade the suitably unimpressed audience that what they just witnessed was opera magic.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Most people use this one for your standard cyber "well done", but taken in context it has a whole different meaning - less "you're wonderful" and more "you're awful but I'm going to pretend that's not the case".
Use it wisely and no one will ever pick up on the hidden message...
The Plate Smash
The Gif: Unlucky in love greeting card writer Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) embraces his post break-up depression with a good old-fashioned bout of plate smashing in (500) Days Of Summer . We've all been there, buddy.
How To Use It On Tumblr: You've spent the whole night lying in bed listening to your neighbours have an impossibly loud, drunken bust-up about the positioning of the sofa in their front room. You have an important meeting in less than three hours. This is what the inside of your brain looks like right now.
The Galaxy Defenders
The Gif: The best-dressed extra-terrestrial agents in cinematic history showcase their coolest moment with this never-ending loop of putting on the infamous MIB sunglasses. Could they be any cooler? We think not.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you and your BFF have been invited to a rave that's set to be American teen movie levels of "oh my God, like, best party everrr" and you are looking seriously fly.
It might be more Swindon than Los Angeles, but right now you are feeling like the two baddest bitches in town.
Captain Phillips (2013)
The Gif: We'd have given Barkhad Abdi an Oscar simply for the way he said this line. With one declaration of "I am the Captain now", a star was born.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When your mum goes away and leaves you in charge of the house.
Doesn't matter if you're fifteen or fourty-five - it's still a rush of power like no other.
The Clueless Bed Flirt
The Gif: Cher Horowitz: leader, teacher, trendsetter.
Find us a teenage girl who doesn't believe in the power of showing a little skin and chewing on a pen to grab a boy's attention and we'll eat our Calvin Klein frocks. Here's a rare moment where Cher's composure slips, oh so slightly.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Use this one after that meet-cute moment went completely tits up - you had the perfect opportunity to show off your sexiest hair flick and ended up knocking yourself unconsious on the street lamp you hadn't noticed behind you.
Bridesmaid Meltdown
The Gif: Kristen Wiig's long-suffering maid of honour Annie finally snaps at the Parisian bridal shower of the century. Cue a very messy - not to mention very public - battle against a giant cookie.
How To Use It On Tumblr: This level of rage can only be applied to one situation - bad train ettiquette. People who push their way into the carriage before their fellow commuters have had the opportunity to disembark? This one goes out to you.
Jack's Bar Visit
The Gif: This gif gives you the coveted chance to watch Jack Torrance's (Jack Nicholson) creepiest Shining moment on repeat (and who wouldn't want that?!). Nicholson's sudden wild smile is, we reckon, twice as spooky as any axe-wielding mania.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When everyone else gets the joke about fifteen seconds before you.
Kid Rage
The Gif: Taken from 1994 kiddie comedy Little Rascals , this gif just keeps on giving. Kudos to little Darla (Brittany Ashton Holmes) for providing this piece of internet gold.
We've just realised that this movie came out 20 years ago so now we're really depressed.
How To Use It On Tumblr: This is very important: use this whenever anybody says that Jar Jar Binks was a hilarious addition to the Star Wars saga. Say nothing, just post this.
Emotionally Sensitive Elliot
The Gif: Given the chance to become anyone, or indeed anything, thanks to his new buddy Satan (Liz Hurley), Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser) chooses the sensitive, arty type, so that he can better understand the needs and desires of women.
Little does he know how just how literal Satan can be.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Just look at his whiny face. This is only applicable to the most ridiculous first world problems - read: running out of olives, losing Twitter followers or having the latest episode of Game Of Thrones spoiled for you mere minutes before you sit down to watch it.
The Dude Abides
The Gif: The Dude (Jeff Bridges) gets a face full of rage (and hot coffee) when his eternally laid-back attitude pisses off the wrong person.
How To Use It On Tumblr : If you're sick and tired of being on the receiving end of sanctimonious, preachy rants from people you don't care about, take a leaf out of Jeff Lebowski's book and retalliate with this.
DISCLAIMER : this amount of sass may result in a mug to the mug. Total Film cannot be held responsible for any ceramic injury pertained when using this gif.
Victorious Kip
The Gif: Napoleon Dynamite gave us a whole host of oddball characters, but none were quite as lovably odd as Napoleon's (Jon Heder) big brother Kip (Aaron Ruell). We love this ridiculously subtle victory move - who needs a whole dance when one powerful fist pump will do?
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you pull on a pair of jeans you haven't worn in months and find a tenner tucked in to the pocket. If it was possible to give your past self a high five, this would be the moment.
Ponyo Loves Ham
The Gif: Studio Ghibli's magical goldfish-turned-human Ponyo discovers that ramen is way better than plankton.
