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Nathan Yau from Flowing Data Designed this new underload infographic: Movie Trilogy Comparison.
The third installment of Pixar’s Toy Story is making a killing at the box office (rightfully so, because it’s Pixar-tastic), but not all trilogies have the same luck. They can’t all be Lord of the Rings epics (all over 90% fresh), unfortunately.
Who knew Free Willy was a trilogy?!?
Created by Phil Laver, the Planet of the Apes Timeline of Events covers events across all five of the movies.
The facts and dates recorded here are only those that are generally accepted by POTA statisticians. No reference to the comics or graphic novels have been given as these follow a substantially alternative timeline. Tim Burton’s POTA narrative has been similarly ignored.
Phil also had his timeline infographic displayed during an exhibition, you can see a couple photos here.
Nathan Yau has designed these humorous infographics representing five famous sci-fi movie quotes for SciFi Wire.
You can see Nathan’s explanation on his website, FlowingData.com, and all of the quotes on SciFiWire.com. I hope you do more of these Nathan!
In something of a Data Underload, special edition, I played with famous science fiction quotes for Sci Fi Wire. My favorite is obviously from Back to the Future, the greatest movie of all time.
100 Characters of Pixar is a cool scale infographic showing the relative heights and sizes of the characters from the Pixar movies and shorts. I found a couple of errors, but the idea and execution are great. I’ve read before that a great character can be recognized in silhouette, and this is a great tribute to the guys at Pixar.
Found on Flickr, the image is designed by Juan Pablo Bravo
I love it when someone just decides to create their own infographic. Stivo (Stephen Taubman) created this Mega Shark infographic to demonstrate the physics behind a giant shark taking down a commercial jet airplane in the movie Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.
Last year, I discovered the wonderfully cheezy and sharky movie: Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus. While it certainly appealed to a more straight-to-DVD niche market of creature-feature enthusiasts, it wasn’t half bad. Pretty laughable in parts…well actually, in most parts when you consider the wooden acting and crap computer animation. However the most ridiculous scene has to be when Mega Shark takes down a commercial jetliner that is cruising over the middle of the ocean. It was this moment that took the movie from being a little ho-hum to “holy shit, did that shark just eat a plane!?”. Check out the clip for yourself on youtube here.
It’s pretty incredible when you think about it. I mean, how the hell did it do that? What would it require for a shark the size of a plane to launch itself out of the water and take down a moving aircraft? After reviewing some of my basic physics calculations (thanks SUVAT!) I came up with some pretty startling figures. However, it didn’t feel like I would be doing such an epic event justice with just a basic blog post, which meant it was time to do what I love most: an infographic! I had been itching to do one for a while now, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. So with all that said, check out the resulting design below. Oh, and just click on the image to download the full size PDF version for the smaller details.
Great job Stivo!
Created by Randall Munroe at XKCD, the Movie Narrative Charts plot the interactions between key characters on a timeline, grouping the character lines together when they are interacting in the movies. He obviously spent some time working on these, and be sure to check out the detail in the full size version.
Thanks Tom for the email link! Popular on the blogs, this was also found on Infothetics, FlowingData, SimpleComplexity, VizWorld and Fast Company.
connections, humor, movies, timeline 
Found on FastCompany.com
Check out the other posted infographics while you're there.
