Criticise this video all you want, my brain is now super smooth after watching this movie. Your insults just slide right off, nothing is retained. Where am I?
Is it possible to do Unstoppable next? Would be a great fit for December 6th or 12/06, and this upcoming 12/06 does seem to be on the regular upload schedule.
"I know movie producers are too busy having terrible ideas to read a locomotive operating manual." *_Shows snippet of Minecraft Movie Trailer._* Damn straight.
I still don’t have any hopes for that film in particular either, just because the second trailer is an improvement, it’s still just a dumb kids movie based off a popular video game that doesn’t strive to do much than just that
Fun Fact: Spain, like Russia, uses a broad gauge of five feet. (Well five and change). Thus, using a 'spanish' locomotive as a stand in also makes sense, as the proportions of the locomotives and cars, should be roughly similar.
16:55 definitely some truth to that quote, as Christopher Lee was part of the Special Operatives Executive during WWII, doing a lot of espionage work during the Italian campaign. One note to point out, though: Christopher Lee was actually the step-cousin to James Bond author Ian Fleming (and two years after this film was released, he would star as Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun.)
The backstory on this is very interesting. We have miniature trains; let's make a movie! I'll rate these people 100% for sheer creativity. Plus: Cushing and Lee!
Ah, yes. I saw this film many years ago (late Friday night, when you get home from the pub, switch on the TV, then realise you're too drunk to get to bed, so just sit there). Seriously silly, but a good story.
I'd love to see your reaction to the "Mission Impossible" scene of the helicopter flying through the Channel Tunnel above a Eurostar. I think there are a few mistakes but can't work out what they are. 🤣🤣🤣
Well, there are restaurant cars that have the kitchen on board. It takes up a lot of space, so only around the 2/3 of the regular dining space is available.
*Drifting a 100-ton locomotive on thin ice without the flanged wheels cracking it* The only explanation is that there's some kind of unexplained magic involved...
And/or a fan of the actual book. As a fan of the book, I had absolutely zero interest in seeing the movie because I knew it would be stuffed full of dumb random shenanigans to pad it out to feature film length.
I like that these videos are becoming a series and i hope they carry on! If you'd take a suggestion for a possible next episode, i'd suggest looking at either: Von Ryan's Express or North Western Frontier.
I'd be curious to see a song version of this, although I suppose there's not really enough inaccuracies for that, and the music is more like that of the opening to a Bond film than a grand and exciting piece.
@@raymondleggs5508 In all fairness I could be really far off because I'm gaugeing by the shadow and light trajectory not to mention how close the camera is to the train
To me it looked like two different models. Some shots look decent (I imagine the big model) But some really do look smaller and less realistic (including the cliff scene)
@@BrandEver117 It would make sense for there to be 2 models 1 for everything and then a second one for crashing because that would be a really expensive and that would be kind of hard to do With just one model
Train siding ending at the end of a cliff is too funny, I love the movie as well, but I guess they had to do the overkill with the crash so we could be rest assured satnn/et was dead. And I always thought the full size engine was too big for a pre ww1 engine.
I actually went and watched the movie first, and had a surprisingly good time. A lot of its goofiness is in how much its aged since 1972 as well as its initial cheapness, but the concept, the monster and how its used, and a lot of the horror cinematography still really held up. Absolutely wild that it was basically The Thing on The Orient Express a full 10 years before The Thing,
First thing I noticed as soon as you said the date, incandescent headlights were not invented by 1906, let alone be a standard yet. They would have been either oil or carbon arc but not tungsten (since carbon filaments were too fragile for trains).
@@SportyMabamba Metallized carbon filaments were quite brittle when running, that's why they had burn orientations. The first metal filaments (besides experimental platinum) were tantalum filaments which were commercially successful but I've never heard of trains using them for headlights (not as bright or white as tungsten).
After seeing the video about the Lone Ranger I am amazed to notice that with a pence budget and a large scale model they were able to shot more effective scenes in the seventies than a million dollar production in 2013. ;)
Very good video, but I would like to point out that you missed one minor detail in the train crash, since the image is brightened up, you can actually see that the side rods are disconnected and only the main rod is still moving, making it 29 inaccuracies count.
The script is absolutely ridiculous. However the actors and actresses that star in the film, including the amazing Telly Savalas, are some of the finest of that era!
