Brilliant video MFP. We're all lucky to have someone so dedicated to making such good programs. The 007 stunt was the first time ever a computer was used to model a stunt.
I was friends with Bob Heron's son Matt. Also played baseball with Earnest Borgnine's son Chris. Both Bob and Earnest were very upstanding men that you could look up to. My Dad happened to be in that category as well. I remember very well when Convoy came out as Matt boasted about his Dad's incredible jump.
i always prefer stunts over cgi. cgi is k and all but stunts just look cooler and it shows more passion. cgi is now a crutch for a lot of movies and it shouldn't
It's not a crutch. CGI stunts have never killed a stunt person, crew person or actor. Doing these things for real has killed many stunt people, crew member and actors (including children). So I guess the value of a human life is worth less than you having a scene shot the way you think it should be. Also, there are so many CGI shots that pass by you without you noticing that you'd be surprised to know about. Because the shots were done right. Practical shots done poorly, look bad. Just like CGI. CGI shots done right look amazing, same as practical.
Great stuff. The Chevelle in Convoy actually had a stuck throttle so the stuntman had the choice of either smashing into something hard or taking his chances doing the jump. Apparently it was supposed to land on the roof rather than sail straight through. The guy who rolled the tanker in Mad Max wasn’t a stuntman, he was a truck driver for a Mack dealership, the director had asked him months before if it was easy to roll a truck and he explained it was very easy - it happened every weekend on the highway. Much later he was told they’d written his idea for the big rollover into the script as a finale and when could he do it? So he then felt he couldn’t say no. On the first attempt he felt something was wrong and didn’t roll the truck, just as well since it transpired that due to a communication breakdown the cameras weren’t even actually filming. The second attempt went perfectly.
Thank you for your support and extra info. When the time comes to do a Brake Downs video of that chase, I will look up what you have said for 100% confirmation. Cheers.
In the interview video I saw with Heron, he did not mention the throttle sticking. I wish he did. His telling of the events mentioned he simply ran out of road. But again, he may have forgotten to mention that part. Good to know though, thank you.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions it’s a story I’ve heard several times over the years so no reason to believe it isn’t true, unless someone who was there says otherwise.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions grab yourself a copy of the 2017 book Miller and Max: George Miller and the Making of a Film by Luke Buckmaster, it’s currently on Amazon. It’ll tell you everything you need to know 😉
What I always noticed is in Hooper when the car is in the air you can so tell it’s not a 1978 Trans Am. The hood is too long and the wheelbase is longer then the Trans Am. Not sure what car it is but not a 78 Trans Am.
They used a Datsun because the Trans Am is so nose-heavy it immediately drops the front end when jumped. The 240z is much more balanced due to the passenger compartment being further to the rear. It still required extreme modification to fly that far
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Keep them coming and list of too ten racing documenteries l have seen a couple of them but l will be watching a couple of them on Tubi
Another awesome video MFP, i'm totally addicted to your content. A channel where the videos are made by a car fanatic to car fanatics, the amount of search and information in those always impress me, and i also discover some rare movies when watching your channel. Thank you so much, we are lucky to have you here, greetings from Brazil.
Thank you very much for those wonderful and kind words. Very much appreciated and it makes me want to keep doing better and making more content such as this one. Hoping for big things with this channel and to be keeping more viewer such as yourself pleased with my work. Cheers.
Thank you very much, it does me good to read such comments. Née top 10 coming up real soon along with another drive video and a car show day out. Cheers.
yet another great video! this is possibly my favorite channel right now! i watched your 10k special and i hope you are not beating yourself over the comments about your voice over. its decent, you just sound a little tense, just take a deep breath be for you start recording and remember no one is a harsher judge than your self. perhaps look in too publick speaking in order to improve. i realy belive in this channel!
Thank you very much for the kind words, I am very pleased you feel this way about my work. I hope to keep delivering high quality as much as I can. Ha ha, its funny you caught how tense I am, my friends who know me best are laughing with your observation as they know how right you are and how tense I really am. LOL. Thank you for the support and advice. I will soon be designing some shirts and other merch and loot to see what more I can do for this channel. I have a few ideas and some plans for this year once the doors open again. Cheers.
