World Record Stunt Driver Rates 10 Car Stunts In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Three-time Global Rallycross champion and record-holding stunt driver Tanner Foust rates 10 car-chase scenes in movies, such as "No Time to Die" and "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," for realism.
Foust breaks down the realism of racing on different surfaces in "No Time to Die" (2021), "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), and "Die Another Day" (2002), with Pierce Brosnan. He also looks at the accuracy of car-stunt techniques in "Transporter 3" (2008), "The Dukes of Hazzard" (2005), and "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" (2015), starring Tom Cruise. He looks at whether scenes are real or done with the help of CGI in "Free Guy" (2021), "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977), and "Police Story" (1985), starring Jackie Chan. He also breaks down his own drifting techniques in "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" (2006).
Foust has been a race car and stunt driver for over 25 years. He is a three-time US rallycross champion, four-time X Games gold medalist, and two-time Formula Drift champion. He also holds multiple world records, including the longest jump in a four-wheel vehicle, which was 332 feet. He was also a cohost of the American version of the motor television series "Top Gear."
You can follow Tanner Foust here:
Website: tannerfoust.com/
Instagram: / tannerfoust
Disclaimer: This video features car stunts performed by professionals. Please do not attempt to recreate or reenact any car stunt or activity performed in this video.
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World Record Stunt Driver Rates 10 Car Stunts In Movies And TV | How Real Is It?
I'm not even particularly interested in cars or car racing, but Insider does such a great job of finding charismatic, interesting experts I was hooked the whole time anyway.
Tanner Foust is a bad mofo
@@jasonsantiago6308 just based on his commentary, I can tell you're right.
@@cleverusername9369 I envy these guys that can live at 200 mph, there's clearly a freedom in it
He use to host a show called top gear america. It was good but america didn't care.
@@soukkhanhsila134 if it's not Clarkson, Hammond, and May, it ain't Top Gear
Tanner is such a great host. It would be awesome to get him with Rutledge and Adam for one of these too
I just want Tanner to compete on The Floor is Lava
Eh, Rutledge and Adam are enthusiasts. Tanner is a DRIVER. They can give stats and driving experience, only Tanner can really speak to how realistic something is.
@@scottmckellin1241 Clearly his sarcasm goes way over your head. He's making a pun of Top Gear USA. A show LITERALLY hosted by those 3. No thank you, captain obvious.
@@radityaindera3442 I'm well aware of that. Far too many people think a show hosted by three car enthusiasts means they are all as knowledgeable about cars as their real single expert driver. Top Gear UK, sure, Clarkson can drive, but Hammond is their real expert driver there.
The other two were forgettable imo along with the entire American Top Gear spin-off....but Tanner was probably the one good thing about that show imo. It was nice to have an actual drivers perspective taking part, and gave the show an aspect OG Top Gear didnt even have.
It’s been a pleasure to see Tanner’s growth as a person from watching his Formula D races. This was a real treat Insider. Thanks!
You mean Formula D right?
On the technical side - Tanner is spot on! And is really enjoyable to learn from his analysis. He clearly knows what he is talking about.
But as far as ratings are concerned, it was way overrated - he was probably trying to be nice - as he certainly knows a lot of people envolved in almost all those movies.
Agree. If we're talking it's doable. Well... It is, because it's literally done (as a stunt). In terms of reality I think we should think whether this could happen IRL the way it's happening in the movie. Which are 2 completely different thing. Some of these should be 3/10 at best.
I've found some of their analysts to be really generous or really critical. In this case, I think really generous, but I'm with your first point: my real entertainment from it was his breakdown of the technical side.
15:50 i don't know, i think he's completely wrong. It's the weight of the front engine that push the nose of the car down, not the rear spring.... It was a common practice to sandbag the rear in rally to be sure that the nose stay up on long jump....
@@TakumiFujiwara80 Do you know who Tanner Foust is?
interesting point, he even spoke about knowing the driver in one movie, and he drove in another. I think I prefer these breakdowns when it's someone completely unrelated to entertainment.
