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6 Awesome 80s Movie Montages (That Make No Damn Sense)

cracked.com — It's helpful to think of the evolution of montage-use as the cinematic equivalent of cocaine. While it hasn't completely gone away, in the 80s it was everywhere, and filmmakers apparently believed it gave them license to completely abandoned all reason and logic. Here are the most simultaneously awesome and baffling ...

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  • AzzidReign, on 06/28/2009, -10/+34ALL ***** CAPS DAY. THIS THREAD BETTER NOT ***** FORGET THE AWESOMENESS THAT WAS BILLY MAYS.
  • Brassbud, on 06/28/2009, -2/+16ALWAYS FADE OUT IN A MONTAGE...
  • petedee, on 06/28/2009, -0/+13...IF YOU FADE IT SEEMS LIKE MORE TIME HAS PASSED IN A MONTAGE...
  • bkladd, on 06/28/2009, -1/+11Sweep the leg!
  • yocouchdigga, on 06/28/2009, -6/+15SHOULD BLEND THE MONTAGES AND HAVE ONE ULTIMATE MONTAGE OF NUT BUSTING AWESOMENESS!
  • anexanhume, on 06/28/2009, -9/+16YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND
    NO ONE'S EVER GONNA KEEP YOU DOWN!
  • overkillingness, on 06/28/2009, -5/+11South Park did it:

    http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/185666/?sear ...
  • Sublex, on 06/28/2009, -4/+10Yay! Cracked ruined my childhood memories.
  • CWest540, on 06/28/2009, -4/+9I'll digg it for Cracked but I'm dissapointed with no links to video.
  • reddikilowatt, on 06/28/2009, -0/+5They missed the flip side of Rocky IV... While Rocko was catching chickens and running up hills with tree trunks, the bad Russian was getting stuck with 'rhoids and connected to massive tone-a-matic muscle stimulators. I'll never forget because of all the people in the theater laughing.
  • dmez1214, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153324
  • lozasril, on 06/28/2009, -5/+9EYE OF THE TIGER BITCH!
  • hydroplane, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3Push it to the limit.
  • RatatRatR, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3It's impossible to read that many lines of capital letters.
  • deathcapt, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3What about Empire STrikes back.

    In the time it takes for Han & Leia to get to bespin, and get captured, luke becomes a ***** jedi. Normally takes like from birth to mid 20s to train up, but luke whips it out in the equivalent of doing your homework on the bus ride to school.
  • RatatRatR, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3Also achieving completely impossibly readings on that machine that measures the force of his punches. Then, ultimately, breaking the machine.
  • RatatRatR, on 06/28/2009, -2/+5How' bout givin' that ***** a rest, there, Junior?
  • GaryChalmers, on 06/28/2009, -1/+4THE HOURS APPROACHING, TO GIVE IT YOUR BEST
    YOU'VE GOT TO REACH YOUR PRIME.
    THAT’S WHEN YOU NEED TO PUT YOURSELF TO THE TEST
    AND SHOW US A PASSAGE OF TIME
    WERE GOING TO NEED A MONTAGE
  • jrm125, on 06/28/2009, -1/+4http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=5a0102ba ...
  • Fowz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2I second that!!!!!
  • yocouchdigga, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2GOODNIGHT SWEET PRINCE...
  • Fowz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2:) back to normal now, sorry dude!
  • momedefome, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2HELL YEAH!!!!!! YPU'RE THE BEST AROUND!!!!!!!!!
  • inactive, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2The music montage was and still is an important part of film language. Its a transition to the 3rd act. Even "scarface" has one!
  • Tehrab, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1YES, BUT STAR WARS DOESN'T. THEY JUST FLY AWAY FROM THE DEATH STAR WHILE FLIPPING THE EMPIRE THE BIRD. NO CRAZY WE'RE-GONNA-BLOW-UP-THE-DEATH-STAR MONTAGES WERE NECESSARY.
  • porscheblack, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Where the hell is the homoerotic volleyball playing montage from Top Gun? The last time i saw that it seemed to last FOREVER and didn't really accomplish anything other than showing shirtless guys playing volleyball... and why the hell hasn't any director applied that concept to women! i would nominate a montage of women in bikinis playing volleyball in slow motion to be the best montage ever made!
  • deathcapt, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Wouldn't they test for roids at this level of competition?
  • antdude, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1Thanks Dmez1214. ;)
  • cyrix, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1THAT SONG MAKES ME WANT TO GET DRUNK AND DO BLOW OFF MY COFFEE TABLE.
  • antdude, on 06/28/2009, -1/+2Video Unavailable
    Season 0
    No Episode Data
  • smack1700, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Heeearts of Fiiiiire...Strong deeeesiiiirreee
  • RatatRatR, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Not in evil Soviet Russia. Evil!
  • dafragsta, on 06/28/2009, -3/+3I HAD NO IDEA TEENWOLF WAS SO RACIST, BUT IT'S TRUE. MICHAEL J. FOX JUST BASICALLY TURNS INTO A BALLIN', BREAKDANCIN', BLACK GUY BUT THAT STILL DOESN'T EXPLAIN HIS PROFICIENCY IN DRAMA CLASS. I THINK THE TEACHER WAS JUST INTO HOMOFURRIES. MAYBE PEDOHOMOFURRIES, DEPENDING ON THE LAWS IN THE STATE IN WHICH TEENWOLF WAS FILMED.
  • Firespray1138, on 06/28/2009, -1/+1*THEIR
  • deadasdisco, on 06/28/2009, -2/+2ANY TIME I TRY TO COMPARE MODERN MOVIES TO THE MOVIES OF MY CHILDHOOD, I ALWAYS GO BACK TO TEEN WOLF. LIKE, THAT MOVIE JUST COULD NOT BE MADE TODAY. IT'S THE MOST RIDICULOUS PLOT AND STORY EVER, BUT THAT'S WHAT WAS AWESOME ABOUT THE 80'S.

