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Most obvious use of stunt double

post #1 of 56
6/27/05 at 2:47am
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Thought I'd start a list...

Matrix Revolutions. -In the train station, when Neo gets punched into the wall. Totally obvious.

Spaceballs - The princess has a stache!

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka - Spade's momma in the diner.

Ok, so the last two are MEANT to be noticed....
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post #2 of 56
6/27/05 at 2:59am
Seagal's final fight in "Belly of the Beast." The sensei couldn't get that kind of air with a tank of helium up his ass.
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post #3 of 56
6/27/05 at 3:46am
Count Dooku in AOTC.
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post #4 of 56
6/27/05 at 4:08am
Blade in Blade 2.

The CG was so obvious it was almost comedic.
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post #5 of 56
6/27/05 at 4:30am
I hate to do it because I love the film, but Keaton in BATMAN when he was about to fight in the alley with the "blades" guy seemed like an obvious stunt double.

Seagal in pretty much every film after EXIT WOUNDS.

Oh yeah, and Bruce Willis and the actor playing Karl's brother during their fight in DIE HARD. DVD has really made the use of stuntmen and wires extremely evident.
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post #6 of 56
6/27/05 at 5:51am
Hard Target, pretty much the whole film, but the best is when JCVD is on horseback - ridiculously like Billy Ray Cyrus - and when he's prancing around in the warehouse at the end. And yet Lance Henriksen actually let himself be set on fire... Action stars are pussies.
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post #7 of 56
6/27/05 at 7:06am
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Originally Posted by sackley
Action stars are pussies.
Largely true but I can think of one Swedish born action star that bucks this trend. He must at least do 90% of his own stunts. The more recent Punisher, though not strictly an action star, also seems to live on the edge. That is really Thomas Jane going through that wall while fighting the Russian. A stunt that is both amazing and borderline insane.

There are some really obvious stunt dummies used in DIE HARD 2, COMMANDO, and SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO.
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post #8 of 56
6/27/05 at 7:30am
Pretty much any fight scene in Buffy or Angel.

Any time George Peppard has to throw a punch, or run, in The A-Team.
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post #9 of 56
6/27/05 at 8:17am
Mel Gibson in Maverick, carrying on a long tradition of western stunt doubles.
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post #10 of 56
6/27/05 at 8:28am
Joanna Cassidy's double when she gets shot, from Blade Runner.
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post #11 of 56
6/27/05 at 9:07am
Any fight scene featuring Shatner in Star Trek TOS. Any fight scene featuring Shatner, in any film or TV series, period.
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post #12 of 56
6/27/05 at 9:36am
My favorite is "Arnold" jumping off the bridge on the motorcyle in T2. And then, of course, "John Connor" on his moped, who shifts back and forth from a 14 year old boy to a grown man in a wig several times throughout the chase scene.
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post #13 of 56
6/27/05 at 9:54am
The Big Easy.

At then end when Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid are running down the docks away from an exploding boat. Very obvious. Quaid's stunt double looks nothing like him too.
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post #14 of 56
6/27/05 at 10:26am
In Fight Club when Edward Norton falls from the stairs after being pushed by Brad Pitt, not super obvious, but obvious.
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post #15 of 56
6/27/05 at 10:39am
Worst one I've ever seen was in Face/Off, at the end when the explosion sends them up into the air toward the camera. The camera is right on them, with the actors facing the camera. It's just a shot of these two stuntmen flying, faces and all. It's awful.
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post #16 of 56
6/27/05 at 10:57am
It kills me, I notice these things all the time but don't remember them unless people bring them up! Like right now, i'm sitting here pounding my head going, "what movie? remember!" and drawing a blank. Thanks for the info guys! I'll have to rewatch some of these to see the blaring ones.

I know what bugs me is the car chase scenes, you see a close up of the actor then a cut away to the car and its obviously not the actors, heck, sometimes when there are supposed to be two people in the car, and they cut away, you only see one guy. I'll have to look over my collection to remember blaring examples.
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post #17 of 56
6/27/05 at 11:24am
Two big ones stand out. Quite alot in True Lies and loads in Face/Off, that's definately the worst.
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post #18 of 56
6/27/05 at 11:26am
I've got two favorites:

BEVERLY HILLS COP - When Foley goes to Maitland's country club and ends up throwing, ahem, Jonathan Banks over the buffet line, his double looks more like Richard Pryor than Eddie Murphy.

HEAT - This one hurts, being a chink in the armor of one of my all-time favorite movies, but when Al Pacino and Wes Studi raid Henry Rollins' room there's a long shot of Pacino's double roving through the room, finding Rollins and tackling him. Not for a second in this shot does it look like Pacino. Good times.
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post #19 of 56
6/27/05 at 11:30am
I can't believe no one has mentioned this: the last several Roger Moore Bond films.
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post #20 of 56
6/27/05 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by myPandaNY
I know what bugs me is the car chase scenes, you see a close up of the actor then a cut away to the car and its obviously not the actors, heck, sometimes when there are supposed to be two people in the car, and they cut away, you only see one guy. I'll have to look over my collection to remember blaring examples.
Or how about when the car involved in the crash has no driver at all? The Formula 1 chase scene in Charlies Angels really took me out of the movie... it was so realistic up until then.