Dude, no car chase will ever out-do The Blues Brothers. It scores 13/10 for realism and 42/10 for unrealism.
Yeah I think there was a big difference between the older stunt drivers of the 70's and 80's vs a newer breed like this host. Like the car flip in The Man With The Golden Gun, Smokey and the Bandit, Mad Max 1 & 2, Bullitt, The French Connection. The Blues Brothers you mentioned was amazing and fun for sure love that movie. I think this host is too generous with his scores all the green screen stuff added now its not the same vs the older cars.
HB Halicki (Gone in Sixty Seconds among others) destroyed so many cars. They're older movies so sometimes that era of theatrics plays into them, but still good car movies!
It's 106 miles to Chicago
We got a full tank of gas
half a pack of cigarettes
It's dark
and we're wearing sunglasses
Hit it!
@@bartsullivan4866 I don't think his ratings was how good they were, but how feasible they could actually be done in real life.
@@bartsullivan4866 Like 99% of w hat he covered wasn´t done with a green screen. The tricks themselves were done with real drivers, doofus.
"it was completely impossible, the driver probably would have died, and took 17 takes to put the one scene together.....i'll give it a 8.5"
Still can't be mad at him. He just gave everyone and everything it's own credit. Probably not the most valuable rating, but certainly very exciting to get all that background information
Yeah, I had the feeling that he didn't quite understand the rating system, but he still had some great insights into practical driving effects, so I'd give him an 8.5/10.
he was far too lenient
His ratings felt completely biased but he did do a great job explaining everything going on before it. Weird watching this one after coming from the newest one where Gretchen Benedix did the same but gave mostly 1's.
@@jeffreymonsell659 Dude be like: "I don't care if it's realistic, it looks freaking cool I'd give it a 9"
Tanner is an amazing teacher and person who acts like he hasn't been a part of some of the best stunts out there!
Ive met Tanner a couple times back when he was doing Formula D drifting. Super nice guy, stopped to take pictures with us, sign things talked to us about the cars. Just overall cool guy.
You're not the first person I've seen this from. Heard he always make time to talk and take pictures with fans.
Please do a part 2, the insights to how they do it are so addictive.
He is like a popular teacher, giving all the students good marks 🙂
He knows everything, his insights into every scene just shows how much experience he has.
He certainly passed the test by giving Smokey and the Bandit a solid 10 😄
But then not saying "The original Gone in 60 Seconds" for best chase caused him to flunk the class altogether.
He confuses things between the realism of the scene with an excellent stunt job. He explains very well and gave a lot of details about the stunts and from his explanation, you can conclude that almost all of the scenes seen in the movies are too far from reality
We would love to see Tan do a Pt.2!
yes please!
And 3 😂
Do a part 2 and have him watch Bullitt!
Tanner is awesome and Top Gear is one of my favorites..glad he's doing this
Tanner is by far my favorite Driver/TV personally to watch.
tanner foust is one of my childhood hero’s. mans is a spectacular driver
mine too -- my tv channels showed american top gear first before the real one due to copyright
... heroes* (plural, no apostrophe).* The man* is a spectacular driver.*
Finally, someone praises Die Another Day! I love that car chase and I absolutely love the Vanquish... so beautiful (it also appeared in the first Tomb Raider movie).
It's like we're...family.
also the frozen lagoon they drove on is also in the first tomb raider movie
also the fact it got an 8,5 over No time to Die that got an 8, hahaha. well deserved! pulling off that car chase on the ice was amazing
I know it's 5 decades plus earlier, but Tanner could've talked about the movie chase scene, that pretty much started the buzz in adrenaline on gasoline - 'Bullit' !
This is my all time Car stunt reviews. Foust put quality detailed how and why information that paints very real pictures of the outcome per scene. Great review.
