So, when the big, fat guy failed to jump onto the engine of the train at the very beginning.... he let the REST of the train just roll on by. And, so did his not so fat buddy (you can see the train passing him by as well). Neither of them could've jumped onto one of the OTHER cars and made their way to the engine? I get it that the movie wouldn't exist if they both hadn't been dummies, but still that's kind of ridiculous.
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share"Neither of them could've jumped onto one of the OTHER cars and made their way to the engine?"
Um - may be because it wasn't a passenger train with connecting doors at the end of each carriage?
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Even when they did try to drive alongside the train TO JUMP ABOARD they went to the engine, not the carriages, as Ned did with Will at the end.
Plus at first they thought that the train was only coasting and would have stopped down the track.
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well obviously they really had to dumb down these 2 characters otherwise like you said there wouldn't be a movie. They just had to make these characters stupid in order to make a movie.
What I don't understand is why didn't he just stop the train altogether before he climbed out?
This movie is based on a real rail incident that happened in Ohio in 2001 involving an actual unmanned runaway train. The engineer who drove the locomotive in the real incident was a veteran, so I think he just made a critical human error, everyone makes mistakes. But of course for the movie, they had to really dumb down the engineer character so that he would fit into the typical lazy ass stupid employee who would make such a big mistake character.
Because he was lazy, fat, stupid
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