    LONG LIVE THE MONTAGE.

    AND THE JUPITER JACK.
  • Spacejack, on 06/29/2009, -0/+0I like the original Sergei Eisenstein version of montage, where like there would be a crowd roaring and it would cut to a shot of a lion roaring to emphasize the point, and no one would know what the ***** was going on at all.
  • planetmatt, on 06/29/2009, -0/+0I must break you!
  • zephc, on 06/28/2009, -7/+7LOUD NOISES!
  • whatthefu, on 06/28/2009, -3/+2I read that in his voice.
  • vavaylah, on 06/28/2009, -6/+5Those montages were dongtacular!
  • twodollars, on 06/28/2009, -6/+4FANTASTIC!
  • mishehu1, on 06/29/2009, -3/+1HI, BILLY MAYS HERE, AND WHAT A ITEM HAVE I GOT FOR YOU TODAY. IT'S THE MEGACOFFIN. IF YOU LOOK INSIDE, YOU WILL FIND FINE PADDED LEATHER, A FULL AIR CONDITIONER, AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT'S A CASKET WITH A BASKET!

    IF YOU CALL AND ORDER NOW, I'LL THROW IN NOT ONE, NOT TWO, NOT THREE, BUT FOUR SLAVE CHINESE PALLBEARERS AT NO EXTRA CHARGE! THIS IS ALL FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF NOT $149.99, NOT $129.99, BUT FOR $99.99! SO CALL NOW!
  • inactive, on 06/28/2009, -3/+1HI BILLY MAYS HERE, TALKING TO YOU FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!
  • JRjJ106, on 06/28/2009, -5/+3http://RORR.IM/DIGG.COM/MOVIES/6_AWESOME_80S_MOVIE ...
  • Fowz, on 06/28/2009, -7/+4I'M SORRY BUT THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE 80'S - MAGIC WAS POSSIBLE. I WAS ABOUT 10 IN THE MID 80'S AND TILL THIS DAY IT DOESN'T BOTHER ME KARATE KIDS OPPONENTS WERE FALLING DOWN IN THE END TO MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD, OR IF A BUNCH OF KIDS HAD AN ASIAN FRIEND WHO HAD AWESOME GADGETS (GHOONIES), OR IF DOC BROWN DID NOT EXACTLY EXPLAIN WITH THE FRIDGE A FLUX CAPACITOR WAS....AS KIDS WE ALL JUST BELIEVED AND LOVED THE INNONCE AND YOUNG NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND IT'S POTENTIAL. IT WAS AMAZING...AND NOTHING HAD TO MAKE SENSE.....

    TEEN WOLF - MICHAEL J FOX'S EYE'S GOING RED WHEN HE GOT MAD....AWESOME LOL My 7yr old son wouldn't care...just finds it cool
  • Manchildcartoon, on 06/28/2009, -6/+380'S PEOPLE AND THIER KARATE
  • fragMasterFlash, on 06/28/2009, -7/+4LINK IS BORKED!
  • noahgelman, on 06/28/2009, -7/+3ROCKY;S TRAINING DIDN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE, BUT IT DIDN'T MAKE HIM ANY LESS BAD ASS
  • wraiyne, on 06/28/2009, -11/+3WHAT THE ***** DOES A CRACKED ATRICLE HAVE TO DO WITH STUPID CELEBRITIES DIEING?

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