I don't think he ever played a role this visceral and intense in his acting career since. He is straight up scary af in this movie. I don't care for his politics but he was a great character actor.
Probably one of the most misanthropic movie characters ever created. "I'm at war with the world and everybody in it!" That kinda stuck with me since I watched the movie for the first time.
In this shot @2:13 the locomotive was a alaskan railroad gp38-2 no. 2001 was only in scenes where the lead engine left the yard and this part. And through out the movie, it's the infamous gp40-2 no. 3010
If you consider how many people might be that dumb, and the fact that this actor had to *act* that dumb, it really makes you appreciate how talented he is, doesn't it?
Agreed, its _very_ hard to act dumb. You have to sell it convincingly to the audience you're not a complete idiot, but neither are you able to think 100% straight in an emergency.
@@TerraceviewI wonder if you think the pandemic was a conspiracy. It's been proven that at least some of it was. I was so tired of all the stories about how we were all going to die of that thing. They should have just quarantined the ones who would die and let the rest of people get on with their lives, but most of them were old, so they made everybody who was healthy suffer.
@@MrJuvefrank What.... what the hell are you even talking about? Nothing was "proven a conspiracy" because nothing was. No one ever said "everyone was going to die." They told you who was likely to be effected how, and everything that they could reasonably have known at the time proved true. And tell me, how do you quarantine "the ones who would die" when all the people that think it's a conspiracy go around screaming how masks "infringe on their freedoms?" Isn't it infringing on a person's freedoms by not allowing them to go anywhere because they are at risk, just so healthy people don't have to do, let's see what they asked of you, the bare f*cking minimum? How did anyone ever "make the healthy suffer?" By asking you to stay inside your house when possible so _you_ wouldn't spread it and kill people or leave them with life-changing injury? Or by using their constitutional right to refuse service to those ignorant enough to run around without the proper protection? It always amazes me that the replies to any comment talking about how dumb people can be turn into a Dunning-Kreuger graph. Are we even thinking about the same pandemic? Are you thinking about any actual time in human history? Turn off the news and go outside, for your own sake.
And that's exactly what Eric Roberts did, listen to a former convict/prison boxer. Danny Trejo was the guy who coached him for the fight scenes.....and it forever changed Danny's life for the better, thank God.
@@troybullard9631 he forever changed my life for the better too! no matter if i was cleaning toilet moping floors or just doing my best i always respected myself…. 40 years later and i’m still changed for life….i wish they would make another with all the c.g. effects and more on the felons on board would make a great movie.
so wait, at the beginning the guy says to switch it to track 11, then they say it's too late now, and then they say that they got a runaway on track 11? I thought it was too late to switch it to 11.
I think he might have meant to say they had a runaway on track 11 because by the time he told central control to the train would have already passed the points
This my favorite movie of all times but one thing i never understood about this part of the movie is why on the 1st runby the engines are dirty and snow packed and the 2nd runby they are all clean and new looking lol
REALLY bad continuity. In the scene where they hit the caboose on the freight going into the siding, they show two different locomotive sets on the freight, and three different freight car consists. At the end of this clip, the wheels you see are from a freight car, NOT a locomotive.
@@tylerbonser7686 True but he could pressed the red button above the fuse box he had time to just press and run out. But no instead he leans next to the button and chocked? Also how was he randomly dying?
@@DynamicSeq absolutely correct, or the alerter button depending on the locomotive. But that would have made a much less interesting movie if the safety mechanism worked haha.
@@DynamicSeq You can override the dead man switch if the brakes are engaged. Likewise, a conductor would never want to press the cut-off switch when going downhill, as that would disable the dynamic brakes. Technology can never be accident free.
Jon Voight acting in this film is absolutely outstanding, that's something punching you almost physically, so painfully rough and disenchanted.
I don't think he ever played a role this visceral and intense in his acting career since. He is straight up scary af in this movie. I don't care for his politics but he was a great character actor.
@@Bradgilliswhammyman Is a great character actor.
All the performances were top notch if u ask me.
Probably one of the most misanthropic movie characters ever created. "I'm at war with the world and everybody in it!" That kinda stuck with me since I watched the movie for the first time.
I agree. The art of vicseral acting like this is all but dead. Last movie I saw it was Jaqeem Phoenix in Joker.
Great film . Any Rail fan will enjoy it.
I love trains , I love this movie , I watched it several times anda I never get tired , I never get bored
One of the best movies ever made....jon Voight is amazing in this film...i quote manny almost weekly.
“Win… lose… what’s the difference…?” 😩
That itty bitty spot!
This is a fantastic movie for its time.
Not just for "it's time".
In this shot @2:13 the locomotive was a alaskan railroad gp38-2 no. 2001 was only in scenes where the lead engine left the yard and this part. And through out the movie, it's the infamous gp40-2 no. 3010
Well at the time it was B&AP
Greatest hits of all 🤗🤗🤗🤗
If you consider how many people might be that dumb, and the fact that this actor had to *act* that dumb, it really makes you appreciate how talented he is, doesn't it?
Agreed, its _very_ hard to act dumb. You have to sell it convincingly to the audience you're not a complete idiot, but neither are you able to think 100% straight in an emergency.
Well the "flu" pandemic taught us otherwise.
Yup, Eric Roberts was great in this film to be toe to toe with Jon Voight!
@@TerraceviewI wonder if you think the pandemic was a conspiracy. It's been proven that at least some of it was. I was so tired of all the stories about how we were all going to die of that thing. They should have just quarantined the ones who would die and let the rest of people get on with their lives, but most of them were old, so they made everybody who was healthy suffer.