With the Free Guy scene it is kinda important that they didn't use something like a Dodge Challenger bc those things understeer like crazy. I'm a Dodge fan at heart but it's good they chose something with better handling for that scene
I remember watching Tanner the first years of Formula D and D1. Cheers to actually having the guy who drove a stunt in the list! Great video, probably the best hosted one yet!
Any corpo segment has 10 stage staff standing right in front of him for interview...and none of them helped to flatten his hair twiggle. Ingrates
"Really not that realistic, the car would have fallen on its roof, not even with blind luck could they have made it down in one go, they probably had to piece the sequence together... I'll give it 9 out of 10 for realism."
Reaslist as in "could it be done with a real car ?" and since most of these are practical effects, the answer is always yes.
@@oneoranota That's the thing though. The stunts may all be practical, but they're pieced together by loads of different shots and aided by all sorts of movie trickery. The point should be - could this whole scene have happened in real life as it did in the movie, which the answer to is hardly a solid yes with any of these. I feel like 100% realistic would be a 10, plausible should be a 5, and not realistic, like the last one, a 1 or 2.
But it did actually do an endo on screen, so that's realistic 😂
@@Tejech exactly. Iirc in the clip with Tom Cruise from MI the car hits the ground and flips over multiple times. No one would have survived in that car or had at least heavy injuries. Same with the clip from Transporter. If you cant flip the car its a 5/10 tops.
@@ZedsDeadZD That's my thinking. I feel like what he's rating is the execution of the stunts and how realistic they make the scene look, rather than how realistic it would be to actually do the whole thing in real life. Maybe he misunderstood. Still, a very knowledgeable guy.
I feel I have different meaning of "realism" than the expert.
Right, he focusses too much on the actual driving on its own, but hardly ever if it was possible in the given situation. If they have to spray the road with a sticky substance to make a car go safely around a corner that's unrealistic. And most car chaces would be over as soon as only one of the involved cars would only slightly hit the brakes only once.
best video ive seen in a while. did not know about Tanner but man does he know about cars and driving them. Super cool!!! thanks for the valuable content.
Couldnt give 2 shits less about cars and racing but this guys talked about the physics of it or WHY things happen and thats much more up my ally. For instance him talking about how when a car goes nose first off an edge, the back springs on the rear wheels are loaded and it tends to spring the back of the car up and make it dive nose was really interesting and I never put 2 and 2 together.
... up my alley*
Thanks Tanner! Loved your reviews of these. Still love your record-setting climb up Mt. Washington in NH!
This guy is pretty generous with his scoring.
“This car goes flying extremely high and it’s too dangerous to have a real driver, but here the characters just bounce their head once upon landing. Anyway I worked on this film. 9 and a half out of 10.”
And former Top Gear USA host!
(He was on the regular Top Gear on the episode right before Jeremy punched the producer but....anyway.)
The guys on top gear USA all seem nice, but that show just didn’t do it for me
Top Gear US and the new Top Gear are awful. You can't have top gear without the boys.
@@ploopy8780 agreed
@@narutobroken I thought Top Gear USA developed into its own thing which was pretty fun.
They lacked Adam Carolla who was originally meant to be in the place of Adam Ferrara. The show needed more bite but it was decent.
Top Gear Australia stunk though and Ive not watched the new Top Gear.
@@engared grand tour is great
Tanner a brilliant driver, very much my driving role model. Highly respect this guy for sure
The one stunt chase that always gets me is in the movie James Bond Man with the golden gun, the spiral bridge jump. When I found out that the stunt man did show up for the stunt and the mechanic of the cars did the jump in one take.
This is a pretty nice rating, almost all movies passed with flying colors. I'm so happy Tokyo Drift got the recognition it so rightfully deserves. The breakdown of the car chases is top-notch.
TANNER FOUST!!!! One of my favorite racer of all time.
this was fun...nice to see someone who had done some of this stuff.....enough to know how real it was. I also love that you gave Free Guy an extra point, cuz it was pretty cool, and not intended to be real at all.
