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Top 6 Stunning Sound Effects in Movie Video


The larger part of the effect a movie has on us is in music and sound effects on the background. So feast your ears, and enjoy 10 of the most iconic sound effects from the world of movies.
•    Magic Swords. In the fight between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi every contact of swords was accompanied by amazing sound that was meant to mimic cylindrical swords of the characters.

•    Wilhelm Scream featured in lots of popular films. It’s the scream that always makes me feel creepy all over. When you hear it, your think that you heard it before. And you really have if you have seen more than two films.

•    Transformation of Transformers. The cartoon has a series of gorgeous sound effects ranging from the guns to the engines revving to the tiny whirrs and blips. But the best of all is the sound of transformers metamorphoses. That is what makes fans go crazy.

•    Another crazy scream. I was amazed by the title of the video “Not Wilhelm Scream”. Actually, they differ but this sound effect also pops up for cameos across a wide range of films. Got scared already?

•    Spider Man Intro. Everybody knows the story about Spider Man. A decade ago kids watched it, and the situation has not changed a lot since then. Successfully spanning the cartoon, video game and film genres, each Spider-Man incarnation has hooked audiences with its hero’s web-slinging sound effect.

•    Ghostbusters. Both cartoon and movie has a super recognizable intro. Besides, packs of ghosts you can see in the video are guaranteed to make kids pay attention in physics, well, slightly more attention at least. The proton packs from the Ghostbusters films and cartoon made the most satisfying of sounds as they dragged and bagged the ghosts.

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Free Fight Video: Worst Boxing Moments Ever


Professional boxing is an extremely popular sport but the rise of MMA, a lack of a central governing body, corruption and players themselves have threatened to end this glorious sport. Mega fights still bring in huge revenues but they are few and far between, while numerous incidents contribute to the downfall. Here are some of them and a series of the worst fight videos ever:

Everybody is aware of corrupted Olympic judges and numerous stories about their unfair decisions. New Zealander Keith Walker was officiating a bantamweight bout between Byun Jong Il of South Korea and Alexander Hristov of Bulgaria.  The fight was an ugly foul-filled affair and Walker had to repeatedly penalize Jong for head butting. Finally Hristov was announced a winner, which incensed Jong’s countrymen. South Korean boxing officials and coaches stormed the ring and viciously attacked referee Keith Walker. The Korean Boxing Federation president and the president of the Korean Olympic Committee both resigned after this deplorable incident.

In 1996 Andrew Golota fought against Riddick Bowe. In the 7th round the fight began to take a very strange turn. For some reason Golota started to punch the rival below the belt line. He was warned several times and even received point deductions but his behavior continued unless the player was disqualified. That led to a riot where dozens of fans, boxing personnel and police were injured.

A superstar in South Korea, Kim earned a world title shot against the famed Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini in 1982. For Kim the fight was extremely brutal. In the 14th round Kim was knocked out, in spite of the fact that he managed to rise the referee stopped the fight. Minutes later Duk Koo Kim collapsed into a coma and was carried out of the ring and taken directly to the hospital.  Tragically the Korean star died 4 days later from severe brain trauma.  His mother committed suicide three months later, Ray Mancini reported that he blamed himself for Kim’s death.

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The Best and The Worst Motorcycle Moments on Video


Cool motorcycle scenes are part and parcel of adventurous movies. If a screenwriter needs to cool up the film or describe how badass a protagonist is, he simply adds a motorcycle. However, throughout the history of filmmaking motorcycles have been used both perfectly and horribly. Below is the list of such moments.
CHiPs is a lightweight action crime drama released in 1977, which includes elements of comedy. The film is a blend of cops, motorcycles and Southern California.

I cannot but mentioning Streethawk. The show was about a police officer and former amateur dirt-bike racer named Jesse Mach, who was secretly chosen to test a top-secret project—an all-terrain attack motorcycle capable of speeds in excess of 300 per hour. In the pilot episode they used Honda XL500 trailbike, then in the episodes of 1984 it was Honda XR500s.

Easy Rider presents two bike-riding drug dealers. The motorcycles for the film were designed by chopper builders Ben Hardy and Cliff Vaughs. It is curious that the motorcycles had been stolen before the final campfire scene was shot. That is why they are not visible in the background as in the other campfire scenes.

Raising Arizona is a famous comedy directed by Coen Brothers and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and others. How did they introduce “The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse” to the viewers? No doubt, they pluged him in a motorcycle.

Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s animated masterpiece Akira uses the backdrop of Neo-Tokyo to introduce a post apocalyptic world of futuristic bike gangs. Akira uses animation to introduce us to a world of physics that stretch the imagination to limits of what the future of motorcycles may hold. The bile from the film has turned into a sensation.

To diversify ‘The Matrix’, the screenwriter seated Trinity on a Ducati 996 and made one of the best motorcycle stunt works in the history of filmmaking.

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Top 10 Best-Selling Video Games Ever


Video gaming is a huge and prosperous industry where more than 2 billion video game titles have been sold. Below is a list of top 10 best-selling video games ever according to international sales data:
1.    Pokemon Blue, Red and Green take the first place. First released in Japan in 1996 the game expanded to the rest of the world to the year 1999. The series has sold over 20 million copies.

2.    Super Mario Bros. 3 and its 18 million copies sold. This game is the last in the series of video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was first released in 2000.

3.    The third place goes to Nintendogs that has distributed 14 million unites. The game is a pet simulation developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console in 2005.

4.    Pokemon Gold and Silver. I bet that you did not know that the game is so popular all over the world. There were sold over 14 million copies of Gold and Silver versions, and that is only several version of the whole series.
5.    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and 13 million copies worldwide. GTA is a sandbox-style action-adventure computer and video game designed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

6.    The sixth position goes to The Sims2 that has 13 million copies distributed. The Sims2 is a strategic life simulation computer game released in 2004.

7.    Gran Turismo 3: A-Specis a racing game, the first in the Gran Turismo series for the PlayStation 2. 11 million unites have been sold now.

8.    Final Fantasy VII has 9.8 million copies sold. Final Fantasy VII is a console role-playing game released in 2000.

9.    StarCraft and 9.5 million units. It is a real-time strategy game released in 1998 for Windows.
10.    And the last in our chart is World of Warcraft with 9 million copies sold. It is a pay-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game created in 1994.

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Best Prison Break Video


The most renowned TV series of the latest years is doubtlessly Prison Break. It all began like an ordinary movie that was premiered in August 2005. Impressive success of the first season, its top rating positions, positive reviews – all of it encouraged filmmakers to continue their work on the series. The story told about two brothers, one of which was sentenced for a crime he had not committed, and the other brother works out a plan to help his brother out. The series was elaborated by Adelstein-Parouse Productions, 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television. Prison Break has got multiple awards. For example, Favorite New TV Drama in People Choice Award, in 63rd Golden Globe Awards, Satellite Award and several others in diverse nominations. Even its theme music was nominated in 2006 for Primetime Emmy Award. Here I have some video clips from different seasons.

Prison Break Video Season 3 - A funny movie is a click away
All seasons are available now on DVD, the first and the third seasons are sold on Blu-ray Discs. At the same time the TV series is aired all over the world. Great success and popularity of Prison Break encouraged a series of short video clips for mobile phones - they are all available on the Internet. Ultimately has appeared a video game, the popularity of which is increasing from day to day. Then came out an official magazine representing the most curious facts of Prison Break.
By the way, each season premiere had on average 10.5 million viewers. Not bad, is not it? Well, take your time enjoying the best Prison Break video. If you have got interested in movies, check out Blockbuster Video New Release: Shutter Island.

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