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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3601511, member: 833"] [B]Unstoppable (2010)[/B] - Denzel and Chris Pine buddy/old tech, pseudo disaster movie that did well at the box office and is one of those movies that is on TV or cable somewhere pretty much every day. The premise is interesting, credible and original for a disaster movie. A large locomotive pulling a series of cars with toxic chemicals gets under power through a series of screwups by two idiot yard-workers, one of whom is played by TJ Miller (Erlich Bachman from Silicon Valley). The overall plot from there is interesting. Pine and Denzel are good, as always, and the rest of the cast is solid. Rosario Dawson and Kevin Dunn (Ben from VEEP) are both exactly what you would expect. So this movie should be better than it is. I have two problems. First, the dialogue is so silly at times that I literally cringe watching the movie. But other times the dialogue works. I don't get how a script this inconsistent made it to camera in a big budget movie. For example, there is an attempt to derail the train. There is an interesting build up to that scene, and then the camera cuts to some random overweight guy that says the "train is not going to know what hit it". What does that mean? The train doesn't think, and that is a stupid cliche anyway. There are whole scenes that not only don't make sense, and also have easy fixes. I blame this on the Director. This was Tony Scott's last movie before his suicide, and a lot of the direction is a mess. There are weird reaction shots and the music is intrusive. The pace jumps around throughout the movie. This movie was never meant to be an Oscar candidate, but it had potential to be better than it is. [/QUOTE]

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