I feel like it was already done a few times by the time this came out in the early 90s. It's a heist movie staple. Though if you go back much farther it was more of a "put a photo in front of the camera" style deception instead of a hacking solution with a looping or alternate video feed - but I think these are fundamentally the same gag just on different points on the analog to digital scale.
@@WhiskyCanuck In 1994; The Lion King, True Lies, Forrest Gump, Ace Ventura, Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Tombstone, all classics imo, and Speed was high on the list of popular movies that year. Basically Keanu's breakthrough role into stardom (although I loved Point Break), as most people only knew him as "the dark haired guy from Bill and Ted". Pop culture was booming in the late 80's and early 90's, and this particular trope of the image looping is the earliest mass widespread exposure in movie cinema with the accessibility of VHS and Blockbuster like rental stores. It may have been a lesser known trope in certain circles in years before, but this definitely popularized it on a massive scale. There is the moment of invention, and the moment of popularization. I personally believe that the popularity of this movie at the time is the reason that this particular moment is the line after which the looping video was considered a trope. (aka common or overused).
I like when people say "they loop the camera in every movie" but the movie they're watching is 30 years old and was one of the first movies to popularize it.
"this tourist is keeping things pretty chill..." thats cause he had an a hole of a strict dad but a friend named Ferris as a teenager who just pushed through all his anxiety with his antics leaving him to learn chill as a coping mechanism.
"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, the bus would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."-Homer Simpson
What's absolutely amazing is that that is the ONLY F-bomb in the entire movie. For an action movie there's basically no swearing. And I find that kind of refreshing.
When you commented that this might be Keanu's first movie, or at least one of his earliest, I realized you had never reacted to the Bill & Ted movies and you absolutely should not deprive yourself of these classic cinematic masterpieces.
Turning around isn't a possibility, but neither is the jump, they could've maybe dialed down the size of the jump, but it makes for good summer blockbuster moment.
Literally EVERY time she says something in a movie is "cheesy" it is, without fail, something that is perfectly reasonable given the situation, but she just doesn't understand it.
Except for the fact that they didn’t even have to take that unfinished exit. The highway was clear in the overhead wide shot, they just needed to veer left through some wooden signs and plastic cones. I’ll bet you think it was realistic for his detonator to have a signal from a downtown apartment all the way to the airport too.
There is a slim number of actors that can carry being the lead in a single 3+ movie successful franchise, let alone multiple successful franchises. Keanu is one of them.
I think it originated in one of those 60s spy shows like Get Smart or Mission Impossible, but yeah Speed absolutely popularized it. It appeared in everything after this movie lol.
The TV version of Mission: Impossible did it a few times. But with them, it was usually a photo of the empty room in front of a security camera. The movie versions of M:I did a super high tech version of that trick with giant rear projection screen that changed perspective with eye movement.
15:05 They actually did jump a bus for this film. It was a world record at 52 feet 6 inches of distance traveled in the air. They did it on a completed closed stretch of road and used CGI/SFX editing to remove part of the freeway and make it look unfinished.
That shot is so funny, because, having seen tons of freeway ramp construction projects, freeways are never "unfinished" in that way. The lines were even painted!
This movie was such a surprise hit. I love it when you go see a movie, not having any expectations, and then walking out having seen a fun summer movie. also... boo to the editor for not including the scene with the stroller full of cans.
It was the time when the blockbusters were these big, mostly practical ensemble pieces. Con Air. The Rock. Speed. I miss them so much. These days most money is spent on superhero stuff, and I'm just the kind of person that'll watch Con Air a million times (Put. The. Bunny. Down.) and a Marvel movie once. I can barely recall any of the Marvel stuff I've watched but can quote stuff like Speed.
Fun Fact: Sandra Bullock at this point in her career was unsure if she would ever truly be successful, so she actually did get a license to drive a bus like the one in the movie as a fallback job in case acting didn’t work out.
Always had a crush on her since the first time i saw it 20 years ago as a little boy 😂 It grew more into appreciation with time but she was fox in Speed
The reason Keanu and Sandra had such great chemistry is because they actually did have serious crushes on each other. But one or both of them were always in a relationship so they never acted on those feelings.
Ikr? I thought she did too. I feel like her characters in The Net, Speed, Demolition Man, Practical Magic, A Time to Kill & the Miss Congeniality films were Sandra at her most likable, not to mention that she looked beautiful in them as well.
Depends on what it is? Tom Cruise is still making Mission Impossible. A lot of Rock movies are pretty good. Unsure if it's considered "Actoin" but the Planet of the Apes movies are good. MCU produces some decent films still. 90s were a different time though
@CrazeeAdam but think about that tho. The mission impossible film franchise started in the 90s. The Rock models himself after guys like Arnold and Stallone. All the good action films today can draw inspiration from the 80s and 90s action movie genre.
Even though I love 90's action movies, you picked the wrong year to say this. We had Monkey Man, Furiosa and "Kill". Three action power houses this year. Watch them and you'll see. You can, however, comfortably say this to movies of the 2000's, before The Raid was released.
I hollered when she said "Full House" because not only is she thinking of Jeff Daniels, but I too used to think that Joey (Dave Coulier) played Harry in "Speed" for years as growing up always watching both "Full House" and "Speed". I was so certain they were the same person. My brain was like, "He has so much range," 😂🤣😂...