@@MrJuvefrank What.... what the hell are you even talking about? Nothing was "proven a conspiracy" because nothing was. No one ever said "everyone was going to die." They told you who was likely to be effected how, and everything that they could reasonably have known at the time proved true. And tell me, how do you quarantine "the ones who would die" when all the people that think it's a conspiracy go around screaming how masks "infringe on their freedoms?" Isn't it infringing on a person's freedoms by not allowing them to go anywhere because they are at risk, just so healthy people don't have to do, let's see what they asked of you, the bare f*cking minimum? How did anyone ever "make the healthy suffer?" By asking you to stay inside your house when possible so _you_ wouldn't spread it and kill people or leave them with life-changing injury? Or by using their constitutional right to refuse service to those ignorant enough to run around without the proper protection?
It always amazes me that the replies to any comment talking about how dumb people can be turn into a Dunning-Kreuger graph. Are we even thinking about the same pandemic? Are you thinking about any actual time in human history? Turn off the news and go outside, for your own sake.
Runaway train is my favorite movie.
Atomic train 🚆☢️.
Unstoppable.
Final run.
Watch Voight in Coming Home, The Champ and this Runaway Train in the same week, you will see how great of an actor he is..
I agree one of my all time favourites. Listen to the convict maybe you’ll learn something.
B.T.W. that’s before a blue screen was invented....
And that's exactly what Eric Roberts did, listen to a former convict/prison boxer. Danny Trejo was the guy who coached him for the fight scenes.....and it forever changed Danny's life for the better, thank God.
@@troybullard9631 he forever changed my life for the better too! no matter if i was cleaning toilet moping floors or just doing my best i always respected myself…. 40 years later and i’m still changed for life….i wish they would make another with all the c.g. effects and more on the felons on board would make a great movie.
Rebecca DeMornay was so darn cute in this movie . ❤
Excellent. 💙 T.E.N.
Couldn’t help but notice that Frank did not wash his hands...
When you've got four runaway units, throttle jammed wide open, brakes burning off of them....ain't no body got time to wash their hands! haha
pre covid days...
@@jedknutson8373 Not only that, this was decades ago!
And he was in there with a magazine….
Plus pickup the phone too. Lol.
Barstow: a town you NEVER want to end up in!
Why not?
@@MrJuvefrank Hey, it's great if you like to watch trains. Or if you work for BNSF or Union Pacific -- total paradise!
@@jimholder6656I don't think I would like Victorville; the place is pot city.
@@MrJuvefrank Consolation prize in the California desert: Needles!
You're gonna sit a long time in Barstow if you're riding FNBS!
dammn that energy of the SD,E and GPs rounding the curve...
GP, F, and GPs...*
Can’t believe John Voight is Angelina Jolie dad I can see where she got personality
I just remembered this film.
This train can kill you in a thousand ways
Great video thanks for sharing
Wait was the four units were unmanned because it's horn has just blown
Yeah you're right the four units were unmanned and this could be the women or someone blows the horn (As the whistle)
1:46 how the Hell do I know?.
Subtitles: Applause.
Eric Roberts smokin hot.
Fantastic film
2:27 I mean come on foloski you know what's going to happen when you pick it up
Dynamite film.
Every time I'd hear them ask that question, I'd say: "About 52 miles east of Mojave"
It's always whenever nothing important happens is when everybody jokes around, then when something important comes up everyone jumps on it.
At 0:21 if your Volume is all that way up you can here the train blowing the horn
Man picking up a train brake shoe. Rail brake shoes weigh about hundred pounds and need a cart to transport.
Barstow has looked pretty good at 3am when I'm westbound from Vegas and low on fuel......
"That I did my boy and I know how to use it"? That line wouldn't fly today. The NAACP would shit a ton of bricks.
How so exactly?
@@justinratcliffe947 Referring to a black guy as "boy"
Link my boy.
1:02 1:12 1:27
so wait, at the beginning the guy says to switch it to track 11, then they say it's too late now, and then they say that they got a runaway on track 11? I thought it was too late to switch it to 11.
I think he might have meant to say they had a runaway on track 11 because by the time he told central control to the train would have already passed the points
Why was Frank always on shitter throughout this movie? Did they have to hire a stuntman for this too?
😱😱⚠️⚠️
This my favorite movie of all times but one thing i never understood about this part of the movie is why on the 1st runby the engines are dirty and snow packed and the 2nd runby they are all clean and new looking lol
REALLY bad continuity. In the scene where they hit the caboose on the freight going into the siding, they show two different locomotive sets on the freight, and three different freight car consists. At the end of this clip, the wheels you see are from a freight car, NOT a locomotive.
Gosh why does Eric Roberts always get the sleazeball roles?? Lol
Pov: The engineer is so stupid that he forgot to do 0% throttle before doing emergency break valve.
Well he was dying.
@@tylerbonser7686 True but he could pressed the red button above the fuse box he had time to just press and run out. But no instead he leans next to the button and chocked?
Also how was he randomly dying?
@@LogicalHats I'm assuming when you're dying you aren't thinking clearly. Also what does randomly dying even mean?
@@tylerbonser7686 Like he was all fine and then BOOM he was starting to die out of nowhere
@@LogicalHats that can be how heart attacks or strokes happen. But it sets up the plot so that's all that really matters.
Now day's they can derail trains by remote in case's like this
They were going to do that in this movie as well but they decide not to.
@@adamm2837 Also besides remote a locomotive can be shutdown
The dead man switch would shut everything down, before it even got started...
@@DynamicSeq absolutely correct, or the alerter button depending on the locomotive. But that would have made a much less interesting movie if the safety mechanism worked haha.
@@DynamicSeq You can override the dead man switch if the brakes are engaged. Likewise, a conductor would never want to press the cut-off switch when going downhill, as that would disable the dynamic brakes. Technology can never be accident free.
*Angelina Jolie sure didn't get her looks from her Dad - Jon Voight !*