Rooftop scenes in movies (some big pics)

[spoone]

You have an extremely irritating username Mr/Mrs Newbie.

From now on, I shall refer to you as Gunther Wendlethrop the 3rd - or "Gunt" for short.

I would encourage others to do the same - stupid ASCII usernames should be stamped out at all costs!

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

(o)(o) ROFLMAO

 

[nightowl]

escape from new york - snake lands his glider on top of the world trade centre i seem to remember

 

[hendo]

One of my better moments. What's more I didn't use a double, no special effects, no drugs, no boooze, no nothing - all for real!

I think.

Or, it may have been my good friend Stanley Baker.

Bloody good stuff either way! Fab stills folks, well excavated. The DVD is out and you can see the Gateway pub off Kingsway in one of the scenes; I drive past it on the way to my Dad's from town.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The DVD (from the site I saw) says it stars Stanley Baxter which made me laugh!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Fab stills folks, well excavated.

You'll love this site hendo...and then scroll down for the DVD howler edited again...right site...

http://www3.telus.net/public/nixonkg/hell_is_a_city.htm

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Actually Leica, can you change your Hell is a City pic back to the bigger one?

...it's so much better and I've changed the thread title to warn dial-uppers and put a note in the mod box for editor and other mods...

 

[Dirty Martini]

Million Dollar Hotel

 

[Mrs Magpie]

another Stanley cameo in Hell is a City

sorry, I'll stop now.....

 

[laptop]

And if we're allowed the inside of a roof, there's The Parallax View

Can't find a relevant still

(No, not the new Slavoj Zizek book...)

 

[Brockway]

Hell is a City - supercool film.

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Plato getting shot on the roof of the Griffith Park Observatory in Rebel Without a Cause.

 

[AverageJoe]

In my (v humble) opinion, the best rooftop scene ever is from..

Die Hard.

Kills the baddies, ties a firehose around his waist, jumps of the side, and then has to shoot the window out to get back in all while the firehose 'holder' is working its way loose..

And *then*, when he's inside and you think its OK, the holder flys past the window, pulling him out...

I actually fell off my seat in the cinema to that one...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

How on earth has there been an entire thread about rooftop scenes without anyone mentioning Ghost Dog?

 

[billy_bob]

How on earth has there been an entire thread about rooftop scenes without anyone mentioning Ghost Dog?

What are you talking about? There is no rooftop scene in Groundhog Day.

 

[Flashman]

Dawn of the Dead ('04).

 

[Flashman]

 

[Jim2k5]

And I now see - on closer investigation - that you are not a "newbie" as such, just an extremly lazy and sporadic poster.



Well Gunt, this sort of thing will not be tolerated.

damn straight

 

[Leica]

Actually Leica, can you change your Hell is a City pic back to the bigger one?

...it's so much better and I've changed the thread title to warn dial-uppers and put a note in the mod box for editor and other mods...

Sure. I have taken many more stills of the rooftop sequence... In the one above you can see Whitworth Street and the Palace Theatre. I have another good one with Oxford Road Station in construction...

Stanley Baker is quite handsome in that film.

 

[Jim2k5]

and of course theres the begining of Blade (the original) where he jumps from the hospital window to the rooftop opposite dislocating his arm.

 

[hendo]

Have we mentioned the climactic rooftop scene in Blade Runner at Rutger Hauer hangs on to Harrison Ford in the pouring rain?
"Time to Die".
Class.

 

[Kanda]

*nods*

blade runner must have the best ending to any rooftop chase scene:

'i've seen things you people wouldn't believe...'

 

[gsv]

and the odd one out is...

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

Chim Chimerney

Before The Matrix

GS(v)

 

[hendo]

This thread needs a poll!

 

[fishfingerer]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Billie Whitelaw's hanging scene in The Omen
The Eiffel Tower bit in La Haine

 

[fishfingerer]

I'm sure there's a few Harold Lloyd ones

 

[Sherlock]

I can't beelieve anyone named the bourne ultimatum! Best rooftop scene in Tanger

 

[Fez909]

 

[Reno]

Miracle Mile:

Vertigo:

 

[starfish]

Please forgive me for the title track but its actually not too bad a film.

 

[DexterTCN]

 

[laptop]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Can't find a better image. This from the BBC series, not the film, I think.