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Posted: Feb 21 2010 01:48 pm

Wow was this a fun movie! I recently watched it through the streaming portion of Netflix. I first saw this on HBO back in early 1995. I could imagine how hard of a sell this was to Hollywood executives. "There is a bomb on a bus and most of the action takes place on the bus." However the action is great and the suspenseful scenes are awesome. Too bad the sequel was horrible.

Posted: Feb 21 2010 02:12 pm

and keanu reeves is a terrible actor

i dont think this movie aged that well imo. i tried watching it a couple of weeks ago and i found most of the action/dialogue silly

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tehy replaced keanu in the sequel and acted like it didn't happen, didn't they?

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I think it was the same people on a boat. I refuse to look up mundane pointless shit on the intrawebz so someone else has to.

Posted: Feb 21 2010 03:05 pm

it was just sandra bullock
i forget who the good guy was, but the bad guy was willem dafoe, i think

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Jason Patric

Speed 2 sucked. The first one is still exciting and Dennis Hopper is way quotable.

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I watched this right after I watched Dumb and Dumber, and I was sad to see Harry get blown up.

Posted: Feb 21 2010 05:59 pm

I probably wouldn't enjoy it now since Mythbusters busted the bus turn.

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Valdronius wrote:

I probably wouldn't enjoy it now since Mythbusters busted the bus turn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Feb 21 2010 06:48 pm

Valdronius wrote:

I probably wouldn't enjoy it now since Mythbusters busted the bus turn.

Watch the episode. They busted the idea that you need to move everyone to one side of the bus to keep the bus from flipping. They were able to easily make the turn, regardless of where the passengers were, and they had to SERIOUSLY unbalance the bus and make it top-heavy to get it to flip.

They did bust the jump, though (duh!).

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This movie was sooo far fetched. Sandra Bullock laments about how she needs her car and that she loves her car. My guess is that she never takes public transportation(like most people in LA). How are we supposed to believe that she's on a first name basis with the bus driver?

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Thorton02 wrote:

This movie was sooo far fetched. Sandra Bullock laments about how she needs her car and that she loves her car. My guess is that she never takes public transportation(like most people in LA). How are we supposed to believe that she's on a first name basis with the bus driver?

Wait... of all the movie THAT'S the part you think is so far fetched Razz

Posted: Feb 22 2010 08:59 pm

FNJ wrote:

tehy replaced keanu in the sequel and acted like it didn't happen, didn't they?

There was like a small side joke about that. Sandra Bullock's character left Keanu's character from the first one because he was with the swat team or what ever the hell it was, since he kept getting put into danger. Instead she started going out with a beach bike cop, who eventually joined the swat unit or something... you know it's a terrible movie when even Keanu Reeves says "Whoa, this sequel about a boat... it sucks man"

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oh. it's been so long. I thought it was supposed to be the same character.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 10:43 pm

This thread exists? Really?

Really?

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Ghandi wrote:

Thorton02 wrote:

This movie was sooo far fetched. Sandra Bullock laments about how she needs her car and that she loves her car. My guess is that she never takes public transportation(like most people in LA). How are we supposed to believe that she's on a first name basis with the bus driver?

Wait... of all the movie THAT'S the part you think is so far fetched Razz

LOL. The rest of it seemed plausible to me.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 12:55 pm

Slayer1 wrote:

you know it's a terrible movie when even Keanu Reeves says "Whoa, this sequel about a boat... it sucks man"

This is so, SO true. I still can't figure out how they got the likes of Willem Dafoe into this piece of garbage. He must have owed somebody something. I mean, I know he goes for all kinds of movies...but Speed 2? And Sandra Bullock is the hero? Dude, you SO have more talent (and better taste) than that. (That said, he did his best with what he was given and was actually quite good.)

The original Speed WAS fun. Goofy, but fun. The premise was interesting, the action was good, and they executed it well. Not one to re-watch a bunch, but its kind of like a Jean-Claude Van Damm movie for me...when you're in the mood for it, there is NOTHING better.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 02:46 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

The original Speed WAS fun. Goofy, but fun. The premise was interesting, the action was good, and they executed it well. Not one to re-watch a bunch, but its kind of like a Jean-Claude Van Damm movie for me...when you're in the mood for it, there is NOTHING better.

well said

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SoldierHawk wrote:

I still can't figure out how they got the likes of Willem Dafoe into this piece of garbage. He must have owed somebody something. I mean, I know he goes for all kinds of movies..

I love Dafoe, but he's been in a lot of terrible shit. I honestly think about 75% of the movies he makes usually are pretty shitty.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 05:21 pm

I found the premise of the movie utterly stupid. Why bother setting the bomb to detonate when the bus goes below 50 miles an hour? He has a bombs on it already that he can remotely detonate, and I would think that would be sufficient to try to get ransom money. What good is asking for a ransom for a bus that could potentially blow up at any moment (and in reality what busy city could you keep a bus going 50 miles an hour during during rush hour) even if they were getting together the money?

Since he was also using that to mess with Keanu's character than there are better ways he could've done that as well. Off the top of my head, how about just put a bomb that goes off in Keanu's personal car that will go off under 50 instead of the bus? Now you got the remote bombs on the bus for the ransom and Keanu has his own problems to deal with.

The terrorist in Die Hard with a Vengeance fucked with Bruce Willis with bombs and kept his eyes on the prize too. Dennis Hoppers character's plan was just inane.

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Rycona wrote:

This thread exists? Really?

Really?

how awesome would it be if a mod deleted this topic right now in the name of gaslighting?

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Did they ever prove that the bomb was staged to go off under 50? I know Hopper said that, but I think he was just bullshitting. I think he wanted to affirm that no rescue attempts would be possible, since rescuing people on a moving vehicle would be hard.

Posted: Feb 24 2010 07:28 pm

I always loved this spoof on The Critic:

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Feb 24 2010 09:21 pm

Doddsino wrote:

Did they ever prove that the bomb was staged to go off under 50? I know Hopper said that, but I think he was just bullshitting. I think he wanted to affirm that no rescue attempts would be possible, since rescuing people on a moving vehicle would be hard.

It's been a while since I saw it, but I do remember that the bomb did have a digital counter that measured the speed of the bus, and also that the guy was remotely watching and could trigger the explosives anytime he felt like it...he did stipulate nobody was to be rescued (when they tried, he detonated a smaller bomb as a warning or something)

Posted: Feb 24 2010 09:48 pm

UsaSatsui wrote:

Doddsino wrote:

Did they ever prove that the bomb was staged to go off under 50? I know Hopper said that, but I think he was just bullshitting. I think he wanted to affirm that no rescue attempts would be possible, since rescuing people on a moving vehicle would be hard.

It's been a while since I saw it, but I do remember that the bomb did have a digital counter that measured the speed of the bus, and also that the guy was remotely watching and could trigger the explosives anytime he felt like it...he did stipulate nobody was to be rescued (when they tried, he detonated a smaller bomb as a warning or something)

He let them get the driver off the bus because he got shot. When some other lady tried to get off he detonated the smaller bomb.