Unstoppable The Rewatchables
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Unstoppable

Most Rewatchable Scene

Will jumping back onto the train; helicopter attempt to stop the train; Ned arriving in his red truck at the end

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  • Dewey losing the train is a first pick: he cannot catch it, falls, and is the kind of idiot a real person would be rather than a movie idiot.
  • Tony Scott gives fringe characters room, as with the surveillance guys in Enemy of the State, who almost steal that movie.
  • The train nearly hitting the horses is unreal; the audience knows the children are safe but the horse might not be, and the shot from inside the horse trailer amazes.
  • Made around 1990 the horse would have gone down; you do not kill a dog unless you are John Wick.
  • Planting a car in front of the train goes badly and it derails and explodes, the first sign it could take out a town.
  • Galvin's plan is never explained: the film cross-cuts between his boardroom and Rosario Dawson's people, and the audience watches the plan take shape without being told.
  • Information flows well: viewers see the broadcasts and everyone involved, while the men on the train keep being caught unaware.
  • Will falling while trying to couple the cars feels real with no CGI, making a participant nervous for Chris Pine; the foot injury looks like it hurts.
  • Denzel's line that Will is "different" when asked if he is okay is singled out as brutal.
  • The train heading into the big curve beside storage tanks is joked about as the worst city planning; a defense is promised for Picking Nits.
  • The curve sequence works because of the cross-cutting to everyone watching on TV: the engineers, Rosario Dawson's team, Denzel's daughters at Hooters, Pine's wife and son, and the bars, which makes it emotional.
  • Tilting trains are believable because nobody knows enough about trains, unlike buses taking a ramp at 55.
  • Will jumping out and back onto the train is chosen as the most rewatchable scene; it leads to Denzel standing on top of the train with his arms up.
  • Fast and Furious has desensitized viewers to jumping between moving vehicles; Dewey's run shows how hard it really is.
  • Runaway Train with Eric Roberts and Voight influenced Tony Scott; it is a cynical convict movie where the train is not a character, but Denzel atop the train echoes Voight's ending.
  • The helicopter attempt to stop the train with a man hanging out is picked; one shot holds two trains, three choppers and a fleet of emergency vehicles.
  • Favorite shot is the grain explosion while Pine works on the coupling, with the helicopter flying parallel through the cornstorm, likened to Days of Heaven and Apocalypse Now; the most rewatchable scene is Ned arriving at the end in his red truck and getting Chris Pine to the front. — Quentin Tarantino