The Reel Rejects - UNSTOPPABLE (2010) HAD US ON THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:02:03 Yeah, 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.

Starting point is 00:02:21 asking AI right now what was true and what was fiction i just want to get this you know what actually that might interfere with our our review we'll go to that after all right we'll go to that after uh and the meantime um whoa okay so aaron i'll go to you first man um what did you think about this movie give your honest thoughts and opinions so at first it was taking a little bit to like really hook me i was like there's a lot of technical jargon with like the trains and whatnot you know i was a little distracted by the crash zooms and i wasn't really drawn into the characters but once we got into the thick of it once you know the train was really starting to cause mayhem and especially once uh frank and will

Starting point is 00:03:11 got directly involved with the main plot i became really hooked into it i thought this was an engaging intense ride and you really felt the stakes with the entire course of the film I think that Denzel and Chris Pine had a really good chemistry and even though you didn't really see a lot of the stuff that happened in their lives really felt the history of their experiences and really cared about these guys and hoped that they made it through and I feel like it's this is a perfect example of you don't need to have end-of-the-world stakes to really be invested in the plot it just really has to matter and feel important and urgent as to what's happening in the immediacy of the situation and I feel like

Starting point is 00:03:51 and 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 stake and these guys risked their lives and their jobs and the relationships with their families for the sake of doing something good and altruistic is why we love movies.

Starting point is 00:04:12 It'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 together to alleviate that, to try to stop that was really satisfying. And you really bought the stakes of this movie. And I imagine they wouldn't have made the movie had they failed. It would be a very different 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

Starting point is 00:04:47 film i yeah i enjoyed this way more than i i thought i would i didn't know what to expect and i'm glad that we watched it how about you man i thought it was amazing i thought it was in a really great movie i thought i was walking into it is weird because it's kind of like an action movie but not really yeah you know um i i just i sort of assumed that because of the relationship that tony scott and uh denzil have with one another that they do like thrilling movies or or action oriented uh films especially in the latter part of tony scott's career um and uh yeah what it's called unstoppable i saw a train i was like okay so there's got to be like something's going down on this that's what i thought i thought was a movie about like some shit's going down on a train and there's

Starting point is 00:05:33 bad guys yeah that's that's really what i thought we were walking into and it turns out it's more of a situational thing um i love the presence of the of the 777 train you know i kept saying it it 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.

Starting point is 00:06:08 Like 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 lights but i but the way they did that i feel like it's actually kind of purposeful to give it um like a character make the train feel actually alive like it's an enemy that they have to put down in some way you know uh i thought that was really great like on a technical level it's crazy because like yeah the i i'm more accustomed to tony scott's style i actually does movies where the styles even like more like he did a man on fire which people really love this style and then he

Starting point is 00:06:50 kind of like doubled down on that in his follow-up movie called domino which was just like obnoxious like i think i think people like that movie i'm not sure but i remember being i only saw it once when i was kidding me my opinion will change but when i saw it once and i was like wow this is like too much uh he does like this weird like kind of overlapping with images and stuff it's a really strange shit oh interesting um and so uh yeah like this was actually more restrained than the direction of man on fire and so I

Starting point is 00:07:19 was more used to it and I thought that like the way it was directed really did capture a lot of that like frenetic fraughtness of an unexpected situation so I like the directing style

Starting point is 00:07:35 really captured it well to the point where it allows to matter like there were the only time I felt like I saw the VFX was when the train had to get slowed down at the curve when I had to be at 15 miles per hour. That was the only time I saw CGI. But other times I was like damn they'd really do all this like

Starting point is 00:07:51 real. It looks so real and so many shots were like crazily impressive with the amount of stunt work and practical effects and practical blowups it was like chaotic and for a movie called Unstoppable it was really well paced because it

Starting point is 00:08:07 just kept ramping up like for for a movie where the train is going faster faster faster the movie feels like the intensity is going faster faster faster so like the parallel between what the train's doing versus what the movie's pacing and editing is doing i thought was so well constructed whilst giving us to you know a couple of good characters to get invested because yeah it was interestingly plotted because the first like 45 minutes Chris pine and Denzel you kind of just check in with once in a while and you're more getting caught up in like these

Starting point is 00:08:41 supporting characters and the situation at hand and then when they decide to take active action and go after the train then you really stay with them and it was like it was like an interesting buildup like the patience of getting focused on them primarily i thought they rewarded the audience really well uh on that fact and like i think the average movie would do let's set up the characters and their problems get some cliche dialogue in there in 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 a conversation that they're having because they both are aware they might die you know so let's start distracting ourselves let's air what's on our minds and you know but let's not talk in a way as if

