Wants a recount.

Didnt Charlie Therzon get hurt in Aeon Flux trying to do a stunt?

Would also like a recount.

BalugaJoe: Didnt Charlie Therzon get hurt in Aeon Flux trying to do a stunt?

No, that was just the cover story we put out. She didn't want everyone to know that she hurt herself having rough sex with me.

There's no right answer when it comes to using a stuntman. If you don't use one, it makes things seem a little more real and makes you seem like less of a pussy. But you are putting yourself at risk when you really don't need to. Stuntmen exist for a reason, and they are better at it than you.

Any such list without Burt Lancaster on it is a huge FAIL!

The guy was a child trapeze artist (his family was in the biz) and he did some amazing stunts during his career.

Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd were both geniuses who not only did their own stunts, but damned near invented most stunts.

Damn content blocker.

Mugato: I have a hard time believing Tom Cruise did his own stunts. That sounds like something he'd make his publicist say.


Strange that there's not that much behind the scenes footage of Tom Cruise doing the really big stunts that he's always quoted as doing. There's shots of him doing some parts, but the actual big stunt? There was one bit about him "doing" the big rock climbing jump in MIII, lots of shots on location and so on but no footage of him actually doing the stunt.

Even on Underworld there's footage of kate Beckinsale rehearsing some serious wire work.

Came for Tony Jaa wanting a recount, left satisfied.

Sometimes it's easy to forget how awesome Jackie Chan is.

What stunt doubles might look like.

I do wonder what would have become of Brandon Lee. The Crow was a great movie. But if he hadn't died it probably woud't have been so successful. Who knows, maybe he would have been a not-dead Heath Ledger. He'd be about what, 40 ish now.

Hell ,we can't say who would have been great, because it didn't happen. But the Crow was a good film, at least when I saw it at age 15, about 13 years ago.

Oh and fark it, for movie star money I'll jump off a building, let you shoot me (I'l check the mags first) whatever. Hell for 50k light me on fire (assumiong you have a flame retardant suilt for me to wear and firemen and paramedics on hand).

Cunning Stunt?

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"Stunt cock!"

/obscure?

^ Great film

/Living in Utah

Mugato: I have a hard time believing Tom Cruise did his own stunts. That sounds like something he'd make his publicist say.

And it sucks about Brandon Lee. He would have been a great action star. So he's dead and Nicholas Cage still walks the earth.

I've always said that had Brandon Lee lived, he would have starred in the Matrix. Keanu's kung fu was good enough for a guy that trained for a few months, but I think it would have been better with Lee.

Orgasmatron138:
I've always said that had Brandon Lee lived, he would have starred in the Matrix. Keanu's kung fu was good enough for a guy that trained for a few months, but I think it would have been better with Lee.

Yeah, but if you've seen the other few bits with Brandon Lee in them, you know that he wasn't actually that good of an actor so...

Okay, I guess it would have worked at that.

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"Stunt cock!"

/obscure?

Was trying to find the movie still that had the bad chinese stunt double on purpose. Might have been Epic Movie or something similar. And I believe it was for Leslie Neilson.

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"Stunt cock!"

/obscure?

Dude! I have that in my streaming queue on Netflix! It's the most absurd premise ever: Mormon pornstar superhero!

Jim from Saint Paul: Sometimes it's easy to forget how awesome Jackie Chan is.

Everyone talks shiat about Jackie Chan's newer movies...but I look at it as a sort of retirement. The dude's had a career that any action star would die for (and a few have). He's earned his "magic item gives me super martial arts powers" CGI-filled kiddie crapfests. You don't think so? Throw on Police Story or Snake in Eagle's Shadow or Drunken Master and remind yourself why he's allowed crap movies.

Abstruse: Everyone talks shiat about Jackie Chan's newer movies...but I look at it as a sort of retirement. The dude's had a career that any action star would die for (and a few have). He's earned his "magic item gives me super martial arts powers" CGI-filled kiddie crapfests. You don't think so? Throw on Police Story or Snake in Eagle's Shadow or Drunken Master and remind yourself why he's allowed crap movies.


New Police Story was actually quite good. For me it's sort of a last-hurrah Jackie Chan movie. Watching it I even get a sense that it's meant to be the last quintessential movie of his career (though the last fight of Rob B Hood was pretty good, ditto the air conditioner stunt). If anything, New Police Story is Chan's best flick of this otherwise lame decade. (And this is coming from someone who actually liked Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights.)

/Would Like to know why they aren't on the list
//list is lame without them.

Master of the Flying Guillotine: New Police Story was actually quite good. For me it's sort of a last-hurrah Jackie Chan movie. Watching it I even get a sense that it's meant to be the last quintessential movie of his career (though the last fight of Rob B Hood was pretty good, ditto the air conditioner stunt). If anything, New Police Story is Chan's best flick of this otherwise lame decade. (And this is coming from someone who actually liked Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights.)

Apparently, his newest movie where he's a yakuza gangster is really good...and completely out of his normal zone.

Gunderson

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In related news, Ron Jeremy would like to say he does his own stunts.

Abstruse: Apparently, his newest movie where he's a yakuza gangster is really good...and completely out of his normal zone.


Is that The Shinjuku Incident? Yeah, I heard that's supposed to be good but definitely not the usual Chan fare. Was wondering what that one was like. Might need to download that this weekend.

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Was anyone else kinda tired and mis-read this ad as "Who's Got a Hot Crotch"?

MAYORBOB: Gunderson

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In related news, Ron Jeremy would like to say he does his own stunts.

Especially on the Buffet Line.

Jim from Saint Paul: Sometimes it's easy to forget how awesome Jackie Chan is.

Yeah. I recommend the embedded Youtube clip. Damn, those were some good stunts.

Would like a word with you boys.

TRUE LIES
The Production: The production of True Lies is packed with stories of James Cameron's dictatorial rules and regulations on set. According to rumor, Cameron was determined to finish the project on time, even if it meant, say, no bathroom breaks for the crew. Like those "Life's Abyss and Then You Die" shirts from Cameron's earlier blockbuster, the crew took to wearing shirts that proclaimed "You Can't Scare Me - I Work For Jim Cameron!" And, truthfully, he might have earned some of that fear. He convinced Jamie Lee Curtis to do her own helicopter stunt in the climactic chase by promising to hang out of the copter, shooting the entire thing with a handheld camera. Fearless, and just a little crazy.

John Buck 41: EngineerBoy: List also fails due to lack of Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction.

OTOH, Eastwood jokes that the alternate title for Where Eagles Dare was Where Doubles Dare. Not sure if he was referring to himself or Richard Burton.

Probably Burton. In the scene where they arrive at the castle and have to scale the rope into the window, Eastwood actually climbed and looks tired afterwards. Sir Richard was pulled up and looked none the worse for wear. According to IMDB, that is.

That one chick in Death Proof did her own car stunts...

Wait. Oh yeah...

/she was a stuntwoman

Leave it to the Subbytard to submit a site that locks up IE.

Burt Reynolds would get in trouble for doing his own stunts. There was one movie where his stunt double was supposed to jump out of a helicopter. Reynolds convinced the director to let him take the scene until he was stand on the helicopter landing arm (midair) and let the double take over. Reynolds smiled and jumped.

mr.fisher: There's no right answer when it comes to using a stuntman. If you don't use one, it makes things seem a little more real and makes you seem like less of a pussy. But you are putting yourself at risk when you really don't need to. Stuntmen exist for a reason, and they are better at it than you.

The hardest thing they ever do is watch their leading ladies kiss some other guy while they're bandaging their knee