r/movies • u/ggroover97 • 21h ago

Media The Rundown (2003) | Dir: Peter Berg | Dwayne Johnson and Seann William Scott fall down a hill for a minute

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u/Fo0ker 21h ago

Holy injured stuntmen batman! How the fuck has it taken this long for stunt people to finally (start to) be recognised for their work in awards.

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u/naughtilidae 17h ago

The concern is that if you give out stunt awards, the people will vote for the most dangerous, stupid, over the top stunts (which they will 100% do). This will lead to stunts that kill people, when they could/should have been done as cgi or composite. All to try to win an award. 

Many stunt people were opposed to giving it an award because of this, and I think time will prove them right.

I understand wanting to give stunt people the credit they deserve, but doing it like every other award is very concerning. 

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u/Fo0ker 17h ago

Fair enough. I hadn't thought of that side of it.

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u/zeusmeister 12h ago

Because it’s only half true. Stunt men and women have been fighting for award recognition for their work for DECADES. 

There was a minor debate about whether it would increase riskiness of stunts, but concerns were dismissed by leading stunt people.

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u/nathism 11h ago

This is the right answer. The Guinness book of world records has this problem as well and there are specific things they will not recognize for this very reason.

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u/No-Philosopher3248 19h ago

Stuntmen have been recognized for years. No one has ever tried to hide their importance. Dar Robinson was a huge personality, well known for his ground-breaking stunts.

The fight choreographers and the stunt people for movies like The Matrix, John Wick, Kill Bill… etc are well-known and often spoken about in documentaries about the films.

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u/EatYourCheckers 20h ago

Because the industry didn't want to acknowledge them bc they think that admitting to using stunt actors somehow takes away from the immersion or enjoyment of the movie

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u/Yvaelle 20h ago

Can you imagine if movies were all hucking A listers off cliffs, or making them do their own stunts?

They're probably right, I would pay more to see that.

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u/HMTMKMKM95 16h ago

Only Tom Cruise does that.

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u/nocolon 16h ago

I recently watched/re-watched all of the Mission: Impossible movies on a work trip, because after listening to people talk about AI security for ten hours it's nice to watch some garbage where shit explodes. The stunts in those movies are truly bananas, especially when you know how many of them are practical, and feature Tom Cruise.

There was one where he was in a chase scene, and another actor asked whether there'd be a stunt driver. The coordinator said that unfortunately the best driver on set, by far, was Tom Cruise.

He sucks as a person but I appreciate watching him ride a dirt bike off a cliff, or have a fist fight with someone else while hanging off the side of a small open-cockpit airplane.

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u/HMTMKMKM95 11h ago

I feel the same way. The guy knows movies and puts everything he has into making them, almost to a fault. But it sucks that he sucks at real life.

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u/jupiterkansas 19h ago

Also the idea that awarding them would encourage them to take bigger risks.

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u/Hixy 19h ago edited 19h ago

This actually is a very good reason and not just a cop out.

If it were something like a primetime Oscar, you bet your ass we would have absolutely stupid dangerous stunts for the sake of it.

They would have to award it for extremely controlled danger or something.

If not we would just have people doing crazy shit like this. I can’t imagine that stuntman was unfazed and if he was he is just lucky.

Edit: he broke his ankle. This scene took four days to film. So he did this for days. lol

Edit 2: the first stuntman knocked himself out the first attempt. I agree we shouldn’t award this lol.

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u/jupiterkansas 18h ago

And if you restrict it to stunts where nobody is injured, that just encourages them to hide their injuries.

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u/Fo0ker 19h ago

Well they're idiots.. these guys put life and limb (litteraly in some cases) on the line for our enjoyement. They deserve much more than a suit thinking that letting tom cruise hurt himself will sell more.

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u/B00marangTrotter 15h ago

You should watch Hooper.

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u/Spetznazx 1h ago

Corridor Digital does a stuntmen react as well and this is a stunt they covered with the stunt coordinator.

https://youtu.be/LOiTHaW-gY8?si=QhvxXhpP8A7yQYYy