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Just finished watching First Blood and I am still amazed at the free fall jump from the cliff to tree. Anyone else got other great stunts that stick out in their mind?
Yeah, from Ecks vs Sever as Banderas flies off his bike and two towncar sedans flip and fly over him, simultaneously.
Cliff Hanger - Moving between the two planes.
The entire movie Hooper. Back in the days when they did it for real! Fun film too.
Two words: Jackie and Chan. Maybe not always as 'authentic' as his publicity would have you believe, but for sheer, visceral, did-he-just-do-that thrills I point you toward the Police Story and Project A movies.
*Michelle Yeoh's hop from ramp to train-top on motorbike in Police Story 3 is amazing.
*Sammo Hung getting hit VERY HARD by a car in Pantyhose Hero is jaw dropping.
*Yuen Biao somersaulting from the top of a burning building onto the ground in Shanghai Express.
All are :shocker:
I'd agree with what 'wong fei hong' just said.
Plus I'd like to mention the ladder stunt in Jackie Chan's First Strike!
Watching the outtakes at the end you see just how much pain and effort has gone into it.
The culmination of the Living Daylights with Timothy Dalton and the bad guy hanging out of the back of a plane clinging onto the netting.
Off topic, but I just watched Police Story 2 and thought it was pretty naff.
The original is far superior IMO, Police Story 2 bored me.
Gary A
Boring? Really? Not an accusation I've heard levelled at many Jackie films, especially one from his 80's heyday!
I'd sit through hundreds of hours of duff movies (and I have) just for the intricate, immaculate thrill of that playground fight scene in Police Story 2.
Got to be the freefall into the diving plane at the beginning of GoldenEye (well, the jump itself was done for real) :p
Originally posted by wong fei hong
Two words: Jackie and Chan. Maybe not always as 'authentic' as his publicity would have you believe, but for sheer, visceral, did-he-just-do-that thrills I point you toward the Police Story and Project A movies.
*Michelle Yeoh's hop from ramp to train-top on motorbike in Police Story 3 is amazing.
*Sammo Hung getting hit VERY HARD by a car in Pantyhose Hero is jaw dropping.
*Yuen Biao somersaulting from the top of a burning building onto the ground in Shanghai Express.
All are :shocker:
Top choices, here's another one: Yuen Biao in Wheels on Meals when he jumps out the top balcony straight onto his arse on a concrete road! I mean, there's no way you can rig a concrete fall to dampen that bugger! :nuts:
XXX where vin diesel jumps through the barb wire on the motorbike.
Oh yeah and Lenny that was an awesome stunt on Balistic pitty its a crap film though
Nothing ( apart from Jackie Chan) can beat...
It's a mad, mad mad world twin prop airplane flying through a billboard.
Live and Let Die car jump over river, corkscrews 360 degrees as it does so.
The Spy who Loved Me the parachute jump during the opeining sequence.
Agree with all the Jackie Stuff - must also include the end of Drunken Master 2 - especially rolling on the coals. Also the Jackie/Remy Julienne motorbike chase from Operation Condor - when he drives through the warehouse and that chap with the broom spins and lands on his neck it makes me wince every time.
I always enjoy any of Remy Julienne's car stuff - the French are the best in the world at this.
Conan Lee unintentionally missing his jump from bridge to lampost in Tiger on the Beat 2 (I think)
Dar Robinson's backwards fall off a balcony whilst unloading all six shots at the camera in Burt Reynold's rubbish film Stick.
Lots of Buster Keyton stuff & Harold LLoyd - especially considering his blown up hand.
I also remember Michelle Yeoh (then Khan) doing a good high fall in Yes Madam.
Stunts make a good film better and a bad film memorable.
Didn't Dar Robinson die doing a stunt? Around '88 i think.
Coolmofo1
Originally posted by Cornelius
Nothing ( apart from Jackie Chan) can beat...
It's a mad, mad mad world twin prop airplane flying through a billboard.
Live and Let Die car jump over river, corkscrews 360 degrees as it does so.
The Spy who Loved Me the parachute jump during the opeining sequence.
Just a small point ... the James Bond "360 river jump" was actually in The Man With The Golden Gun. I was about to suggest it myself as it goes.
Originally posted by AdamBrunt
Just a small point ... the James Bond "360 river jump" was actually in The Man With The Golden Gun. I was about to suggest it myself as it goes. My bad. I always get the two mixed up.:o
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
Originally posted by coolmofo1
Didn't Dar Robinson die doing a stunt? Around '88 i think.
Coolmofo1
Ironically enough, no! Even though he did some of the most dangerous (hollywood) stunts ever, he never received a single injury. He actually died in a crash whilst driving his motorbike down a road on a day off. He is mentioned in the end credits of Lethal Weapon 1 (1987).
Originally posted by GAmbrose
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
I was just about to mention that, worst sound-effect in a film ever. :oh-hum:
Originally posted by GAmbrose
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
On the DVD, i think it's on the commentary or the "making-of" one of the major crew members agrees that it was a stupid sound-effect and it kind of ruined a cracking stunt :dork:
Its also the First stunt to be Copyrighted too
Originally posted by GAmbrose
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
I now mute the sound when that stunt happens as that *whistle up / whistle down* really weakens the impact of the stunt.
IMO, if they had just used a high pitched violin note to stress the moment. Stupid, stupid, stupid. :mad:
Anyhow, it is a superb piece.
