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With even the simplest of explosive summer blockbusters now coming to a running time of just under three hours, sometimes it’s good to get a refresher on quick, simple and easy to watch films that are nice and short. Six seconds short.
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25. Silver Linings Playbook summed up
Why It's Great: CollegeHumor provide an entirely accurate summisation of Silver Lining Playbook, apparently filmed in their office.
If It Was Feature-Length: Surely they would have all been fired.
24. The Terminator wants what he wants
Why It's Great: It puts the Terminator in a whole new disturbing light.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be a harrowing tale of emotional blackmail and physical abuse at the hands of a killer robot from the future.
23. Jurassic Park floor keyboard
Why It's Great: Mixing one of the greatest themes of all time with one of the greatest movie scenes of all time.
If It Was Feature-Length: We’d hear the entire score of Jurassic Park and, at the end of it, everyone in the video would be knackered.
22. Arnold Schwarzenegger driving in Canada
Why It's Great: A completely random idea by Will Sasso, topped off with a perfect Arnie accent.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be Schwarzenegger’s Mad Max, only much more polite and inane.
21. Stanley Kubrick today
Why It's Great: If he was still alive, how would Stanley Kubrick get on with new technology and new social media? This video give us a glimpse.
If It Was Feature-Length: We would see Kubrick tweeting, stalking Facebook friends, Instagram his lunch, using Snapchat for unsavoury activity and making Vine videos. He still wouldn’t use Google+ though.
20. Beasts Of The Southern Wild summed up
Why It's Great: We thought the toy figures and big beasts were funny enough but that last screenshot kills.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be an extended metaphor.
19. Stop-motion Mini-Me
Why It's Great: Dr. Evil asking if Mini-Me wants to “make a vine” followed by a shake of the head. You have to applaud someone who goes to such great lengths to create something so pointless.
If It Was Feature-Length: We’d hope that at least the cat might get up and do something interesting.
18. Amour summed up
Why It's Great: That shot of the dead body.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be a beautiful study of grief and social commentary on treatment of the elderly. We’d probably prefer this version.
17. Nice House
Why It's Great: A completely new movie starring Steve Agee and Ellen Page that manages to be funny and terrifying at the same time.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be a brutal stalker film told in real time. Much like Silent House, only with even more high-pitched screaming courtesy of Steve Agee.
16. Window War Of The Worlds
Why It's Great: There’s something so charming about the crudely hand-drawn alien tripods.
If It Was Feature-Length: That kid would probably be in a lot of trouble with her parents for completely ruining that window.
15. Argo joke wears thin
Why It's Great: We normally wouldn’t side with Argo backlash, but this vine does have a good point.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would win a whole bunch of Oscars. Apparently.
14. Star Trek Into Darkness trailer remade
Why It's Great: Simple stop-motion sweding of a Star Trek Into Darkness set-piece that looks like something from Art Attack.
If It Was Feature-Length: There would be some kind of in-universe explanation about how the Enterprise accidentally travelled into a new dimension made entirely of paper.
13. Number 1 Movie In America
Why It's Great: It picks up on a new trailer cliché.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be one of those conspiracy documentaries that attempts uncover and explore a sinister secret behind this phrase.
12. If I Were In Jurassic Park
Why It's Great: The original Vine may have been taken down (hence this YouTube vid instead), but this is a brilliantly realistic take on a memorable Jurassic Park scene.
If It Was Feature-Length: Our hero would spend the entire time hiding in the bushes until rescued.
11. Les Miserables
Why It's Great: The funny marching gets us every time. Especially the guy on the right.
If It Was Feature-Length: The thought of an entire film in which marching troops run away as soon as they are confronted with singing? It sounds like a tense, psychological horror to us...
10. Star Wars Disney
Why It's Great: It sums up all our initial fears about Star Wars now being owned by the Mouse House.
If It Was Feature-Length: The climactic lightsaber battle would be replaced by a series of long, drawn-out hugs.
9. Harry Potter at home
Why It's Great: High-pitched yelping aside, you have to wonder how this guy stayed floating on a broomstick in mid-air for each shot.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be a full-blown Quidditch match with an incredibly annoying soundtrack.
8. Voldy’s wand
Why It's Great: In a series of ‘Voldy Vines’ we like the commitment to make-up and recreating He-who-must-not-be-named’s slit-nose.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would offer up a refreshing ‘other side of the tale’. Suddenly, Voldy certainly doesn’t seem all that bad after all.
7. Zero Dark Thirty summed up
Why It's Great: Bin Laden popping out of the shower is hilarious, followed by a surprisingly bloody ending.
If It Was Feature-Length: We would see all the prior investigation and paperwork. Basically the boring stuff before you get to this good bit.
6. Epic Jurassic Park
Why It's Great: Rousing stirring music followed by one of the best makeshift dinosaurs you’ll ever see.
If It Was Feature-Length: Most of the budget would be spent on tiny dog costumes and Pringles.
5. Origin Story
Why It's Great: Gillian Jacobs offers us a bitter, gravel-voiced Bambi.
If It Was Feature-Length: This would be all the impetus Bambi needs to don a mask and start fighting crime.
4. Liam Neeson’s set of skills
Why It's Great: We would give anything to see Liam Neeson suddenly start doing this...
If It Was Feature-Length: It would explore any number of special skills: breakdancing, juggling, touch-typing...
3. All milk and no dunk makes Oreo a dull cookie
Why It's Great: It may be little more than clever advertising, but the replication of the shots and sets are fantastic.
If It Was Feature-Length: We would get to watch an Oreo cookie hack down a door with an axe. Who doesn’t want to see that?
2. Life Of Pi: Behind The Scenes
Why It's Great: Because actors acting opposite nothing while dressed in a leotard will never not be funny.
If It Was Feature-Length: They’re going to need more balls.
1. Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal
Why It's Great: It’s one of a series of vines in which Gosling turns his nose up at a cereal-loaded spoon... because the Internet is a magical place where anything is possible.
If It Was Feature-Length: It would be a psychological thriller with a mystery at the centre of the plot: Why DOES Ryan Gosling have such an aversion to breakfast foods?
