11Mar/100
The Battlestar Galactica/Sabotage mashup is simply awesome to behold
"Sabotage" is one of the great songs of the '90s, and it's absolutely inseparable from the fake-'70s-cop-show video. You put that music to pretty much anything -- shoving your way through a crowded bar to get a drink, walking into your office, mowing the lawn -- and it instantly becomes badass. But somebody had the brilliant idea to set it to clips of "Battlestar Galactica," which is cool enough. But to then do a shot-by-shot recreation of the video? Magnificent. Here's the Galactica video by itself, and here's the side-by-side comparison:
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