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Yeah, from Ecks vs Sever as Banderas flies off his bike and two towncar sedans flip and fly over him, simultaneously.
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Cliff Hanger - Moving between the two planes.
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The entire movie Hooper. Back in the days when they did it for real! Fun film too.
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Two words: Jackie and Chan. Maybe not always as 'authentic' as his publicity would have you believe, but for sheer, visceral, did-he-just-do-that thrills I point you toward the Police Story and Project A movies.
*Michelle Yeoh's hop from ramp to train-top on motorbike in Police Story 3 is amazing.
*Sammo Hung getting hit VERY HARD by a car in Pantyhose Hero is jaw dropping.
*Yuen Biao somersaulting from the top of a burning building onto the ground in Shanghai Express.
All are :shocker:
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I'd agree with what 'wong fei hong' just said.
Plus I'd like to mention the ladder stunt in Jackie Chan's First Strike!
Watching the outtakes at the end you see just how much pain and effort has gone into it.
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The culmination of the Living Daylights with Timothy Dalton and the bad guy hanging out of the back of a plane clinging onto the netting.
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Off topic, but I just watched Police Story 2 and thought it was pretty naff.
The original is far superior IMO, Police Story 2 bored me.
Gary A
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Boring? Really? Not an accusation I've heard levelled at many Jackie films, especially one from his 80's heyday!
I'd sit through hundreds of hours of duff movies (and I have) just for the intricate, immaculate thrill of that playground fight scene in Police Story 2.
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Got to be the freefall into the diving plane at the beginning of GoldenEye (well, the jump itself was done for real) :p
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Originally posted by wong fei hong
Two words: Jackie and Chan. Maybe not always as 'authentic' as his publicity would have you believe, but for sheer, visceral, did-he-just-do-that thrills I point you toward the Police Story and Project A movies.
*Michelle Yeoh's hop from ramp to train-top on motorbike in Police Story 3 is amazing.
*Sammo Hung getting hit VERY HARD by a car in Pantyhose Hero is jaw dropping.
*Yuen Biao somersaulting from the top of a burning building onto the ground in Shanghai Express.
All are :shocker:
Top choices, here's another one: Yuen Biao in Wheels on Meals when he jumps out the top balcony straight onto his arse on a concrete road! I mean, there's no way you can rig a concrete fall to dampen that bugger! :nuts:
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XXX where vin diesel jumps through the barb wire on the motorbike.
Oh yeah and Lenny that was an awesome stunt on Balistic pitty its a crap film though
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Nothing ( apart from Jackie Chan) can beat...
It's a mad, mad mad world twin prop airplane flying through a billboard.
Live and Let Die car jump over river, corkscrews 360 degrees as it does so.
The Spy who Loved Me the parachute jump during the opeining sequence.
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Agree with all the Jackie Stuff - must also include the end of Drunken Master 2 - especially rolling on the coals. Also the Jackie/Remy Julienne motorbike chase from Operation Condor - when he drives through the warehouse and that chap with the broom spins and lands on his neck it makes me wince every time.
I always enjoy any of Remy Julienne's car stuff - the French are the best in the world at this.
Conan Lee unintentionally missing his jump from bridge to lampost in Tiger on the Beat 2 (I think)
Dar Robinson's backwards fall off a balcony whilst unloading all six shots at the camera in Burt Reynold's rubbish film Stick.
Lots of Buster Keyton stuff & Harold LLoyd - especially considering his blown up hand.
I also remember Michelle Yeoh (then Khan) doing a good high fall in Yes Madam.
Stunts make a good film better and a bad film memorable.
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Didn't Dar Robinson die doing a stunt? Around '88 i think.
Coolmofo1
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Originally posted by Cornelius
Nothing ( apart from Jackie Chan) can beat...
It's a mad, mad mad world twin prop airplane flying through a billboard.
Live and Let Die car jump over river, corkscrews 360 degrees as it does so.
The Spy who Loved Me the parachute jump during the opeining sequence.
Just a small point ... the James Bond "360 river jump" was actually in The Man With The Golden Gun. I was about to suggest it myself as it goes.
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Originally posted by AdamBrunt
Just a small point ... the James Bond "360 river jump" was actually in The Man With The Golden Gun. I was about to suggest it myself as it goes. My bad. I always get the two mixed up.:o
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Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
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Originally posted by coolmofo1
Didn't Dar Robinson die doing a stunt? Around '88 i think.
Coolmofo1
Ironically enough, no! Even though he did some of the most dangerous (hollywood) stunts ever, he never received a single injury. He actually died in a crash whilst driving his motorbike down a road on a day off. He is mentioned in the end credits of Lethal Weapon 1 (1987).
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Originally posted by GAmbrose
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
I was just about to mention that, worst sound-effect in a film ever. :oh-hum:
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Originally posted by GAmbrose
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
On the DVD, i think it's on the commentary or the "making-of" one of the major crew members agrees that it was a stupid sound-effect and it kind of ruined a cracking stunt :dork:
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Its also the First stunt to be Copyrighted too
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Originally posted by GAmbrose
Why did they play that awful sound effect over the corkscrew jump though.
A stuntdriver risked his life doing that, and they ruin it by having some weird pop-whistle sound over it.
Gary A
I now mute the sound when that stunt happens as that *whistle up / whistle down* really weakens the impact of the stunt.
IMO, if they had just used a high pitched violin note to stress the moment. Stupid, stupid, stupid. :mad:
Anyhow, it is a superb piece.
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