1 of the best non-cgi stunts is the car chase and Camaro flip in "No Mans Land" with Charlie Sheen/DB Sweeney. The storyline sets the tone for Point Break and the original Fast and Furious (Undercover cop, fancies girl, becomes mates with suspect etc)
How did people go into that Tarantino/Rodriguez double feature not understanding what to expect? I watched it in the Theater. Awesome car action. Had a blast watching those 2 movies.
In Europe where I saw Death Proof in the cinema, it was on its own and complete, no double bill. I liked it, but wonder what it would have been like the other way.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions It was great. 'Planet Terror' played first, followed by hilariously cheesy fake movie previews that had the whole theater cracking up (a few of which later went on to become full length movies such as 'Machete', and all can be found on YT iirc), and then going into 'Death Proof'.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions your welcome! I SUBSCRIBED MANY MOONS AGO! hehe and i binged watched all your videos already......kindly subscribe to me as i have 3 CLASSIC cars on the pipeline to be restored.! 1) a 1971 AMC Javelin AMX 360 2) a 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix, SJ-455 D.E. 3) a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba that will get a stroked 360 MOPAR with 2 turbos.. fun times! ( I will be doing a tribute video on these cars so people wont think im bullshitting..hehe)
In 1978 you could still get a Pontiac 400 in a Trans Am it wasn't until 1979 that the 403 Olds was required with an Automatic Trans Am, it was in California cars in 1978.
Only just discovered your channel and love your work. Just out of curiosity, which 'modern' films do you think get car chases right? Personally, I don't think I've seen a good one since the Bourne Ultimatum (or the Dark Knight, can't recall which was last), though Baby Driver was fun. Anyone got any recommendations for good chases that aren't utter CGI fests?
Those were some awsome stunts for sure. I have to ask,,,, why was there nothing from Transporter and Jason Statham? I could be wrong but I heard he did his own stunts.
What is it with your screen brightness level? The same thing with the Turbo Interceptor video. The part where the blue txt comes in or the car with the blue boxes, you can't see the words in the boxes or the large paragraph of words.
Dude. You either have to write less or make longer videos. Thatwayyouwon'thavetotalksofast. Still, kudos for trying to cram in as much info as possible. Good vid.
Yeah, others have pointed it out. I'm a fast thinker (overthinker) and this sounded normal speed to me. But I guess it is not. I need to keep this in mind for the next one. Cheers for the compliment.
These were more classic stunts on film. You can find several videos on my channel discussing The Dukes of Hazzard in greater detail. One of which is a test drive video of one of the promotional General Lee's from the 2005 movie. Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions I think you could do a whole episode just based on Pontiac Firebirds in movies and TV. As a kid in Sydney, I used to HATE seeing how many of them got trashed on TV and movies... now, I'm lucky enough to own a firebird.. they are quite rare and expensive here.
Great production and job bud but I would say that you should watch your diction and mumbling as it was hard to decipher what you were saying at times. Americans may think it it's not even English?
Yeah, I think my production skills surpass my verbal skills at this point. Never had to worry about the way I talk until I made this channel. Its 40 years of doing things suddenly being pointed out as being a flaw that needs fixing. I'll do what I can. Cheers.
I guess Marvel had to be included 'cause... Marvel. But that wasn't much of a stunt. Especially when later on the list is the exact same stunt performed with a rig instead of a dinky SUV. The F&F gag had also been done a thousand times before, not very impressive. One stunt that should have been on the list was the Lambo skip from "Cannonball Run". For those who have never seen it, they literally skipped a Countach across a pond like a rock.
Great list, I have 8 out of 10 of these movies on DVD. There are so many 70s movies I would add but that would make it top 25. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, glad you liked it.
Mad Max 2 a worthy number one.
What a great advertisement for Aston Martin.
Even when you try to roll it, it won't
Brilliant video MFP.
We're all lucky to have someone so dedicated to making such good programs.
The 007 stunt was the first time ever a computer was used to model a stunt.
Thank you, glad I can contribute this way.
I was friends with Bob Heron's son Matt.
Also played baseball with Earnest Borgnine's son Chris. Both Bob and Earnest were very upstanding men that you could look up to. My Dad happened to be in that category as well. I remember very well when Convoy came out as Matt boasted about his Dad's incredible jump.
