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

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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.

The Startrekman, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:29 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:31 (fourteen years ago)

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

The Startrekman, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:34 (fourteen years ago)

you have so many hobbies!

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 03:35 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 29 November 2013 18:03 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:24 (eight years ago)

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:42 (eight years ago)

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.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:08 (eight years ago)

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:19 (eight years ago)

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

nomar, Sunday, 6 August 2017 16:31 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

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

sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:01 (five years ago)

three years pass...

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.

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 10:02 (one year ago)

You're baffling me

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 5 February 2024 16:00 (one year ago)

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

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:03 (one year ago)


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