
That action movies involve gratuitous scenes of people jumping or being thrown through conveniently-placed panes of glass has already been parodied countless times, but leave it to the supercut to compile as many examples as a person could find. I think a good half the criteria for being a stunt man in the 80s was whether you could spaz out like you’d be shot and dive through a window. Yes, it’s a cliché, but like many clichés, it exists because it’s watchable as hell. I was transfixed for every second of this. I especially like the Hong Kong action movie scenes where stuntment are clearly crashing downwards through non-safety glass. “S’okay, s’okay. Stuntman dime for dozen.”
[this guy via ClipNation]



And yet they say it’s hard to break through the glass ceiling. Women, amirite?
No Manhunter? In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby.
Seriously–nothing from Shattered Glass? And nobody’s ever broken through Phillip Glass? Ira? George?
I prefer the original.
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This entire supercut could’ve been comprised entirely of old school Twilight Zone clips. I’m betting Rod Serling never actually used a door in real life, just jumped through windows or nonchalantly busted through walls like Homer in that episode where they go to Japan.
Someone needs to do a supercut of Ahh-nold materializing from the ceiling, exchanging a friendly “Hi,” and hypnotizing nameless thugs into SMGing each other. Or, you know, make a gif, at least.