@@commonstragedy He was "The" go to script doctor in the early 90's, Speed,Twister,Toy Story and Waterworld were just some of the movies he rewrote but because of the Hollywood rules in place at the time he never received an on screen credit
So upset you were unable to show the baby buggy with the cans or Jack going under the bus with the creeper...OR the part where the tourist (Alan Ruck) is relaying Jack's words to Harry as he's checking out the bomb. I would have LOVED to see your reaction on those three scenes. :)
Dennis Hopper was SO good at playing unhinged characters, he had a career full of crazy roles (Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Flashback). But he did have range -- I believe he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Hoosiers (starring Gene Hackman).
@@FestArc Hell yeah, I don't care what anyone says, Super Mario Bros was alot of fun & he was great in it, that's coming from a huge fan of the older Mario games.
"Are we going to do that looping thing like in every movie?" It may have been done before, but Speed is what made it so popular that every other media started copying it.
At about 5:14 min in. "why didn't you shoot him?". Bomb looks like it's on a "dead man" switch. Armed when it is pressed and triggered if it is released.
Dennis Hopper wasn't afraid to go all out with the crazy which is a big part of why this movie worked. If you want to see him in one of the best movie scenes of all time - watch 'True Romance'. He was also great in a supporting role in the movie 'Hoosiers', one of the best movies ever made. I don't know if you've seen that one but it should be on your list.
You can have movies that want to be serious but fail that being serious but then also fail at being cheesy. That makes them bad. Then you have other movies that know what they are and go with it 💯. Speed is that type of movie.
I have a theory that Harry survived the bomb blast, though he suffered a severe brain injury and randomly wandered away from the hospital one day. He somehow ended up in Boston, becoming Harry Dunne, the roommate of Lloyd Christmas to create Dumb and Dumber. 😅
This film always makes me thing of one of my favorite Simpsons joke. On a bumpy bus, Milhouse says, _"This is like Speed 2, only it's a bus instead of a boat!"_
Mythbusters actually devoted an entire episode to this movie. One of my favorite parts of the episode was the sharp right turn myth. On an unused runway, using a real (rerigged for remote control) bus, they placed the appropriate weight of water-filled barrels inside,on the right side. The turn was 'plausible' in this instance.
This movie is really nice. Apart from sometimes silly story, they execute it nicely with surprisingly good sound effect. I watched it with my family in the 90's and our stereo just BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. Really theatrical aura
This is a true story. Back in the holy cinematic year of 1994, I was not interested at all in watching Speed or any movies as work is busy. My colleague praised this movie incessantly when he watched it with his girlfriend and highly recommended it to me but he was careful not to reveal spoilers. I took him at his word so I went to watch Speed with a Walkman tape recorder in my bag. This cassette tape can record 120 minutes of audio; 60 minutes on each side. Which means I recorded essentially the whole audience audio reaction for the whole movie; the flipside to it was(pun intended) when one side of the cassette ran out of tape, I had to eject it, flipped it over to side B, reinsert it into the recorder and press record again, all in the flickering semi-darkness of the movie theatre. In this way, I missed only about 30 seconds of genuine first time audience reaction. When I got home, I get kicks every time I replay the tape. All that back in 1994. But now I get kicks watching you reacting first time to Speed.
I’m actually surprised that this movie didn’t get a nomination at the Oscars for its VFX. Considering how a lot of the action sequences were filmed for real, as well as how they manage to pull off the highway jump, that in my opinion, deserves an Oscar….
I'm sure somebody may have already told you this but just in case, they also did The Lake House together, which is a much different movie and tone... but as always Keanu and Sandra are magic together. The other thing the "tourist guy" is known from besides Ferris Bueller's Day Off is Twister, because that was another Jan De Bont thriller movie with comedy moments, because that's kind of what Jan De Bont does
Before the whole MCU explosion of the 2000s, "Speed" was a movie that was lovingly put together as a comic-book-*style* actioner. Every choice was deliberate, from the eye-catching angles to the turn-it-up-to-eleven soundtrack to the Lex Luthor-esque supervillain--- with Joss Whedon himself contributing to the writing.
If you want to see more Jeff Daniel's movie I suggest "Fly Away Home". Its based off a true story about a girl showing her flock of geese how to fly south
5:015 "Why didn't he shoot him? Could he not legally shoot him when he was running away?" Nope. Law enforcement officers can use deadly force in two distinct situations: 1. The suspect is threatening a use of force that would cause serious bodily harm or death to the officer or any other person. 2. The suspect is fleeing a dangerous crime - when someone has engaged in a crime of violence, and are fleeing and the only way to subdue them is to use deadly force against them. This situation meets both cases so Jack could legally shoot the bomber here. So why didn't he? The bomber is holding a dead-man detonator. This means that his detonator has a button that must be held down at all times. If he lets go, the bomb goes off. So if Jack shoots him, and then he dies or drops the detonator or even just loses his grip for a fraction of a second: BOOM! You'll see more of these later in the movie.
