http://www.pumpupthemovie.com/toss.html
Is this real? It can’t be… can it?
This was just discussed somewhere else on the board, I’ll see if I can track the link down. I do remember the consensus being that it did indeed appear to be real.
Uh no its pretty obviously a fake. If you watch her body path she should have smacked her head on the basket which should have caused her head to snap foward which didn’t happen. Not to mention that the diameter of the bottom of net is around 10-12 inches. There is no way that she should get through the net that cleanly.
I think it’s for real.
Pause it, as just when she’s entering the hoop. You can see plainly that her sneakers are below the rim and within the netting. She falls through, whacks her pretty little head on the rim and the guys - oblivious to her and her pain - celebrate their triumph.
It’s My Fair Lady all over again. :rolleyes:
Her reaction looks real. I doubt she would act that way in a staged faking of the stunt.
The game is a blast!
I’m with the Museum of Hoaxes crowd and think it’s fake along the lines of the Ratchet and Clank commercials, though I’m torn between the optical illusion with Photoshop method or two shots composited together. Or maybe a bit of both.
I don’t know, treis. If you go through a frame at a time, it sure does look like she’s smacking her head, and she does look like it hurts when she lands. The net curves around her body as she goes through, and it moves after she lands.
It could certainly be fake, but if it is, it’s a very good job. If they threw her right in front of the hoop instead of through it, they only would have had to edit one frame where she’s partway through. It’s the motion of the net that really makes it work. The camera is fixed, so they could have shot the whole thing, and then thrown through a basketball without moving the camera. Do a little cut & paste of just the net from one clip to the other, and voila!
If they were faking it, why would they write her reaction the way it is presented?
They would have to be really cleaver to say before hand, if she acts like she hurt herself, nobody will doubt us.
I dunno’…if you listen real closely, there’s no sound of her head hitting the rim. Sure there’s the sound of the net ‘whipping’ but but even a basketball hitting the rim makes a ‘harder’ sound.
I’m with the ‘not real’ crowd. My reason is that it is sponsored by some big name companies that would spend some money on CG for this silly thing, and at the same time wouldn’t take the risk of injuring an actor that way. -$.02
Ah, but the people who do this stuff are that clever. IMO, definately a hoax. The fact that you can’t see their feet (to judge whether they are actually in line with the baskedt) is the biggest giveaway.
No. That would be a really obvious bluff.
Here’s my suggestion for an obvious reason it’s a fake - surely any cheerleader trying anything so strange and stupid would have her fellow cheerleaders launch her (y’know, the ones who practice such things, and know how to do it), rather than trusting that heaving heap of testosterone?
Those guys more than likely are her fellow cheerleaders. I’ve seen more testosterone-filled male cheerlearders where I go to college. And they are often the ones who do the huge launches, having more upper-body strength and all that.
It has to be fake if for no other reason than no one would take the chance of the horrible injuries that could result from such a stunt. Aside from hitting her head on the rim, she could catch her jaw on the rim, shattering it and breaking her neck; or she could catch something in the net and rip a part of her body off.
And how many times would you have to practice it to get it just right? And what about the times when you practice and it goes wrong and you have a dead or maimed cheerleader?
I understand that this stunt is a promotional device for an upcoming film. Do you know of any studio or production company that could find an insurer for such a risky stunt? It’s safer to jump off a 70-story building into egg-cartons, for Og’s sake!
The video is a fake.
They shot the throw and catch, and added the background. You can tell this because the relative postions of the three men are almost identical when they throw the girl and when they caught her, but the three, relative to the background has moved two feet left. How could they have moved is should uniform fashion? Even the man on the right, who appears to be falling to the right on the throw is nearly as close to the other three when the girl is caught as when he started.
The clip also gives the impression the girl at one point is way, way above the hoop. If you hit your head on a metal hoop after a ten foot(or more) free fall, do you think you would be holding your head or unconscious, perhaps with part of your head left on the hoop.
Well the camera pans up and the men are out of the shot. They could easily take three steps back to make the catch.
More reasons this is real.
This is on a page devoted to a fake cheerleader movie. So maybe you think the people who made the page made the film. But then why are the actors in the uniforms that the other cheerleaders on the site wear?
Why are the men in the video not really good looking. If you were faking the film you would hire actors and you get really good looking guys. Look at the other cheerleaders on the site.
The fact is that people do stupid stuff and tape it all the time. Look at America’s funniest home videos, the Darwin Awards or Circe de Sole. These are probably real cheerleaders, who do jump through hoops and then one day looked at their little girl, and looked at the basketball hoop and thought, "hummmmm…’.
To make some people believe it’s real
Ditto.
Ditto.
It’s movie advertising masquerading as urban-myth, and you’ve fallen hook line & sinker.
Just as her hands are supposed to go through the hoop, they aren’t at her side and are a bit too far from her body to go through the rim. And they only expand in the next three frames as she goes through.
Also, her head gets abnormally (impossibly) stretched in the last frame it’s in contact with the net.
Also, they don’t seem to aim her, and she certainly has no control of her position once in the air.
Also, there’s no way the film could get insurance for this.
Fake for two reasons. First of all notice that the rim of the basket doesn’t move at all. A mass the size of a human body going through the hoop would pull down the rim and at least jiggle the backboard. Especially if the person hit her head going through.
Secondly the whole macho guy thing is overdone. Not a single one of the guys even glances at the woman. Only in a hollywood script will you find four guys who are so totally oblivious to a woman and so totally wrapped up in their machismo posturing. Really, we don’t behave that way.