Comets and cannibals: Best disaster movies
‘Unstoppable’ and its runaway train are latest in a proud, terrifying tradition
Its a disaster in the making: A runaway freight train carrying tons of hazardous chemicals is rocketing towards a populated town, threatening thousands of lives.
In “Unstoppable,” based on a true Ohio incident, Denzel Washington plays a veteran train engineer who joins conductor Chris Pine (Star Trek) in a daring plan to prevent the disaster. The duos efforts are complicated by their own bosses, who are more concerned with their corporate image than saving lives.
Reteaming Washington for the fifth time with director Tony Scott, Unstoppable harkens back to the heyday of the disaster-film genre, in which the danger comes not from criminals or other human antagonists, but a large-scale catastrophe. Heres a look back at the genres greatest hits and crashes, booms, and bangs.
Originally published on msnbc.com Nov. 3, 2010. Read the complete article.
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