I also loved it when midget Uma kicks up from floor in Kill Bill 1 and engages in some extremely skillful swordplay with the crazy 88s. Uma's good - but midgets with swords are better!
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post #21 of 56
6/27/05 at 1:00pm
Absolute worst is "Jack Nicholson" running through Central Park in Wolf -- in slow motion, no less. Dude looks about 100 pounds too heavy.
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post #22 of 56
6/27/05 at 1:23pm
Face/Off is probably the worst, especially the boat fight. Love the film though.

I think the Matrix has at least kickstarted a resurgence by filmmakers and actors to bring some semblance of realism to fight scenes, because ever since that film came out in 1999 I've noticed more Hollywood actors taking part in action scenes. We saw Cruise dangling off a cliff in MI:2, Mortinson waving a sword around in LotR, even the Charlies Angel's girls had quite a few closeups in their (wire assisted) fight scenes, etc, etc.

So when we see stunt doubles clearly post-1999 then it really is laughable, like the Blade 2 example noted above. Although some of the moves in that film were pretty impossible to do by human beings anyway.
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post #23 of 56
6/27/05 at 7:20pm
the face replacement is awful too (Face/off)
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post #24 of 56
6/28/05 at 1:17am
Michael Keaton, and fight scene with The Joker's thugs in the alley. There's a brief shot of Batman's face as he's mixing it up, and it's clearly not Keaton.

Matrix Revolutions. Neo and Smith do battle in silhouette for a time, and Reeves' stunt double is obvious in a few shots.

Does Pierce Brosnan's body double sport fucking Renee Russo count?

*Everyone* should know the most obvious one, even if you've never thought of it in this way, "Game of Death", nuff said.
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post #25 of 56
6/28/05 at 3:51pm
My 2 were already taken: Roger Moore (specifically in A View to a Kill) and Eddie Murphy in the buffet table scene. Moore, I could understand he was getting up there. I never understood the Murphy one though. He was young, apparently in shape and, if memory serves, the move/stunt wasn't all that tough or complicated. And yes, the stunt man DID look like Richard Pryor.
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post #26 of 56
6/28/05 at 4:00pm
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
Any time George Peppard has to throw a punch, or run, in The A-Team.
Liar! LIAR!!!! [whistles]I'm not listening. LALALALALALA!![/whistles]
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post #27 of 56
6/28/05 at 4:15pm
One that comes to the top of my head is in Tango and Cash, when the crooked cop's car explodes and sends "Stallone" flying back into the kitchen.

I'm sure there are more blatant examples-- even from the same film-- but that one makes me chuckle every time I see it.
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post #28 of 56
7/1/05 at 4:30pm
Total Recall - When Arnold breaks the window and jumps through it in to the moving subway train. The stunt man's face was so visible and unlike Arnold's that it totally took me out of the movie and I had to pause the DVD and check him out.
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post #29 of 56
7/1/05 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by Ratty
I can't believe no one has mentioned this: the last several Roger Moore Bond films.
You're one of five people who watched those, that's why.
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post #30 of 56
7/2/05 at 11:02am
Someone already mentioned it, but the one in Die Hard when McClane's fighting Hanz's brother always bothers me. I never noticed it till the dvd came out.

Lethal Weapon 4 seems to be loaded with them. Especially during the roof chase and the freeway chase. The movie sucks anyway though.

I always notice Die Hard 4's stunt driver during the taxi "chase".
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post #31 of 56
7/2/05 at 11:40am
When I was a kid my sister absolutely loved those Mighty Ducks movies. I laugh just thinking about Emilio Estevez's skating doubles.
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post #32 of 56
7/2/05 at 4:00pm
This isn't a stunt double, but Pippin's midget double in Return of the King was so fucking obvious in so many scenes it took me right out of the movie. Did they forget how to use forced perspective and composite pictures in this one or something? I'd rather see Billy Boyd than what appears to be a wirey haired woman posing as him.
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post #33 of 56
7/2/05 at 4:40pm
Requiem for a Dream.

That couldn´t possibly have been Jennifer Connelly in the ass-to-ass scene, could it?
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post #34 of 56
7/4/05 at 5:25pm
I'm watching Hard Target on AMC.
The part where JCVD jumps the flameing bike on his own bike.

