I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

  • bcsizemo

    Inconceivable!

    • abstract_reg

      You keep using that word.

    • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

      Wait, wait…isn’t that like an illegitimate rape?
      [edit: sorry, couldn't help myself. Just too obvious]

  • Glen Able

    The preview freeze-frame I’m seeing at the top of this page is the piano scene from Big (1988), which isn’t anywhere near the top 250.  There may be some others too – I think I spotted “When Harry Met Sally”.

    Good fun, though.  I think my eyes are going to fall out now.

  • http://twitter.com/18thPaleDscdnts 18th PaleDescendents

    If you like this video you might also be interested in this movie poster combining still frames from all the best movies – http://filmstudies.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/film-studies-101-desktop-1280×768.jpg

    Hi-resolution version also available here – http://filmstudies.wordpress.com/.

  • http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

    Quite damn cool. How on earth did The Shawshank Redemption ever make it to the number 1 spot though?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      The IMDb lists are becoming increasingly dominated by fanbois. Shichinin no Samurai used to be in the top 10; now it’s down to 17 to make room for The Dark Knight. Shawshank Redemption has been number one as long as I’ve had a computer, though.

    • JhmL

      It went to number one when The Dark Knight came out. It’s fans voted The Godfather (previous holder of the number one spot) a 1, sight unseen, to make room for their false god TDK, which they naturally voted a 10. Shawshank is the least hated film on the list, hence its high placement, I suppose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000231550215 Jesse Torres

    It goes almost too fast to really enjoy. Good idea though.

    • semiotix

      Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

    • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

      Actually, the fun part is realizing that you know particular films in just short fractions of a second. There’s gotta be a psych experiment here…

  • http://www.batshite.com/royalflush Scott Bartlett

    Man, if my eyeballs had DRM in them, they would have exploded just now.

    On another note: awesome!

  • Gilgongo

    See also this compilation – 100 Years of British Films in 6 Minutes, which was put together for the UK/LA Film Festival in 1994 (I was there, my Dad organised it):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAV6tG8vwRA

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Adams/100000053021803 Rick Adams

    Must have taken forever to compile all the copyright permissions and raise the money to buy all the individual movies.

  • perchecreek

    Culture: Art is Theft.
    The Professional: Theft is Art.
    The Corporation:

  • Max Brunner

    Can anyone identify which film the marching band in red and white uniforms come from.

    • Bitgod

       Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

  • http://www.facebook.com/roytruax Roy Edward Truax

    Most of the pictures on the list are dreck, but the mash-up was fun…

  • http://hellsdonuthouse.com/ Hell’s Donut House

    Masterful? Meh. Considering how little thematic or rhythmic dialectic there were between the individual clips, a randon edit generator could have done as well.  

    • sburns54

       Pffthffthfthhth. That was aid with a flapping of the lips. And please, would everyone stop using that hackneyed word “meh?” It’s so 2010.

      • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

         eh, I still kinda like ‘meh’. ‘Teh’ I could do without though.

  • euansmith

    Cool beans. 

  • sburns54

    Thanks! Now I won’t have to bother watching the ones I haven’t seen.