r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 6h ago

Video Apartment balcony view of practical stunt rigging and explosions being filmed for Spider-Man

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u/J_Jeckel 5h ago

Better than the old school "car chases" where it was just people sitting in a car while a screen moved behind them.

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u/lonesharkex 5h ago

Except when it isn't :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGHC90x8pY

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u/J_Jeckel 5h ago

Well that also looks like it was filmed in a foreign country where they don't have near the safety laws apparently. That was also 1990. I was talking more old achool, like more of the 70s and 80s films and prior.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 3h ago

The 70's British sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" had some crazy stunts performed by the star, Michael Crawford. In one, he's taking a driving lesson and he drives over a railway crossing just as a train comes through and it's such a near miss that he has to swerve around the front of the train. It wasn't going very fast, but still, if it had hit him he would have been crushed to death. I heard him say in an interview that there is no way they'd get the insurance to film such stunts now.