UNSTOPPABLE Special Screening
The movie was directed by Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, and many more.
Last Sunday, while watching for the nth time the movie Princess Diaries 2, wherein Chris Pine as Nicholas Devereaux gets to fall in love with Anne Hathaway's Princess Mia character, we both wondered what other movies Chris Pine has filmed after Princess Diaries 2. We saw how good he was as Jake Hardin at Just My Luck, but I have yet to see Blind Dating, Smokin' Aces, Bottle Shock, Carriers and Star Trek. Whew!
We really miss Chris Pine. . .
And then there was UNSTOPPABLE. Before going to the screening, I searched about the movie and found out out that Chris Pine is in the cast aside from the inimitable Denzel Washington (Book of Elijah was my latest encounter with him).
The movie is about how a veteran locomotive engineer (Denzel Washington) and a young train conductor (Chris Pine) in a different locomotive chased and prevented an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city. Denzel plays Frank Barnes, the veteran railroad engineer with two grown-up daughters, while Chris Pine is Will Colson, a young train conductor, who's currently experiencing a troubled marriage. But towards the end, everything became all right--- the runaway train was stopped, no harm befell the heroes although chris gets injured.
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According to press, Unstoppable is loosely based on the "Crazy Eights" unmanned train incident in 2001. The train, led by CSX Transportation SD40-2 #8888, left its Walbridge, Ohio rail yard and rumbled on a 66-mile journey through northwest Ohio with no one at the controls, due to the throttle being applied on full instead of a brake. Two of the train's tank cars contained thousands of gallons of molten phenol, a toxic ingredient of paints and dyes harmful when it is inhaled, ingested, or comes into contact with the skin. For two hours, the train traveled along at speeds up to 47 miles per hour until the crew of a second train coupled onto the runaway and slowly applied its brakes. Once #8888 was slowed down to a speed of 11 miles per hour, a CSX employee, trainmaster Jon Hosfeld, ran alongside the train and climbed aboard, shutting down the locomotive. The train was stopped just southeast of Kenton, Ohio.
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I enjoyed this film immensely ---it was fast paced (not because of the trains) and very realistic. I was somehow gripped with suspense during the train-chasings. The sound effects were just awesome, too. Plus the fact that denzel nor chris does not get killed is a bonus. Thank you Mae, thank you 20th century fox!
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