BlueSkies October 12, 2024 Share October 12, 2024 I saw it had it's 30th anniversary just a few days ago https://people.com/sandra-bullock-keanu-reeves-speed-30-anniversary-screening-8724661 It was not like my favorite movie ever but I watched it many many times when I was younger. I still recall Christmas of 1994 I got it as a gift. Perhaps the first R rated movie I got a VHS of. I kind of even as a kid thought the bus flying scene seemed pretty unrealistic but at the same time it was still very successful. I watched the film a few years ago and what actually stood out is how well acted I thought the film was. Sandra Bullock was great as Annie and it's still easily my favorite role of hers. Keanu was good as Jack. Dennis Hopper and Jeff Daniels as well. A lot of great side characters as well like Gigantor on the bus or Cameron from the Ferris Beueler's movie character. The dialogue and cat and mouse games between Jack and Dennis Hopper's character was great as well. 7 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/
BetterButter October 12, 2024 Share October 12, 2024 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479045
andromeda331 October 12, 2024 Share October 12, 2024 This is one of my favorite movies. I watch it four or five times every year. It's so much fun and funny. A lot of action. I know the bus jumping to the other side would never work but I don't care it's fun. I love how challenge to challenge keeps popping up. The shock when the bus hit the baby carriage. Jack realizing they could drive around LAX and later realizing that the bomber could see them. The last part with the train isn't much fun but the rest of it is. I love Jack, I love Annie. I love watching the rest of the bus people working together. I love Mac and Harry too. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479087
BlueSkies October 12, 2024 Author Share October 12, 2024 13 hours ago, andromeda331 said: This is one of my favorite movies. I watch it four or five times every year. It's so much fun and funny. A lot of action. I know the bus jumping to the other side would never work but I don't care it's fun. I love how challenge to challenge keeps popping up. The shock when the bus hit the baby carriage. Jack realizing they could drive around LAX and later realizing that the bomber could see them. The last part with the train isn't much fun but the rest of it is. I love Jack, I love Annie. I love watching the rest of the bus people working together. I love Mac and Harry too. It had its funny moments as well like Jack trying to get on the bus. The one guy commented he's got a hard on for this bus! Or TuneMan the guy he stole the car from, are You Insured? haha. before he crashed into all that water 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479344
Shannon L. October 12, 2024 Share October 12, 2024 "Shoot the hostage" "Focus, Jack!" "Yeah, it's like driving a really big Pinto" "Take the phone!" "Jesus...what button did you push?" I love the movie. We live in L.A. County and back before it was released, there were always people handing out fliers to get people into review upcoming movies. They usually listed the genre, a brief description and, sometimes, the actors in it. We decided to participate in this one. There were still some effects that weren't finished yet, so you'd see Keanu hanging off the bus in front of a green screen. We liked it from the opening sequence and couldn't wait to see the finished product. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479358
andromeda331 October 13, 2024 Share October 13, 2024 7 hours ago, BlueSkies said: It had its funny moments as well like Jack trying to get on the bus. The one guy commented he's got a hard on for this bus! Or TuneMan the guy he stole the car from, are You Insured? haha. before he crashed into all that water I love TuneMan's "This is my car, I own this car, it's not stolen." Jack pulls out a gun. "It is now." Being mad at Jack until he saw some impressive driving. I also love when Jack says "I have to get on the bus." And TuneMan "You have too.." Then realizes what he said. "Yeah, yeah you go get on that bus." I do feel bad about his car. That was one nice car. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479534
DoctorAtomic October 13, 2024 Share October 13, 2024 Stealing my friend's phrase - Speed was way better than it had any right to be. It's just a good movie. I always liked once they got everyone off the bus, there was still about a third of the movie or so to go. 8 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479784
BlueSkies October 13, 2024 Author Share October 13, 2024 18 hours ago, andromeda331 said: I love TuneMan's "This is my car, I own this car, it's not stolen." Jack pulls out a gun. "It is now." Being mad at Jack until he saw some impressive driving. I also love when Jack says "I have to get on the bus." And TuneMan "You have too.." Then realizes what he said. "Yeah, yeah you go get on that bus." I do feel bad about his car. That was one nice car. That and his phone. Back in 1994 cell phones seemed like exotic/luxury items! 1 hour ago, DoctorAtomic said: Stealing my friend's phrase - Speed was way better than it had any right to be. It's just a good movie. I always liked once they got everyone off the bus, there was still about a third of the movie or so to go. Yeah that's where Jack vs Howard face to face again really worked well 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8479822
Acmeproducts October 28, 2024 Share October 28, 2024 It’s one of my favorites largely because of the leads. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8492199
