Favorite Stunt Sequence (non CGI)

[Rudi Herbert]

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?

 

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From Face/Off:

 

[Brook Willard]

 

[Shawn Nelson]

The wire scenes in 'Hero'

 

[Vladimir Eugene]

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]

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. hmy:

That's certainly one of my favorites.

JohnG

 

[J.R. Hud]

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]

Best car stunts, recent-ish: The Italian Job (2003 remake)

Best car stunts, all time: The Driver

 

[Michael Hastings]

To live and die in LA

To live and die in LA

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.

 

[Tom Lowe]

From Wikipedia: Rick Sylvester did the famous 1976 Mount Asgard base jump in The Spy Who Loved Me. hmy:

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]

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

 

[Mark K.]

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]

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]

"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?