Nice 10/10 film line up. So many other films made with fantastic car/truck stunts that could have been added. Great video
i always prefer stunts over cgi. cgi is k and all but stunts just look cooler and it shows more passion. cgi is now a crutch for a lot of movies and it shouldn't
It's not a crutch. CGI stunts have never killed a stunt person, crew person or actor. Doing these things for real has killed many stunt people, crew member and actors (including children). So I guess the value of a human life is worth less than you having a scene shot the way you think it should be. Also, there are so many CGI shots that pass by you without you noticing that you'd be surprised to know about. Because the shots were done right. Practical shots done poorly, look bad. Just like CGI. CGI shots done right look amazing, same as practical.
Great stuff. The Chevelle in Convoy actually had a stuck throttle so the stuntman had the choice of either smashing into something hard or taking his chances doing the jump. Apparently it was supposed to land on the roof rather than sail straight through.
The guy who rolled the tanker in Mad Max wasn’t a stuntman, he was a truck driver for a Mack dealership, the director had asked him months before if it was easy to roll a truck and he explained it was very easy - it happened every weekend on the highway. Much later he was told they’d written his idea for the big rollover into the script as a finale and when could he do it? So he then felt he couldn’t say no.
On the first attempt he felt something was wrong and didn’t roll the truck, just as well since it transpired that due to a communication breakdown the cameras weren’t even actually filming. The second attempt went perfectly.
Thank you for your support and extra info. When the time comes to do a Brake Downs video of that chase, I will look up what you have said for 100% confirmation. Cheers.
In the interview video I saw with Heron, he did not mention the throttle sticking. I wish he did. His telling of the events mentioned he simply ran out of road. But again, he may have forgotten to mention that part. Good to know though, thank you.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions it’s a story I’ve heard several times over the years so no reason to believe it isn’t true, unless someone who was there says otherwise.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions grab yourself a copy of the 2017 book Miller and Max: George Miller and the Making of a Film by Luke Buckmaster, it’s currently on Amazon. It’ll tell you everything you need to know 😉
I came here recommendation by Oliver Harper. When I find my favourite car stunt as number three, I didn't disappointed, thank you.
Thank you. Glad you liked it. Feel free to see some of my other lists and videos. Cheers.
What a fabulous presentation. Thankyou for this video! very impressive
Thank you very much for your wonderful comment. Much appreciated. New video coming out later today. Cheers.
I never thought I would ever see Death Proof be better than Fast and the Furious. Love it.
What I always noticed is in Hooper when the car is in the air you can so tell it’s not a 1978 Trans Am. The hood is too long and the wheelbase is longer then the Trans Am. Not sure what car it is but not a 78 Trans Am.
I'm sure I read somewhere that it was a model
Datsun 240z actually
They used a Datsun because the Trans Am is so nose-heavy it immediately drops the front end when jumped. The 240z is much more balanced due to the passenger compartment being further to the rear. It still required extreme modification to fly that far
Thanks mate, I enjoyed that.
Cheers.
I am glad you included the stunt the James Bond "The man with the golden gun "
Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Keep them coming and list of too ten racing documenteries l have seen a couple of them but l will be watching a couple of them on Tubi
Is this why classic car prices are so high due to so many of them lost to car stunts Great list .
Another awesome video MFP, i'm totally addicted to your content.
A channel where the videos are made by a car fanatic to car fanatics, the amount of search and information in those always impress me, and i also discover some rare movies when watching your channel.
Thank you so much, we are lucky to have you here, greetings from Brazil.
Thank you very much for those wonderful and kind words. Very much appreciated and it makes me want to keep doing better and making more content such as this one. Hoping for big things with this channel and to be keeping more viewer such as yourself pleased with my work. Cheers.
I have not watched a single one of your videos that left me disappointed. You have consistently done an excellent job. Keep up the great work.
Thank you very much, it does me good to read such comments. Née top 10 coming up real soon along with another drive video and a car show day out. Cheers.
yet another great video! this is possibly my favorite channel right now! i watched your 10k special and i hope you are not beating yourself over the comments about your voice over.
its decent, you just sound a little tense, just take a deep breath be for you start recording and remember no one is a harsher judge than your self.
perhaps look in too publick speaking in order to improve.
i realy belive in this channel!