How To Use It On Tumblr: After you've queued outside an exclusive London restaurant for hours, and you finally spot the waiter bringing your food. Cue the heavenly chorus.
The Double
The Gif: Darren Aronofsky's 2010 psychological thriller Black Swan takes a decidedly horrific turn as Natalie Portman's mind starts to completely unravel in a rather sinister manner.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you're home alone and find yourself suddenly terrified of every single thing in your house.
Is that a toothbrush or a knife? Was that a murderer or just the washing machine? Wait, did my reflection just move?!
Voldemort Gets Huggy
The Gif: He might be the Dark Lord: leader of the Death Eaters and all-powerful magical dictator, but ole Voldemort sure isn't great at getting physical with his buddies. We defy you to find a more awkward onscreen cuddle.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you need to comfort someone you can't stand. You might make the gesture, but inside you're counting down the seconds until you can release your tentative hold on your unhappy peer.
Angry Granny
The Gif: Thanks to some cracking prosthetics and a talented make-up artist brother, Robin Williams became the manliest, crudest, sweet old Scottish lady in San Fransisco in Chris Colombus' Mrs Doubtfire .
Ho w To Use It On Tumblr: Save it for any neighbour-related wrath you might encounter. That covers anything from them letting their dog take a crap on your carefully coiffed lawn, to simply just owning a much nicer car than you. Bastard.
Bedtime For Boo
The Gif: The cutest thing ever to terrorise Monstropolis gets all worn out after a long day of crossing portals into other worlds and visiting monster sushi restaurants.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When your other half decides it's a great idea to start sharing every intimate detail of their day right before bedtime, including office politics you don't understand, sports you have no interest in and people you'll never meet. Yawn.
The Reapers
The Gif: Priest (Tony Curran) meets a Reaper in this gruesome scene from Blade II. Any guesses who comes out on top?
How To Use It On Tumblr: Isn't this everyone's reaction when challenged to an eating competition? A derisive cry of "You'll never eat that whole pizza by yourself" immediately leads to unhinging jaws and chowing down in the most disgusting way possible.
Total Headcase
The Gif: This clip from the original 1990 Total Recall is so mind-bendingly beautiful to look at, it should really belong in a gallery of M.C. Escher's brain-boggling artwork.
How To Use It On Tumblr: We're not sure quite why, but somehow this is the best representation of a skull-splitting hangover we'ver ever seen.
If only our morning afters could be fixed by simply removing our heads. C'mon science, get a move on, hey?
Burger Rain
The Gif: Mega-nerd and inventor extraordinaire Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) is blown away by his own genius as a hamburger storm heads towards Swallow Falls in the hugely underrated Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs .
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you finally get round to watching the end of Breaking Bad . We're keeping this spoiler free so can't say much more, but we guarantee you'll feel exactly like this until at least three weeks later.
Noooo
The Gif: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) gets a nasty shock in The Empire Strikes Back as he discovers that he has more in common with Darth Vader than he could have imagined.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When it's 4am, you're drunk and the pizza place is closed. There is no greater late night tragedy.
Khan's Rude Awakening
The Gif: Benedict Cumberbatch's John Harrison / Khan hits breaking point as he exacts revenge on those who hurt him and his crew in Star Trek: Into Darkness .
How To Use It On Tumblr: Use it when you forget to turn your 6.15am alarm off on a bank holiday. We may be speaking from very recent experience here.
Pennywise Is Watching You
The Gif: Stephen King's scariest novel It becomes an equally scary movie, thanks in no small part to Tim Curry's unforgettable portrayal of Pennywise the clown.
Excuse us while we go call our mums and whimper down the phone.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you're committed to stealing the best seat in the pub off its owner, there simply is no other option than to sit and give your best creepy Pennywise stare. Blinking is a sign of weakness.
Captain Jack's Run
The Gif: Johnny Depp grabbed his dreadlocks and eyeliner to resurrect his role as Captain Jack Sparrow for At World's End , the third (and, we believed, final) installment in the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise. This moment comes from the movie's opening, as the crew head to Davy Jones's Locker to collect the soul of their kooky captain.
How To Use It On Tumblr: "Hey, guys! I've brought in a box of doughnuts, they're sitting in the kitchen. Enjoy!"
From that moment, the race is on. You haven't lived unless you've seen a group of adults racing for the last sugar-coated deep-fried treat.
Edward Scissorhands Comes For Dinner
The Gif: Half-finished science project Edward (Johnny Depp) never found his sharp fingers to be too much of an issue when he was holed up in his mansion alone, but he quickly discovers that they don't lend themselves to more human problems, like using your cutlery politely.
How To Use It On Tumblr: This is instantly recognisable as the moment you find yourself in a swanky restaurant, facing a bowl of rice and a pair of chopsticks. Give us the scissorhands anyday.
