Agree with you. The film's finale seems to take place on Park Ave along the tracks to Grand Central. Its funny because you hear the sounds of steam locomotives passing by, but once the new Grand Central Terminal was built the tracks went underground below 97th street and the lines were electrified to Croton, so there shouldn't be steam locomotives running about. The electrics were almost silent comparatively unless they sounded their horns.
I don't know anything about steam locomotives, so couldn't comment one way or the other. All I can say is, perhaps much of these sounds are going on in the O'Brien character's head, so the sounds are heightened, not necessarily supposed to be realistic, but supposed to reflect the crack-up going on in his head.
(I am no more expert on music than I am on trains, but I doubt the crash of a cymbal would drown out a gunshot either - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH )
Metropolitan (1990) - 2/10Hated the characters, hated the humor, hated the narrative structure.
Hated the review, hated the rating, hated the writer.
The Getaway 4/5First time I watched it I didn't really care for it. This 2nd time though it just clicked for me. I should probably get onto reading the actual novel to see that mexico ending.
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off!!!!
I assume you're talking Peckinpah, not the remake?
Flame and Chitron - 7/10 - Another tale of WWII Resistance, this one out of Denmark. This entry delves a bit more into its protagonists' private lives than, say, Black Book or Army of Crime, but the brutal killings, double-crosses and dubious wartime morality are still front and center. This appears to be based on a true story albeit not one I'm familiar with, so I'll give the film some leeway with credibility issues. Certainly it doesn't whitewash its protagonists like Army of Crime, a major plus.