While were on the subject, a movie about an army of mercs that hunt a 5 and a half foot dude with a little muscle? This is so fucking retarded.
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post #35 of 56
7/4/05 at 5:32pm
What's funny about JCVD's stunt double in HARD TARGET is that i'm pretty sure he pulls double duty in one scene. I believe he's one of the guys "JC" fights in the "Now take yur beeg stick and your boy-friend...." scene.
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post #36 of 56
7/4/05 at 7:44pm
A few stunt doubles aside, I can't find much that's retarded about HARD TARGET. It's a classic and I'd give anything for John Woo to do something as good as it again. Though that's definitely a stuntman doing the jump from off the bike and over the truck.
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post #37 of 56
7/4/05 at 7:57pm
JC says this about every movie he makes, but Hard Target really was his "BEST MOOVIE EVUR".
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post #38 of 56
7/4/05 at 8:15pm
I would probably agree, he had it going on in that movie. It's on AMC right now and seeing it edited really makes we wish the Director's cut was on DVD in the states. I may like UNIVERSAL SOLDIER better for the Lundgren factor but Van Damme was a total stiff, but I can't tell of many doubles in that one.
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post #39 of 56
7/5/05 at 4:20am
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Originally Posted by Smeagol
This isn't a stunt double, but Pippin's midget double in Return of the King was so fucking obvious in so many scenes it took me right out of the movie. Did they forget how to use forced perspective and composite pictures in this one or something? I'd rather see Billy Boyd than what appears to be a wirey haired woman posing as him.
The little guy playing Bilbo in the end of RotK, getting onto the boat bothers me a lot more.
I'll post some more that actually apply to the thread when I can think of them, I'm having the same problem as mypandaNY it seems.
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post #40 of 56
7/5/05 at 5:36am
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Originally Posted by Nexus-6
The little guy playing Bilbo in the end of RotK, getting onto the boat bothers me a lot more.
I'll post some more that actually apply to the thread when I can think of them, I'm having the same problem as mypandaNY it seems.
Then there's the guy who plays Gandalf in the hobbit scenes, who looks like a very tall un-McKellenish guy wearing an extremely fake cotton-wool beard. Incidentally, that guy was on the news the other night, he's just joined the NZ Police! Guess the stunt-double business doesn't pay enough.
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post #41 of 56
7/5/05 at 5:58am
It's all about Van Damme's stunt double(s) in KNOCK OFF.
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post #42 of 56
7/15/05 at 8:10am
oh i cant believe no one has mentioned Mel Gibson in leathal weapon 4, when he is chasing after the guy from the restruant, 2 obvious scenes are running up the stairs, and across the roof top, they dont seem to even bother to hide his face with an indirect angle...... mel, along with tom cruise, are known for there running (witness all other leathal weapon movies and the partiot, and braveheart etc) sadly i think those days are way over. i wish i had screen caps for these...
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post #43 of 56
8/3/05 at 5:55am
If we are allowed to mention computers effects as well the worst is Bond surfing in Die Another Day.
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post #44 of 56
8/3/05 at 1:13pm
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Originally Posted by boots013
One that comes to the top of my head is in Tango and Cash, when the crooked cop's car explodes and sends "Stallone" flying back into the kitchen.
As soon as I saw the thread title this is the first one I thought of.
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post #45 of 56
8/3/05 at 3:41pm
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Originally Posted by JacknifeJohnny
*Everyone* should know the most obvious one, even if you've never thought of it in this way, "Game of Death", nuff said.
That movie has spawned an incredibly fun drinking game at my house, which we call "Bruce/Not Bruce." I guarantee it will get you drunk.
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post #46 of 56
8/3/05 at 7:41pm
Stewie in the Family Guy DTDVD movie.
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post #47 of 56
8/3/05 at 10:34pm
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' double in X-men. I mean, the guy looked just like Wolverine.

Quote:
Originally Posted by DeviatedPrevert
Then there's the guy who plays Gandalf in the hobbit scenes, who looks like a very tall un-McKellenish guy wearing an extremely fake cotton-wool beard. Incidentally, that guy was on the news the other night, he's just joined the NZ Police! Guess the stunt-double business doesn't pay enough.

Tall Paul? Well, it's tough to be a double when you're like 7'2" (222 cm) tall. Unless you meant someone else. But yes, the scale doubles were rather obvious in RotK.


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Originally Posted by mypandaNY
It kills me, I notice these things all the time but don't remember them unless people bring them up! Like right now, i'm sitting here pounding my head going, "what movie? remember!" and drawing a blank. Thanks for the info guys! I'll have to rewatch some of these to see the blaring ones.
Yeah, that's how I feel in all these threads.
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post #48 of 56
8/5/05 at 4:44am
in "the fan" when deniro saves snipes' son from drowning, theres a 2 second close up of "wesley snipes" in the ocean, and its obviously not wesley snipes, the shot didnt even need to be in the scene, no idea why tony scott chose to show a close up of a double
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post #49 of 56
8/7/05 at 5:25pm
An oldie,but both Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin in the fight scene in THE WILD ONE.
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post #50 of 56
8/23/05 at 4:29am
Any episode of Wonder Woman. Seeing all of those stunt chicks who didn't have half the body Lynda Carter did.

Favorite TV stunt double: Check out the redhead Fembot on the Kill Oscar: Part 1 episode of The Bionic Woman when it's fighting Jamie in the apartment along with the Callahan-bot, especially when it's ripping the pipe off the radiator. Beefiest fuckin' chick-bot I ever saw.
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