Thank you very much for the kind words, I am very pleased you feel this way about my work. I hope to keep delivering high quality as much as I can. Ha ha, its funny you caught how tense I am, my friends who know me best are laughing with your observation as they know how right you are and how tense I really am. LOL. Thank you for the support and advice. I will soon be designing some shirts and other merch and loot to see what more I can do for this channel. I have a few ideas and some plans for this year once the doors open again. Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions You produce really great content and your expertise on these films really shows
Incredible research editing and overall presentation! loved this list, will gladly watch more like it!!
Thank you. I have great plans for this channel. Thank you for joining. Feel free to see my other movie car related videos.
So glad I subscribed
In the days of cgi when anything is possible, stunts like the hornet flip and the TA jump can't be compared to cgi.
I've seen all of these movies hundreds of times with the exception of MM2...... Seen that one about a million times! Please keep making these vids!
For clarification, the AMC add features a Matador (red) prominently; the Hornet is in the right corner in white.
Great!
Thanks U
1 of the best non-cgi stunts is the car chase and Camaro flip in "No Mans Land" with Charlie Sheen/DB Sweeney. The storyline sets the tone for Point Break and the original Fast and Furious (Undercover cop, fancies girl, becomes mates with suspect etc)
Great stuff, thanks.
Cheers.
One word: ENUNCIATE!
Seeing multiple entries on your list as semi stunts has me asking if you have done a list for them?
How did people go into that Tarantino/Rodriguez double feature not understanding what to expect? I watched it in the Theater. Awesome car action. Had a blast watching those 2 movies.
In Europe where I saw Death Proof in the cinema, it was on its own and complete, no double bill. I liked it, but wonder what it would have been like the other way.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions It was great. 'Planet Terror' played first, followed by hilariously cheesy fake movie previews that had the whole theater cracking up (a few of which later went on to become full length movies such as 'Machete', and all can be found on YT iirc), and then going into 'Death Proof'.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Just search Grindhouse Werewolf women of the ss, you'll see what I mean.
Mad Max 2 is still my favourite car chase film
This was pretty good and informative man.... Thumbs up!
Thank you. Feel free to check out my other movie car related videos on my channel and subscribe as I have new content coming out. Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions your welcome! I SUBSCRIBED MANY MOONS AGO! hehe and i binged watched all your videos already......kindly subscribe to me as i have 3 CLASSIC cars on the pipeline to be restored.!
1) a 1971 AMC Javelin AMX 360
2) a 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix, SJ-455 D.E.
3) a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba that will get a stroked 360 MOPAR with 2 turbos.. fun times!
( I will be doing a tribute video on these cars so people wont think im bullshitting..hehe)
Hooper is a great car movie!
And don't stop him, Hooper, if see him driving backwards on the Interstate, and you are a motorcycle policeman.
Good job! Subscribed!
Thank you.
Good list, one i would have liked to have seen was the beginning of 'the Beverly Hills Cop' . Totally agree with your number one though.
I wonder what the jet powered trans-am got at auction
6.6l and it gives 185bhp? Think I'll take that 2l turbo-charged 4 from the WRC.
In 1978 you could still get a Pontiac 400 in a Trans Am it wasn't until 1979 that the 403 Olds was required with an Automatic Trans Am, it was in California cars in 1978.
Massa!!!
Only just discovered your channel and love your work. Just out of curiosity, which 'modern' films do you think get car chases right? Personally, I don't think I've seen a good one since the Bourne Ultimatum (or the Dark Knight, can't recall which was last), though Baby Driver was fun. Anyone got any recommendations for good chases that aren't utter CGI fests?
Ronin?
Too many modern movies and not enough classics.
Those were some awsome stunts for sure.
I have to ask,,,, why was there nothing from Transporter and Jason Statham?
I could be wrong but I heard he did his own stunts.
Cheers. There is always room for future top 10 lists. Those films may show up later. Feel free to subscribe and stay tuned till then.
What is it with your screen brightness level? The same thing with the Turbo Interceptor video. The part where the blue txt comes in or the car with the blue boxes, you can't see the words in the boxes or the large paragraph of words.