One of the only movies with multiple endings in which they are all entirely earned and satisfying. Jack and Annie escaping the bus was a clap and cheer moment in movie theaters. We had real f'n movies back in the 80s and 90s
The bus jump stunt looks so good it really doesn’t matter how improbable it is. The visual effects in movies like this, Twisters, etc. really do wonders for fun, hammy storytelling
The only thing more improbable would've been the bus doing a u-turn on a relatively narrow freeway without going below 50 mph (as Natalie suggested). 😄
But they did actually jump the bus it’s a real stunt the only effect element is removing the road but they got 20 foot of air more than they were expecting which is why it moves out of frame
This movie also came out when "hostage" movies was in vogue like Die Hard and Under Siege ... this movie took the genre and put a new spin on it. Great fun
If she hasn’t already, watching The Rock, Con Air and Face/ Off would be the perfect way to follow up this movie! Once Bruce Willis had shown in Die Hard that you didn’t have to be an invulnerable musclebound he-man to front an action movie, it really opened the door to action flicks like this, thus making the 90s an excellent decade for high-concept action movies… and the concept was always “Die Hard on a *blank*” 😁 Die Hard on a plane, Die Hard on a battleship, Die Hard on a bus, Die Hard on another plane, Die Hard on a Submarine, Die Hard on a train, Die Hard on another another plane, Die Hard on a cruise ship, Die Hard on an island, Die Hard on another another another plane, Die Hard on another another another another plane… and they’re almost all worth a watch!
This was one of the last great 80s action movie tropes... just in the early 90s. I saw this movie with my childhood buddy and their mom, we got a sneak preview of "Airheads" right before. What a double feature!
One item you can take from the movie is that nothing in LA is finished. Good thing they weren't in a plane, or the engines would have to fall off. Glad you had a good time with it.
You can't watch this movie without owing yourself another one. The same two lead actors, but with a few more years of experience and talent, performing in a much better and more humanly complex story, with much better cinematography. From 2006, "The Lake House". Save the tissues; use a soft hand towel.
Constantine for Keanu is a good movie despite it getting bad reviews from a lot of people. Demolition Man for Sandra which is a bloody masterpiece. But if you fancy something weird, wild and unhinged... The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Its star studded and beautifully shot and very unique.
As a truck driver who goes through L.A. every morning I would definitely agree with you about the traffic. Especially the 405. That's why I leave at 4am lol
The thing about getting killed in a movie by an explosion: You usually have nothing left of the body, so for dramatic effect you will get a last look at the face of the character who's gonna kick the bucket. And you saw Harry's desperation in the moment when he realized that he is about to die. So: No, he's not coming back. Sadly.
I think the 90s is just an amazing era of fun actions, thrillers, and sci-fi. Jurassic Park, The Lost World:Jurassic Park, Twister, Speed, The Fugitive, Pulp Fiction, Seven, The 5th Element. That's just off the top of my head. Stunts and Practical Effects were at its peak, and CGI was in its infancy, so there were some great experimental stages with it. I say this anytime I talk to people about my favorite movies, but 90s films were just built differently. They don't make them like that anymore and even when some films try to emulate it, it's just not the same. Also, Yes. Totally watch Speed 2. It's one of those so bad it's good movies. lol
Wasn't there something about how sandra and keanu were each others crush. However they both were seeing someone else separately and never got a chance to date.
YES!!; ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTION MOVIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD! Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Woody Harrelson, and Wesley Snipes were considered for the role of Jack Traven until Keanu Reeves was picked. Ellen DeGeneres, Halle Berry, Meryl Streep and Anne Heche were considered for Annie until Sandra Bullock was picked. Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Robert DeNiro were considered for the bad guy.
Frankly, being a literal child the first time I saw this sometime in the late '90s, I took it very seriously. As I grew older, however, I started to recognize the humour. It's amusing tome that your reaction to this mirrors (more or less) my reaction to this at age 14. Love the channel, wishing you well, looking forward to your next reaction.
That plane probably cost more than the 3 million the bomber was asking for! 😆 The airline company would have gladly provided the 3 million to save their plane!
Just for the curiosity: that was a Boeing 707, built in 1959 (Nat was right, at the time of the film it was sitting in the desert, out of comission). When it was first launched (in 1955), it costed around 4.6 million dollars.
15:05 Fun Fact: The notorious bus jump WAS actually done...TWICE. The first one had a "too perfect" landing, so they did it a second time. That being said...The jump was done using a ramp (that part's obvious) and the bridge was painted out in post production. The distance the bus jumped was nowhere near 50 feet.
the distance they jumped apparently exceeded 50 feet. I believe they said it was in the air for over 100 feet but I believe that's exaggerated. for reference a bus is around 35 feet long. the gap in the bridge was far above 50ft.
@@petercofrancesco9812 If curious about the process I found a video by Cinefix - IGN Movies and TV. apparently the gap was increased to 177ft after they saw how small 50ft would be.
I saw this when it came out in theaters when I was young, it was such a fun film, so many laughs, as an adult, and dramatic beats w/out being maudlin but the balance came from the absurd reaction to the chaos that really gave it a natural sense of humor. Jan De Bont, directed this along w/ a fun summer film….”Twister” 😂😉
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@@bossman4192Rosetta Stone
WATCH THE MOVIE "Crash"
"That thing in every movie where they loop the camera" -- You are watching the movie that popularized that trope.
srsly
Sigh, kids it's all a trope cause they were born yesterday
I feel like it was already done a few times by the time this came out in the early 90s. It's a heist movie staple. Though if you go back much farther it was more of a "put a photo in front of the camera" style deception instead of a hacking solution with a looping or alternate video feed - but I think these are fundamentally the same gag just on different points on the analog to digital scale.
