Ironman KMSA The thing I mostly hated is the use of Electro-Motive Diesels..Couldn't have fuckin' hurt to use just one U-36-B "U-Boat" built by GE.And another problem is the gray locomotives..The could have used some Canadian Pacific paint,or maybe something different..Like British Columbia Rail((BC-Rail))You agree?
Eren Jaeger That's because it was shot on the Alaska Railroad, which at the time of filming and a roster of mainly EMD and a few Alcos. Since the railroad is landlocked it wouldn't have been worth it to ferry a U36B up there for a few weeks then send it back. The second is the railroad told the film company no ARR logos. They wanted the runaway to look as menacing as possible so the engines were painted in black and rust brown.
You right. Did you catch at the end how Rankin let himself out of himself, and showed care and compassion for the Punk and the girl, that Manny might do something . . . Rankin likely knew he was or had to be some kind of SOB, but still his heart wasn't completely black . . . .
CGI poorly done ruins everything. People have made their arguments for and against it. But nothing can deceive the camera or the human eye. We know if something isn't there in front of us.
That s what made Jaws scary, the fact that it was actually a life size Physical Prop, like part of a train ! (in this case , the Janney coupler ) , Makes it look more real because its THERE ! And wasn t edited in later and its easier for the actors to ACT , Without being confused by a Green screen! Hollywood has defiantly lost its ability to make Solid movies like this one !
OwlEye2010- I agree... From 3:21-3:29, you have to think "That had to hurt!..."... I can only imagine how much pain Jon Voight had to've been in during that part. I literally can't watch that part every time I watch this movie just because I know at any given second, it's going to happen.
That was all filmed in a very well put together sound stage with mocks up of the two loco ends and a track that was like a big conveyor belt underneath to look like the trains were actually speeding along outside and believe it was in the baking Californian sun not the icy wilds of Alaska. Fabulous stuff.
Fun fact, their was also a GP38 that led the train. It led the train untill the crash scene, and then it was swapped out for a GP40-2. The 2 high hood GP7s weren't actually high hoods eathier, they were GP7U's that had plywood built up on the low hood and a piece of sheet metal covering the windshield
Great film! Great acting! Voight should have won an Oscar for this role! As sinister and evil as he is, he still demonstrates some humanity in his character.
Has to be the best runaway train movie ever made. Youre never left thinking oh thats so unreal.......love it and we all loved to hate Rankin! "I need shoes Manny.....I need shoes"
Genius. so realistic and has you on the edge of your seat...as intended.Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay are brilliant. The Russian director and 2nd director are very, very talented.
OMG. Even if it was a stunt double. To be dragged underneath that train going at full speed just inches from the steel wheels is insane. Plus, with ice and snow making everything wet and slippery... no wonder those stunts in the movie kept you on the edge of your seat. They were real!
Have this 💎 on DVD,brillant movie with a great plot,cast and crew-all the lead actors were excellent and Eric Roberts deserved his nomination at the years awards Auckland New Zealand 2023
I was 6 years old when my cousin showed me this movie,an man was it a thriller looking forward of watching it again at 40 years old one of my favorite movies
Being that this movie was made in the 80s theirs no computer green screen or cgi crap to make a reality look like a fantasy this was all real and they worked hard to build a movie with pride and the stunts were dangerous because it was real 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻this is how real movie were made not like today
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Train_(film)#Shooting (...) Richard (Rick) Holley was killed prior to start of principal photography when the helicopter he was piloting hit power lines while scouting for shoot locations in Alaska. The film is dedicated to him during the closing credits.
Amazing to see inside the studio where theyve mocked up the faces of two locos coupled up with the moving track illusion underneath for Jon to act his scenes on....on film it all looks very convincing. A cracking movie. Big balls to the stunt guy strapped underneath a real train as it moves along at speed. One false move or a strap breaks its goodnight vienna......
The only other movie that compares is "First Blood" for actors who pushed beyond what they believed to be their physical human limits, to make a film. Even if you have seen the movie and hated it like Gene Siskel, appreciate that people really risked death...alot, to make this..screen debut of Danny Trejo. Rober Ebert said this was damn near a perfect film. Agreed.
if you are familiar with diesels locomotives, they all have a guard on the front bumper which serves as a snow plow so it is impossible for a human being to fit under a locomotive. he is actually underneath a generic freight car bogie but to the typical audience they wont notice.
the way it was all cut together looked pretty damn believable to me.........presume the studio staging featured a moving track that was mounted on some kind of looped roller mechanism that was just constantly spun around to mimic the train moving along....genius really.
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A similar runaway train film was made with Denzel? Unstoppable. You could see what they wanted to do, but was full of cgi. The original is head and shoulders above the rest
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CSX Productions Let me ask you this : DO you think the grey part is annoying?Like they could have used Alaska Railroad,Or BC-Rail....And maybe just use one GE U36-B "U-Boat" locomotive....You agree?
I like the gray, and I don't. I think it gives them character as their own railroad (like AWVR in Unstoppable), and it feels uninspired. They just made them gray rather than a fictional roadname.
Takumi Fujiwara They should have painted the locomotive in Eastbound 12's paint(Old ALASKA RAILROAD Paint) Which that IS a real ALASKA RAILROAD livery!So yeah..And they could have used some fucking GE locos.But AR only uses EMD.
They parked the running engine behind my place at night on the tracks going through Girdwood . Not good to idle those engines for long periods of time s they tend to "soup up" pulling oil past the rings. Used to operate one of these 20 cyl. engines in Prudhoe Bay powerplant. Still some plywood mock-ups laying around my old "diggings".
What I want to know is, in the movie, why couldn't they just stay on the two GP7's and uncouple them from the F7 unit instead of struggling to get to the front? I know that wouldn't have made for a very good movie, but I'm just trying to figure out how this film is still consistent with logic and reasoning.
Its sorta "hand waved" away that the couplers levels are on the other side of each loco, meaning whoever pulls it is still stuck abroad the runaway, and not a choice anyone would make if there's reason to believe they can stop it. Then of course, there's Rankin to deal with, whenever it stops, where ever it stops, he's there waiting to kill the convicts.