TS: Best Runaway Train Movie: Runaway Train(1985) Vs. Unstoppable (2010)

Runaway Train (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WszE4_hGZpk

Epic Crash and convict giving ass kicking to a young buck

Unstoppable (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA63glohLhg

Tony Scott doesn't know shit about trains. One of the reasons this thing supposed to happens is because the train's air brakes are not tied un. If the air brakes are not tied in. The brakes activate and the train doesn't roll. The train needs air to keep the brakes off.

I just watched Unstoppable over the weekend and thought it was okay. But it was a movie and I didn't care about the physics/reality behind it.

me neither. Just being a lifelong train buff little stuff chaffs my gruff

you have so many hobbies!

Not much love for Konchalovsky's Runaway Train on ILE considering it is such a fine movie, nice essay about it here that made me want to re-watch it.

http://brightlightsfilm.com/76/76betehumaine_daseler.php#.UpjQ2MRdV8F

Saw it recently, it's very good. I guess that Cannon documentary might have given it an extra push?

Actually it's better than very good, it's pretty great.

I own both - bought the Unstoppable DVD at Target for like $5 a year after it was in theaters, bought the Runaway Train Twilight Time Blu-Ray last year. (I think it's still available.) They're both good and fun, and you can watch 'em as part of a triple feature with Emperor of the North (Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine fighting with axe handles and hammers on top of a moving train) if you want.

I saw that Lee Marvin was a possibility for Kurosawa's version that was going to have Henry Fonda and Peter Falk.

The ending to Runaway Train is so perfect. The essay above is otm throughout.

a decent history of UNSTOPPABLE over at the ringer:

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/11/12/21560294/unstoppable-tony-scott-legacy-making-of-10th-anniversary

Eric Roberts gives possibly the worst performance in cinema history in Runaway Train... and tbh Jon Voight isn't much better (what's going on with his accent?) There's something very odd about this whole film, the dialogue is terrible and the sound design makes everything sound dubbed - which it may well have been.

You're baffling me

What can I say, I think Eric Roberts is a terrible actor.