@@WhiskyCanuck In 1994; The Lion King, True Lies, Forrest Gump, Ace Ventura, Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Tombstone, all classics imo, and Speed was high on the list of popular movies that year. Basically Keanu's breakthrough role into stardom (although I loved Point Break), as most people only knew him as "the dark haired guy from Bill and Ted". Pop culture was booming in the late 80's and early 90's, and this particular trope of the image looping is the earliest mass widespread exposure in movie cinema with the accessibility of VHS and Blockbuster like rental stores. It may have been a lesser known trope in certain circles in years before, but this definitely popularized it on a massive scale. There is the moment of invention, and the moment of popularization. I personally believe that the popularity of this movie at the time is the reason that this particular moment is the line after which the looping video was considered a trope. (aka common or overused).
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? VIDEO LOOP HAS BEEN A TROPE SINCE AT LEAST THE 80S.
I like when people say "they loop the camera in every movie" but the movie they're watching is 30 years old and was one of the first movies to popularize it.
It's like watching Taxi Driver and being like "Oh, he's doing the 'are you talking to me?' thing!"
Cue all the comments that tells you "Actually, it was done in The Anderson Tapes circa 1972 etc."
"this tourist is keeping things pretty chill..." thats cause he had an a hole of a strict dad but a friend named Ferris as a teenager who just pushed through all his anxiety with his antics leaving him to learn chill as a coping mechanism.
That coping mechanism also served him well when he commanded the Enterprise-B.
and after chasing Twisters, he's seen it all.
Something something Successiom reference.
Seriously underrated comment. Well done.
And then, he started working with Michael J. Fox in the Mayor of New York's office. That's where he REALLY became a sarcastic dude.
"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, the bus would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."-Homer Simpson
"It's like _Speed 2,_ but on a bus instead of a boat!" -Milhouse, referencing his experience on a fast-moving bus.
“I saw a provocative movie on TV. It was called The Net with that girl from the bus” - Frank Costanza.
I like the Bob's Burgers episode where Bob is building a model of the "Bus from Speeeeeed!"
I think Homer was easter-egg referencing its actual working title!
@@davidw.2791 I always thought the working title was “Die Hard on a Bus.”
It's like 30 years later and any time I hear anyone say "F Me." I reflexively say "Oh, darn."
I say that to my daughter all the time, can't wait till she's older and can watch one of dad's favorite action movies
and I still say "[insert name] what button did you push?" when something breaks after someone presses a button or a key.
Me toooooo!!!
What's absolutely amazing is that that is the ONLY F-bomb in the entire movie. For an action movie there's basically no swearing. And I find that kind of refreshing.
When you commented that this might be Keanu's first movie, or at least one of his earliest, I realized you had never reacted to the Bill & Ted movies and you absolutely should not deprive yourself of these classic cinematic masterpieces.
She should watch River's Edge.
Keanu also was on Parenthood with Steve Martin
@@joealvarez8733 - a surprisingly good role for him, IMO.
Bill & Ted is a must watch.
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"Can't we just turn around?"
Yeah, 50 mph, a 4 lane highway, no stopping, that's TOTALLY MORE REALISTIC than jumping a gap lol
Turning around isn't a possibility, but neither is the jump, they could've maybe dialed down the size of the jump, but it makes for good summer blockbuster moment.
Literally EVERY time she says something in a movie is "cheesy" it is, without fail, something that is perfectly reasonable given the situation, but she just doesn't understand it.
@@Baiko 50ft is not a big jump. The bud itself is 50ft.
Except for the fact that they didn’t even have to take that unfinished exit.
The highway was clear in the overhead wide shot, they just needed to veer left through some wooden signs and plastic cones.
I’ll bet you think it was realistic for his detonator to have a signal from a downtown apartment all the way to the airport too.
@@DeAnne1233 You've never heard of pagers and beepers?
Between Speed, Point Break, The Matrix films, and the John Wick films, Keanu Reeves needs to be on the Mount Rushmore of action movie gods!
There is a slim number of actors that can carry being the lead in a single 3+ movie successful franchise, let alone multiple successful franchises. Keanu is one of them.
@@metoo7557Bruce Willis
While looping the camera has certainly been a trope for years, I think this movie was the one that popularized it.
I think it originated in one of those 60s spy shows like Get Smart or Mission Impossible, but yeah Speed absolutely popularized it. It appeared in everything after this movie lol.
Exactly what I was thinking
The TV version of Mission: Impossible did it a few times. But with them, it was usually a photo of the empty room in front of a security camera. The movie versions of M:I did a super high tech version of that trick with giant rear projection screen that changed perspective with eye movement.
15:05 They actually did jump a bus for this film. It was a world record at 52 feet 6 inches of distance traveled in the air. They did it on a completed closed stretch of road and used CGI/SFX editing to remove part of the freeway and make it look unfinished.
That shot is so funny, because, having seen tons of freeway ramp construction projects, freeways are never "unfinished" in that way. The lines were even painted!
This movie was such a surprise hit. I love it when you go see a movie, not having any expectations, and then walking out having seen a fun summer movie.
also... boo to the editor for not including the scene with the stroller full of cans.
all time classic thriller scene, that one!
