This is awesome.
Shout out to Trung Phan for compiling this thread like a real one. Let's get straight into it.
[Warning: Violence and language in some of the clips below.]
Oh man. Do you remember seeing that scene for the first time, and how badly you wanted a Ducati afterword?
Here's the whole scene because you have to see Morpheus slicing the Escalade with the sword and then opening fire with his fully auto Glock with a 30-round mag:
Next up: Cliffhanger:
Dude really and truly zip-lined between two flying planes. Amazing.
You knew this one from Dark Knight Rises would be in there:
They bought a real plane and spent 2 months on that stunt. Legendary.
BEN-HUR:
$10M in today's money for one scene ... and "it took 1,000 people a year to carve the arena out of a rock quarry." That sounds like it might have been ... morally questionable. But anyway. Onward.
Next is Speed 2. Man, the nostalgia is real.
LOL they built a whole town!
Next up: The legendary Saving Private Ryan D-Day scene!
Here's the longer version on YouTube. It's age restricted so I can't embed it here but if you're a real American you'll go watch it.
Number 7 is Ghost Protocol:
Tom Cruise's crazy behind really scaled the world's largest building and the huge cost was for insuring him. That's awesome.
Of course Tony Stark is in the mix:
580 jumps in one month. It's like they're trying to die.
OK last one from Interstellar is not that expensive but made the list because it's awesome:
We'll allow it!