While I can't seem to find any firsthand confirmation, most sources seem to agree that the story they ended up choosing to base this movie off of was "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, which was also the basis for The Thing. So the resemblance may not have been a coincidence.
sure its only as movie, but THEN , how can something made about the same time as this film like "Emperor of the North" get so much RIGHT about trains and the time period?????
That ending song is an absolute banger. Also as someone else said, you should do Runaway Train from 1985 next, that's one of my favorite train movies because it is more about the characters.
the one thing I will say about the uncoupling scene is that Russia used a bizarre setup where it was American style janey/buckeye couplers hard-mounted to the frame, with buffers for the draft gear. In theory you'd just have to lift the lever hard enough and they'd come open.
@@EpicRails, Jeffry Hunter played Jesus Christ in “King of Kings” and also played Conductor Fuller in “The Great Locomotive Chase.” He was also the original Captain Pike.
You should do Everything wrong with the trains in Super 8 (Baldwin S12 somehow pulls an 82 car train independently and possibly travelling above its top speed and the collision with a pickup truck causes the entire train to unrealistically derail like it's in Microsoft Train Simulator)
Obviously I know nothing about trains, because it never occurred to me that this film might use a model until someone told me. The model is detailed, with a believably grungy surface, set in an effective landscape, and is well photographed with wide lenses. Certainly better than anything Doctor Who was doing at the time!
Random commenter on train of thought: Hollywood will never get trains accurate. Meanwhile Thomas and Friends, a kids show with for the most part 95% accuracy: whistle goes peep peep.
I think the train is a foot gauge model. There's a park near me with a train you can ride on. It's single foot. You could barely fit in without bumping your head. Had a petrol engine and everything. Something about that guy's shadow just reminds me of that.
Can't wait for the Christmas special where you do **in best CinemaSins intro style** EVERYTHING WRONG WITH (the train in) The polar Express In yada yada minutes or less Spoilers (Duh)
I love this film! its a classic Hammer era set piece "base under siege" horror story. No mention that the train is boarded by Kojak who then investigates the passengers though?
since you mentiond pancho villa the 1972 one in this video, you should try and give that movie a tackle. edit: the horror express also starred telly savalas as the Cossacks soldiers commander. He was also starred on Pancho Villa as the name sake Pancho Villa the leader of the Mexican Revolution. fun fact: the Horror Express and Pancho Villa we're released on the same year which was 1972.
Next do a video on everything wrong with the trains in The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode Robotnik Express or the Episode of the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode the Good the Bad and the Tigger
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were great friends off screen and it was Lee who got him through the filming so soon after the death of his wife (Cushing said it was like his life had ended to when she died) some reports even go as far to suggest they shared a bed as Cushing found the loneliness of sleeping on his own very stressful :( As for the film, it is what it is, it's a proper low budget 1970s horror with an epic cast! Suspend your belief and enjoy :)
Criticise this video all you want, my brain is now super smooth after watching this movie. Your insults just slide right off, nothing is retained. Where am I?
You think you could take a shot at Silver Streak next? I think it's pretty faithful to railroading and is a funny film.
Where us that sound coming from?
Stop it!
Stop it!
Why is thus sound happening every time I talk?!
You have to do a video like this on polar express
You’ve got a smooth brain,
No ridges or lumps or valley or bumps
All ideas slide right off
(Sorry I couldn’t help myself)
Is it possible to do Unstoppable next? Would be a great fit for December 6th or 12/06, and this upcoming 12/06 does seem to be on the regular upload schedule.
I'll admit I do like this movie. Fun fact: It's been said during breaks, Lee and Cushing were playing with the model train used in the film.
Thats honestly both hilarious and adorable XD
“Were not monsters,were British” one of the funniest quotes from the movie
"At your age, I'm not surprised."
Reminds me of a quote from "Perils of Penelope" from Thunderbirds: "Let us out; We're British."
Reminds me of a quote Archibald had in one of the Larry Boy episodes in VeggieTales:
“I’m not a robot! I’m British!”
@@joefrew1614 Wasn't that from the Rumor Weed episode?
@@lukechristmas3951 Yes that is, the weed spreads the kids' rumor that Archibald's a robot.
I like how chill he is in videos but in streams it's pure chaos
That's UA-cam for you :P
"I know movie producers are too busy having terrible ideas to read a locomotive operating manual."
