UNSTOPPABLE (2010) HAD US ON THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS!! MOVIE REVIEW!!
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02:03Yeah, no, I am definitely excited.And, yeah, I know even less than that.Yeah.That's wrong and roll.Let's get down to business.All right, guys.Well, we just watched Unstoppable.Thank you, Preparfaying down these highlights.
02:21asking AI right now what was true and what was fiction i just want to get thisyou know what actually that might interfere with our our review we'll go to that afterall right we'll go to that after uh and the meantime um whoa okay so aaron i'll go to youfirst man um what did you think about this movie give your honest thoughts and opinionsso at first it was taking a little bit to like really hook me i was like there's a lot oftechnical jargon with like the trains and whatnot you know i was a little distracted by thecrash zooms and i wasn't really drawn into the characters but once we got into the thick of itonce you know the train was really starting to cause mayhem and especially once uh frank and will
03:11got directly involved with the main plot i became really hooked into it i thought this wasan engaging intense ride and you really felt thestakes with the entire course of the film I think that Denzel and Chris Pine had a really goodchemistry and even though you didn't really see a lot of the stuff that happened in their livesreally felt the history of their experiences and really cared about these guys and hoped thatthey made it through and I feel like it's this is a perfect example of you don't need to haveend-of-the-world stakes to really be invested in the plot it just really has to matter and feelimportant and urgent as to what's happening in the immediacy of the situation and I feel like
03:51and this movie captured that in spades.Was there, you know, was the world at stake?No, not even a million lives were at stake,but the fact that lives were at stakeand these guys risked their lives and their jobsand the relationships with their familiesfor the sake of doing something good and altruisticis why we love movies.
04:12It's why we, you know, we fight for each other,why we fight for the little guy,and especially seeing just how wrong,something can go and how helpless you can feel in the face of that, seeing two guys come togetherto alleviate that, to try to stop that was really satisfying. And you really bought the stakesof this movie. And I imagine they wouldn't have made the movie had they failed. It would be a verydifferent tone. But even knowing or even getting a feeling that they're going to succeed,you still don't know. And I feel like that's a testament to how well Tony Scott directed this
04:47film i yeah i enjoyed this way more than i i thought i would i didn't know what to expect and i'mglad that we watched it how about you man i thought it was amazing i thought it was in a reallygreat movie i thought i was walking into it is weird because it's kind of like an action movie butnot really yeah you know um i i just i sort of assumed that because of the relationship thattony scott and uh denzil have with one another that they do like thrilling movies or or actionoriented uh films especially in the latter part of tony scott's career um and uh yeah what it's calledunstoppable i saw a train i was like okay so there's got to be like something's going down on thisthat's what i thought i thought was a movie about like some shit's going down on a train and there's
05:33bad guys yeah that's that's really what i thought we were walking into and it turns out it's moreof a situational thing um i love the presence of the of the 777 train you know i kept saying itit really felt like a force.It felt like kind of an animal.I haven't seen this movie, but there's a movie called Dual.It's like Steven Spielberg's first movie he directed, I believe.And that's something I heard associated with it a lot is how the truck is a character and it feels like a monster.And that's what was popping in my head when I was watching this.
06:08Like at the very start of the movie, when they show the train, it looked like the train had a face with the way they did the lights.And I didn't quite, I thought I was just like,placing some thing on it that i was like yeah it just looks like a face even though it's just lightsbut i but the way they did that i feel like it's actually kind of purposeful to give it um like acharacter make the train feel actually alive like it's an enemy that they have to put down insome way you know uh i thought that was really great like on a technical level it's crazy becauselike yeah the i i'm more accustomed to tony scott's style i actually does movies where thestyles even like more like he did a man on fire which people really love this style and then he
06:50kind of like doubled down on that in his follow-up movie called domino which was just like obnoxiouslike i think i think people like that movie i'm not sure but i remember being i only saw it oncewhen i was kidding me my opinion will change but when i saw it once and i was like wow this is liketoo much uh he does like this weird like kind of overlapping with images and stuff it's a reallystrange shit oh interesting um and so uh yeah like this was actuallymore restrained thanthe direction of man on fireand so I
07:19was more used to it and Ithought that like the way it was directedreally did capturea lot of that like freneticfraughtness ofan unexpectedsituationso I like the directing style
07:35really captured it well to the point whereit allows to matter like there werethe only time I felt like I saw the VFXwas when the train had to getslowed down at the curve when I had to be at 15miles per hour. That was the only time I sawCGI. But other times I waslike damn they'd really do all this like
07:51real. It looksso real andso many shots were like crazilyimpressive with the amount of stunt workand practical effects and practical blowupsit was like chaoticand for a movie called Unstoppableit was really well paced because it
