grantss A bunch of bandits hold up a train.One of cinema's landmark films. Is a great example of early film-making techniques and the innovativeness required in the new industry. Features the famous scene of a cowboy firing his gun directly at the screen, footage which apparently caused some consternation among movie-goers. As far as the movie goes, decent plot though can be a bit confusing at times. For example, in the final scene I didn't know who the good guys and bad guys were at one point.Then again, this movie isn't really about the quality of the film itself in modern terms but really the fact that it was made - the history it was making. Modern film-makers owe a lot to this film.

leplatypus The titles are the same as the content for sure but Crichton was set in Victorian Britain in 1864 while here it's America! It's amazing how baby cinema had already create his own visual langage and in less than 10 years: the movie is dynamic, the angle are inspired (it's nearly VR on the top of the train) and maybe the difference with BTF3 or Indy 3 is only the issue of sound and score! For sure i waited the moment when those bandits would be caught because i couldn't imagine a Doberman movie at this time! Moral is safe! The final shot of this bandit shooting the audience at close range is fantastic because it embodies truly what is cinema: a virtual reality filling you with emotions ranging from all the spectre, good to bad! Sure, the action is crude, limited but it's like videogames: the first games invented everything and today games are just the old games done with better technology! At last, with this movie, i finally reach my destination also because i have now watched 1 movie by year between cinema birth and mine! I really expected that this earlier movies would be boring but they surprise me to be as good (or even better) than today ones and with as talented people: Méliès, DW Griffith, Mary Brian, Louise Brooks and German productions...

SenjoorMutt 'The Great Train Robbery' considered to be the first western and action film as it was first film that laid out the recognizable genre form. Milestone film that used on-location shooting and frequent camera movements.Story is very simplistic, but it was the time when directors and writers seriously started to develop film as a story telling devise, rather than simply showing factory workers walking home. Despite it's simplistic story 'The Great Train Robbery' cemented the themes that became generally popular in western genre - outlaws, bandits, robberies and lawmen. And of course small comic relief in the dance hall where local men shooting at the feet of a dancing stranger.

ofpsmith This amazing picture is only 10 minutes long. So I could watch this while waiting to be taken to school, which I did once. But it's very innovative in that it tells a story to the audience. A group of bandits during the wild west period stick up a train and rob the passengers. Then they steal a train and run off. A posse of armed men pursues them and there is soon a big shootout in the woods somewhere. And that's really about it. But it's influential mainly because it's one of the first films ever to tell a story however brief it may be. It features a very famous shot at the end when one of the bandits looks straight at the camera then he fires at the camera. And then the film ends. Some versions I've found even have colored in aspects, like red smoke or something like that. There are a lot of versions on you tube to watch it so by all means please do so.