View Full Version : Favorite Stunt Sequence (non CGI)
Mark Thorpe
01-03-2008, 09:59 AM
Going back to old school stunt performers. Something I wanted for many years whilst growing up was to be a stuntman in the movies. Grew up admiring the Brit contingent such as Dave Ware, Chris Webb and Eddie Kidd. I was always one to prefer high falls and the most amazing fall for me was the one from the Helicopter in the Burt Reynolds film Hooper.
Any others?
Cheers,
Mark.
Priyesh P.
01-03-2008, 10:46 AM
Terminator 2
Rudi Herbert
01-03-2008, 11:45 AM
Don't know if we're talking just physical stunts, but in more broad terms, still today, The Road Warrior stands as one awesome odissey to mayhem and carnage, thanks to the amazing stunt work, from driving to physicals. The photography is also one of my favorites in an action film ever.
Mark Thorpe
01-03-2008, 12:11 PM
Thats a great movie right there. One memorable scene was when one of the Road Gang went off the bridge from his bike. Somersaulting pretty much out of control I could only cringe that the stunt guy was OK. Great stuff.
Driving through Baja California one time a few years back I could quite see what it would feel like to have good old 'Humungous' chasing you down.
Cheers,
Mark.
Hoffman
01-03-2008, 01:15 PM
Jeff Daniels being "revived" in Escanaba in the Moonlight. Amazing work. ;)
Ivan G
01-03-2008, 01:44 PM
Bad Boys II - Scene with the cars flying off the truck chase. Only CG scene is when the ferrari was weaving between all the cars and debre other then that it was awesome!
Gotta give love to some of the James Bond stuff from the 70s and early 80s.
Cam Crowley
01-03-2008, 06:36 PM
Thats a great movie right there. One memorable scene was when one of the Road Gang went off the bridge from his bike. Somersaulting pretty much out of control I could only cringe that the stunt guy was OK. Great stuff.
Driving through Baja California one time a few years back I could quite see what it would feel like to have good old 'Humungous' chasing you down.
Cheers,
Mark.
If memory serves me correct, that particular stunt guy did some very serious damage to himself on that stunt (and he apparently wasnt the only one during the course of the shoot). Looked fantastic though and is still one of my all time favourite shots.
Cam
Rudi Herbert
01-03-2008, 06:47 PM
Gotta give love to some of the James Bond stuff from the 70s and early 80s.
Love all things Bond, and yes, especially during the Roger Moore era in the 80's there were some awesome stunts there.
PaulClements
01-03-2008, 07:26 PM
Gotta give love to some of the James Bond stuff from the 70s and early 80s.
Great minds Tom! When I read the thread title I immediately thought of the spiral car jump in Man with the Golden Gun - Such a shame they put that stupid sound effect on.
Paul
hahha.... how about the great Burt Reynolds movie "Hooper".. heh. :)
Mark Thorpe
01-03-2008, 08:40 PM
Absolutely, that heli high fall.......mesmerizing! OK, so the acting wasn't the best but it wasn't about all that........still good stuff.
PaulClements
01-04-2008, 01:49 PM
Another crap film with a decent stunt or two was Remo... or Repo or something rubbish like that. The stunt I recall watching as a kid was with the guy jumping and grabbing a scaffolding pole and lurching out over the side of the building, or was it the statue of liberty? Anyway I can recall thinking it was amazing as a kid, probably looks rubbish now though hahha!
Paul
James T Mather
01-04-2008, 03:05 PM
MY TOP TEN NON CGI STUNT SEQUENCES
Tom cruise Mission impossible on the train
james bond windsurfing in die another day
all the swingy stuff in spiderman
The Hulk falling in "The Hulk"
the kid falling off the train in "the polar express"
each one a pearl. and done completely in camera
Rudi Herbert
01-04-2008, 03:48 PM
The first fight in CASINO ROYALE, atop the crane and in and around the construction site gets high marks from me as well.
Mark Thorpe
01-04-2008, 11:22 PM
Chris Webb doubling for Robert Powell in a version of "The 39 Steps" crashing through the face of Big Ben in London and grabbing the hour hand. Great coordination.
Mathieu Ghekiere
01-10-2008, 06:23 AM
"Raiders of the Lost Ark", Indiana Jones jumping from the horse to the truck with the arc.
"Blown Away" not a terrific movie, but the end stunt where Jeff Bridges' character jumps from the motorbicycle to his car, is just wow...
Clayton Harper
01-10-2008, 09:34 AM
The French Connection car chase recut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Z9whoQfyw
Justin Kirchhoff
01-10-2008, 10:06 AM
What about Ong Bak? Tony Ja is pretty amazing himself....
Mark Thorpe
01-10-2008, 01:27 PM
The car chase from Bullit......lordnumberzero, I concur with the French Connection too......great stuff.