08:07just kept ramping uplike forfor a movie where the train is going fasterfaster faster the movie feels like the intensity is going faster faster faster so like the parallel betweenwhat the train's doing versus what the movie's pacing and editing is doing i thought was so wellconstructed whilst giving us to you know a couple of good characters to get invested becauseyeah it was interestingly plotted because the first like 45 minutes Chris pine and Denzel you kindof just check in with once in a while and you're more getting caught up in like these
08:41supporting characters and the situation at hand and then when they decide to take active actionand go after the train then you really stay with them and it was like it was like an interestingbuildup like the patience of getting focused on them primarily i thought they rewarded theaudience really well uh on that fact and like i think the average movie would dolet's set up the characters and their problems get some cliche dialogue in therein a cliche situation of like he tries to see his wife you're not supposed to be here you know like shit like that or he calls his or like they would have probably amplified or double down on the whole thing with denzil calling his daughters and i imagine it would have been you know more dramatic and stuff because they're setting up the situation and then they probably wouldn't check back in until close to the finale but i thought the way they don't even tell you what what's going on with chris pine situation until like way late in the film as a as a as aconversation that they're having because they both are aware they might die you know so let's startdistracting ourselves let's air what's on our minds and you know but let's not talk in a way as if
09:55we're going to die but you know that's kind of why they're talking you know yeah he literallycalled his his girls to sell he loved them because he saw it in his face that he thought thiswas his last day it could be yeah yeah it's inspiring too you know i got i want to i'm interestedto read like what was actually fact versus fiction um but yeah as i thought was actually a prettyit's it's kind of inspiring of the of the chances they take and yeah the way they built the stakesand the the the physicality like i i wonder if it was more i'm curious it was more fictionalizedwhen they had to stop the train like when the grain comes in yeah and then like to build tensionyeah and like the hop in because you can't just like latch it and then work on pulling the brakes
10:36or get to the front like the way they use the the elements they're working against withwhat could be in a cargo of a train is they amplified the same and while the train talk at firstwas like man this is like a language i don't understand um they they did a good job of immersingat least i felt like getting immersed into it where i was able to follow enough and then whenthey're coming to the news reports and such they you know that that that joke when someone says somesci-fi jargon or science jargon and someone's like english please yeah they definitely did thatYeah. They do it in a way that wasn't like, oh, they're recapping this for the audience or they're redoing it for the audience.When they chose the moments to do it, it was seamless to the point where I wasn't, like, distracted by that.
11:23Yeah, and the fact that the news was covering it made it feel important, made it feel urgent, coupling it with, you know, giving the audience this simplified version of what's going on.And yeah, I think the editing and the pacing also really played to this.The fact that this is an hour and a half, so you have to cut it tightly and give us just enough of the characters to really latch on to without going into the depth of what their entire lives are.But the pacing and the runtime really add to the urgency of what's happening.So, yeah, I don't think a two-hour version of this would have been as compelling because you know that.things are coming to a head so we need to move quickly and you feel that in every aspect of the movie yeahwe got one question uh the way the posts went out was a little bit odd and we understand why therewouldn't be you know so that that wasn't um that the person who handles the post it wasn't their
12:25but we only got one normally we have a lot more um sorry about the way that went out but let's honorthis one question and then we'll read some factsRejignation, as many of you know, I got very serious about my health this year.Since January, I've dropped nearly 50 pounds and a little over 10% body fat.And when one is committed like that, you start to realize it's not just about hitting a number on a scale.It's about building a sustainable lifestyle.That's why something like Hello Fresh fits so well into a routine like mine.Today's video sponsor.
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14:31train to Busan for sure there's I can't think of another movie that is top that that is a great train movie yeah I do have to say that one my favorite movie involving a train is probably um before before sunrise I haven't seen those movies oh great love love those movies but yeah the partially takes place on the train but yeah train to Busan hell now this will be up there I don't have a long list of train movies but yeah those are the three that come to mind when you ask that question yeahI mean, in terms of a move, like an actual train movie, this would probably be number one.Yeah.Because it's about trains.Hopefully about a runaway train and how they go to stop it.But yeah.I mean, there's also, I don't remember it too well, but did you see the, uh, the, was iton the Orient Express?
15:18Did you like that one?All right.I mean, I never, I never saw the original adaptation.I only saw the Kenneth Brown on one.It's all that matters.Yeah.That's fun.Yeah, but it's not making top train movies.
