Picking Nits
Delayed car-jump attempt; spectators at ground zero; the plan to shoot the fuel tank; news helicopter footage before the story broke
In the discussion (10)
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- Why not try having a car pace the train for a jump before hanging a man from a helicopter; deemed a decent nitpick, though there may have been no road access.
- Pittsburgh local news has impossibly expert runaway-train coverage and graphics; others counter that it is local news on the biggest story ever there.
- Would Hooters really switch from sports to the train; the counter is that the daughters get the manager to put it on.
- An internet theory says another locomotive could have coupled in front and passed a driver across, ending the movie; it is rejected as no fun and hard because they never connect.
- Everyone is supposedly evacuating a traveling Chernobyl, yet the town gathers at ground zero and Darcy brings her son.
- Molten phenol riding with grain is questioned, and countered that railroads just move freight.
- The throttle slipping out on its own is a bold-faced cheat like Final Destination; others read it as human error, and a scene seems to set up an explanation that never comes.
- The storage tanks at the curve are ridiculous but accepted because they are fun, as Jaws is more fun with a full beach.
- Shooting at the train's fuel tank seemed a bad plan with a one-in-100 chance of working.
- The news helicopter follows Denzel and Pine before anyone knows what they are doing, reusing footage meant for elsewhere without pulling it off.