Talk:TransSiberian (film)

message: The standard train route from Beijing to Moscow is the Trans-Mongolian Railway. The Trans-Siberian Railway doesn't even enter China, but goes to Vladivostok in the Russian far east instead. This is not original research, but well documented (with maps) and painstakingly sourced in those two articles.
On the other hand, it may well be that the movie completely ignores this fact of reality. None of the reviews I've read even mentions Mongolia. In case that the plot does indeed pretend that a train trip between those two cities would cross a Chinese-Russian border with nothing in between (and without taking an absurd detour via the trans-Manchurian line to the east first), then the artistic liberty taken to assume such a fiction should be explained in the article.
There is also the trans-manchurian, which seems to be the line used in the movie. I have edited the article for accuracy. I believe the line is from Vladivostok to Petersburg, so it was quite inaccurate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leetrefz (talk • contribs) 09:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Interjection: The film specifically shows the map at the station. There are TWO forks, one going to Vladivostok, one to Beijing - --64.142.36.76 (talk) 02:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Reviews of the film mention it takes place on the "Trans-Siberian Express",   though one article mentions the Trans-Siberian Railway heading to Moscow. If you can cite a source that the "Trans-Siberian Express" is the same thing as the Trans-Mongolian Railway, I'd welcome the addition. If not, the fact fails WP:V dissolvetalk 22:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Express" is just a specific train on the trans-siberian line. I wouldn't count on the accuracy of such terminology in a movie anyway, and rather check for specific stations that may be mentioned. In the mean time, I've found that there is indeed another common route, which goes around Mongolia. It crosses into Russia at Manzhouli, and adds more than 1,000 km to the distance, which makes it look unlikely on the map. But better line capacities and the elimination of the second border crossing may compensate for at least part of that apparent disadvantage. What I've read about the movie matches this longer route much better, so it seems my original assumptions were mistaken. Would be nice to confirm that for certain, though. --Latebird (talk) 23:10, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I have done some fact checking and I can confirm that Roy says they cross the border at Zabaykalsk (the Russian side of the Manzhouli border crossing) at 13:20 into the movie (DVD 2008), which definitely means their train is taking the Trans-Manchurian route. In view of Wikipedia's insane phobia for anything remotely suggestive of "original research", I don't know if this information can be incorporated into the main article, but it's here in case anyone can think of an acceptable way to incorporate it that would be great Nude Amazon (talk) 05:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trans-Mongolian Railway 

message: The link to her hoped-for purchase is to Vancouver, B.C. Being American, and from Seattle, it's likely the nearby Vancouver, Washington is intended. Someone might fix the link if it can be verified this was the case. JohndanR (talk) 05:46, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Abby's Vancouver

message: Can someone check the box office figures. If correct, they indicate that the film was a major commercial failure. This would be very notable for a film that was well received, well reviewed, and with A-list stars in. Fig (talk) 11:59, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Box office