I Never really disliked this movie, but it was pretty Generic.
Bad Movie Beatdown New Years Special: Money Train
Written by Film Brain Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:32
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12.30.2010 - 23:30 | SagetimThanks for one last video before the new year comes, and for all the work you've done to bring us entertainment.
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12.30.2010 - 23:39 | XelaisPWN
Am I the only one bothered by the openings to these videos? The jingle bells are always out of time with the music and it bugs the crap out of me.
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12.31.2010 - 00:05 | TheGoofyKid
I guess it is a little annoying but, hey you can still here the rockin' theme song so meh, who cares ^_^
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12.31.2010 - 08:07 | kshade
I'm pretty sure it's intentional, parodying annoying "Christmas versions" of already bad pop songs.
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12.31.2010 - 10:03 | Way-Man
Yes. Yes you are the only one.
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12.31.2010 - 15:10 | IntFam
I'm bothered by it, too, but the theme song is short, and you could easily just skip past it like I did. It's just a stock jingle bell sound.
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12.31.2010 - 00:06 | Thunder_Christo
I actually like this movie, its the type of movie that comes on late at night and you turn your brain off to watch
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01.03.2011 - 18:25 | MarinerI know this is really random, but I love your Wojtek avatar!
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12.31.2010 - 00:24 | Archedgar
Wow I was thinking about this movie earlier. Premonition?
Anyway it really does suck, especially the part with the old lady/thief.
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12.31.2010 - 01:01 | Deimos1984rd
Happy New Year to you too FB
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12.31.2010 - 01:06 | B.DavinciNY
Money Train was just your average buddy cop film with a typical love interest and an a-hole of a boss who's obsessed with his money train. Of course there are full of plot holes but I still like it. It's fun movie to see on late nights while zoning out on your couch. It was one of the best roles Jennifer Lopez played before she gotten over her head with Gigli. Good review anyway Matthew!
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12.31.2010 - 01:08 | EarthboundXE
I really agree with what you said about the "villain". They had to make him over the top "evil" to make the "good guys" look much better.
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12.31.2010 - 01:59 | Leif RunenritzerGood review, but i don't see any irony in Snipes being the one who's against stealing. Stealing is to take someone else's belongings against their will. Income taxation is to have one's earnings taken from them against their will. It is the opposite of ironic, the way i see it.
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12.31.2010 - 02:44 | Film Brain
With Snipes currently in jail for tax evasion, I'm pretty sure that if he was in this situation he'd take a bit on the side to clear a few debts of his own...
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Do you use the roads, have sewer lines to your place or water pipes etc?
Those are paid by your taxes. You use those services or those services are used to get things for you to use. Taxes are the price paid for a modern society. The rich are grossly undertaxed even though they beneift the most from services paid by taxes.
Progressive income taxatation is the fairest method of taxing. Sales tax hits the poor and middle the most since the rich manage to get luxury items such as multimillion dollar yachts without sales tax being applied among other things.
If you want to complain about your earnings being taken against your will complain about bank mortages with high or changing interest and rent to own places that wind up charging 300% or more of the cost of the item and check cashing places which take 20% or more of someone's paycheck.
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01.01.2011 - 03:08 | crazypants88I believe Leif makes a valid point.
The fact that taxes pay for many things does not negate his point that it is taken without the consent of the taxpayer.
You can praise taxation till you're blue in the face, it's still theft, just legalized theft.
And btw, roads or utilities can easily be provided without taxation. Really all the state does anyway is just subcontract the actual work to construction firms.
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01.05.2011 - 20:51 | brick mooncode
Legalized theft!?! The government prints the money you dumb fuck!!
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01.21.2011 - 07:09 | crazypants88Yes but that has no bearing on whether taking someones property with the threat of imprisonment is theft or not. I mean if I'm a baker does that mean I can take all my sold bread away from my customers without their consent. Would that act not be called theft?
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01.10.2011 - 01:19 | LaCapitana
Where would the state get the money? ._.
Taxes have been a part of society since, I don't know, the first cities or something? It's a system that's in place because it works. Sure, lots of people want tax breaks but I doubt there are a gaggle of people who would find it reasonable to stop paying taxes for things altogether.
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01.21.2011 - 07:14 | crazypants88I'm actually anti-state so I don't think the state should exist, but taxes could easily be made to be paid voluntary or pay per use.
"Taxes have been a part of society since, I don't know, the first cities or something? It's a system that's in place because it works."
Well so was slavery and so is racism. The only thing that pointing things like that out proves is that they've been around for long. Not that they're needed or even desirable.
Also it's important to realize that just because someone is opposed to taxation does not mean he's opposed to the services taxation pays for. He's just opposed to the METHOD that they're paid for.
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05.22.2011 - 00:16 | Kooshmeister
Unfortunately it needs to be compulsory. If it were a choice to pay or not pay, many people would opt not to. And besides if less people pay, the government will jack up the price to make ends meet, resulting in even less people wanting to pay.
Think of it this way: a group of people goes to a restaurant, having promised to all chip in. But when the time comes for the bill, they're a little short. Someone didn't put in their fair share, or didn't pay at all, but everyone insists they did. So the host pays extra out of his own pocket to make up the difference.
It is for this reason that taxes are unfortunately mandatory for citizens. Because if they optional, nobody would pay them, and the government would go broke and fall apart thanks to nobody pitching in. So the threat of imprisonment is to make the point that taxes are not optional and that there are penalties for not paying them.
And you honestly didn't just compare a perfectly reasonable civic duty wherein citizens are compelled to pay some of their money to the government to help with the upkeep of things to slavery and racism did you?
You seem to not quite grasp exactly what taxes are and why we pay them. Since the money goes to help pay for services provided by the government like public works, paying taxes is essentially paying the government a salary to work for you.
