Best Movie Stunt Ever?

[mrtrebus]

I think the 007 movies have some of the best stunts ever, this one from The Man With The Golden Gun is hard to beat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8gTRmrmgI&feature=related
(complete with comedy whistle!)

This clip is of the actual onset footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJocyjCBzo&NR=1
:hatsoff:

 

[nelmes69]

Yep the bond movies have always been good for amazing stunts

parachute ski jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzA5R9aSFCI

Goldeneye bungee jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1VqD-EnvLQ

 

[StanScratch]

Live And Let Die had a great boat chase:
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmb3ZUAObyc
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9fbQik8Wg

I've always loved the chase sequence at the end of the original The Italian Job, from the races through the subway hallways to what I think is the greatest literal cliffhanger in movie history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0nXDOr1r6A

The king of stunts, though, was Buster Keaton.
Steamboat Bill Jr.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4
A nice little montage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkdtS8OFlA
His opus was The General, one of the great comedies of all time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xh108cLbo
As mentioned, with Keaton, there were few special effects and he did his own stunts. He suffered a chronic back problem all his life after being thrown off a water tower while filming The General.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

^ Yeah, in the old days Buster Keaton was pretty good.

My vote at the moment has to be the parachute jump in SWLM. Just great.

And I KNOW that I have another pick, but I cannot remember it for the life of me at the moment.

 

[mrtrebus]

Make it snappy Bond!


Onset footage!

 

[Neutron66]

Greatest movie star of all time doing one of the most iconic stunts of the first half-century of film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3I81pRI8A

Like Keaton he did all his own stunts. But whereas Keatons' were for comedy...Douglas Fairbanks' were for action!

 

[mrtrebus]

& how could I forget Jackie Chan!

 

[GregCentauro]

The triumvirate of awesomeness: Airwolf, MacGyver and Knight Rider :bowdown:

 

[knowone]

Jackie Chan is the only modern challenge to Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd.

 

[zell]

Anything that Dar Robinson did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_Robinson

 

[PretoDragao]

The semi-truck flip in the Dark Knight (they actually did it!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPY9WP5wXwE

 

[knowone]

The triumvirate of awesomeness: Airwolf, MacGyver and Knight Rider :bowdown:

My cousin's next door neighbor origionally did the pyrotechnics/efx on Airwolf. He finally quit the show over the risks he was being instructed to take. Two weeks later they had the fatal accident. The Producers & Director should have gone to prison for Negligent Homicide.

 

[grimey]

The chase for the precious "guzaline" in The Road Warrior. :bowdown:

 

[meganmilian]

Probably Raiders Of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford! That was a good one for stunts...