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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-06-11 08:01 PM
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Do you have a favorite James Bond stunt?
Edited on Sun Nov-06-11 08:05 PM by Archae
Here's mine, from "The Spy Who Loved Me."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw77HagbeHM

And this one from "Octopussy" is a close second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feoiwE05vpA&feature=related
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-06-11 08:20 PM
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1. James Bond doing it with lesbian Pussy Galore.
How did he pull off THAT stunt??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPIWBNB7XLI
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 12:56 AM
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5. Hey man, he's JAMES FUCKING BOND!
Hell YEAH!
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freshwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-06-11 11:14 PM
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2. Brosnan flys off a cliff on a motorcycle and ends up inside a plane. That's true Hollywood!!
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 12:22 AM
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4. Can't forget the bungee jump at the very beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVlOwpvZG4

The opening 220 m (720 ft) bungee jump at Archangel, shot at the Verzasca Dam in Switzerland and performed by Wayne Michaels, was voted the best movie stunt of all time in a 2002 Sky Movies poll, and set a record for the highest bungee jump off a fixed structure. The ending of the pre-credits sequence with Bond jumping after the airplane features Jacques 'Zoo' Malnuit riding the motorcycle to the edge and jumping, and B.J. Worth diving after the plane - which was a working aircraft, with Worth adding that part of the difficulty of the stunt was the kerosene flying on his face.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 12:21 AM
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3. How about a few, starting with the spiral jump in "The Man With the Golden Gun"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0VF6s-UYU

Then the scaffolding scene in Quantum of Solace (to me the best Bond film ever, and screw the dissenters):
Sort of Tarzan meets Cirque du Soliel in a Renaissance bell tower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6XQHYC_d_k

And the Citroen chase scene in For Your Eyes Only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEn4fcg3S3g&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL4DC6756B15815916
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 12:58 AM
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6. That spiral jump was for real, not a camera trick.
Maybe the most awesome movie stunt of all time!
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 01:38 AM
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7. I *LOVE* the opening black & white scene from Casino Royale.
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Major Nikon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 03:00 AM
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8. The one where they slipped in a guy as one of the bond girls
Appropriately named, the movie was For Your Eyes Only.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 05:02 AM
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9. Caroline "Tula" Cossey was actually, genetically, neither male nor female.
She had a variant of Klinefelter's Syndrome which gave her two extra X chromosomes instead of one, which actually made her both female "XX" and male "XY" at the same time.

Although she was raised a male, she always felt like a female and had sexual reassignment surgery several years before she appeared in For Your Eyes Only.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 06:50 AM
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10. my favorite is this one
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 10:51 AM
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11. Jumping the motorcycle over the helicopter blades
in Tomorrow Never Dies. Makes me woozy to watch it. Amazing stunt.
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OriginalGeek Donating Member (589 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 02:12 PM
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12. Spiral jump was my second favorite
but THIS is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXi3W57FVc

Because we had that exact same boat and I used to dream of my stepfather driving it off a waterfall. Sans hang glider.

He was always mad the gubmint wouldn't let him put torpedos on ours.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 08:57 PM
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13. I can't remember which one it was in but in the opening scene he skied off a cliff and a parachute
opened...of course it was the british flag.
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