15:30train yeah train de buson was definitely a really interesting one i saw it like years agobut i remember it being really thrilling and then um yeah i don't really remember it actuallybut i remember i remember really enjoyed the hell out of it and think it's one of the coolestmovies i've seen so yeah right remember the feeling but um but yeah uh i think those are mymy top three train movies as of this setting but yeah i would love to check out silver streetone and i want to just say top three train movies i would say those are the only train moviesI can'tI cannot think of us
16:00literally when this questionit was outI was likewe're in the orangerest and trainand I don't reallyknow what elseit's like a train movie
16:05it's not ayeah it's not a hugewealth of a train movieslet's find out reallyI guess Mission Impossibleone partiallytakes place on a trainand then so does
16:13train movietrain moviesbullet train is whatoh bullet train's greatwhat the fileI was talking aboutoh source codeI remember being
16:22pretty goodI forgot a lotI have not seen source codeforever I don't reallyremember anything about it. I remember liking it. I did not see Snowpiercer. Other people reacted toit on this channel. I remember liking Snowpiercer. Train of Busan's on there. Yep. The Polar Express isawesome. Definitely. And that's funny because Tony Scott also directed another train movie with Denzel. It'sright there. I've never seen it. The Taking a Pelham one, two, three. Oh, no. John Travolta.
16:47I've not seen that one. That's so funny. I'm with Denzel and trains. I wouldn't call derailthe train movie. Yeah, you know, looking at this list.train movies i i can't say i've seen a lot of train movies money train wow what is thati didn't realize this was like a category 310 to yuma never seen it but heard it's great what thatthere's a movie called derailed it's on tuby there's a movie called train ghost track there'sthere's some serious train movies out there or train howl well yeah okay i would say those all rightThose are you the fact for suspicion.Thanks to the question, Jay Rushton.
17:28Appreciate you, man.All right.What was true?It's loosely based on the CSX-888 incidents called the crazy that happened in Ohio.Okay.Okay.These are true stuff.A freight train left the yard unmanned and traveled uncontrollable for about two hours.
17:46Oh, just two hours.Oh, okay.A little shorter, a little longer than what we experienced here.I mean, it might have been two hours.It just felt so intense, but it might have just felt so intense, but it might have justdoing a couple hours.I mean, around there, the movie's an hour and a half, so you cut out a half hour of it,just kind of meandering, so I could see that.
18:05The runaway, the initial mistake, the runaway started because an engineer left the cabwithout properly setting the dynamic brakes intended to hop back on, but failing.Attempts to stop it.Railroad crews tried to slow and stop the train multiple times, including using anotherlocomotive to chase it.Oh, oh, okay, so they did try.so the train was eventually slowed enough by pursuing locomotive so the railroad worker could jump aboard and bring it to the stop cool and the event did get widespread coverage just like in the film okay all right here we go charactersdenzo and chris pine are entirely fictional characters the real railroad workers were not a veteran rookie duo yeah i mean it's very like it's very it's very like buddy cop type dynamic yeah very very very very
18:53very movie for sure speed and size i don't know why i just bought it yeah man i was hoping they werebecause they did a good job at feeling real yeah um very authentic the real runaway traintopped out at 47 miles per hour oh a week 47 that's nothing okay slow shitderailment risk while dangerous experts at the time didn't believe the real train was about to derailspectacularly in a populated arealike in the film. Okay, so they reallyraised the stakes here. Got it.Use the foundation.
19:31The train was actually stopped more methodically,not with last second stunts.There was no car flyingoff the tracks, no near misseswith school children.What? That's disappointing. I wishkids' lives were in danger.Come on. This film includes a wild helicopter
19:46drop sequence. That never happened.Oh, that's completely made up.They even have a thing at the credits with saying thisguy survived why did you liewhy did you lie in the movie nobodydied or was seriously yeah the charactersare completely made up and they're like thishappening they're like oh shit
20:01they have the liberty to do itand it helped with the narrativenobody died or was seriously injuredin the actual incidentand the real runaway lasted abouttwo hours and travels 66 milesthe movie compresses and dramatizes the timelineso a lot of made up shit's inspired by
20:21it's an inspired byIt did very inspired.It's very inspired, but, no, I mean, they did a great job of making it feel real.Yeah, dude, I wholly bought everything that was happening.Yeah, from all the different angles, from the money aspect of them, not wanting to stop it,and then, you know, eventually trying to derail it.All that stuff was very believable.In honor of Andrew Gordon, what do you think this got on Rodden Tomatoes, critics,
20:47audience?I'm going to say a 71 from critics and audiences.I'm going to say 67.Okay, I'm going to say 80% critics, 90% audience.I'm going to go much higher.All right.Let's find out.Let's find out.
21:06Moment of truth.Okay.So I'm much higher on the critics.Wow.Out of 100,000, you were closer.Out of 100,000, though, on the audience, 72.I mean, it's 100,000 people.Oh, this is a really loved movie.
21:21Okay.I'm pleasantly surprised by that.Yeah.Yeah.All right.Well, there we go.Ladies and gentlemen, what did you think about Unstoppable?What's your favorite train movie out of all the train movies out there?
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