*_Shows snippet of Minecraft Movie Trailer._*
Damn straight.
Time stamp?
16:01
Also, the second trailer looks better, but I don't have THAT high of hopes.
I still don’t have any hopes for that film in particular either, just because the second trailer is an improvement, it’s still just a dumb kids movie based off a popular video game that doesn’t strive to do much than just that
Please keep this series going. I love this so much!!
I’m pretty sure he will
Having no knowledge of this film, I was convinced by the thumbnail that it was a Sherlock Holmes movie.
For instance, "Terror by Night"? The trainiest of Holmes movies.
Fun Fact: Spain, like Russia, uses a broad gauge of five feet. (Well five and change). Thus, using a 'spanish' locomotive as a stand in also makes sense, as the proportions of the locomotives and cars, should be roughly similar.
16:55 definitely some truth to that quote, as Christopher Lee was part of the Special Operatives Executive during WWII, doing a lot of espionage work during the Italian campaign. One note to point out, though: Christopher Lee was actually the step-cousin to James Bond author Ian Fleming (and two years after this film was released, he would star as Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun.)
The backstory on this is very interesting. We have miniature trains; let's make a movie! I'll rate these people 100% for sheer creativity. Plus: Cushing and Lee!
Ah, yes. I saw this film many years ago (late Friday night, when you get home from the pub, switch on the TV, then realise you're too drunk to get to bed, so just sit there). Seriously silly, but a good story.
This is one of my Favorite Horror Movies.
My girlfriend literally just watched this film two days ago after finding a youtube channel uploading old horror films
You should apply this video format to the BBC series Nightsleeper. It's full of so many inaccuracies about British train related things
I'd love to see your reaction to the "Mission Impossible" scene of the helicopter flying through the Channel Tunnel above a Eurostar. I think there are a few mistakes but can't work out what they are. 🤣🤣🤣
Isn’t the Chunnel just like barely large enough for a train?
1:29 POLISH MENTIONED!!!
BTW Cool video.
Well, there are restaurant cars that have the kitchen on board. It takes up a lot of space, so only around the 2/3 of the regular dining space is available.
I would LOVE to see a video like this for the Polar Express. That movie completely falls apart if you're into trains.
*Drifting a 100-ton locomotive on thin ice without the flanged wheels cracking it* The only explanation is that there's some kind of unexplained magic involved...
And/or a fan of the actual book.
As a fan of the book, I had absolutely zero interest in seeing the movie because I knew it would be stuffed full of dumb random shenanigans to pad it out to feature film length.
@@InventorZahran Then there's the cartoonishly-steep straight gradient.
I like that these videos are becoming a series and i hope they carry on! If you'd take a suggestion for a possible next episode, i'd suggest looking at either: Von Ryan's Express or North Western Frontier.
11:52 "Who builds tracks like that?"
Me. XD
I'd be curious to see a song version of this, although I suppose there's not really enough inaccuracies for that, and the music is more like that of the opening to a Bond film than a grand and exciting piece.
6:52 Roughly around 5-6 feet tall, in total for every car just under maybe 35 feet in length
That's a giant model
@@raymondleggs5508 In all fairness I could be really far off because I'm gaugeing by the shadow and light trajectory not to mention how close the camera is to the train
To me it looked like two different models. Some shots look decent (I imagine the big model) But some really do look smaller and less realistic (including the cliff scene)
@@BrandEver117 It would make sense for there to be 2 models 1 for everything and then a second one for crashing because that would be a really expensive and that would be kind of hard to do With just one model
Kojak the Cossack? Have to watch this now.
Then there is the one that every movie gets wrong. Passenger trains have continuous brakes. If you break a coupling then the brakes come on.
It's the same siding on a cliff that appears in the shunting scene in Oh, Mr. Porter!
That could be an interesting film to look at next
@@fishman501 How long would they have actually had to plan their shunt before Gladstone gets up steam and runs over their watches....
Train siding ending at the end of a cliff is too funny, I love the movie as well, but I guess they had to do the overkill with the crash so we could be rest assured satnn/et was dead. And I always thought the full size engine was too big for a pre ww1 engine.
Now I know from where the final crash in Cassandra Crossing.was copied.
