xhonzi said:

The wife and I watched Unstoppable a few days ago.

2 things:

1. It made me think of the previous discussions at to whether "knowing the end or knowing who lives/who dies" is enough to wreck the drama of a story/film.

This movie is basically completely understood from the poster. There's a runaway train. It's Unstoppable. Kirk and John Creasy are going to stop it, because they ARE EVEN MORE UNSTOBBABLE! (X-TREME!!!!) Tony Scott, however, is able to bring plenty of tension to the action regardless of there never being any doubt in the audience's mind how it's going to end.

2. As I have mentioned before, I have a "motion simulator" chair that moves with some of the movies out there. Unstoppable supported this feature and frankly I'm not sure I would have bothered with this movie except that I heard it was awesome "in the chair".

And it was.

Just watched this tonight with the wife as well.

I agree with everything you said.

Except for the chair, I have no fancy motion chair. *tear*