I always thought South Park (and later Team America) had the last word on movie training montages, but Slacktory‘s new supercut montage of training montages (BRAAAAHM) is, at the very least, a good way to get you pumped for those New Year’s Resolutions. My resolution? To stop ethnic cleansing. Oops, starting tomorrow.

Notably absent from this supercut? The montage at the end of 500 Days of Summer, which cuts together exciting footage Joseph Gordon-Levitt reading books and writing equations on chalkboards as he works to finally achieve his lifelong goal of becoming an architect. Man, that was almost as lame as him getting over his ex named Summer by meeting a girl named “Autumn.” Actually, we could probably have an entire supercut devoted entirely to people excitedly drawing equations on chalkboards or windows. Someone get on that. I’m too busy… uh… doing volunteer work.

List of films used below:

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Friday Free for All has increasingly fallen by the wayside as I get lazier and lazier on Friday afternoons, but I’m bringing it back, with another sweet supercut/mash-up/montage/whatever you want to call it. (A while back I think we decided “Clipzkrieg” was preferable to “Montage” because it sounds angry and German instead of nice and French, but I digress). Some internet genius (Slacktory, to be specific) has taken every slow-motion shot from Wes Anderson movies and set it to Ja Rule.

Wes Anderson is well-known for getting a lot of emotional mileage out of his slow-motion shots, usually set to classic Rolling Stones tunes or folky indie rock. It works, because it’s cheating. Slow-motion anything set to music always feels important and deep. It’s video editing 101. But here I’d always assumed that Wes Anderson movies were stealing the emotional power of the songs for the visuals. The interesting thing about this edit is that it shows that the reverse is also true: Bill Murray walking through a crowd of photographers with his kid on his shoulders in Life Aquatic actually makes Ja Rule’s music seem less shitty.

You can see the original Royal Tenenbaums scene below.

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