top 10 movie stunts
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who needs cgi when you can have a stuntman make that seven hundred and fifty foot jump off the side of a damn for you welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 greatest movie stunts of all time for this list we're looking at the men and women who defied death with incredible big screen stunts that make audiences sit on the edge of their seats but to make the cut stuns need to have an edge of real-life danger so for example the famous bus jump seen from yonder bonds high-paced thriller speed won't show up on our list because that gap was pure CG yeah number 10 the plane heist the dark knight rises of course christopher nolan wanted his batman trilogy to feel realistic and that included the stunts it would be extremely paying for these movies are packed with awesome effects like the truck flipped from the Dark Knight but the most impressive moment has got to be the hijacking seen in the dark knight rises sir I want to the next step of your master plan crushing this food Nolan really threw a bunch of stunt men out of a c-130 and onto the side of another plane where the exterior shots at least and yeah he actually hooked the planes together and suspended one midair topping things off that fuselage is really falling thousands of miles to earth look out below number nine the Astro spiral jump the man with the Golden Gun my name is bond james james bond movies are known for clever gadgets beautiful women and amazing stuff work like this scene from Live and Let Die where a gutsy stop man runs across a crocodile bridge but the 360 degree barrel roll from the man with the Golden Gun is bond at his best you're not thinking I sure that boy with precise calculations from a cornell university computer professional driver bumps Willard launches an AMC hornet off a spiraled ramp does a complete corkscrew and land safely on the other side if only they hadn't included that penny whistle number eight sliding down the pole police story stunt doubles Jackie Chan doesn't believe in stunt doubles thanks to his do-it-yourself attitude he's been slashed by a sword crushed between vehicles and almost died in armor of god but this crazy stunts from police story nearly left him paralyzed Jackie slides down a 70 foot pole getting zapped by light bulbs all the way down before crashing through a sheet of glass and landing in a kiosk the stunt almost snapped his spine and left Jackie with a dislocated pelvis and second-degree burns ouch man looks cool doesn't it number seven the chariot race then her the most expensive movie of its day then her is best remembered for its 1 million dollar chariot race which saw Charlton Heston do most of his own driving but things almost ended tragically when stuff man Joe cannot filled in for the film's hero in this infamous seen cannot was going too fast and wasn't properly hooked in when his chariot bounced in the air joe went flying over the front fortunately cannot was able to drag himself back inside escaping with just a bloody chin number six the ship's mast seen death proof stop woman zoe bell has done some awesome work in films like Catwoman where she made a colossal 26-story jump yeah but Bell is most famous for her collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino not only did she double for uma thurman and kill bill she also found herself hanging onto the hood of a dodge challenger in death proof in nineteen seventy dodge challenger with a white paint job yep that's really Bell flipping and flailing around as those cars collide and there's no cgt in this crazy chase it's just one brave woman holding on for dear life number five under the truck raiders of the lost ark in 1939 yeah , cannot stunned audiences by dropping under a team of horses and the wheels of a stagecoach over four decades later steven spielberg pay tribute to the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark only this time with a 10-wheel truck Terry Leonard perform this fantastic feet but only after friend and fellow stuntman Glenn h Randall junior agreed to take the wheel a small ditch was dug underneath to help Leonard move around but if he'd made just one wrong move indiana jones would have ended up roadkill yeah number four crawling through the coal drunken master - Jackie Chan is the king of practical effect after all he's the guy who rolled over a table saw and spit chili pepper juice onto his knuckles and in this action flick Jackie almost barbecued himself to death in drunken master tues climactic fight Jackie goes flying into a pit of flaming coals and nearly catches on fire trying to scramble out a perfectionist Jackie film the scene three times before he was satisfied resulting in permanent scars and one awesome stunts number three scaling the Burj Khalifa mission impossible ghost protocol copy Tom Cruise is completely crazy when it comes to stunts anyway set outside the Burj Khalifa the world's tallest building this mind-blowing seen find him dangling over 1,700 feet in the air with the help of a few cables digitally erased later of course just try not to gasp when he lets go and plummets for two and a half stories eventually with just one rope crews runs down the building jumps over a camera and sores on crosswinds one and a half miles above the ground just don't look down tom number two the collapsing wall steamboat bill jr. a silent star with vaudeville training Buster Keaton wowed audiences with jaw-dropping stunts that it put modern-day filmmakers to shame in this iconic scene from steamboat bill jr. a giant wall Falls right on top of him but fortunately there's a window in just the right spot it looks simple but that wall wait two tons Keaton only had a few inches of clearance on either side and if he'd missed his mark the wall would have crushed him like a bug no wonder most of the crew close their eyes at least we're sure we would have if we were on the set before we unveil our top pick here are a few honorable mentions yeah yeah yeah God yeah yeah number one the clock tower fall project Jackie Chan was a fan of silent movies and our top pick pays homage to the famous clock tower seen from safety last only unlike Harold Lloyd jackie was actually three stories up in the air and then he let go Jackie tumbles 50 feet down tearing through to awnings before hitting the ground with his head unhappy with the first shot Jackie perform the stunt two more times like I don't know he even included two different takes in the final film so we can moan and groan even more do you agree with our list what's your favorite movie stunt for more amazing top tens published every day be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com I don't know
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