Hey MRRDERS,
If there’s any train movie that is really good to see, this one is it. It has suspense, it’s very exciting, Denzel did a great job in this one, I one hope that some way this will bring more people to the world of model railroading, Tell me your review of the movie!!!
Happpy Tracks!!![8D]
Wife and I BOTH enjoyed it!!!
Typical Hollywood garbage movie. Hardly resembles the real story. I have the real story in print and I could not suspend disbelief long enough for the TV ad.
Good for children though who like death and destruction.
Rich
Other than that, you really liked it, Rich? [;)]
Crandell
Other than that did you like the play Mrs. Lincoln?[:o)]
I’ve only seen the trailers and this one looks like nothing but special effects, unlikely scenarios and sappy melodrama. Rich, what actually happened in “the real story”?
http://kohlin.com/CSX8888/z-final-report.htm
http://kohlin.com/CSX8888/x-play-by-play.htm
Smile,
Stein
When the movie “Titanic” came out, I asked my son if he was going to see it. “Why, the ending’s changed?”
If they put up the real story it would likely do very poorly at the box office. You know the real story. Enjoy the movie for what it is, a movie.
All I know is the truck load of kids I took last Saturday were on the edge of their seats with eyes the size of saucers. They loved it. All I heard after was " I’m buying that blu-ray for sure". That’s good enough for me and made the expense worth it.
My moms cousin was a very Senior British RAF officer in the POW camp that the “Great Escape” was based on. He did a lot of work on that escape effort. He use to rip that movie to shreds on some things. But you know what, I still watch it every couple of years and it is one of my all time favourites.
Now I wonder if any of those kids I took to “Unstoppable” will let me borrow their blu-ray[^o)]
Brent
My guess is that the movie has had its desired effect, based on 2 things.
We saw it this afternoon.
It has a lot of action and violence, which will attract many people, but I am turned off by Hollywood’s obsessive need to have all their characters bickering constantly. Movie directors cannot seem to make a movie without several characters struggling with broken marriages and undisciplined badly behaved children that have nothing to do with the story. In typical Hollywood fashion, the principles are the heros and their supervisors at almost every level are both arrogant and ignorant.
The action sequences were well done and I didn’t really expect them to be believable, so I wasn’t disappointed there.
Typical Hollywood movie but very enjoyable. Much better than the usual movie involving trains.
There is always going to be things in these movies that are not even close to reality for someone who knows how something or some job works. Anything involving medicine in movies or TV often makes me cringe because it would never happen like that in real life. In order to increase the drama they always have to find a villain and in this movie it is the supervisors and management - Hollywood’s favorite villain.
Regardless it is still a very good movie for our interests in trains and I hope they make more. - Nevin
Sure there’s some things that are, well, “out there” but it wasn’t all insanely improbable. ANd not all CGI garbage like most ‘action’ movies. Like I said in the other three threads on this movie, I was more annoyed at the subplot with the railroad executive than with the ‘errors’ in the train stuff. It was great fun and I will definitely get the home video release when it comes out.
–Randy
Randy:
That’s kind of what I tried to say. I don’t expect Hollywood to get the technical stuff right. They never do. I was annoyed that he couldn’t get along with his conductor, that his daughter wouldn’t take his phone calls, that the conductor was so wrapped up in his marital crisis that he was unable to do his job, that the dispatcher’s boss wouldn’t take her calls, that the FRA guy was just a casual observer, etc.
It seems like personal conflict is a requirement in any action movie.
That’s because the average screenwriter and studio executive remember enough from their English 101 training to know that there has to be conflict for a story to develop. They just don’t have the intellectual capacity or skill to create a conflict deeper than cliched bickering or immature “I’m not talking” attitudes. How about some internal conflicts (Hamlet), metaphorical conflicts (Moby Dick) or conflicts with nature (the Old Man and the Sea)? Naaaah. Too hard to write, and everyone in Hollywood thinks audiences are too dumb to appreciate that kind of stuff.
Death and destruction? Where?
A young man lowered by helicopter to the runaway train gets knocked out. A horse-trailer gets hit. The train knocks out a series of de-railers (which had they worked, would have sent the entire train into the middle of the town causing a great deal of damage and possibly multiple deaths). However, the de-railers DON’T work, and the train just continues merrily on its way.
Yes, there is one death (off-camera) when a pair of diesels attempting to stop the train by coupling onto the front of it derails. And I guess that amounts to the ‘destruction’, also (big Special Effects Blast).
I enjoyed the film a lot. I liked the fact that two guys who never have known each other and are a little testy with each other at first team up to do their ‘job’ and do it heroically and end up becoming friends and partners.
I have no idea how ‘accurate’ the railroading sequences are in the film–frankly I don’t really give a good spit–the film is an action-adventure and it’s sole purpose is to entertain. And believe me, I was entertained enough to go back and see it again, today. And it’s just as good–if not a little better–the second time. It’s a 100 minute Thrill Ride with believable characters and good direction and great photography, and that’s all I expected.
If I want ‘authentic’ railroad action, I’ll watch a documentary on RFD-TV. If I want a good Hollywood action movie about trains, I’ll go see “Unstoppable” again.
Now repeat after me: “It’s a MOVIE. It’s a MOVIE. It’s a MOVIE.”
There now, don’t you feel all better? [:P]
Tom [:D]
Good movie that starts quickly and does not slow down until the climax. I go to few movies but this one was not a disappointment.
Here I must agree with you. I can’t watch much modern TV, nor will I attend many movies, because of what you cite above. Anyone in authority, any expert, any business manager, must de facto be corrupt and entirely self-absorbed. And of course, any child will be as well. They’re exceptionally brilliant and precocious, if only the rest of we watching great unwashed would just get a life, yada yada. Well, I do have a life, so thanks for the shove.
Crandell
You’re comparing the average screenwriter to William Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Ernest Hemingway??? LOL!!!