I actually went and watched the movie first, and had a surprisingly good time. A lot of its goofiness is in how much its aged since 1972 as well as its initial cheapness, but the concept, the monster and how its used, and a lot of the horror cinematography still really held up. Absolutely wild that it was basically The Thing on The Orient Express a full 10 years before The Thing,
Snakes in a plane say hello.
Saruman & Grand Moff Tarkin. 🤣🤣🤣
OMG! I'm dying here. I haven't laughed so hard in years. Thank you ToT!
Excellent work with the rest of the video.
First thing I noticed as soon as you said the date, incandescent headlights were not invented by 1906, let alone be a standard yet. They would have been either oil or carbon arc but not tungsten (since carbon filaments were too fragile for trains).
I think you got tungsten and the first carbon in the opposite spots there 😅
@@SportyMabamba Metallized carbon filaments were quite brittle when running, that's why they had burn orientations. The first metal filaments (besides experimental platinum) were tantalum filaments which were commercially successful but I've never heard of trains using them for headlights (not as bright or white as tungsten).
Glad to see another movie "review"! Keep them coming!
Love this film, wasn't expecting a vid about it 😂
Can you do the 1974 mystery film, "Murder on the Orient Express?"
I saw this movie get riffed by the comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun. The reactions to the "smooth brain" was extremely memorable.
6:41 bruh most of the Thomas props were gauge 1. Very few were O gauge
Very Nice :D (fatally brain-rotting lol)
That's going to be the official cause of death for every Gen Alpha kid and everyone who watches My Deer Friend Nokotan. Getting fatally brain-rotted
After seeing the video about the Lone Ranger I am amazed to notice that with a pence budget and a large scale model they were able to shot more effective scenes in the seventies than a million dollar production in 2013. ;)
Excellent video.
Love it!
Can you do the film runaway train next?
Very good video, but I would like to point out that you missed one minor detail in the train crash, since the image is brightened up, you can actually see that the side rods are disconnected and only the main rod is still moving, making it 29 inaccuracies count.
Also is that the express line for the train?
yup, just straight off the cliff.
5:34 4-1-4 F? You meant to say 1-4-1 F, right?
Whoops
@@TrainFactGuy that’s a dink there.
Having seen Horror Express here on You Tube this is a really good bad movie.
Low budget B horror titles gang their own charm. Today's internet generation dying understand that you can enjoy a movie even if it's dumb.
Real trains aren't models in real life-- plus five demerits for Sodor house.
It still freaked me out watching as a kid lol, so much so I was dreading going to the toilet during the tv ads ..
Very interesting video well done Train of thought ✅👍 1:57
6:42 Gauge 1 actually. O-Gauge was used for the Narrow Gauge Engines.
No kojak references? I must watch this
Yay, more reasons to raise my blood pressure. Gotta do a video on the Polar Express next.
The script is absolutely ridiculous. However the actors and actresses that star in the film, including the amazing Telly Savalas, are some of the finest of that era!
While I can't seem to find any firsthand confirmation, most sources seem to agree that the story they ended up choosing to base this movie off of was "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, which was also the basis for The Thing. So the resemblance may not have been a coincidence.
Hey trains of thought can make video about the sri lankan railways diesel electric locomotive class M2a no.591 Manitoba
I knew Moff Tarkins Actor looked Familiar
I like that you do movie Review now
13:03 i notice connecting rod is not link to drive wheel lol
sure its only as movie, but THEN , how can something made about the same time as this film like "Emperor of the North" get so much RIGHT about trains and the time period?????
11:50 Back to the future 3 directors.
That ending song is an absolute banger. Also as someone else said, you should do Runaway Train from 1985 next, that's one of my favorite train movies because it is more about the characters.
Great video 😊
Snowpiercer next?
Wow, following GWR studios legacy good job :)
I wonder where is gwr studios at
@@pokemontrainermichael5551 He left the train community because turtle basically made a giant drama around him, now he does car reviews
@@RustonProductions-AVRE oh
2:08 That dialogue feels like something that would happen in Star Wars during the prequel era (via expanded material).
Idk what prequels you were watching then lol
the one thing I will say about the uncoupling scene is that Russia used a bizarre setup where it was American style janey/buckeye couplers hard-mounted to the frame, with buffers for the draft gear. In theory you'd just have to lift the lever hard enough and they'd come open.