Yeah, there were a few scenes I was surprised were cut. But I guess you can't include everything.
@@jebr055 Shanelle Riccio just reacted to this like 2 days ago and I think it was a better edit :)
It's not better than most action movies of that era. It is a mid movie.
@@WheresWaldo05 k
Demolition Man is a must for me
Oh yes, please do "Demolition Man", @NatalieGoldReacts! This movie is more fun!
That's the only Stallone movie I like.
The mid 90s was the absolute peak of popcorn action films.
It was the time when the blockbusters were these big, mostly practical ensemble pieces. Con Air. The Rock. Speed. I miss them so much. These days most money is spent on superhero stuff, and I'm just the kind of person that'll watch Con Air a million times (Put. The. Bunny. Down.) and a Marvel movie once. I can barely recall any of the Marvel stuff I've watched but can quote stuff like Speed.
Fun Fact: Sandra Bullock at this point in her career was unsure if she would ever truly be successful, so she actually did get a license to drive a bus like the one in the movie as a fallback job in case acting didn’t work out.
Passed the test first time, too.
Ellen DeGeneres was supposed to have Sandras role,but said no.
@@swedeman5785 same with Halle Berry. Halle I could see, but ELLEN?!?!
Always had a crush on her since the first time i saw it 20 years ago as a little boy 😂 It grew more into appreciation with time but she was fox in Speed
Dennis Hopper is so much fun in this, the man knew how to chew some scenery lol
She called him Dennis Hooper
@@jsmithers. His brother directed Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist.
@@scipioafricanus5871 lol 😂His brother also lived on Sesame Street for a few years.
@@scipioafricanus5871 Dennis HOOPer 🤡
Joe Morton's "You're fired... EVERYBODY'S F---ing fired!" 😂😂😂
One of my favorite lines 😂
Most realistic dialogue I've ever seen in a movie.
The reason Keanu and Sandra had such great chemistry is because they actually did have serious crushes on each other. But one or both of them were always in a relationship so they never acted on those feelings.
I don't care what anyone says, Sandra Bullock looks gorgeous in this movie
There are people that say otherwise?!
I don’t think anyone would say she doesn’t 😅
@@aegontargaryen69 Jeez probably there are but if so i don't wanna know 🤣🤣
Simp
Ikr? I thought she did too. I feel like her characters in The Net, Speed, Demolition Man, Practical Magic, A Time to Kill & the Miss Congeniality films were Sandra at her most likable, not to mention that she looked beautiful in them as well.
One of the best movies of the 90’s. Saw this in theaters with my dad and we both loved it
Saw this with extended family at the drive in along with True Lies. Best double feature ever.
I will say this movie is probably one of the best paced action movies ever made. Part with the stroller full of cans makes me chuckle every time.
Okay who put laughing gas in Natalie's room 😂. This is '90s action cheese to the fullest extent and I wouldn't have it any other way
I would take the average 90s action film over an action 2024 film.
Its the tension building, every 10 minutes there is a new obstacle to overcome
Depends on what it is? Tom Cruise is still making Mission Impossible. A lot of Rock movies are pretty good. Unsure if it's considered "Actoin" but the Planet of the Apes movies are good. MCU produces some decent films still. 90s were a different time though
@CrazeeAdam but think about that tho. The mission impossible film franchise started in the 90s. The Rock models himself after guys like Arnold and Stallone. All the good action films today can draw inspiration from the 80s and 90s action movie genre.
Even though I love 90's action movies, you picked the wrong year to say this. We had Monkey Man, Furiosa and "Kill". Three action power houses this year. Watch them and you'll see.
You can, however, comfortably say this to movies of the 2000's, before The Raid was released.
Even really pedestrian offerings like US Marshals are better than pretty much anything produced these days
I hollered when she said "Full House" because not only is she thinking of Jeff Daniels, but I too used to think that Joey (Dave Coulier) played Harry in "Speed" for years as growing up always watching both "Full House" and "Speed". I was so certain they were the same person. My brain was like, "He has so much range," 😂🤣😂...
Bahahha I feel so seen
I was like " I understood that reference !!! "
Well considering he was Harry Dunne in Dumb & Dumber and Will McAvoy in The Newsroom... So Jeff Daniels at least certainly does have range. 😂
@@Knight-Bishop Don't forget STEVE JOBS, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT and 101 DALMATIANS (1996 live action version).
@@NatalieGoldReactsdon't feel that. My big mixup is Daniels and Bridges. I thought Daniels was "The Dude". 😂
Majority of the dialogue from Joss Whedon uncredited, and you can tell. Great film.
Didn't know that, but did know he was a writer for Rosanne. But that does track, considering Whedon's style of writing.
@@commonstragedy He was "The" go to script doctor in the early 90's, Speed,Twister,Toy Story and Waterworld were just some of the movies he rewrote but because of the Hollywood rules in place at the time he never received an on screen credit
The Bus that couldn't slow down
The Simpsons is undefeated 🤣
I love movies like this. They know what they are and they embrace it.
The Matrix and Miss Congeniality are honestly solid choices.
I vote Miss Congeniality just because EVERYONE does The Matrix.
Hardball and the blind side
Walk in the Clouds and Lake House
I saw this in the movie theater when it came out, from the first row; from that position it was intense.