E-Prayer
The Gif: God temp Bruce (Jim Carrey at his rubber-faced best) settles in for a big night of answering every single prayer via email. Talk about a God for the modern day and age.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you've had four glasses of wine and suddenly feel inspired to start that sci-fi novel you've always talked about. You're Shakespeare; you're Hemingway; you're J.K. bloody Rowling... Until the next morning, that is, when you face a hangover, and the realisation that you've rewritten the exact plot of 1984 .
Amlie's Meet-Cute
The Gif: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's utterly charming 2001 rom-com with a twist is crammed full of quirky plotlines and unexpected bursts of CGI, the best of which has to be Amélie (Audrey Tatou)'s immediate rush of adoration for handsome stranger Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz).
How To Use It On Tumblr: This is the exact flurry of passion you feel when you hear the words "don't worry about this one, the boss is paying" after over-indulging at a fancy restaurant. One of life's greatest joys.
Zombieland (2009)
The Gif: Straight-talking badass 'Tallahassee' (Woody Harrelson) is overcome with emotion when recounting his losses during the recent zombie attacks, and finds himself a new kind of tissue to wipe his eyes with, thanks to Bill Murray, of course.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Payday. No-one has a care in the world on payday. Rent is forgotten, bills are abandoned, and you feel so flush you could literally offer out fivers as loo paper. This feeling might only last a few short hours, but it's worth it.
The Ultimate Eye Roll
The Gif: Baby Jane (Bette Davis) was voted in at number fourty-four on the American Film Institute's list of the Fifty Best Villains of American Cinema, so it's hardly surprising that she can give one hell of a sardonic eye roll.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When someone goes all pre-teen attention seeker all over your Facebook timeline. No one can get away with the "Had an awful day... Don't want to talk about it" post. That is red card social media behaviour.
Time-Stopper
The Gif: Love at first sight seems to be an understatement here. Big Fish's Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) is so instantly besotted with Sandra Templeton (Alison Lohman) that time quite literally stands still, allowing him to take in every inch of his beau.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Take it as it is and save this one for the love of your life.
OR. Go with heavy sarcasm and use it to insinuate that someone is so outragously stupid you've had to actually stop time just so that you can process what they've said. We know which we'd use...
The Skyfall Train
The Gif: Daniel Craig keeps James Bond's long-standing too-cool-for-school reputation intact as he finds time to straighten out his suit whilst violent chaos rages all around him.
How To Use It On Tumblr: This is exactly how it feels when the train lurches, and you manage to stay standing. Just remember to play it cool and not let out a high-pitched whoop of relief.
Wingapo
The Gif: Native American hot babe Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) teaches newcomer John Smith (Mel Gibson) how her tribe say hello in the 1995 Disney classic.
How To Use It On Tumblr: "Look at all the fucks I give. Just look at them."
The Mask (1994)
The Gif: Forget the lurid lime green masked man and his cartoonish capers - The Mask really was all about one person. Newcomer Cameron Diaz burst through the doors of the Edge City Bank and straight into a spot in the Hollywood elite.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you're trying out your best beer-fuelled "come hither" eyes out on the hottie sitting opposite you.
Dancing Dumbledore
The Gif: This sneak peek behind-the-scenes of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban sheds new humorous light on one of the franchise's darkest movies, as Michael Gambon (in full Dumbledore regalia) boogies his way through the Great Hall.
How To Use It On Tumblr: This one is all about that magic moment when you're walking home and blasting your music and you notice that there's no one around. Immediately you have to channel your inner diva and Beyoncé your way down the street unnoticed. You hope.
Boom Baby!
The Gif: At the tender age of eighteen-years-old, Emperor Kuzco is spoilt, selfish and an all-round douchebag. Nevertheless, there's no denying that he's got style.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When you're the last one to arrive at a huge gathering of all your friends. No wonder celebs always turn up late - there's something magical about a big entrance.
Katniss Meets Johanna
The Gif: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 's stand-out performance had to be Jena Malone's spiky portrayal of snark queen Johanna Mason, who grabbed Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence)'s attention with a nudey lift ride.
How To Use It On Tumblr: When the loved-up couple sitting opposite you are sucking face so loudly you feel like you're actually a part of their relationship. Set face to Everdeen levels of unimpressed.
Walter's Scream
The Gif: Muppet über-fan Walter gets a wee bit over-emotional at the prospect of his lifelong idols being shut down and lets off the scream to end all others in this gif from the 2011 movie.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Ever accidentally walked in on your parents getting busy? This pretty much sums it up.
Blam!
The Gif: Sex Bob-omb's resident badass Kim Pine (Alison Pill) lets her feelings out in a typically snark-tastic manner.
How To Use It On Tumblr: Mondays. Just… Mondays.
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