Speed (1994) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2023-04-19 13:01:00 +0000 UTCHi everyone! Another movie watchalong drop for you all! I'm super eager to read your comments on this one. Please enjoy! ❤️ [Direct link here.]
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It's a good one! Thanks for watching! Love seeing a new comment from you on these older posts.
kaiielle
2023-12-05 03:17:14 +0000 UTCAnother off the list. Is this a real favourite. Another that was part of my early VHS collection back in the day. So over the top, that it's brilliant.
Death Lego
2023-12-05 00:36:27 +0000 UTCExcellent! Please make sure you suggest them through my form as well. Thank you!
kaiielle
2023-04-23 00:15:14 +0000 UTCTwo movies that I think are similar-ish to Speed, in terms of being really good, tense 90s action/thriller movies: The Rock and Armageddon
Tom Evans
2023-04-22 06:36:54 +0000 UTC👍
Jason Chirevas
2023-04-20 22:35:43 +0000 UTCThanks Jason!
kaiielle
2023-04-20 22:08:00 +0000 UTCOh thank goodness. I saw it was towed but I just assumed a pilot would still be in the plane.
kaiielle
2023-04-20 22:07:56 +0000 UTCI’ll put it through the form, but another great movie with a scenario somewhat similar to SPEED is UNSTOPPABLE from 2010 with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, directed by Tony Scott.
Jason Chirevas
2023-04-20 20:55:25 +0000 UTCNo pilot in the cargo plane. It was being towed and we saw the driver run away. Isn’t it great when things work out? Heh.
Jason Chirevas
2023-04-20 19:43:33 +0000 UTCInteresting! I wonder why this doesn't exist in more places, then. Maybe it's only in high impact areas?
kaiielle
2023-04-20 19:11:33 +0000 UTCRE: the water barrels. They’re there for the exact reason we see. When Tuneman crashes, it would have been straight into the divider if not for the water barrels in front of it to cushion the impact.
Jason Chirevas
2023-04-20 19:00:31 +0000 UTCYes. 12 glorious inches.
MotoDork
2023-04-20 07:25:05 +0000 UTCHa, well, that's part of it. The more relevant part you might've seen is that Keanu bailed and was replaced by a decidedly un-charismatic Jason Patric, who is also saddled with a role that is *clearly* still *meant* to be Jack Traven but someone went through the script and did "find and replace" to change "Jack" to "Alex."
Tyler Foster
2023-04-20 03:58:13 +0000 UTCSo cool!
kaiielle
2023-04-20 02:02:20 +0000 UTCThe part where the bus jumps over the gap in the fwy, I actually drive over that every day and I often think of this movie.
Joits
2023-04-20 01:15:32 +0000 UTC90s plots indeed LOL. I agree with you on his character in The Martian - I just say bad guy cause it feels like every story needs some kind of character like that and his character in that is as close to that as you can get. Super stoked that you had a great time watching this after your work day! Thanks for watching James. 🤘
kaiielle
2023-04-19 20:56:30 +0000 UTCThis was a welcome tonic after an awful workday, and great fun with your reaction, so thank you. It’s much less stressful on repeat viewings. Jack and Annie are still one of my favourite movie couples, they are so good together. I have watched this movie countless times over the years having owned it on VHS, DVD and now Bluray, and I still think it holds up well. The bus jump is, and always was, stupid but I’m able to overlook it, along with the speeding up of the train. Even with the stop button being all shot up, if the accelerator still worked I’d have taken my chance with just setting it to minimum and hoped it slowed enough to not die. But that wouldn’t have been a fun end and ya know, 90s plots and all that. I still wish Harry had made it, but it added a great emotional moment for Jack. Not relevant to this movie but I personally don’t think Jeff Daniels’ character is such a bad guy in The Martian, Teddy is ultimately responsible for the mission and remaining crew and has hard decisions to make.
James Hadden
2023-04-19 20:50:47 +0000 UTCI'm glad this one was an original movie, but it def has that Die Hard feel to it. But even more intense, imo. I checked the movie poster. 😆🌊
kaiielle
2023-04-19 19:46:57 +0000 UTCGotta save some trivia for the YouTube edit, but Jan de Bont started out as a cinematographer. One very notable movie he was DP on was the action classic Die Hard. Speed was, I believe, initially written as a Die Hard sequel, but was later rewritten to be an original movie and served as de Bont's directorial debut. Also, there is a sequel, and I doubt I'll be alone in warning you: you don't need to watch it. I don't want to tell you anything about it, but...there's one major factor that you could find out just by looking at the movie poster that would immediately give you a sense of what it's working against, on top of this one being so good.
Tyler Foster
2023-04-19 18:15:55 +0000 UTCGlad you did! Thanks for watching.
kaiielle
2023-04-19 16:00:02 +0000 UTCLUV IT! LUV IT! Fun reaction, one more thing LOVED IT!😆
Abracadabra
2023-04-19 15:53:04 +0000 UTCCool. Were those the 12” monster cd looking things?
James Hadden
2023-04-19 15:10:51 +0000 UTCSweet I can actually watch along with my laserdisc on this one.
MotoDork
2023-04-19 14:43:24 +0000 UTC