This is such a great movie. It’s an adrenaline rush from start to finish. You always feel in “motion”. I hope you like it Natalie.
So upset you were unable to show the baby buggy with the cans or Jack going under the bus with the creeper...OR the part where the tourist (Alan Ruck) is relaying Jack's words to Harry as he's checking out the bomb. I would have LOVED to see your reaction on those three scenes. :)
Then you should support her and watch the full length version...
@@wtippin But youtube is free to watch and not everyone has money for single content creator subscriptions :)
Did feel like a fast edit
Dennis Hopper was SO good at playing unhinged characters, he had a career full of crazy roles (Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Flashback). But he did have range -- I believe he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Hoosiers (starring Gene Hackman).
He also appeared in one the greatest scenes ever opposite Christopher Walken in True Romance.
Let's not forget Super Mario Bros. and Waterworld.
@@FestArc Hell yeah, I don't care what anyone says, Super Mario Bros was alot of fun & he was great in it, that's coming from a huge fan of the older Mario games.
"Are we going to do that looping thing like in every movie?" It may have been done before, but Speed is what made it so popular that every other media started copying it.
Natalie laughing thru out the serious parts made it even better 😂😂😂
At about 5:14 min in. "why didn't you shoot him?". Bomb looks like it's on a "dead man" switch. Armed when it is pressed and triggered if it is released.
Dennis Hopper wasn't afraid to go all out with the crazy which is a big part of why this movie worked. If you want to see him in one of the best movie scenes of all time - watch 'True Romance'. He was also great in a supporting role in the movie 'Hoosiers', one of the best movies ever made. I don't know if you've seen that one but it should be on your list.
12:59 "Gigantor" A really great anime cartoon and a staple of Los Angeles television from 1970 and on.
You can have movies that want to be serious but fail that being serious but then also fail at being cheesy. That makes them bad. Then you have other movies that know what they are and go with it 💯. Speed is that type of movie.
Pacific Rim is another movie that knows exactly what it is and just goes for it.
I have a theory that Harry survived the bomb blast, though he suffered a severe brain injury and randomly wandered away from the hospital one day. He somehow ended up in Boston, becoming Harry Dunne, the roommate of Lloyd Christmas to create Dumb and Dumber. 😅
Our Dennis Hoppers' heads are falling off!
No: I like the character far too much to wish that fate worse than death on him.
This film always makes me thing of one of my favorite Simpsons joke.
On a bumpy bus, Milhouse says, _"This is like Speed 2, only it's a bus instead of a boat!"_
Slapping up the academy award for sound was perfect when you're just about to say it's bad. 😆
Mythbusters actually devoted an entire episode to this movie. One of my favorite parts of the episode was the sharp right turn myth. On an unused runway, using a real (rerigged for remote control) bus, they placed the appropriate weight of water-filled barrels inside,on the right side. The turn was 'plausible' in this instance.
Person gets stabbed in the face
Natalie: *laughs like a lunatic*
Right? Speed is such a fun movie!!!!!
"I"m shocked they showed that." Yes haha 90's R-rated movies went for it.
Harry (Jeff Daniels) actually survived. There is even a spin off movie about it, it's called Dumb and Dumber. :P
You didn't recognize Alan Ruck? Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Spin City.
This movie is really nice. Apart from sometimes silly story, they execute it nicely with surprisingly good sound effect. I watched it with my family in the 90's and our stereo just BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. Really theatrical aura
This is a true story. Back in the holy cinematic year of 1994, I was not interested at all in watching Speed or any movies as work is busy. My colleague praised this movie incessantly when he watched it with his girlfriend and highly recommended it to me but he was careful not to reveal spoilers. I took him at his word so I went to watch Speed with a Walkman tape recorder in my bag. This cassette tape can record 120 minutes of audio; 60 minutes on each side. Which means I recorded essentially the whole audience audio reaction for the whole movie; the flipside to it was(pun intended) when one side of the cassette ran out of tape, I had to eject it, flipped it over to side B, reinsert it into the recorder and press record again, all in the flickering semi-darkness of the movie theatre. In this way, I missed only about 30 seconds of genuine first time audience reaction. When I got home, I get kicks every time I replay the tape. All that back in 1994. But now I get kicks watching you reacting first time to Speed.
This movie IS SO WELL MADE. It is so smart in keeping up the tension, you're always on the edge of your seat.
Such a great 90’s action movie I had no idea it was a comedy, Natalie was howling her ass off 😂
“…oh darn.” - Alan Ruck is so good. Ferris Bueller, Succession, Spin City, he’s always great.
I’m actually surprised that this movie didn’t get a nomination at the Oscars for its VFX. Considering how a lot of the action sequences were filmed for real, as well as how they manage to pull off the highway jump, that in my opinion, deserves an Oscar….
I'm sure somebody may have already told you this but just in case, they also did The Lake House together, which is a much different movie and tone... but as always Keanu and Sandra are magic together.
The other thing the "tourist guy" is known from besides Ferris Bueller's Day Off is Twister, because that was another Jan De Bont thriller movie with comedy moments, because that's kind of what Jan De Bont does
"Rabbit is good; Rabbit is wise" 😀
It's hard to believe Keanu Reeve's went from Bill and Ted to this and the Matrix. That's an excellent adventure for sure!
Watch Bill & ted followed by John Wick - it makes the mind spin
Keanu Reeve's what?
Before the whole MCU explosion of the 2000s, "Speed" was a movie that was lovingly put together as a comic-book-*style* actioner. Every choice was deliberate, from the eye-catching angles to the turn-it-up-to-eleven soundtrack to the Lex Luthor-esque supervillain--- with Joss Whedon himself contributing to the writing.
One of the most rewatchable movies ever.
If you want to see more Jeff Daniel's movie I suggest "Fly Away Home". Its based off a true story about a girl showing her flock of geese how to fly south
5:015 "Why didn't he shoot him? Could he not legally shoot him when he was running away?"
Nope.
Law enforcement officers can use deadly force in two distinct situations:
1. The suspect is threatening a use of force that would cause serious bodily harm or death to the officer or any other person.
2. The suspect is fleeing a dangerous crime - when someone has engaged in a crime of violence, and are fleeing and the only way to subdue them is to use deadly force against them.
This situation meets both cases so Jack could legally shoot the bomber here.
So why didn't he?
The bomber is holding a dead-man detonator.
This means that his detonator has a button that must be held down at all times.
If he lets go, the bomb goes off.
So if Jack shoots him, and then he dies or drops the detonator or even just loses his grip for a fraction of a second: BOOM!
You'll see more of these later in the movie.
God 90's action movies are something else man i love them
Point Break and Speed are the two films that solidified Keanu as an action star before he did The Matrix.
Sandra Bullock had been acting in movies for a while, but Speed is the film that rocketed her to get movie leads and become a movie star.
Keanu film: Parenthood. Sandra film: Gravity. Dennis Hopper film: Hoosiers.
You gotta remember, this movie was close to establishing some of the classic movie tropes. It’s fuckin old. But it was HUGE when it came out, man. 🤘🏻
OMG what a treat! I LOVED this movie growing up! Lowkey one of the movies that burned in my memory after seeing it once 😆
One of the only movies with multiple endings in which they are all entirely earned and satisfying. Jack and Annie escaping the bus was a clap and cheer moment in movie theaters. We had real f'n movies back in the 80s and 90s
The bus jump stunt looks so good it really doesn’t matter how improbable it is. The visual effects in movies like this, Twisters, etc. really do wonders for fun, hammy storytelling
The only thing more improbable would've been the bus doing a u-turn on a relatively narrow freeway without going below 50 mph (as Natalie suggested). 😄
I really like CineFx’s Art of the Scene where they covered the bus jump.
@@chrisburns514 no
What? It looks terrible - the bus somehow levitates.
But they did actually jump the bus it’s a real stunt the only effect element is removing the road but they got 20 foot of air more than they were expecting which is why it moves out of frame
This movie also came out when "hostage" movies was in vogue like Die Hard and Under Siege ... this movie took the genre and put a new spin on it. Great fun
If she hasn’t already, watching The Rock, Con Air and Face/ Off would be the perfect way to follow up this movie!
Once Bruce Willis had shown in Die Hard that you didn’t have to be an invulnerable musclebound he-man to front an action movie, it really opened the door to action flicks like this, thus making the 90s an excellent decade for high-concept action movies… and the concept was always “Die Hard on a *blank*” 😁
Die Hard on a plane, Die Hard on a battleship, Die Hard on a bus, Die Hard on another plane, Die Hard on a Submarine, Die Hard on a train, Die Hard on another another plane, Die Hard on a cruise ship, Die Hard on an island, Die Hard on another another another plane, Die Hard on another another another another plane… and they’re almost all worth a watch!
Until someone pitched 'Die Hard' in a building!
@@wwoods66 Nah, that’d never work!
They actually did the jump with stunt drivers and buses but if i heard right the driver was actually farther back in the bus
Speed is one of those completely ridiculous movies that you just love so much.
This was one of the last great 80s action movie tropes... just in the early 90s. I saw this movie with my childhood buddy and their mom, we got a sneak preview of "Airheads" right before. What a double feature!
Jeff Daniels + Dennis Hopper equals Full House
One item you can take from the movie is that nothing in LA is finished. Good thing they weren't in a plane, or the engines would have to fall off. Glad you had a good time with it.
I think this movie role *continued* Sandra Bullock's "sassy... tough cookie" character that began in Demolition Man or earlier.
A certified classic in my book. Fun, great action sequences, and iconic quotes. I love this film. Really enjoyed your reaction, Nat!
You can't watch this movie without owing yourself another one.
The same two lead actors, but with a few more years of experience and talent, performing in a much better and more humanly complex story, with much better cinematography. From 2006, "The Lake House".
Save the tissues; use a soft hand towel.
seconded, I thoroughly enjoyed The Lake House
The "Yeah, well I'm taller" quote is my go-to comeback anytime someone argues with me.
Natalie you gotta layoff Weed seriously. LOL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪
Sandra and Keanu had a crush on each other during this movie 💜
“ You're fired! Everybody's fuckin' fired!
Made you look 😂
Constantine for Keanu is a good movie despite it getting bad reviews from a lot of people.
Demolition Man for Sandra which is a bloody masterpiece.
But if you fancy something weird, wild and unhinged... The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Its star studded and beautifully shot and very unique.
