Did you see that movie? Did you like it? What you think about the different trains situations showed there? Please share your comments about it!
Unstoppable is fine, Runaway Train is better. The Taking of Pelham 123 is better than both however. The original, obviously, not the pale non-Matthau retread.
Unstoppable certainly isn't boring and you have to like the practical film making but all the dialogue sounded like it was from the first draft of the script and I could never stop wondering why the brakes didn't come on at the first adverse signal. Of a muchness IMHO and again safety systems- or do US railways not have an equivalent of AWS? Oh yes. Spielberg was on the cards to direct at one point but the studio rather shrewdly decided that the script was sort of director proof. It's the editing that really makes this. (Funnily enough in the book the gang sets the train to run away while they make their escape and it's stopped by the safety systems.) Recommended: The Train (John Frankenheimer- cracking war film), The General (Buster Keaton- although I don't think it has anything to match the train sequence in his earlier film Our Hospitality), The Silver Streak (Arthur Hiller though the climax defies all common sense- yes the points may be computer controlled but you could still change them if you need to and again what about the emergency brakes?). That'll do for now- gotta sleep.
Thank you for your comments guys! Special to DTG Protagonist. Runaway Train was really nice too. So long time ago Another one is Under Siege 2 with Steven Seagal. This one is similar to this one. I mentioned Unstoppable, because I believe it was the last known movie about trains. Of course this movie is more for general public, which does not have knowledge of trains. For us, there are lot of elements on which this train not could be a runaway one. It would be really easy to stop it, just when the runaway situation started. Not considering even the alerter system on the GE locomotive. And other ones on the rescue also.
