#677 Wokamotive - Unstoppable (2010) w/ Well There’s Your Problem (preview)
“This train is half a mile long traveling at speed into highly populated areas with 8 freight cars of hazardous chemicals and 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel. We’re talking about a missile the size of the Chrysler building.” TODAY: Liam and Rocz from Well There’s Your Problem join us to cover the Tony Scott / Denzel Washington runaway train joint Unstoppable. Who are these anti-union railroad workers and why do they hate new-hires so much? Will Denzel’s mystical connection to trains save the day? Will Chris Pine’s wife’s cop boyfriend lift the restraining order? Will the guilty rail workers be held responsible? Will this film be held responsible for its numerous rail goofs? Yes. Get a bonus episode every week by signing up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for only $5/month
Yeah, it just keeps cutting back to the kindergarten train with this pumping action music while we don't know if the runaway train's going to hit it and the kids are just screaming, you know, we like being alive, we like being alive.
Lots of beautiful train shots so far.
A good sort of like...
Piano score that comes in in like the gentler moments like when we're with Denzel and Chris Pine and they're you know talking about their personal lives and like oh it's a long story and it's like hey we got all day brother you know and it's like I can't remember what exactly the conversation oh it's about like his daughters Denzel's daughters working at Hooters yeah and he kind of makes a self-deprecating joke about he's like oh I know I know I'm used to it but there's like this like the nice moment there Yeah,
there's like this sentimental score kind of playing in the background as the train goes, because they're just in an engine car at this point as it goes over the water.
Really kind of picturesque, nice stuff.
They're down at the Zinc Plant, I want to say, which is shown to be in the subtitle as Southern Pennsylvania, which is an interesting way this movie delineates Pennsylvania as they're Southern and Northern Pennsylvania.
I guess.
That's not how that works.
The cultural change is east to west.
Yeah.
The southern half of Pennsylvania is the half that owes its gratitude to Denzel and Chris Pine in this movie.
This is true.
That's how you know what half you're in.
Yeah, but then York still stands.
Can't have that.
Yeah.
Back at Rosario Dawson, where she's trying to manage this crisis, get all these railroad crossings closed as the train goes through.
Federal Safety Inspector, played by Kevin Corrigan, who is one of my favorite characters in this movie.
Definitely a Ned of a different type, I think.
Like an autistic train guy, perhaps, who just knows everything about...
Chemicals and trains.
And he pops his head in while Rosario Dawson's doing all this stuff.
And he's like, did you say you got her a coaster?
And she's like, yeah, go wait in the fucking lobby, bitch.
I don't care who you are.
He's like, oh, okay.
And she starts looking through the manifest of the train and sees things like molten phenol.
Hazardous material.
Yeah.
And she's like, okay, what's molten phenol?
And I don't know why she doesn't just go to Google, but instead she's like, get the shipper on the horn.
We need to find out what...
What she is supposed to do at this point is she will call Chemtrak.
The Chemtrak emergency line, and the person who will pick up the phone will be my mom, who will tell you exactly...
What you should do in this situation, get you in touch with the first responders, so on and so forth.
Again, my mom does this job.
Beautiful.
Hero.
You're supposed to call Chemtrick.
Well, apparently they're going to send an email to the shipper and wait to find out what molten phenol is that way.
It's funny because at this point, I don't know anything about that, but I'm just thinking from your perspective, you don't need to know that it's used to manufacture glue or whatever.
You just need to know if it blows up on impact.
That's really all you need.
I'm sure there's a little logo next to it that tells you that.
