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Re: TRAINS - 100 Greatest Train Movies magazine
Author: Exchequer
Date: 01-25-2010 - 19:44
I agree. This issue was a huge disappointment.
Movies like "Matewan", "Slumdog Millionair" and "Wendy & Lucy", while good movies, do not have sufficient rail content to warrant being included.
Meanwhile, other movies such as "Next Stop Wonderland" (set on Boston's Blue Line), "Metroland" (centers around a British enthusiast who is writing about metro rail systems) , "Switchback" (great scenes filmed on the Rio Grande), "the Navigators" (about British railway workers facing the prospect of privatization) and "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day" (based on the last days of the Yosemite Valley RR) which have far more rail content were ignored. Even "Risky Business" which had a great sequence of Chicago L shots would have been far more deserving of being included in this issue than many other movies which made it to the top 100.
Movies like "Matewan", "Slumdog Millionair" and "Wendy & Lucy", while good movies, do not have sufficient rail content to warrant being included.
Meanwhile, other movies such as "Next Stop Wonderland" (set on Boston's Blue Line), "Metroland" (centers around a British enthusiast who is writing about metro rail systems) , "Switchback" (great scenes filmed on the Rio Grande), "the Navigators" (about British railway workers facing the prospect of privatization) and "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day" (based on the last days of the Yosemite Valley RR) which have far more rail content were ignored. Even "Risky Business" which had a great sequence of Chicago L shots would have been far more deserving of being included in this issue than many other movies which made it to the top 100.
