Skydiving in Movies

[Jasmin 0]

From another thread but thought it might deserve its own. Yes, we know its usually crap but here goes anyway! (These conatin skydiving of soem variety)
Drop Zone
Fandango (priceless 10 minutes)
Terminal Velocity
Tomorrow Never Dies (HALO jump)
XXX
Power Rangers (Some of it isreal)
Point Break
Honeymoon in Vegas
Danny Deckchair
Charlie's Angels (Remake)
What have I missed? I know there was another 007 movie....

xj

"I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

[AggieDave 6]

Moonraker, if I remember correctly. If it isn't that one, its another one of the 007 movies with "Jaws" in it.

And how could you forget Cutaway, our very own skydiving porn film (bad acting, shitty plot, lots of skydiving: skydiving porn).

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[bluefingers 0]

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And how could you forget Cutaway, our very own skydiving porn film (bad acting, shitty plot, lots of skydiving: skydiving porn).

Isn't that the one where the guy was doing head-downs on like his fifth jump??????!???

Kerry

[ernokaikkonen 0]

>Isn't that the one where the guy was doing head-downs on like
>his fifth jump??????!???

Yes, and with a ball too! But remember he had lots of tunnel time. Which wouldn't help him with the CF he was doing the next jump...

I actually found "Cutaway" rather entertaining...

[joshjumps 0]

Don't forget Gyspy Moths the "original" film about skydiving. Released in 1969 it's about to be released on DVD here in the US.
Blues,
Josh

[petur 0]

I'm not surprised you guys "forgot" the movie Out Cold (hint: Don't rent it!). One scene shows a guy having a dream about jumping from a helicopter, snowboarding down a hill and over a cliff, and then deploying a parachute and landing on top of a ski lift.

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P.
"It Hurts to Admit When You Make Mistakes -
But When They're Big Enough, the Pain Only Lasts a Second."

[Skyrad 0]

Jamsmin, hi from sunny Wimbledon!
You didn't mention the Spy who loved me. The opening sequence ends up with Bond skiing off the edge of a cliff and opening a Union flag on his parachute.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Skyrad 0]

Oh yea there was also a Timothy Dalton Bond film where they go out of the back of a C130 over Gibralter.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[cpoxon 0]

If you do an Internet Movie Database word search on the keyword "skydiving" it returns this list:

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[LI]Adventures in Wild California (2000) 7.4/10 (23 votes) ...aka MacGillivray Freeman's Adventures in Wild California (2000) (USA: complete title)
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[LI]Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) 5.1/10 (224 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Bridge Too Far, A (1977) 6.9/10 (2699 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Congo (1995) 4.3/10 (5244 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Cutaway (2000) 5.7/10 (160 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold (1990) 4.1/10 (253 votes) ...aka Delta Force II: The Colombian Connection (1990)
[/LI]
[LI]Drop Zone (1994) 5.5/10 (1740 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Eraser (1996) 5.9/10 (8668 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Fandango (1985) 6.3/10 (1177 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Fathom (1967) 5.0/10 (103 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Gypsy Moths, The (1969) 5.8/10 (125 votes)[/LI]
[LI]H.O.T.S. (1979) 3.5/10 (226 votes) ...aka T & A Academy (1979)
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[LI]Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) 6.0/10 (2254 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Lurah dendam (1996) ...aka Valley of Vengeance (1996) (Malaysia: English title)
[/LI]
[LI]Moonraker (1979) 5.9/10 (5232 votes) ...aka Moonraker (1979) (France)
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[LI]Point Break (1991) 6.4/10 (6474 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Proof (1980)[/LI]
[LI]Siesta (1987) 5.2/10 (356 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Skydivers, The (1963) 1.6/10 (255 votes) ...aka Fiend from Half Moon Bay (1963) (USA)
...aka Panic at Half Moon Bay (1963) (USA)
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[LI]Tejing xinrenlei (1999) 6.3/10 (229 votes) ...aka Gen-X Cops (1999) (Hong Kong: English title) (International: English title: literal title)
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[LI]Terminal Velocity (1994) 5.3/10 (1421 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Thin Air (1969) 3.9/10 (19 votes) ...aka Body Stealers, The (1969)
...aka Invasion of the Body Stealers (1969)
...aka Out of Thin Air (1969) (Europe: English title: video title)
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[LI]XXX (2002) 6.3/10 (2649 votes) ...aka Triple X (2002) (USA: informal English title)
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[cpoxon 0]

And this is what you get if you search for parachute:

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[LI]Back to Freedom (1988)[/LI]
[LI]Benny's Video (1992) 6.8/10 (169 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Carmen Jones (1954) 6.6/10 (266 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Carrotblanca (1995) 8.1/10 (38 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Columbo: Swan Song (1974) (TV) 7.7/10 (67 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Daffy - the Commando (1943) 8.1/10 (27 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Fantômas se déchaîne (1965) 6.0/10 (150 votes) ...aka Fantomas Strikes Back (1965)
...aka Fantomas minaccia il mondo (1965) (Italy)
...aka Fantômas contre Interpol (1965)
...aka Fantômas revient (1965)
...aka Vengeance of Fantomas, The (1965)
[/LI]
[LI]Goofy's Glider (1940) 6.2/10 (8 votes)[/LI]
[LI]H.O.T.S. (1979) 3.5/10 (226 votes) ...aka T & A Academy (1979)
[/LI]
[LI]Hairied and Hurried (1965) 4.4/10 (5 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Hare Lift (1952) 7.2/10 (12 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Jagdrevier der scharfen Gemsen (1975) ...aka Faraway Fantasy (1983) (USA: video title)
...aka Has Anybody Seen My Pants? (1975) (USA)
...aka Mei Hos ist in Heidelberg gelieben (1975)
...aka Oh Schreck mei Hos' is weg (1975) (West Germany)
[/LI]
[LI]John Tranum (1935)[/LI]
[LI]Jurassic Park III (2001) 5.9/10 (10623 votes) ...aka JP3 (2000) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
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[LI]Out and Out Rout (1966)[/LI]
[LI]Sky Trooper (1942) 6.8/10 (5 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Syphon Filter 2 (2000) (VG) ...aka SF2 (2000) (VG) (USA: short title)
[/LI]
[LI]Top Secret! (1984) 6.7/10 (4768 votes)[/LI]
[LI]Your Mother Wears Combat Boots (1989) (TV) 5.8/10 (17 votes)[/LI]
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[indyz 1]

Navy SEALS has a HALO scene with a cutaway about halfway through the film.

[cpoxon 0]

Moonraker

[cpoxon 0]

The Spy Who Loved Me

[cpoxon 0]

Living Daylights

[petur 0]

Wow, sounds like a cool skydiving movie

[URL "http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057507"]Skydivers, The (1963)[/URL]
"A couple own an airfield which makes its money on skydiving in the middle of New Mexico. They are having marital problems because the man is cheating on his wife, but remains true to his wife. The woman he is cheating with is jealous of the man's wife, so she seduces another guy to conspire with her to kill him. Meanwhile, the wife is cheating on the cheating husband with the husband's old Army buddy..."

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P.
"It Hurts to Admit When You Make Mistakes -
But When They're Big Enough, the Pain Only Lasts a Second."

[Kinaa 0]

And this one - Operation Dumbo Drop

[pilotdave 0]

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I know there was another 007 movie....

Bunch of skydiving clips from various james bond movies in the /James Bond/ folder on my site.

Golden Eye (chases a porter off a cliff, catches in in freefall)
Living Daylights (parachutes out of a freefalling car, lands on a boat)
Moonraker (the classic fight in freefall for the single parachute)
The Spy Who Loved Me (Skis off a cliff, opens round)
Tomorrow Never Dies (HALO jump into water)

Dave

[SkyDolphin 0]

Austin Powers Goldmember.

[howardwhite 4]

"Don't forget Gyspy Moths the "original" film about skydiving."

The first 15 or 20 minutes are great, but then there's a very love scene (about three hours) followed by some more skydiving stuff. The outtakes (if they're like the ones that came with the original) are worth the price of the DVD.

Then there are the old "real" skydiving movies, 16 mm, mostly by Carl Boenish and Norm Kent. We showed them at the DZ on a bad weather day a couple of weeks ago. RW in jumpsuits which would now be (and are) FF suits. ParaCommander accuracy. A dozen jumpers on top of a Beech 18. Two jumpers in freefall going through a C9 canopy. If you jump at Elsinore, you need to seek out some of these films as part of your heritage.

HW

[Stik 0]

Raquel Welch in "Fathom"

[quade 3]

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Wow, sounds like a cool skydiving movie

Skydivers, The (1963)

The good version isn't the original, but the MST3K version. Good for a laugh or two.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[skybytch 259]

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the MST3K version. Good for a laugh or two.

A laugh or two? My sides hurt for days after I saw that one the first time.

[Frogger 0]

Don't forget Mission Impossible (2, I think) Skydiving escape from a jet AND a base jump!
Frogger

[skypuppy 1]

What about the one where BJ Worth jumped off the Eiffel Tower and landed on a boat? Was it Live and Let Die?
The Three Stooges did some good ones, too.

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

[skypuppy 1]

The movie 'If you could see what I hear' with Natalie Cole. A real B movie. My buddy Frogman did the scene where this blind guy goes skydiving and comes down following radio instructions.
There's a neat 4 or 5 minute section in the silent 'Wings' where two pairs of German observers bail out of their balloons just before the hero shoot them up. (It's a long movie otherwise)

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone