Ohio chemical train derailment movie released just months before actual event – IOTW Report

Ohio chemical train derailment movie released just months before actual event

Can we talk about how they released a movie about a toxic chemical train derailment just a few months before it actually happened in real life?

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  1. Now THAT makes it EASY to do a “Hollywood Vs. Reality” analysis!

    …many years ago, when the movie “Backdraft” came out, my fire company and others in the area were given prescreenings of it and asked to fill out a questionnaire after about how “Real” it was.

    They seemed confused when we laughed at every scene that involved interior firefighting and the ones where the bad guy was setting up backdrafts and explosions and such like it was a comedy.

    It started with the fact that you could see ANYTHING AT ALL and the amazing way the leads didn’t actually need SCBA to breathe or anything, and went downhill from there, to this truly hilarious scene where the bad guy identfiably got the shape of an outlet – the NON-CHARGED parts of an outlet – burned into his back during a blind fight with the yero, but was otherwise unaffected by that, and exlposions and…you get the idea. Also, they apparently used “Backdraft” and “Flashover” as interchangable terms. And REALLY didn’t know anything about fire investigations.

    …long story short, the answer to “How REAL is it” was “not very much”, same as most Hollywood productions.

    I don’t think that’s the answer they wanted.

    …I wonder, if you showed this to East Palestine firefighters and the members of the SEVENTY TWO agencies that responded mutual aid, if they’d have a similar reaction…

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