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I just saw a preview of this on TV a couple nights ago. It looks like there is a high-adventure movie coming out this month called "Unstoppable". It's about an unmanned runaway freight train tearing across railroad lines and through populated areas.
I just viewed an online trailer here (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3068790297/">http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3068790297/</a><!-- m -->) and it looks really good ... Lots of high-speed train scenes, good shots of different diesel types, freight and passenger trains. I'm not too keen on seeing locos and freight cars being derailed and smashed up though, but the action-packed nature of the movie and great railroad scenes will sure get me interested.
Sounds like it might be like The Fugitive or Speed, but totally train-related.
Has anyone else heard much about this movie? The movie's website (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3068790297/">http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3068790297/</a><!-- m -->) says it opens on Nov. 12.
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I've seen the previews on TV and it looks good....(Even though they're diesels...). I'll be the first in line....
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I'd bet the guys from around the Ohio and Pennsylvania area would know a lot about this one since it was filmed around those parts if my memory serves me right. I remember reading about the filming of this a while back...one of those "this almost didn't get made" sort of Hollywood articles. It's very loosely based on real events, but more dramatized than the real story of course. Directed by Tony Scott, you can bet it's going to be a fun ride. There's plenty of production and filming pictures floating around the internet form "local extras" and railphoto fans too.
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Steamtrains Wrote:I've seen the previews on TV and it looks good....(Even though they're diesels...). I'll be the first in line....
I totally agree -- even though they're diesels it still looks like it will be a good movie!
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Herc Driver Wrote:I'd bet the guys from around the Ohio and Pennsylvania area would know a lot about this one since it was filmed around those parts if my memory serves me right. I remember reading about the filming of this a while back...one of those "this almost didn't get made" sort of Hollywood articles. It's very loosely based on real events, but more dramatized than the real story of course. Directed by Tony Scott, you can bet it's going to be a fun ride. There's plenty of production and filming pictures floating around the internet form "local extras" and railphoto fans too.
Yes, it sure sounds great. It also looks as if they have mimicked Sante Fe paint scheme but chosen a new RR name. I guess that's because of copyright-related reasons. I suspect they chose the BNSF colours because many people would recognize that paint scheme.
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It's been talked about for some time now. Last year during filming the engines were spotted in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio:
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I like the name-Allegheny & West Virginia Railroad..
Sounds like a short line or small regional.
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RobertInOntario Wrote:Has anyone else heard much about this movie?
It almost got cut, since the budget was slashed, and there's a wiki page about the movie with a section about how the movie's based
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Catching a train which is a missle the size of the Chrysler Building and gunning it in the opposite direction...
The cynic in me is saying yeah right Denzel. But you've got Captian Kirk riding shot gun so it will be okay and you'll save the world together.
That said, I'll still watch it. It looks like "tonnes" of fun.
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tomustang Wrote:RobertInOntario Wrote:Has anyone else heard much about this movie?
It almost got cut, since the budget was slashed, and there's a wiki page about the movie with a section about how the movie's based
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Just read that... judging by the trailer it seems like the upped the ante in this film and placed a whole wack of tankers on it to create the potential of bigger deadlier 'splosions.
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I hadn't caught on to the name change. Just looked at the pictures and assumed it was BNSF.... :oops:
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Lets see...a wise cracking new kid with attitude but skills...the veteran engineer family man with everything to lose...a few tons of moving explosives on a train...get me some popcorn.
Sure it's Hollywood...sure it's not likely to be technically accurate...sure there will be a box of kittens or bus load of kids (or nuns or pandas or puppies) that are almost run over...sure there will be gratuitous and unrealistic explosions...but that doesn't mean we won't like it!
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I've seen the previews, too. "Smash and dash" using the usual immense amount of CGI and somehow overcoming all of the safeguards specifically designed to prevent runaway trains.
Yet another in the endless lineup of disaster films for auddiences who drool over destruction.
Poor old Denzel Washington - I remember when he was a real actor and not merely a name on the marquee.
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Steamtrains Wrote:I hadn't caught on to the name change. Just looked at the pictures and assumed it was BNSF.... :oops:
I did that at first too! Then I downloaded some of their wallpaper images and saw that it was a different logo/emblem. Rob
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I'll have to check it out
, grab a couple 2,3 beers
and probably pick out the unrealistic parts.. Have a laugh
or 2
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lets make another Gauge trip out of it....
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