Number One with a Bullet: The 5 Best Speeding Trains in Cinema
The buzz on Unstoppable has been decidedly low-key over the last couple of weeks, but that will all probably change over the weekend. After all, when hordes of moviegoers head to their local theaters, what are they going to decide to see: Morning Glory or a movie that features a runaway train? People love trains! Especially speeding and unhinged ones. Ahead, Movieline offers up a list of five speeding trains to get your juices flowing for Unstoppable.
Mission: Impossible
I'll just go ahead and say it: Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible is a great movie. Tom Cruise is great, the script is great, the action is great...hell, even Jon Voight is great. Naturally, it all culminates in a set piece aboard the bullet train, one that includes a helicopter, exploding bubblegum and Jean Reno. Ditch that tie, Tom!
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Mission Impossible is definitely the best. But don't forget Speed!
Also, in Tall Target, Dick Powell has to stop Abe Lincoln from getting assassinated on a train. Movie is almost as good as the title: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044105/
I really like the cutaways to the speeding train at the end of "The Lady Eve," as Barbara Stanwyck rattles off the names of the men she has slept with to an increasingly pale Henry Fonda. (A scene that was copied, sans train, in "Four Weddings and a Funeral.")
How can you forget Runaway Train?!?!? Jon Voight, Eric Roberts...
And it's right there in the title!
BULLET TRAIN with Sonny Chiba as the engineer. Crazy hysteria. What SPEED was a remake of. Except it's a train, not a bus.
What about Silver Streak?
ooooh. And Strangers on a Train. And Transsiberian.
I will also go with Mission: Impossible as best train sequence.