Reply to "Greatest Train Movies"

LaramieJoeOGR Forum Member

Big_Boy_4005 posted:
Rusty Traque posted:
wjstix posted:
As far as CGI, I'm pretty sure the scene in "Unstoppable" where the engine and cars have their wheels lift off the track on one side going around a tight curve wasn't 'real'....
Bingo.
The laws of physics and gravity wouldn't allow it. Swell melodrama, bad science.
Rusty
I agree, once the science goes wrong, the movie is a total loss.
I didn't see any mention of Switchback with Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid. Good train scenes in that one.
Another is Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Steven Seagal.
Those don't make my top 5, but they are worth noting.
For me it's Emperor of The North, The Train, Von Ryan's Express.

I liked Switchback as well. Not great, but very good, as you say. I thought it told the story of itinerant railroad men quite well.

11/23/1812:00 PM

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