Greatest movie stunts

[Ghost89]

Really love my movies. Watch loads,own loads. Mainly action movies. What’s your greatest stunt moments? 2 of mine belong to action legend Jackie Chan: first clip from Rumble in the Bronx. Second clip from Police Story. Watch for the stunt at the end credits from Project A and tell me you don’t wince!

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[Yankee21]

cliffhanger

Transfer of money and people between two jets

[Ghost89]

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Transfer of money and people between two jets

Ah yes. Good choice

[golden bull]

Jackie Chan is the GOAT 🐐 when it comes to stunts. Does his own stunts, not surprising as his background is a stuntman.
He nearly killed himself early on in his career during filming of Armour of god where he cracked his head open on a wall when he misjudged a stunt.
Had plates put in his head after that incident yet after that he carried on doing crazy stunts.
I respect the crazy Mo Fo 🙏.

[The0neAnd0nly]

Used to absolutely love Rumble in the Bronx back when I was a teenager. Bad dubbing and all!

Tony Jaa is known for his ridiculously high kick. Not the best angle on this clip however on YouTube plenty of vids of him kicking things 10 feet in the air (basketballs, street lights and metal bars)

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[tesla]

has to be Rick Sylvester base jumping on skis from "The Spy Who Loved Me"

watch the sequence and how one of his discarded skis nearly hit the canopy

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[mr.bluesky]

has to be Rick Sylvester base jumping on skis from "The Spy Who Loved Me"

watch the sequence and how one of his discarded skis nearly hit the canopy

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  yes this has to be one of the most memorable movie stunt scenes ever but then James Bond films have always had great stunts in them. Didn't realise until watching that scene again how close to disaster it could have been with one of his skis so close to his parachute when it opened   

[scutty brown]

Considering when they were filmed, with no safety equipment or camera trickery, it is hard to beat Harold Lloyd
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[Ghost89]

Considering when they were filmed, with no safety equipment or camera trickery, it is hard to beat Harold Lloyd
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And a huge inspiration for Jackie Chan. And you can see why. The one stunt that isn’t on there that I expected was the one where he’s sat at the front of a train knocking obstructing railway sleepers off the line as the train is travelling. A catastrophe should he have missed any of them!

[Mr Kinky]

A agree with all the praise you guys are heaping on JC. His stunt team were equally amazing. Think about the poor guys who were flung out of the bus windows in Police Story and missed the car that was supposed to break their landing. Jackie just carries on with the scene while they writhe in pain. Classic Jackie.

[mr.bluesky]

Considering when they were filmed, with no safety equipment or camera trickery, it is hard to beat Harold Lloyd
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Buster Keaton was another one. Look at the falling house stunt. He would have to be standing in the exact position for this stunt.

[Corus Boy]

Bullitt car chase.

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Bill Hickman a real gem who also drove in;

The French Connection.
The Seven-Ups.

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[Ghost89]

A agree with all the praise you guys are heaping on JC. His stunt team were equally amazing. Think about the poor guys who were flung out of the bus windows in Police Story and missed the car that was supposed to break their landing. Jackie just carries on with the scene while they writhe in pain. Classic Jackie.

A real bone cruncher. JC stated that he carried on with the scene regardless stating that the injuries would have been for nothing had he broken character to help. Some may argue that this is callous but he does have a point. He has to pay all medical costs out of his own pocket as no insurance company in the world will touch him. With good reason really.

[mills_and_bhuna]

Not a movie stunt but Michael Crawford on roller skates in Some Mothers Do 'Ave' em.
showing my age here

[mr.bluesky]

Not a movie stunt but Michael Crawford on roller skates in Some Mothers Do 'Ave' em.
showing my age here

  yes someone else who performed all his own stunts

[Ghost89]

Not a movie stunt but Michael Crawford on roller skates in Some Mothers Do 'Ave' em.
showing my age here

Yes but as good as. Clearly inspired by the likes of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

[lillythesavage]

yes someone else who performed all his own stunts

He was absolutely brilliant in the Barnum stage show, little breaks into Frank kept the laughs coming.

Now the CC hours are reduced the theatre is back on the agenda, sounds ridiculous I know, paying the mad theatre ticket and drinks prices I know, but it was principle, pay enough for the car, putting a surcharge on having a night out was one step to far.

[PepeMAGA]

Not a movie stunt but Michael Crawford on roller skates in Some Mothers Do 'Ave' em.
showing my age here

I thought that... And I'm 40 

[Marmalade]

Most of the Mission Impossibles have awesome stunts. Also the Ship's Mast scene from DeathProof. I also like the old movies when you know they didn’t have CGI and it couldn’t be done in a studio. Stagecoach comes to mind (though not a very attitude towards Indians by today’s more enlightened perspective).

[Ghost89]

Most of the Mission Impossibles have awesome stunts. Also the Ship's Mast scene from DeathProof. I also like the old movies when you know they didn’t have CGI and it couldn’t be done in a studio. Stagecoach comes to mind (though not a very attitude towards Indians by today’s more enlightened perspective).

Yep completely agree. That’s why Jackie Chan’s stunts and indeed a lot of Hong Kong movies of the time excel and raised the bar with stunt work. They simply had no cgi and just relied on balls of steel and very little else.

[scutty brown]

this is one that's hard to beat

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[Ghost89]

this is one that's hard to beat

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Yes pretty spectacular. Hollywood would never do that again. It’d be all done using pixels. Never the same.

[Ghost89]

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Dar Robinson doubling for Christopher Plummer in the movie Highpoint by falling from the CN tower in Toronto. Dizzying.

[Mr Kinky]

Yes pretty spectacular. Hollywood would never do that again. It’d be all done using pixels. Never the same.

Exactly, there's no real sense of danger involved with cgi. Even if you see that the stuntman is clearly not the actor, there is still a sense of real world danger involved. Someone is actually doing the action.

[the groper]

I remain impressed by the barrel roll done by a car in The Man With The Golden Gun, slightly ruined by that slide whistle that accompanies it.

[Marmalade]

Exactly, there's no real sense of danger involved with cgi. Even if you see that the stuntman is clearly not the actor, there is still a sense of real world danger involved. Someone is actually doing the action.

Except in Deathproof when the stuntwoman was also the actor.

[donnybob]

Not a movie stunt but Michael Crawford on roller skates in Some Mothers Do 'Ave' em.
showing my age here

I remember seeing him in Barnum at the Palladium in London, I was on the front row but at the end, and I could clearly hear him swear under his breath at the end of some of the routines he did

[Punter S Thompson]

Considering when they were filmed, with no safety equipment or camera trickery, it is hard to beat Harold Lloyd
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Harold Lloyd used plenty of saftey equipment and camera trickery though.
Especially in the famous clock scene.

[January]

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[Punter S Thompson]

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[Ghost89]

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Mad max was full of great stunt work. The stuntman there broke his leg doing that. I believe during the actual collision before being thrown through the air.

[Punter S Thompson]

Mad max was full of great stunt work. The stuntman there broke his leg doing that. I believe during the actual collision before being thrown through the air.

Think he broke both femurs.
Guy Norris I think his name is, was also head of the stunt team in Fury Road.

[Marmalade]

Here’s an inside track on a couple of Tarantino stunt episodes. Ones that went right and one that went wrong.

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