Constant Viewer October 28, 2024 Share October 28, 2024 We saw this every time we took a bus on a school trip! 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8492272
Lilac2000 November 3, 2024 Share November 3, 2024 (edited) I loved Ted Theodore Logan but I LOVED Jack Traven. 16 years old the first time I saw Speed and my crush on Keanu has never waned. Edited November 3, 2024 by Lilac2000 4 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8497636
BlueSkies November 9, 2024 Author Share November 9, 2024 On 11/2/2024 at 11:58 PM, Lilac2000 said: I loved Ted Theodore Logan but I LOVED Jack Traven. 16 years old the first time I saw Speed and my crush on Keanu has never waned. Keanu's all right but I'm not a big fan of a good number of his other movies... That being said everything I've read and heard about him indicates he's a very humble and down to earth guy. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8502419
andromeda331 November 9, 2024 Share November 9, 2024 5 hours ago, BlueSkies said: Keanu's all right but I'm not a big fan of a good number of his other movies... That being said everything I've read and heard about him indicates he's a very humble and down to earth guy. Neither am I. But yeah he always seems like a nice and normal guy. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8502683
AgathaC November 9, 2024 Share November 9, 2024 13 hours ago, BlueSkies said: Keanu's all right but I'm not a big fan of a good number of his other movies... That being said everything I've read and heard about him indicates he's a very humble and down to earth guy. Same here. Not a fan of him as an actor, but I am as a human. I loved this movie so much back in the day and it holds up so well. Great action, plenty of humor, awesome characters, clever plot. My sociology teacher in high school actually used this movie as an example of how people can develop tight, rapid bonds and form a community in intense situations. She couldn’t show it (rated R), but we all discussed it. 9 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8502804
Dr.OO7 November 25, 2024 Share November 25, 2024 On 10/11/2024 at 9:43 PM, BlueSkies said: I still recall Christmas of 1994 I got it as a gift. Perhaps the first R rated movie I got a VHS of. So did I! 😄 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8517594
tearknee November 26, 2024 Share November 26, 2024 He doesn't run. He chooses dignity. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8518422
Dr.OO7 December 1, 2024 Share December 1, 2024 On 11/26/2024 at 11:52 AM, tearknee said: He doesn't run. He chooses dignity. I doubt there would have 3any time for him to run regardless 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8521582
tearknee December 1, 2024 Share December 1, 2024 And he knew it and doesn't bother to try. A tear-jerker, regardless. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8521650
andromeda331 December 2, 2024 Share December 2, 2024 On 12/1/2024 at 2:27 AM, tearknee said: And he knew it and doesn't bother to try. A tear-jerker, regardless. Yes it was. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8522566
Dr.OO7 December 3, 2024 Share December 3, 2024 The resignation on his face is agonizing. It was years before the TV Tropes website was ever created, but even then I remembered thinking how much I hated the cliché that the hero of course had to lose either his best friend or his woman in the course of the movie. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8523319
BlueSkies December 26, 2024 Author Share December 26, 2024 There's still random characters I remember all these years later: That one woman on the elevator: Can't they just pry the doors open!!! 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8540433
Giuseppe January 1 Share January 1 I'm watching this right now as my movie to usher in the new year. Haven't seen it in years, but it's one of my all time favorites. The opening elevator sequence is just fantastic. The one thing I really didn't like was once they finally got everyone off the bus, Jack and Annie make their escape, then everyone watches the bus for a minute as it slows down. I wish they hadn't had the bus run into the plane at the exact same time the bomb went off. I thought it would've been more effective if the bus had exploded without hitting the plane....the passengers watching having a realization of "oh shit, there really WAS a bomb. We really DID almost all die". As it was, it almost seems ambiguous as to whether the bus exploded because of the bomb or because of it hitting the plane, and I doubt that was the intention. Anyway, small nitpick in an otherwise great movie. 2 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8543907
Fool to cry January 5 Share January 5 On 11/26/2024 at 8:52 AM, tearknee said: He doesn't run. He chooses dignity. On 12/2/2024 at 4:16 AM, andromeda331 said: Yes it was. On 12/2/2024 at 7:15 PM, Dr.OO7 said: The resignation on his face is agonizing. It was years before the TV Tropes website was ever created, but even then I remembered thinking how much I hated the cliché that the hero of course had to lose either his best friend or his woman in the course of the movie. Jeff Daniels talks about how he came up with his expression at that moment: 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8546717
BlueSkies January 10 Author Share January 10 I still remember 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/149947-speed-1994/#findComment-8551297
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