Starting point is 00:09:55 we're going to die but you know that's kind of why they're talking you know yeah he literally called his his girls to sell he loved them because he saw it in his face that he thought this was his last day it could be yeah yeah it's inspiring too you know i got i want to i'm interested to read like what was actually fact versus fiction um but yeah as i thought was actually a pretty it's it's kind of inspiring of the of the chances they take and yeah the way they built the stakes and the the the physicality like i i wonder if it was more i'm curious it was more fictionalized when they had to stop the train like when the grain comes in yeah and then like to build tension yeah and like the hop in because you can't just like latch it and then work on pulling the brakes

Starting point is 00:10:36 or get to the front like the way they use the the elements they're working against with what could be in a cargo of a train is they amplified the same and while the train talk at first was like man this is like a language i don't understand um they they did a good job of immersing at least i felt like getting immersed into it where i was able to follow enough and then when they're coming to the news reports and such they you know that that that joke when someone says some sci-fi jargon or science jargon and someone's like english please yeah they definitely did that Yeah. 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.

Starting point is 00:11:23 Yeah, 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 yeah we got one question uh the way the posts went out was a little bit odd and we understand why there wouldn't be you know so that that wasn't um that the person who handles the post it wasn't their

Starting point is 00:12:25 but we only got one normally we have a lot more um sorry about the way that went out but let's honor this one question and then we'll read some facts Rejignation, 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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Starting point is 00:14:31 train 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 yeah I 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 it on the Orient Express?

Starting point is 00:15:18 Did 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.

Starting point is 00:15:30 train yeah train de buson was definitely a really interesting one i saw it like years ago but i remember it being really thrilling and then um yeah i don't really remember it actually but i remember i remember really enjoyed the hell out of it and think it's one of the coolest movies i've seen so yeah right remember the feeling but um but yeah uh i think those are my my top three train movies as of this setting but yeah i would love to check out silver street one and i want to just say top three train movies i would say those are the only train movies I can't I cannot think of us

Starting point is 00:16:00 literally when this question it was out I was like we're in the orange rest and train and I don't really know what else it's like a train movie

Starting point is 00:16:05 it's not a yeah it's not a huge wealth of a train movies let's find out really I guess Mission Impossible one partially takes place on a train and then so does

Starting point is 00:16:13 train movie train movies bullet train is what oh bullet train's great what the file I was talking about oh source code I remember being

Starting point is 00:16:22 pretty good I forgot a lot I have not seen source code forever I don't really remember anything about it. I remember liking it. I did not see Snowpiercer. Other people reacted to it on this channel. I remember liking Snowpiercer. Train of Busan's on there. Yep. The Polar Express is awesome. Definitely. And that's funny because Tony Scott also directed another train movie with Denzel. It's right there. I've never seen it. The Taking a Pelham one, two, three. Oh, no. John Travolta.

Starting point is 00:16:47 I've not seen that one. That's so funny. I'm with Denzel and trains. I wouldn't call derail the 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 that i didn't realize this was like a category 310 to yuma never seen it but heard it's great what that there's a movie called derailed it's on tuby there's a movie called train ghost track there's there's some serious train movies out there or train howl well yeah okay i would say those all right Those are you the fact for suspicion. Thanks to the question, Jay Rushton.

Starting point is 00:17:28 Appreciate 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.

Starting point is 00:17:46 Oh, 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 just doing 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.

Starting point is 00:18:05 The runaway, the initial mistake, the runaway started because an engineer left the cab without 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 another locomotive 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 characters denzo 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

Starting point is 00:18:53 very movie for sure speed and size i don't know why i just bought it yeah man i was hoping they were because they did a good job at feeling real yeah um very authentic the real runaway train topped out at 47 miles per hour oh a week 47 that's nothing okay slow shit derailment risk while dangerous experts at the time didn't believe the real train was about to derail spectacularly in a populated area like in the film. Okay, so they really raised the stakes here. Got it. Use the foundation.

Starting point is 00:19:31 The train was actually stopped more methodically, not with last second stunts. There was no car flying off the tracks, no near misses with school children. What? That's disappointing. I wish kids' lives were in danger. Come on. This film includes a wild helicopter

Starting point is 00:19:46 drop sequence. That never happened. Oh, that's completely made up. They even have a thing at the credits with saying this guy survived why did you lie why did you lie in the movie nobody died or was seriously yeah the characters are completely made up and they're like this happening they're like oh shit

Starting point is 00:20:01 they have the liberty to do it and it helped with the narrative nobody died or was seriously injured in the actual incident and the real runaway lasted about two hours and travels 66 miles the movie compresses and dramatizes the timeline so a lot of made up shit's inspired by

Starting point is 00:20:21 it's an inspired by It 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,

Starting point is 00:20:47 audience? 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.

Starting point is 00:21:06 Moment 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.

Starting point is 00:21:21 Okay. 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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The Reel Rejects - UNSTOPPABLE (2010) HAD US ON THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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