It's my headcanon that Runaway Train, one of the best movies that pretty much no one's ever seen, is set in the same universe as other movies and even shows, books and video games because it's too good to be unknown.
Comes from an era when films were good. I loved going to blockbuster video store to rent movies like this. Now we are in a dark age for movies.. They are mostly making CGI meaningless cash cow crap that has no substance.
Saw this at release; This is Voight's very best work, his very best performance. His master work of the human condition. This is what real "Wokeness" is all about. To know yourself like that is to go fiercely into that eternal void. carpe in toto.
Actually I've been on this railway line in Alaska .This film I am waiting for is coming from France.I just can't wait. John Voight, One of my favourite actors .Beautiful music Late husband worked there as a civil engineer
Una de las mejores escenas que ví en una película!! John Voight magnífico arriba de una locomotora más el helado paisaje unidos al tema musical final!! De antología!!
AN INTRIGUING END TO THE MOVIE. Throughout the film, the suspense builds as the convicts escape, hijack the train, and are pursued, but to no avail, as nobody is able to catch up to them. Then, after the guy separates the two locomotives and climbs on the top of the lead locomotive with the music and the impending doom that lies ahead as the picture fades to black.
When it fades to black, it also brilliantly ties back to what Manny had told the others earlier when she called him an animal and he responded "No, Worse, human". It used the quotation from Shakespeare's Richard III slightly paraphrased: "Even a beast, so fierce, knows a touch of pity! Richard III: But I know none, therefore am no beast."
The fabulous production team that made this movie were in complete contrast to sleepy-eyed, cobweb-covered, half-baked, incompetent Oscar-select dolts who failed to see Jon Vought's matchless performance as Manny.
