Comparing the Back to the Future 3 Train Crash and the Mission Impossible 7 Train Crash scenes

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[LHoriginal]

I think it may be a better comparison when we get the Finnished clip with all the editing and stuff like back the the future

[zmpjacksoncomics]

Back to the futrue is some of the best movies I’ve ever watched with my dad

[WasatchWind]

It just astounds me that they made a whole replica of Sierra 3 for Back to the Future, just to crash it. Makes me sad that it was crashed, but it does make for a beautiful crash. Practical effects really are king.

[THants]

The MI loco was name "Le General Rive-Reine", presumably in homage to the Buster Keaton comedy war train film "the General" and the Burt Lancaster war movie "The Train", Rive -Reine was the location of the spectacular double loco crash, which went slightly wrong for the film company. It's on the tube if you want to see it.

[Railman]

notice how the wood load of the BTTF 3 loco and coal load of the MI7 loco go flying out of the tender and then fall with them? *bet ya wouldn't see a detail like that in a CGI crash, or at least it wouldn't be as good*

[ACtheLegend]

People seem to be hating on the presumed eventual use CGI in the final MI7 shot, but gloss over the fact that the BTTF3 shot uses optical overlays and other animation tricks (i.e. not fully practical effects shot in camera)

[svsmodelling]

Did you know the locomotive used in mission impossible 7 was a replica of southern locomotive no. 70000 Britannia

[jusjetz]

It’s been a while since they use Good old Practical Effects.

[stephenedwards]

In the Back to the Future film for what I've seen. The locomotive isn't a full size scale locomotive in some of the scenes. In some sense a full size locomotive was used. It was a scaled down version and for the big crash. Not a full size scale version. But in MI a full size fake steam locomotive was used

[Chefhat]

Bttf 3 hands down is probably one of the best movies in history

[leokimvideo]

Looks like all the pyro charges failed in the MI7 crash. Sad to see a old relic engine getting trashed like that.

[ikriestiana]

Finaly i found someone that also knew it looks similliar

[TSMGL_Youtube]

Bro the amount of people that say the MI7 locomotive is Murdoch smh lol

[mr.dahliaking.]

I don't know if the back to the future locomotive was real or not, but the explosion sure does looks very realistic, how the pressurized water erupted out of the boiler as it ruptured from impact and it immediately flashed to steam when released to atmosphere, that was the huge white ploom shortly after exploding, it was the water vapor flashing from the super heated water. You can even see the black boiler sludge splashing out as the boiler return heat exchanger ruptured, as that's where majority of the sludge would collect and hot water splashed out right before the super heated water got released as it instantly flashed into steam. If a body of a human or an animal would have been in that ploom as it happened, those three seconds would be enough to melt away all the flesh clean from the bones.

[simontrainbrainz]

I literally just referenced this the last time!

[rickroll]

It's sad to see a old steam engine like that getting wrecked. Like your not going to have that train anymore. Who still has all "Back to the Future" movies? Raises hand*

[alias]

The Back to the Future loco was a 1/8th scale loco -- plenty of videos of same size "live steam locomotives" on Youtube. Scale scenery was built to hide its reduced size.

[nssteampunk]

We also can't forget Anastasia or The Lone Ranger

[CustomiZe_]

Camera operator in helicopter: "Sorry I left the camera lens on, can we do it again" 😅 😃🤣🤣

[northlanderdude]

I thought the MI7 engine crash looked familiar... wondered for a minute where I had seen that before lol