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really wished we'd see better wire work for falling people. Also...less wire work. I can always tell and it bothers me heavily. I know they had to use it but...still..it bothers me.

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It bothers the hell out of me too..especially when the wires are presented in certain scenes in movies. Totally kills the illusion that the guy/girl is flying.

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like when the girl jumped onto the guy hanging. They didn't need wires for that. They could've just secured a net enough out of frame for that. I guess that'd cost more.

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Jackie Chan is insane.

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The multi-weapon fight between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was pretty damn impressive. I can't picture Julia Roberts doing that!

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I rank this one by Yuen Biao in Shanghai Express quite highly. Also, he doesn't just do his stunt---he gets up and delivers his damn line :lol:



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Another more low-key but still quite dangerous stunt was Alan Rickman being dropped from 50-70ft (the actual distance is sketch) onto an airbag for the finale of Die Hard.

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Oh yeah....love that movie. LOVE Yukari Oshima in it...very limited but enjoyable as hell. I'd love to see more of her other films someday. In the mean time...I have this:

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Can't believe I forgot that one...yeah they told him he'd be let go at 3 but they let him go before saying 3...therefore that face he makes..is genuine fear.

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That wasnt Arnold.

The bike was rigged to wires which were then digitally erased.

The rider can clearly be seen as Arnies stunt double



My nod goes to Tom freakin Cruise for M.I II's opening Rock climbing scene and that jump/leap he did.

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Harrison Ford being dragged by the truck in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ford performed at least one stunt for Crystal Skull, in a warehouse, swinging from a rope, at age 66.

Screenwriter William Goldman wrote that Robert Redford performed the wing-walking stunts in The Great Waldo Pepper. If so, it seems it was for nothing, since the camera wasn't close enough to show it was Redford.

Bob Hope ducking knives being thrown at him in My Favorite Brunette.