I though War of the Worlds was a darn good movie. I’ve never heard of it until this remake care out. I heard that HG Wells did the original and it was broadcased over the radio in the 1930s or something like that. I was also told that five people in New York commited suicided because they thought it was real since they tuned in in the middle of the broadcast. Interesting. Anyway in terms of seeing that rushing Amtrak on fire, I was pissed at that. Because, here is a perfictly good train with locomotive and cars that could of been given to me. lol j/k.
I liked the movie because it was a SCFI movie that was very serious, it wasn’t funny or stupid like some of these horror movies made today. I also thought it had a good plot. Suprisingly for me I liked it. I usually don’t tend to like those Mars Attacks, Star Wars, Star Treak, Godzilla, or Andaconda movies too much. I think they’re stupid, but that’s just my opinion.
in the original movie…they where tripods… insted of haveing mechanical legs like the H.G. Wells book…they had magnetic legs that worked agisnt the earths gravity… if you go back and watch the original movie… then the war craft are starting to rise from the crater…it shows it… with the explination i just mentioned above…or at least something long the same lines…
csx engineer
three words guys - Drivers Vigilance Device. given that the train hadn’t JUST been hit (within 30 secs- 1 minute), then at 80 or so MPH it could be plausible that at that speed, it would appear to have no martians in that area, but just up the road…
I havn’t seen the movie, but the description of the scene sounds like thew video intro to the WotW PC game i got bout 5 years ago. based on the Musical adaptation, there is a shot of a Great Western express running through the darkness, the people in the carriages, the crew (all very well done) and then there is a tripod standing over the tracks and it proceeds to destroy the train. The loco boiler blows up, followed by the first 3 carriages with the rest derailing. I can only guess the gas lighting causes the carriages to blow up.
I too would like to see a true version of the novel done, but remain content to watch to 1953 version. they did it with Time Machine, twice!
You guys do know that this is make believe, don’t you?
Oops, I guess I should not have shot that water tower.
Most loco’s nowadays have a deadmans pedal in the cab or you dont even really need a pedal all you need to do is when the alarm goes on, quick tap the bell on and off.
the dead mans pedal is a thing of the past… although thier are a few units out thier that still have them…most are gone…replaced by the electronic alerter systems…
csx engineer
it is? maybe in your universe…lol
csx engineer
I thought it was a very good summer fun movie.The train scene was pretty cool.And I liked the way the military was represented in a positive manner in this movie unlike in the 1950’s version.
The train in question appeared to be one of the Talgo sets used in the Pacific Northwest…the unit on the head end was an F59PHI. Exactly why they used this train for a scene set in New Jersey is yet another of example of Hollywood not knowing a thing about trains!
I knew it was an EMD![:p] Only EMD’s have rumble and GE’s sound like “ssdshdgsajsdjfsgsjgfjsgsddsdsdsadsa”
Reform School Girls?
I was already debating on whether to see this movie, but after learning of the burning train scene, I’ve got to see it[:)]!
A Tom Cruise movie that is unrealistic and contains impossibly violent scenes?
Oh, NOOOOOoooo!
But at least they used an Amtrak trainset, and not remnants from “The Canadian” which would probably have been the case if the film came out of British Columbia.
But Tom, say it isn’t soooooOOO!
Sarcasm Central
a/k/a Allen
I’m going to see it in an hour, I don’t know if I want to see that scene now. [V]
Dustin
naterich89 you’re right. I was creeped out by the train. It was just like you said.[V]
Dustin
Looked like a Metro-North P42DC to me…
First off, the train was on the West side of the Hudson, on the CSX River Line, passenger trains haven’t run on it since 1959. Second, wouldn’t the locomotive’s fuel tank have exploded from the heat?
no it wouldnt explode…fuel oil is not as volital as say gasoline… it would burn…unless the locomotive hit something to couse the fuel tanks to “spray” fuel into a mist…then it would couse an explotion by a heat sorce igniting the fuel mist…this was shown in test footage on in england on making safer fuel tanks for locomotives on some train wreck show on the history channel…the discovery channgel or TLC…i cant remember what channel it was… it the fuel mist from a cra***hat makes an explotion… the fuel will just burn otherwise…
csx engineer
On the other hand, if it had been left to the Hollywood SX guys, the tanks would have blown up throwing the locomotive several hundred feet in the air with it crashing back on the ground upside down and disappearing in a BLEM.
Jay