When are we getting everything wrong with the trains of Gojira
The RiffTrax take on this film is excellent as well, for those who enjoy listening to someone make jokes about a film while watching the film.
I would be interested on what your opinions are on the molentary express from prof layton and the diabolical box?
Bonus: In the far away shot of the train derailing, the tender is uncoupled from the engine, but in the close-up shots, it isn't.
Cool outro theme tune
Now, do Walt Disney’s The Great Locomotive Chase; where Jesus Christ chases Davy Crockett.
@@MatthewChenault I don’t remember reading that in the Bible.
@@EpicRails, Jeffry Hunter played Jesus Christ in “King of Kings” and also played Conductor Fuller in “The Great Locomotive Chase.”
He was also the original Captain Pike.
You should do Everything wrong with the trains in Super 8 (Baldwin S12 somehow pulls an 82 car train independently and possibly travelling above its top speed and the collision with a pickup truck causes the entire train to unrealistically derail like it's in Microsoft Train Simulator)
Obviously I know nothing about trains, because it never occurred to me that this film might use a model until someone told me. The model is detailed, with a believably grungy surface, set in an effective landscape, and is well photographed with wide lenses. Certainly better than anything Doctor Who was doing at the time!
Is that tarkin?
i love this film
Telly Savalas' OTT ham acting was hilarious.
Please do Poler Express next
Random commenter on train of thought:
Hollywood will never get trains accurate.
Meanwhile Thomas and Friends, a kids show with for the most part 95% accuracy:
whistle goes peep peep.
9:26, you missed the number 13, despite that, I adore this video
Have you watched ghost train, ghost ship or terror train?
you should do this more often!
I think the train is a foot gauge model. There's a park near me with a train you can ride on. It's single foot. You could barely fit in without bumping your head. Had a petrol engine and everything. Something about that guy's shadow just reminds me of that.
Have you watched ghost train, ghost ship or terror train?
Back in the old days they fall from cliff in trains now from windows
Imagine of modern remake of this movie with CGI special effects
Good horror movie plot. Hilarious execution.
Can't wait for the Christmas special where you do **in best CinemaSins intro style**
EVERYTHING WRONG WITH
(the train in)
The polar Express
In yada yada minutes or less
Spoilers
(Duh)
1:13 I see what you did there ;)
Sir, please do unstoppable or The bullet train (the 1975 one) next
For Christmas can you do one of these videos for Polar Express. If you need help with it I can help you.
Right off the bat the trains are all Belgian/French and not Russian - not surprised as filming in Russia would’ve meant dealing with the Soviets
5:35 sorry, Spanish, not Belgian/French
At least i have been so lucky to visit the museum at Madrid Delicias.
Man, when Train of Thought makes a all wrong in the polar express he is going to again "i swear every innacuracy will take a year of my lifespan"
01:39 there its tarkin and doku xD
Later Saruman, then Ansem.the white
I love this film! its a classic Hammer era set piece "base under siege" horror story.
No mention that the train is boarded by Kojak who then investigates the passengers though?
since you mentiond pancho villa the 1972 one in this video, you should try and give that movie a tackle.
edit: the horror express also starred telly savalas as the Cossacks soldiers commander. He was also starred on Pancho Villa as the name sake Pancho Villa the leader of the Mexican Revolution.
fun fact: the Horror Express and Pancho Villa we're released on the same year which was 1972.
Next do a video on everything wrong with the trains in The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode Robotnik Express or the Episode of the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode the Good the Bad and the Tigger
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were great friends off screen and it was Lee who got him through the filming so soon after the death of his wife (Cushing said it was like his life had ended to when she died) some reports even go as far to suggest they shared a bed as Cushing found the loneliness of sleeping on his own very stressful :(
As for the film, it is what it is, it's a proper low budget 1970s horror with an epic cast! Suspend your belief and enjoy :)
I'm early and awesome vid
I’d love for you to do “The Northwest Frontier”
Please do a 'Everything wrong with the train in the Polar Express' as a Christmas Special video. It would be pretty cool so please do it.
You need to cover Under Siege 2 next.
tatmr next?
COMING SOON NEXT WEEKEND:
EVERYTHING WORNG WITH: THE REDISH TRIUMPH
it's because they don't know about trains therefore, they don't care to make it look "good"