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If movies ended when someone said the title

"Welcome, to Jurassic Park."

Clarisse Loughrey
Wednesday 03 February 2016 10:25 GMT
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Decades upon decades of filmmaking have passed and, yet, Hollywood's still to comprehend the idea of how inherently hilarious a character saying the title of a film within the film can be.

Granted, occasionally a director can perfect its timing to such a degree we're delivered the likes of; "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown." Or, indeed, "Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club." Those are moments of pure Hollywood, cinematic magic; sending little tingles down the spines of audiences everywhere.

Realistically, however, we're mostly dealing with the unintentional and awkward hilarity of the President's speech in the opening scenes of Clear and Present Danger stating, you guessed it, "These drug cartels represent a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States." The kind, in fact, that inspired one of Family Guy's most memorable, and eternally relevant, jokes.

YouTuber Chris Huebs has taken it all just one step further; highlighting its whole absurdity with some fevered imaginings of what classic Hollywood movies would be like if they ended immediately after its characters stated the film's own title. Nicolas Cage sweeps his hand across his face, muttering; "I'd like to take his face... off." And, roll credits.

The little comedic cherry-on-top here, of course, is Hueb's insertion of wildly dissonant music for the credits. Is this the best ever use of Limp Bizkit's 'Break Stuff' and Phil Collins' 'Sussudio'? Yes, yes it is.

What do we want to see next? Con Air? Back to the Future? Full Metal Jacket? Home Alone?

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