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I saw a picture of Ben Affleck's fat stunt double on the new John Woo film PAYCHECK and he looks right on the money... but it reminded me of some of the worst stunt doubles I have ever seen. Namely the doubles for Travolta and Cage during the motorboat chase in FACE/OFF. Even on a 12" black and white TV it's glaringly obvious they're different people. Arnold's double during the horse chase in TRUE LIES and his double for the motorcycle jump in T2. For a so called "perfectionist" Cameron sure has a disturbing penchant for shooting stunt doubles head on and leaving the takes run until you are SURE to notice it's a double. But my all time favorite has gotta be the stunt double for the dirtbike chase in The Thing With Two Heads. I guess if it's any kind of chase scene on something you ride the stunt doubles are destined suck.

― PVC (peeveecee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

my spelling and hand control have gone right out the window. at any rate here's a link to the Affleck double pics
http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/pages/payset2.htm

― PVC (peeveecee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The male breakdancer for Jennifer Beals in Flashdance isn't strictly a stunt double. But generally any chunky bloke they get to doible for a woman just by slapping a wig on and hoping the explosion will distract us usually covers this.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

the stunt double for bob elliot in chris elliot's "action family".

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

just remembered the double for joanna cassidy in Blade Runner -- when she's getting shot and running through the glass in slo-mo. Bad wig, her hair isn't even in the same style. Probably the worst ever.

― PVC (peeveecee), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i keep picturing random "guy in a firesuit" scenes but i can't match them to any movies. that's probably not a very fair thing to pick on anyway though.

(except for the one in red dragon = lamest flaming-man-stuck-in-a-wheelchair EVER)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

jones -- heheh.

Now I'm gonna be obsessed with man in firesuit scenes until I can think of a specific example.

― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me of a really hilariously bad scene in Ghost Ship that I just tried to describe and then realized there was no way I could get you people to laugh about it if you haven't seen the movie.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

slutzky -- try anyway -- because there's no way in hell I'm ever gonna watch Ghost Ship... tick.... tick... dammit (gets in car drives to video store and rents Ghost Ship).

― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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