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Unstoppable (2010)
Railroad nonsense
Another Hollywood flop. Anybody remember the atomic train (LOL) - this is even worse. And being from a railroad family the broken air hose would automatically braked each car. No way could leave that yard, And then toward the end, slowing the train down to 25 mph on the sharp curve was also lame - it would have made it in the real world.
And finally at end - in about a mile or so the train regains speed back to 75 mph. Utter hogwash - this is a locomotive not a porch.
You can get the Atomic train for $5 bucks - get it and save your price at the movie house.
Avoid this turkey.
Quarantine (2008)
Borrowed 2 new and old movies and made it better than either
Wow, what a thrill ride! I thought this was a terrifying movie. To me, it was a hybrid of the old David Cronenburg's "Rabid"s which I thought was more a vehicle to sell Maryiln Chamber's sexuality but nevertheless was pretty horrific and the new modern day "Right at your Front Door" movie that was stimulating but not all that horrific but the concept was certainly borrowed in this movie. All in all, the sum of both parts exceeded the sum and turned to be much better than either one.
At any rate, I was scared and being 59 yrs old having grown up with Halloween and Friday the 13th, this movie was not juvenile nor irrelevant.
For a horror movie only, I would give it a solid 9.
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Inacuuracies in a Great Movie
I love this movie - I love any nuclear warfare movie as it shows the deadly consequences. I have really huge collection from Strangelove, Day After, Testament, Day after Trinity, Bedford Incident, China Syndrome, you name it and this one is my favorite - it is so thrilling that I found myself rewinding it in numerous places. Even though it is a VHS copy, my copy is excellent, DVD quality.
I think an obvious fault in this movie is when Dell, Powell, etc. get checked at the main gate. Only a name and soc sec no are given ??? This is totally implausible. The guard would either know who Sgt McKenzie was or probably have a photo list of each possible approved entrant to the silo. There is no way this could have happened.
Another interesting movie insertion was the "gold" atomic bomb to blast out the silo doors. I believe gold is credible for use as a tamper (device to reflect neutrons back into the core for enhanced fission and gold is cleaner than uranium which is normally used. However, why the bubble levels???? This makes no sense to me. A small atomic bomb should be independent of horizontal or vertical position