As a truck driver who goes through L.A. every morning I would definitely agree with you about the traffic. Especially the 405. That's why I leave at 4am lol
The bus that couldn’t slow down 😮
Perfect movie to watch after using 3 seconds of security footage to sneak out of work early
This movie was awesome back in the days. I mean, a bomb on a bus?! Can't get any better than that!
The Matrix and The Proposal. With The Proposal, you get Ryan Reynolds as icing on the cake . . .
I was going for John Wick 4 and The Proposal. Completely agree on Ryan Reynolds!
Oh shoot... I forgot about The Proposal. 🤔🤫 I had already claimed Miss Congeniality as my Sandra choice. Now what to do... 😄
The replacements and demolition man.
"The Proposal" Oh, so you can tap on the 4th Wall, too?
@@sherrysink3177 Well, with Miss Congeniality, you do get Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Ernie Hudson, and William Shatner
The thing about getting killed in a movie by an explosion: You usually have nothing left of the body, so for dramatic effect you will get a last look at the face of the character who's gonna kick the bucket. And you saw Harry's desperation in the moment when he realized that he is about to die. So: No, he's not coming back. Sadly.
The irony in Sandra saying that driving the buss is like driving a really big pinto when Pinto's were famous for their exploding gas tanks.
I think the 90s is just an amazing era of fun actions, thrillers, and sci-fi. Jurassic Park, The Lost World:Jurassic Park, Twister, Speed, The Fugitive, Pulp Fiction, Seven, The 5th Element. That's just off the top of my head. Stunts and Practical Effects were at its peak, and CGI was in its infancy, so there were some great experimental stages with it. I say this anytime I talk to people about my favorite movies, but 90s films were just built differently. They don't make them like that anymore and even when some films try to emulate it, it's just not the same.
Also, Yes. Totally watch Speed 2. It's one of those so bad it's good movies. lol
Surprised you didn't recognize the tourist on the bus played by Alan Ruck from Ferris Bueller's day off.
Wasn't there something about how sandra and keanu were each others crush. However they both were seeing someone else separately and never got a chance to date.
Just remember, there's only one Speed movie. No sequels were ever made.
Actually there was a sequel that’s about a boat. It only carried over Sandra Bullock and not Keanu
@@robertfarrington2716 They were making a joke because the sequel was so bad it is best to forget it was ever made.
Actually there was a Speed 2 and bomb badly. Keanu didn't reprise the role but Sandra did.
@@GreatOutdoors1 the sequel wasn’t bad but neither good. It was meh the middle of the road.
Natalie's giggle and laughing is truly golden 🥰😂
YES!!;
ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTION MOVIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD!
Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Woody Harrelson, and Wesley Snipes were considered for the role of Jack Traven until Keanu Reeves was picked.
Ellen DeGeneres, Halle Berry, Meryl Streep and Anne Heche were considered for Annie until Sandra Bullock was picked.
Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Robert DeNiro were considered for the bad guy.
Harrison Ford, Ellen DeGeneres, and Christopher Walken would definitely be my choices
@@zbennalley I gotta go with Alec Baldwin, Halle Berry, and Walken. Though to be honest, I'm glad we got the movie we got.
Frankly, being a literal child the first time I saw this sometime in the late '90s, I took it very seriously. As I grew older, however, I started to recognize the humour. It's amusing tome that your reaction to this mirrors (more or less) my reaction to this at age 14. Love the channel, wishing you well, looking forward to your next reaction.
edit: to me, not tome.
wow, that last G&T hit me a bit harder than I was expecting.
Great reaction! I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out. We laughed through the entire movie. Good times.
That plane probably cost more than the 3 million the bomber was asking for! 😆 The airline company would have gladly provided the 3 million to save their plane!
Just for the curiosity: that was a Boeing 707, built in 1959 (Nat was right, at the time of the film it was sitting in the desert, out of comission). When it was first launched (in 1955), it costed around 4.6 million dollars.
I love that you used Metal Gear Solid music for the intro bit lol I have always thought the Speed Ost sounded similar to the MGS music.
15:05 Fun Fact: The notorious bus jump WAS actually done...TWICE. The first one had a "too perfect" landing, so they did it a second time. That being said...The jump was done using a ramp (that part's obvious) and the bridge was painted out in post production. The distance the bus jumped was nowhere near 50 feet.
the distance they jumped apparently exceeded 50 feet. I believe they said it was in the air for over 100 feet but I believe that's exaggerated. for reference a bus is around 35 feet long. the gap in the bridge was far above 50ft.
@@alsims2007 Too bad Myth Busters isn't still around to test this out.
@@petercofrancesco9812they did, and busted it, but the stunt team obviously used a modified, much lighter bus.
@@JakkFrost1 Oh they did. Great.
@@petercofrancesco9812 If curious about the process I found a video by Cinefix - IGN Movies and TV. apparently the gap was increased to 177ft after they saw how small 50ft would be.
I saw this when it came out in theaters when I was young, it was such a fun film, so many laughs, as an adult, and dramatic beats w/out being maudlin but the balance came from the absurd reaction to the chaos that really gave it a natural sense of humor. Jan De Bont, directed this along w/ a fun summer film….”Twister” 😂😉
Thinking back, I don’t think push zooms were considered campy at the time. It was just "of the time," so to speak.