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12.31.2010 - 03:14 | ggbhtg
+1 Positive Comment
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12.31.2010 - 03:45 | mehjaI am waiting for their next team up as a homosexual couple on their lets-work-out-our- relationships-problems second honeymoon in:
Bitchy Bickering Blockbusterama
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12.31.2010 - 04:07 | quizzabella
So the two unlikable ex cops hijack the train to steal tax payers money, almost kill a couple of hundred innocent people, destroy a huge amount of public property and throw the whole rail system in to chaos for god knows how long, and we're supposed to be glad they get away?
If I imagine them being run over by a bus as they leave the station it makes a much more satisfactory ending
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12.31.2010 - 07:34 | jalford
Blake should've been arrested for killing his wife!
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12.31.2010 - 19:23 | mrrubino
I was wondering why Flim Brian called him "Robert Blake, from the Little Rascals" instead of "Robert Blank, who killed his wife." *gets sued*
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12.31.2010 - 07:49 | Shinigami
So we are supposed to like those two characters? When even main characters are unlikeable then nothing can save movie being bad and that what happened with this one.
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12.31.2010 - 08:29 | The Shamster
Imagine if there was a accident on the railroad and the bad guy was too arrogant to abort his "evil" plans?
Bad Guy : Nothing stops the Money Train
Goon : But boss, the train rails have been destroyed by a recent terror attack (Not us of course!) We cant let the train go down that track. It will derail.
Bad Guy : NO! Nothing stops the Money Train!
Goon : (shrugs) As you wish (idiot)
***The 'money train' reaches the damaged rails and crashes.....the bad guy loses all his money***
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12.31.2010 - 09:45 | FunkyM
Great vid, FB.
Except for the part where it cut out mid-sen
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12.31.2010 - 11:49 | Film BrainIt's a Blip glitch. Re-load and it should be fine.
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12.31.2010 - 10:24 | DistantStarFunny review but I must say the movie itself doesn't look all THAT bad. Bad, yes, but not terrible, at least from these clips. Ah well, it certainly deserved ridicule.
And Happy New Year to you, FB.
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12.31.2010 - 12:08 | THOOM
Very funny film review FB. I, too, hate the "comedic bickering" in comic films like these.
I also laugh at how whiny you sound when complaining about plot holes in these dumb ass movies.
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!"
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12.31.2010 - 12:49 | some-other-guy-with-glassesThis movie is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I actually enjoyed the chemistry Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes had, Robert Blake was amusingly over-the-top, and the ending was pretty cool.
I give this movie a 7/10.
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12.31.2010 - 13:16 | frost5000000The "little metal bar" is actually a device that causes the brakes on the train to come on. The bar isn't designed to stop the train by itself, obviously. The is actually how the subway system works, although the bar doesn't actually look like it does in the movie. Also, the red/green light system wouldn't work because they "bled the brakes".
Complete bullshit, yes, but it's at least an explanation as to why the red/green light system isn't working.
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12.31.2010 - 13:25 | Film BrainPatterson could have cut the power. Also, I don't think you can actually "bleed the brakes" (as a safety feature).
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12.31.2010 - 13:23 | killa_kid
I worked in the Toronto subway system and it uses the same signal system as New York. It is actually a small lever that pops up and hits a little piece of the train (specific design is probably a bit different in New York). It makes the train engage its emergency brake. They apparently bled the brakes, so it wouldn't work.
Great review as always Matthew. Can't wait for more, and happy new year to you as well.
Edit: Opps frost5000000 beat me to the explanation. Forgot to reload the comments before I posted :p
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12.31.2010 - 13:50 | Flaregun
FYI, we see Snipes in the subway on his motorcycle crashing through a gate at one point. Those gates are are usually located right next to the turnstiles in some NYC subway stations, I'm not sure but I think they're there to provide an alternate access to the platform for people in wheelchairs or some such and are unlocked by the person in the token booths (who yes, are indeed behind several inches of very bulletproof glass). Anyway, this would explain how Snipes got his bike past the turnstiles and onto the tracks.
So, that's one plot hole explained, about 759 to go?
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12.31.2010 - 13:58 | danethefurry
I dislike this movie. It was more painful the White man can't jump.
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12.31.2010 - 14:52 | GoldenSolitude04
I did like this movie after seeing it a few times, but man I had no idea there was so much wrong with it. I fully agree with you,Film Brain, on the movie trying way too hard to get me to support Snipes and Woody over Blake when those two morally are barely any better than the cliche angry boss.
Considering all of the damage and harm they have done,the two of them should have been arrested.
Not even the sex scene saved it,as I thought back to the Room and how awful it was there.
Their constant bickering now,looking back on it,was not needed at all.
Great review of a bad cliched movie
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12.31.2010 - 15:12 | angel85
shooting the windows out would still be a bad idea because of the backdraft effect, all that extra fresh air would rush in the new hole and the fire would literally explode out, killing the teller instantly.
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12.31.2010 - 15:56 | ezfreemann
besides for the fact that every aspect of this movie was formulaic and atrocious, what annoyed me most was how many frigging times the screenwriter insisted on having the characters say the name of the film. seriously, u can make a drinking game out of it, but youll get alcohol poisoning. the term "money train" is probably said over three hundred times in this piece of garbage. i havent watched this vid yet, its loading, so if Film Brain makes this point, then i apologize.
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Why though would you think that Jennifer Lopez would want them arrested just because she's a cop? And why didn't you think that Woody Harrelson caused unnecessary danger while chasing Torch?
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12.31.2010 - 18:41 | Film Braina) She's still a cop, they're not. She still has duties to attend to.
b) Woody's shooting literally lasted two seconds and his firing into the air was an attempt to disperse the crowd. He didn't really screw up in any real significant way.
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