Rudi Herbert
01-10-2008, 03:49 PM
Speaking of car chases, there's an obscure little movie called "To live and die in LA", also directed by William Friedkin, where I think he staged an ever better car chase than the French Conection. And John Frankenheimer is another director with great chops for car chases. Besides his classic "Grand Prix", anybody noticed how good the car chase in "Ronin" actually was?
noclip
01-10-2008, 06:43 PM
From Face/Off:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8121/faceoffboatvz7.jpg
Brook Willard
01-10-2008, 08:40 PM
http://estb.msn.com/i/D0/C04779E2F18976294180B2D4B0D959.jpg
Shawn Nelson
01-10-2008, 10:28 PM
The wire scenes in 'Hero'
Vladimir Eugene
01-11-2008, 12:25 PM
The first fight in CASINO ROYALE, atop the crane and in and around the construction site gets high marks from me as well.
I agree with you. That was the most thrilling sequence I have seen. As far as comedy- Hot rod, when he rolls down the side of the mountain for 2 min
Vladimir Eugene
John Godden
02-03-2008, 09:23 PM
Gotta give love to some of the James Bond stuff from the 70s and early 80s.
From Wikipedia: Rick Sylvester did the famous 1976 Mount Asgard base jump in The Spy Who Loved Me. :ohmy:
That's certainly one of my favorites.
JohnG
J.R. Hud
03-22-2008, 04:12 PM
Don't know if we're talking just physical stunts, but in more broad terms, still today, The Road Warrior stands as one awesome odissey to mayhem and carnage, thanks to the amazing stunt work, from driving to physicals. The photography is also one of my favorites in an action film ever.
Yes ! That film and it's sequences are still a huge inspiration for me.
I also like Indiana Jones in Raiders with the truck scene, Die Hard when Bruce crashes through the plate glass window after leaping off the building roof and most recently, the opening squence from Casino Royale.
Erik Bien
03-22-2008, 04:39 PM
Best car stunts, recent-ish: The Italian Job (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317740/) (2003 remake)
Best car stunts, all time: The Driver (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077474/)
AquaVideoRed206
03-23-2008, 08:02 AM
Speaking of car chases, there's an obscure little movie called "To live and die in LA", also directed by William Friedkin, where I think he staged an ever better car chase than the French Conection. And John Frankenheimer is another director with great chops for car chases. Besides his classic "Grand Prix", anybody noticed how good the car chase in "Ronin" actually was?
I remember seeing that very early in its theatrical release and thought it was a really good movie - then it seemed to die both critically and commercially. Have to go look at it again sometime.
From Wikipedia: Rick Sylvester did the famous 1976 Mount Asgard base jump in The Spy Who Loved Me. :ohmy:
That's certainly one of my favorites.
JohnG
Ah yes, that was one of the most epic stunts ever at the time. One of the all-time great Bond openings as well.
I love the opening of For Your Eyes, too, where he scoops up Blowfeld with his helicopter and drops him down a smokestack. "We can do a deal, Mr Bond! I'll give you a delicatessen, in stainless steal... Arrr!"
Matthew Rogers
03-23-2008, 10:44 AM
I remember seeing that very early in its theatrical release and thought it was a really good movie - then it seemed to die both critically and commercially. Have to go look at it again sometime.
I loved Ronin. Most people probably didn't like it because it is a slow movie, but the stunts are fantastic! It's probably has the third best chase scene I've ever seen (Bullet the first, French Connection the second.)
All the Jones movies have great stunts (because they were actual stunts and not greenscreen. ) I can't wait to see the new one since, I believe, they were trying to use very little VFX.
Matthew
One of my all-time favourites is the horse-chase sequence from The Mask of Zorro - a wonderfully exciting piece of filmmaking.
I'm also a big fan of Gene Kelly's work in The Three Musketeers.
J.R. Hud
03-23-2008, 09:38 PM
The Road Warrior was already mentioned, but I was reminded of RR3 (Beyond Thunderdome) when the character Ironbar was hanging off the side of the 'train car'.
Rudi Herbert
03-24-2008, 12:02 PM
"Ronin" is a very underrated film, but its action sequences are well made, honest, brutal and to the point. "To live and die in LA" is another little gem (well, maybe not a gem, but a nice zirconia :-) with some very nice action. It is not something I want to add to my Blu Ray collection, but you can find it in Best Buy for 5 bucks nowadays, very nice for a film that will give you some great stunts to analyze and learn from. The whole Mad Max trilogy is awesome as well, amazing what you can do with commitment and determination as a replacement for expensive gear and personnel, those Aussies were/are prossitively insane. I don't know if it was mentioned, but the car chase on the second Bourne, the Supremacy is it?, on the streets of Moscow is just surreal. It's one of those sequences that, for the first time in a very long time, made me go: how the hell did they do that?