Ladies and gentlemen! Even more difficult! (may contain spoilers)

shilsen said:
Bah - You silly Westerners have no idea what a contrived and over the top stunt is! Come and check out some Indian movies and I'll show you what that really means. Here are a few examples:

* In the Bengali movie Avinash, starring Mithun Chakraborty. He's playing a character who has a brain tumor that gives him amnesia and super powers (don't ask!). Someone shoots him in the head, and the bullet passes into his brain on one side and out the other, taking the tumor with it.

* Another Bengali movie, same hero. He's fighting two guys but only has one bullet. He fires the gun and hurls a knife, which splits the bullet in mid-air, letting it hit both targets.

* Tamil movie, starring Rajnikant. There's a villain on one side of a wall too high to scale (though Rajnikant has regularly leaped short buildings in other movies), so Rajnikant throws a gun in the air and shoots its trigger with another gun, making the first one fire in mid-air over the wall and kill the bad guy.

Behold the AWESOMENESS!
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I think you win.

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You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
 

Mark CMG said:
You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
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Win!*



*Inconceivable as it is.
 

Thanee said:
James Bond diving after a plane, which is racing towards the ground in a mountain gorge (hope that's the right word?), entering the plane mid-air and getting it back to level and up before hitting the ground.
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I found this highly entertaining. It's probably my all time favorite stunt. The most contrived stunt in my opinion is when Ethan Hunt hangs under a helicopter rushing headlong towards a speeding TGV in a tunnel and when Ethan lets go he flies toward the train and manages to latch on while the helicopter crashes inches behind him in a great ball of fire. Needless to say, Tom Cruise makes it. -Did I even get the sequences right? I can't remember.

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lrsach01 said:
Let me get this straight...
1. Magical Compass
2. Undead
3. Ship that moves unnaturally fast and has creepy smoke
4. Cursed gold
5. Tentacle-bearded, cursed pirate
6. Living heart kept in chest
7. ANOTHER cursed ship that can also travel underwater
8. reincarnated pirate

All of these happened in the first two movies (I won't spoil the third) and there is COMPLAINING about an impossibly balanced, Jackie Chan-esque sword fight?

Oh brother....;)
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D00d, I've been thinking the same thing for the past week or so. Did these people not actually see the same movies that I was watching? I mean people are saying that the 3rd one goes too far into fantasy. I was like WTF?!? They were already fantasy films to begin with. I'm glad that at least one person sees that.
 

Frostmarrow said:
I found this highly entertaining. It's probably my all time favorite stunt. The most contrived stunt in my opinion is when Ethan Hunt hangs under a helicopter rushing headlong towards a speeding TGV in a tunnel and when Ethan lets go he flies toward the train and manages to latch on while the helicopter crashes inches behind him in a great ball of fire. Needless to say, Tom Cruise makes it. -Did I even get the sequences right? I can't remember.

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For the most part you got the sequence right. He's hanging onto the helecopter and slaps the explosive onto the cockpit window. He jumps from the helecopter just before it explodes. He's actually in mid jump when the copter does explode and the scene implies that the concussive force of the explosion sends Ethan flying onto the back of the train.

I don't know I found that entire set piece pretty entertaining and kind of cool. Fake as hell, yes but fun and well executed none the less.
 

shilsen said:
Bah - You silly Westerners have no idea what a contrived and over the top stunt is! Come and check out some Indian movies and I'll show you what that really means. Here are a few examples:

* In the Bengali movie Avinash, starring Mithun Chakraborty. He's playing a character who has a brain tumor that gives him amnesia and super powers (don't ask!). Someone shoots him in the head, and the bullet passes into his brain on one side and out the other, taking the tumor with it.

* Another Bengali movie, same hero. He's fighting two guys but only has one bullet. He fires the gun and hurls a knife, which splits the bullet in mid-air, letting it hit both targets.

* Tamil movie, starring Rajnikant. There's a villain on one side of a wall too high to scale (though Rajnikant has regularly leaped short buildings in other movies), so Rajnikant throws a gun in the air and shoots its trigger with another gun, making the first one fire in mid-air over the wall and kill the bad guy.

Behold the AWESOMENESS!
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WINNAH!!!

OK, now I have to see these movies.
 

Transporter 2 when the main character has a bomb strapped to the bottom of his car. He runs the right side wheels up a ramp to jump the car and start it in a rotation. In mid air, a nearby crane knocks the bomb off the bottom of the car. The bomb explodes and the driver lands the car safely on all four wheels.
 

Pick a scene in:

ANY movie where someone falls more than 10' and saves themselves (and often others) by grabbing onto the tree root/rock outcropping/widget below.

ANY movie where anyone outruns the face of an explosion of any kind. Often cool/fun. But silly on its very face.

ANY movie where energizer bunny heroes get shot many times, but a jacknife in the chest drops others in their tracks like being hit with a sledgehammer.

ANY movie where someone leaps a chasm more than 20' wide, especially with an ice axe as their intended means of gaining purchase of the far side.

ANY movie where a car changes elevation by more than 10', does not land evenly on 4 wheels (especially regarding impacts at an angle greater than, say, 5 or 10 degrees) and yet remains not only driveable, but likely to continue to outhandle pursuers.

ANY movie where a car drives any distance on only 2 wheels.

ANY movie where the hero, in the last reel, after having been beaten, shot, stabbed, hung, electrocuted, blown up, fallen from buildings, burned, poisoned, and run marathon distances STILL hands out asswhoopings to bad guys who are rested, uninjured, and on their guard. Again, fun, but dead silly on the face of it.


That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I won't bother to even TRY to add up the number of movies these apply to.
 


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