BABY DRIVER! Weird name, crazy awesome practical driving! How it’s not mentioned is crazy.
Really nice guy that knows what he's talking about. Unfortunately nobody told him what this show is about. He never compared these scenes with real life and that's why his scores were ridiculously high.
Man appreciate on cobblestone history more than classic db5 history. What a guy. He’s the expert on a many type of car race but he did appreciate a lot of other things
Such a breath of fresh air from all the military ones where they critique everything. Forgetting its a VIDEO GAME. This guy has a great attitude and knowledge for his sport.
With the Police Story scene, they did the same thing in Bad Boys 2 by remote control, and I think they did it in one shot because of budget reasons, and they had to be careful because on either side was a massive drop that would have destroyed the vehicles.
Great guest. He was so knowledgeable. Sure he gave out a lot of high ratings, but it's not college where the professor has to grade on a curve. Also the knowledge shared by the guests is more important than the ratings in my opinion.
I was hoping he’d talk about the end of The Batman’s chase scene to give his thoughts on the plausibility of Penguin being fine from that wreck. Oh well, hope he comes back!
My mom moved back up north and she was getting scared on the ice. She has a car with smart AWD. I had to convince her to let me drift her car to get rid of her fear
First time ever a fast and furious movie got credit for realism
Yup, and also because he was the stunt driver in Tokyo drift
The first few fast and furious movies were certainly more realistic in what they did, over time it just got more ridiculous (i think the creator, or director, someone high up in the fast and furious franchise stated that every time they make a sequel, they want that sequel to one up the previous movie)
What an awesome presenter! Animated, in the know and cute as heck! Loved it.
There are so many good car chase movies. U should do a part 2 with something like "The Ronin" or "Blues Brothers"
I wish I had this guy for a high school teacher I would’ve passed all my classes
Wish we could have seen the Bullitt car chase in the video because of how iconic it was
It is wonderful to capture the scenes so beautifully
Entreating commentary, as well as informative. I learned a lot in 17 minutes.
He looks exactly like how I'd imagine a skilled stunt driver to look
Tanner is one of the best!
Great content. Thanks for sharing!
I met him at Formula Drift. Tanner hella chill
I've literally shot an M-134 minigun- with tracers (1-14 mix of tracer to ball ammo)- directly into the full fuel tank of a car until the gas finally ignited. Cars (the ones that run on standard gasoline at least) do not explode.
When a car burns for whatever reason fire fighters usually let it burn out. Nothing will explode usually. For a liquid to explode you need pressure too. So the engine wont explode. Maybe the tank but therefor it would need to burn around the tank and not the tank itself.
Love how the guy actually works on films doing this. Perfect host.
Tanner is really generous with his scoring😄
Mr.Taner Foust i miss Top Gear so much
3:48 as a Wisconsinite this is just your average Wednesday.
I love this,a real stunt driver breaking it down
HE IS DEFINITELY A CAR EXPERT!
WE NEED A PART 2!
Yo Tanner Foust one of three Host from Top Gear: USA and the greatest Rallye Cross Driver ever. NICE!
The Jackie Chan one have outtakes at the end of the movie that shows the entire downhill sequences is 100% practical
Bandit earned that 10. Just a perfect jump. One of the few that looked like the car might have survived.
Yeah, in the Dukes of Hazard jump, you can see the front axle is completely shot when the car lands.
Bring this guy back and do another one. This time, use the bridge jump clip from James Bond, Live and Let Die. I'd love to hear his take on that. Hint, CGI like we know it today, didn't exist at the time.
I wish he would have rated Gone in 60 Seconds. Great review.
Need to do a part 2, missed 2 great car chases in Bullit and Ronin
It was really fun seeing an expert I already knew!
8:00 I'm pretty sure James Bond's DB5 was pretty f*cking far from stock considering he's James Bond. 🤔
Can't secure a stock DB5 for filming anyway. Why not make one out of scratch that is already stunt modded from the get go.
