With the mooninite crisis resolved, the MBTA braces for another onslaught

By adamg on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 2:34pm

Graffiti artists race to Boston to run amok:

... This morning officers arrested five men at the Braintree subway train yard who authorities allege had 39 cans of spray paint outfitted with nozzles to create complex graffiti mosaics. Two of the suspects came from Germany, one from Switzerland, another had an address listed in Wisconsin, and the fifth hailed from North Carolina. ...

"We really anticipate the potential for serious damage over the next 72 hours," said MBTA Lieutenant Mark Gillespie, who wanted to publicize the arrests to discourage graffiti artists. "We are going to be on heightened alert." ...

In other words, Nowhere to run, babies, nowhere to hide.

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Comments

Oh sure. The one weekend

By Amy on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 3:11pm.

Oh sure. The one weekend I'm not in town in the one weekend when bad-ass '80s graffiti gangs overtake the MBTA. Dammit.

"Warriors... come out and plaaaaay..."

What next?

By adamg on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 3:18pm.

Teen-aged girls throwing TVs out of high rises?

Or all the popular girls at

By Amy on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 4:06pm.

Or all the popular girls at Boston High suddenly becoming suicidal?

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Why not the T?

By Suldog on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 4:24pm.

All the good subway movies take place in New York. The Warriors, The Incident, um, Subway Stories, and, uh...

Well, anyway, why isn't there a good one filmed here? Surely our trains and stations are just as photogenic.

Never saw the movie, but read the book, and what I remember most was that the conductor in the hijacked train had this incredible fear of anything happening to his spine - it seemed to come up every other page - so of course he wound up shot in the spine.

But New York subways are really a lot more mysterious than ours, and I speak as someone who would always get on the first car to look out the front window, back in my New York days.

Still, there is "Next Stop Wonderland," even if, as IMDB points out:

The train conductor at Airport Station announces that the next stop will be Wonderland Station. As the route maps seen in the film indicate, there are actually five stops on the Blue Line between Airport and Wonderland.

Speed

By Ron Newman on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 4:38pm.

mostly took place on a Santa Monica Blue Bus, but there's a great scene near the end in the LA subway.

"300 people. One squeaky

By Amy on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 4:40pm.

"300 people. One squeaky Breda car. A power outage. Will they make it out alive? Watch as Bostonians deal with race issues (yet again) and their true feelings. 'The Opposite of Speed' starring Keanu Reeves opening Thanksgiving 2007."

"Like, whoa. That's wicked pisser." --Keanu

Jean-Paul Sartre // No Exit

By tblade on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 9:49pm.

I don't see riding the T as an action/adventure movie, it's more of an existential absurdity.

"You don't need red-hot pokers: Hell isâ€”waiting for the T... and other people (who ride the T)!"

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woo hoo!

By Spatch on Sat, 02/10/2007 - 10:06am.

Zimmerman flew! Tyler knew!

Forgot About That One

By Suldog on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 12:24pm.

"Pelham" has been done twice on film. The original, with Walter Matthau, was quite good. There was an updated version (done by HBO?) that was excellent, although I believe the NYC Transit Commission didn't authorize filming within the system for that one and it was shot in the Toronto subway.