Yah, two movie reviews in one! XDXD

Ok, I saw "Bolt" for the first Time this week. and I saw a made for TV train move called "Train Master" which I'm assuming was made to cash in on "unstoppable"

Bolt

being a furry fan I naturally couldn't get away from it. Allot of my friends saw it and told me that it was right up my ally. I had been reluctant to go out of my way for it so when the right moment came to see it, I jumped.

It....was....awesome.

The plot fallows a white shepred who thinks he has superpowers as he travel across America to find his girl who he thinks has been kidnapped.

I see why so many people like this film. First off the intro is freaking epic! Then the character himself is just....lovable. He's so damn series and all. The animation was flawless, Disney doesn't have the look up to pixar anymore, they can make their own epicenes. Things like smoke, skies, trees, and general fluids seemed to look better then anything Pixar had done. The backgrounds as they ran cross America where spectacular, and it had its "Funny Moments" Mostly the interaction between Mittens and Bolt being somewhat of a comic relief.

and yes, there where some trains in it, but Disney had yet to understand the 'era" idea. The first train was a well animated and detailed CSX intermodal stack train. (Yes...CSX was even written onto the locos and it had TTX well cars and everything! Someone did their homework ont hat) But the second train was made up of old PFE refers and boxcars O.o with Journal boxes and roofwalks.

There where some spots that I had some trouble with, for one Bolt seemed really...inexperienced...I mean REALLY inexperienced, I would think hat even as a movie star he would know what feeling hungry is?

Never the less Bolt was awsome and I recemend it for any dog film lover. ^^




Train Master.


Oh boy, here we go again with another Hollywood Runaway Train....but this time threes a twist! The runaway has a cargo of rugrats on board! The story focuses around a group of 5 kids who accidentally set a solitary locomotive into motion and...don't know how to stop it o.O (how about pulling the brake handle?)This Movie, I'm kinda in a part on. I think it has one of the better plots in the Runaway train sagas...for one there no dangerous cargo that could go boom, for the other the way it runway is rather well...believable. On top of that the solutions being brought to stop the train, aka, turning handbrakes, opening angle cocks...well....the people who made "Atomic Train" could take a few lessons. Heck they even...stop the train without wrecking!?!.........wow, thata actually, rather original. On top of that there are so rather nice train scenes and an interesting race between an SW1500 and a highrailer. The kids where pretty ingénues on figuring ways to help themselves out, such as making a "SOS" sign and waving it out the window as the locomotive rolled across grade crossings. Plus theres a cameo by a live steam Erie Triplex and a nice Modal railroad.

But even with that this movie can not be saved. The acting is rather...cheesy, and I found the child actors annoying. The adult actors all had the "redneck railroader" act going on, and the ending was so cheesy that I wish the train had wrecked.
The other thing that bothered me was the way the runaway was handled, it seemed no one knew how to turn the brake handle...I mean these kids resorted to cutting random wires that appeared out of no where before they even look at the control panel. and the whole (nothing works) excuse was well....too convenient. The adults where just as bad, I mean it took them and hour and 40 minutes of screen time before they figured out the solution was pulling the angle cock. I was sitting there in my head coming up with way better plans to stop the train. Including:

a. Pull the train brake Handle
b. pull the independent brake handle
c. reach into the electrical box and push "stop" on the engine run start control.
d. Get Bolt from above to use his laser eyes and melt the brake on.

Also there are allot of "funny" moments...and by funny stuff that made me groan so loudly I almost reached for the remote. and there was a moment where in the middle of all this fun, one of the kids starts hitting on the only girl in the rugrat group.....WTF? Your in a life or death situation on a runaway Killer train, and you manage to start hitting on the only girl on board. Damn that's ballsy, and this is coming for the guy who ran a 44-tonner with his GF sitting on his lap.

Also the ending was well....anti-climactic. Although I was unbelievably surprised the where able to stop the train! I was expecting it to run headlong into the nuclear plant with the random cougar that was staining on the tracks. although the soppy moments after they stopped it made me wish the train had wrecked. I mean, the whole "5 toots on the horn means everyone is ok and I love you" made me want to vomit. and the ending where suddenly everyone is happy and playing with live steamers? I guess this isn't Norfolk Southern we are dealing with. No one was charged with anything, I guess FRA turned their heads, and is anyone but me concerned that the two redneck railroaders where hugging? O.e


my final thoughts on "Train Mater" Good plot....shame that was it. Once again a helping of Hollywood railroading" blasts the screen. best remedy I have for it is for Shack to buirts into the cab and start hollering at all the little kids and swingin his hamer. . XP