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Obvious stunt doubles in films
- Thread starter Boy Wander
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I noticed the one in Face/Off that I posted and the one in T2 in the theaters.
Man, here's another good one. Chinese stunt double for Van Damme fighting Mickey Rourke in Double Team.
One shot at 1:55 or so:
This is what I was talking about. Never gets old for me.
Cameron changed it with the last release. He imposed Arnies head onto the stunt double. Which looked obvious too ha.
Oh man, when I bought that on blu ray years ago, and I saw the opening fight in the hangar and a dude gets blown away with a shotgun or something and you see these these thick ass wires on his back, plain as day. Never noticed it until the clarity of blu ray. Made me sad.
"Fixed" and they forgot the fix on the ramp he jumped off from the last time they fixed itYup, although it was fixed in the 2017 3D re-release.
Do you listen to Doug Loves Movies? This exact scene was discussed on yesterday's episode!
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Nope - I happened to switch over to a channel playing Beverly Hills Cop and that scene came on and I remembered the obvious stunt double.
That is not Jennifer Beal in Flashdance on the left... it is Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew
Too busy jerking off to his ten billion Avatar sequels unfortunately. Can't even sit for a couple of hours and go over the new transfer of this and The Abyss :(
I... WHAT?!
It's not a film, but the hilarious segment with Tom Cruise and Conan O'Brien driving around in the car. In the end Cruise escapes by jumping out of the driving car. I'm not sure it's intentional, like a sort of play on how Cruise does a lot of his own stunts, but this is SO obviously a stunt double. In the car Cruise is wearing a button down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the guy jumping uit is wearing a thick sweater with long sleeves, only roughly the same color. Doesn't look anything like Cruise. And the 'stunt' is so simple compared to what he usually gets up to...But perhaps I'm reading too much into this.
An HD transfer exists. I've seen it in 1080p on TV and it looked great.
Wish I'd had the foresight to record it.
I remember watching this when it first aired lmao. Dexter had honestly been shit for awhile but goddamn everything from that entire season including this scene felt like Scott Buck was striving to make a shark jumping Magnum Opus.
I know, I've seen it as well (through not so honest ways), the problem is that for a blu-ray/4k release, Cameron needs to sign off on it. Which so far, he still hasn't done for whatever reason. He says he's busy, which I get, but for so long that he couldn't even sit for a single day and discuss the transfers or do it in between stuff?
Only now that I'm more familiar with him do I realize that Bullhorn was a reference to Rudy Ray Moore / the Dolemite character.
Evil Dead on anything but an old VHS copy has the most absurd amount of...everything...that can be 'off'.
I can't find a good clip of it, but at the end of Search for Spock, Kirk does this flash kick on Christopher Lloyd that is hilariously stunt doubled IIRC.
Not films, but George Peppard's stunt double in a terrible white wig became very obvious to see in literally every fistfight (except closeups) when The A-Team was released on DVD.
Haha, both the "kid" and Arnold's double are obviously not them.
Bravo, sir
What the fuck...I never noticed that they just put his hat and coat in the car.
Jackie's stunt team will always stand in when the actors have trouble keeping up with him or handling bigger tumbles. He did the same thing with the kickboxer on the rooftop in Who Am I. Dude wasn't fast enough for Jackie, so he had Brad Allen replace him.
I saw this one on reddit just yesterday
Terminator 2 had a really obvious double when Arnie drives off the partition during the viaduct chase, but when I saw the 3D reissue last year they fixed it with CG and it looked perfect.
Well, thank god for that. For the last 30 years, I've thought they blew up a nice Vietnamese man.
If you turn on director's commentary, he'll tell you they used a dummy.
What about film settings where it's obvious? From Rumble in the Bronx...this isn't what the Bronx looks like lol:
