or Silver Streak with Gene Wilder....and Richard Pryor (1976) or The Silver Streak (1934) staring the Zypher others include The General (1926, Buster keaton, GREAT FILM), Denver & Rio Grande(1952), Union Pacific (1939) or Ticket to Tomahawk (1950, staring RGS #20 and had Marilyn Monroe as a chorus girl) and The Iron Horse (1924)
Unstoppable... Oh Yea!! I gotta watch this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQY4VAGKG8 :tb-cool: .
A GE with a broken alerter, broken overspeed (go figure) and a dispatcher that "we don't know where the train is at". Wow!, someone in Hollywood did their homework, or use to work for the railroad. I wonder if they devoted a 1/2 hr of footage to a scene of Denzel trying to tone-up the dispatcher to no avail...That would almost make it reality TV.
One thought I keep having: That ppor crew hardly wants to have a play-by-play reminder of that incident. Yeah, they probably won;t go see it anyway, and yeah, it's still their story, but those Hollywood twists that make the plot improbable also dull the blade that may well hit home for too many people. As for plot or not, I'll hold judgement until I see it. This does have the potential to rapidly turn into "big BOOM train chase" that makes for bad movies, but I hardly feel this falls under "no plot" There IS a plot to it, we know it. It may not be Emmy award winner in the "fleshed out" department, but how much more does one need besides "Whoops, a train carrying hazardous cargo has decided to take a walk, two guys are gonna do something REALLY stupid to try and save face and people, otherwise it'll end up REAL BAD real quick." You've got setting, though I don't know which part of the country they're retelling this in, You've got a hero, no real villian based on previews except maybe a Trainmaster who's playing it by-the-union-rules, and a reason to move the stoy along. I don't remember what Pathos is from my AP High School class is, but while we may not have that, this is hardly "Napoleon Dynamite" junk script. 2 best thiongs about that movie, the credits, and the fact that I could sleep through it.
This is the first time I've come across this thread and I'm glad I did because I didn't know anything about this movie. It's one that I will want to watch, regardless of how plausible it is or how good the plot is, I just like train movies. One thing I thought I would point out is there have been several comments about the movie being based on real events, specifically the CSX incident in Ohio. The trailer doesn't say anything about being "based" on true events, but instead being "inspired" by true events, which does have a very different meaning. If it is based on true events, you should expect some glimer of truth to the story, but not necessarily if it is simply inspired by true events.
thus spake the grump............ Sorry, but the ad I saw on TV ("A MILLION TONS OF STEEL!!") turned me off cold to the whole concept. I think Denzel Washington is a good actor, and of course I'm a railfan, but once again Hollywood has ignored physics, engineering, and good ol' common sense to make an action flick. But then again, I'm a medical laboratory scientist, and I laugh at the lab scenes in CSI since they're so gosh-darn wrong, so what do I know? I'll use my ticket money to buy a DVD from Pentrex, thanks
I was hoping for good, not golden. Tehre may well be a LOT of hyperbole in there. 8 tankers ma a Chrysler not make, but that's still a 440 ft long string, and that's not all that train makes up. And to be fair, the real news isn't getting any closer to real numbers either. We'll have to see what the true car count is for proper weight, bt at 150ton a loco (*2), plus 70ton a car (*???) the basic physics is there. I haven't heard anything out of Pentrex. Shows how connected I is.
I was sorta tolerating the whole thing until I saw the trailer. And a lot of railroaders (real ones) that cooperated with the whole deal were probably as shocked as I was with it. My first impression was that there are studio scenes and possibly some CG that were real late ads somehow... the second impression is MAN did they speed everything up from reality! I can tell you that everyplace they filmed around here was FRA III on a good day, so anything moving faster than 40mph is gassed. The actual end derailment scene had film footage on YouTube, and now that I see the trailer, wow, it looks like it was 90! They rolled it into Emporium around that S curve at maybe 25mph, the hydraulic rollover arm under the dummy locomotive deployed, and over she went with the fake fireworks. The real footage was impressive, juiced for the movie even more. The other trailer scene that I had to chuckle about was the apparent 'helicopter' deployment of the crew bouncing them into the cab and instantly shattering the windows. Yeah, I want to see that happen on real FRA glazing. You MIGHT pop the windows, and maybe even crack them, but nothing like that... and that's just the first sample. Overall, I think this is just kinda sad. Make no mistake, the railroads that participated in this thing were paid, paid well from what I've seen. But man, it's at a price.
New Train Movie It looks a lot like a couple others but we have a new train movie to see. 'Unstoppable' Exclusive Inside Look: The Ride - Bing Videos I just hope it's not in 3D. My old eyes can't take that.
As of the evening of Nov 11th.. US central time.. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 90%.. In comparison they gave Toy Story 3 a 99%.. So it must be pretty good. Unstoppable Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
Unstoppable. Who saw it, what did you think We went and saw it last night. It wasn't too bad some corny parts, couple of "yeah that wouldn't happen" but I was expecting that so all in all I thought it was pretty good.
Nice to hear; I'm waiting till after the weekend when I can go and catch a early show and get that discount along with being less crowded. Thanks for the heads up
Sounds like a Netflix rental for me. You mean they can't run DNA testing in one day??? But it's VEGAS!! I don't work anywhere near a laboratory but know they just don't work that way.
Add to the list Under Siege 2; Dark Territory And the ultra-cheesy Atomic Train (train in the mountains west of Denver, laden with a Russian nuke, runs away, bound for Denver...) yeah, no Moffat Tunnel, the Tunnel District was not featured, nor recognizable. Neither was the scenery. Cheesy. That, and I wanna see a train running 70 MPH on a 25 MPH railroad. The train would have piled up before it hit Tunnel 30.:tb-tongue:
Saw it today at the 2:50 pm show at Ronnies 20 in South St Louis County. Good family movie (PG-13). Show was only about 20% full. Movie is fast....non-stop. I went with my 23 year old Daughter & she seemed to enjoy it also. If you are one to point out this can't be done or no way thats not right, you will find it here. I myself just went to enjoy it like I'm rail-fanning. Cool sceenes from Bellaire Ohio "Y" & Ohio River Bridge. So if you just like watching trains you will like this movie.
