"Unstoppable" is a crock of crap movie

[Mark K 2]

I've seen the various previews and so has my dad, a retired railroad worker. It's done so badly, it's as if they never hired any professional railroad consultants to assure authenticity.



Here's what dad pointed out about the following preview: A person can't break through a locomotive windshield. It's bullet-resistant glass. A locomotive doesn't explode when it derails. A locomotive cannot simply bust through a box car. It would derail. A runaway train happens so fast that the cops or others don't have time to react, let alone form an army of police cars. The quickest way to stop a runaway train is to spend five minutes and remove a section of rail.



If that's just what's wrong with a two-minute preview, I'd hate to see what he'd have to say about the whole movie.

 

[Les]

It's just a movie, no facts are needed to be entertaining, if it is.

 

[LaRue Medlin]

Hey Mark, everything is "fake" these days. I worked with ammunition and explosives for 20 yr in the AF. I love seeing these guys shoot 1000 rounds of 20 MM ammo out of a .762 weapon and have it come from a 5.56 ammo can. Plus all this ammo is in their back pocket. AND they never run out! I still think Unstoppable would be a good action film.

 

[Andy Chase]

Isn't this movie supposed to be based on a true story? All of those effects are proabably put in for the entertainment value though, regardless if it actually did or could happen.

 

[Jeffksf B]

Hasn' tthis been done before in the movies? Runaway train I mean. I reember seeing a movie that had a runaway train in it and it was filmed in the winter....

 

[EddieS'04]

Im like LaRue, I dealt with alot of ordinance in "nam, including reusing captured.

If I was to pick apart everything about that, and what i know about autos and explosions.



I would never be able to enjoy, modern action flicks.

 

[TomT]

Hasn't this been done before in the movies? Runaway train I mean.

Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Funny movie.

 

[Jeff Jolley]

It's called creative freedom, they use it for entertainment purposes.

 

[A K]

The whole story on CSX 8888 in the link below. You'll note that in the actual scenario, the RR pretty much went by the book, and there were no Hollywood-style incidents along the way. There were, however, parades of emergency vehicles as the train covered quite a distance before being stopped.