Tanner foust looks like American Kimi raikkonen. I love it. 2 of my favorite drivers
I see Tanner, I watch...
I’ve heard somewhere that the Aston in die another day didn’t have enough traction with the spikes. So they made it 4wd
But now the V12 didn’t fit anymore, so they fitted an V8 from a Mustang
“Well the driver would have no visibility and would probably die, but as you can see they did the stunt somehow so 8/10. Pretty realistic”
Stunt driver or fighter pilot are my dream jobs but I was in a dirt bike accident and a paraplegic. 😓 I've still built a couple of off road Grandcherokee's and one was in two magazines.
Baby Driver would've fitted in here nicely! But I love the explanation and the host did a great job!
@8:08 This guy is waffeling 😂 I have seen MX-5's drifting with around 130 hp and open diffs. You don't need a lot of power to kick the back end out or have a limited slip diff, they just help a fair amount. One of the most iconic drift cars is a Toyota Corolla Ae86 and it had 112hp from factory!
Fun fact about Die Another Day. When they were filming it, the Vanquish had too much traction on studded tyres so they had to remove them and put unstudded tyres back on so they could slide it properly.
We would love to see Tan do a Pt.2
Would love to see him on Corridor
I love tanner so much please let him do more videos i wanna see more of him
4:49 good job editors
6:10 good job editors
Finally, an expert i can relate to!
I like how Tanner doesn't even mention he was a host on American Top Gear because nobody watched it
I love American Top Gear. When they went to the challenges instead of the studio format, it got so much better.
That and they started doing their own thing. Season 1 was literally a repeat of British top gear. They did challenges from that, and just had the presenters do the same stuff as the British guys. Look at both of their limo challenges for reference. They built the same 3 cars: the convertible limo, the overly long limo, and the 2 front ends welded together limo. Once they got away from the studio format they also started letting the guys do their own thing and it got better.
Only video we have seen so far with 7 and above realism ratings for all of the clips
Love to see this man's take on some of the stunts from Initial D.
You absolutely need to do this again solely for the fact that I need Baby Driver in the next one 🤣
Talking about carstunts, and forgetting the most important and insane jump ever made on film. So insane it has never been done again.
Yes, I'm talking about the AMC Hornet and the barrelroll from "The Man With The Golden Gun"!
No computers, no wires, no tricks. Just a man in a car doing the jump ONE time!
Finally a guy who doesn't SH*t on every scene. props
He is generous with his scores compared to others I’ve seen on here. N I love Tokyo drift it’s def top 3 fast n furious of mine maybe even top 2. I only really like the first three when it was actually racing still.
13:45 -ish On the General Lee jump, I find it hilarious that the billboard is for a personal injury lawyer LOL.
y is his name not in the title put some respect on my boy tanner
Would love to see you guys do Hooper, as it is actually about Stuntmen.
TANNER!!!!!
15:35 He was right. The outro of Police Story shows the outtake of red car actually flipping and landing on the roof. The stunt team running to the car to see if the driver had his neck crushed. It was really really dangerous
Tanner gave James May his rallycross tutorial before top gear fizzled out!
Well, As an Old Fossil , Bullitt, Org Italian Job and Ronin are truly the evolution between the decades that changed it all.. Literally , a blueprint.
my guy Tanner. as I read the title I'm like who is this guy...oooohhh.
These realism ratings! Dukes Of Hazard, yeah 9/10! I'm a bit confused about what he means by realism...
Yeah, didn't make any sense. everything he says about the last one is about how it couldn't work in reality but then gives it a 9
Lol I think what he meant by realism was they really had an actual car that they kept launching off a real ramp and there was no CGI. Dude was incredibly knowledgeable but generous with the ratings lol I dont mind.
Just Tokyo Drift? No other Fast and Furious movies? I'm insulted!
Needs more Blues Brothers.
Fury Road's stunts were all practical. The first one is a pit where the car drops. The realism here is 10/10 as it's all done for real.