HI there. Yes that was an older issue that has since been updated and improved now in the later videos.
The man with the Golden Gun, when the car is in the Air over the River, there is no reflection of the car on the Water, which is a bit Suspicious?
No. What about The Juggernaughts flip in the 2008 movie Death Race?
I looked at it. I did not wanna make this list too heavy on rigs. That may make it on a second stunt list, or a separate list of its own.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Okay.
ok its good stuff but do you have to add the engines
It's always good to add as much info as one can. Engines make the cars move. Seems only fair to mention which engine does what and with what capacity.
Who’s the first talking car in movie/tv from the 60s 70s 80s 90s 2000s 2010s?!
Director "Can you do this, this and this?" Stuntman "NO! But I can try". Movie comes out. Director/Stuntman "Sweet!"
You know you have an awesome charger when you slam into a big rig mid jump, do a flip, land on your wheels, and still win the race
Dukes of Hazard long jump longest in tv history.
Dude. You either have to write less or make longer videos. Thatwayyouwon'thavetotalksofast. Still, kudos for trying to cram in as much info as possible. Good vid.
Yeah, others have pointed it out. I'm a fast thinker (overthinker) and this sounded normal speed to me. But I guess it is not. I need to keep this in mind for the next one. Cheers for the compliment.
Ben Collins performed the Aston martin stunt in James Bond.
And it looked like it was filmed at Millbrook test track, in Bedfordshire, UK.
That Charger had a whole lot more horsepower then 900 . Would have around 1200 severely underrated by Dodge
If there is no Dukes of Hazard, I swear
I can’t believe you didn’t add the dukes of hazzard in this
These were more classic stunts on film. You can find several videos on my channel discussing The Dukes of Hazzard in greater detail. One of which is a test drive video of one of the promotional General Lee's from the 2005 movie. Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions oh ok cool
@@daBottman Thanks. Hope you enjoy those videos. Feel free to check out the top 10 hottest 80s ladies to see who might be number 1.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions lol alright sure will
cool stuff but please don't talk so fast
"with the likely engine option of *a Vortec 5.3-litre V8 with the 320-hp engine* " - er... an engine with an engine? 😃
Ha ha, yeah, I should take more care in how I word things. It's kinda like saying ATM machine.
MFP has to have a Mad Max film as #1... since MFP was the police force in Mad Max (the original)
Ha ha, I try to avoid it. I only had it on a number 1 spot once so far on my lists. I don't wanna be too bias.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions I think you could do a whole episode just based on Pontiac Firebirds in movies and TV. As a kid in Sydney, I used to HATE seeing how many of them got trashed on TV and movies... now, I'm lucky enough to own a firebird.. they are quite rare and expensive here.
@@peterwindle4453 There are a number of ideas I have for future videos, so that may be an option. Cheers
These are amazing BUT not as amazing as KITT's jumps in Knight Rider.
or the General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
CG?! We need no stinking CG! Lol
There used to be better movie back then too. CGI has made movie makers lazy.
Great production and job bud but I would say that you should watch your diction and mumbling as it was hard to decipher what you were saying at times. Americans may think it it's not even English?
Yeah, I think my production skills surpass my verbal skills at this point. Never had to worry about the way I talk until I made this channel. Its 40 years of doing things suddenly being pointed out as being a flaw that needs fixing. I'll do what I can. Cheers.
No one stayed for death proof because planet terror was so terrible.
Death proof shouldn't have ended like that, it doesn't make sense. Mere mortals can't get the drop on Kurt russel
I guess Marvel had to be included 'cause... Marvel. But that wasn't much of a stunt. Especially when later on the list is the exact same stunt performed with a rig instead of a dinky SUV. The F&F gag had also been done a thousand times before, not very impressive. One stunt that should have been on the list was the Lambo skip from "Cannonball Run". For those who have never seen it, they literally skipped a Countach across a pond like a rock.
You will find that Cannonball Fever skip mentioned in "Forgotten Car Chase Movies Part 2"
You need a new microphone
Why, you wanna buy me one?
@@MFPMapFilmProductions .. lol .. great videos
@@bizzjoe ha ha, fair enough. Can't win everything.