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Here is my full reaction to Speed!

This is one of the best movies that I've seen on this channel! It has such a great cast, the story was genuinely terrifying, and it just kept getting more and more over the top!

Also, did you notice that Keanu Reeves is holding back a laugh when he says, "It was full of cans!" I love when actors break and they keep it in the movie!

Watched on: Netflix / Runtime: 1:56:04

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(Full Reaction) Speed

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Mike Smith

Jax, for more 90's action goodness, you have to watch The Rock. Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris. I think you will find it just as thrilling as Speed. It's a classic. I've seen this movie many times, but this is the first time I noticed that Alan Ruck appears in two famous movies where dashboard instruments are a major plot point. The odometer in Ferris Bueller and the speedometer in this movie. Another weird thing- I'm sure this was unintentional, but this movie has a lot in common with United 93 (passengers trapped on rapidly moving public transportation hijacked by terrorists) even though it's fictional and has a much happier ending. Very weird that you reacted to those movies back to back. Maybe subconsciously you needed a happy ending after watching United 93? Here is Homer Simpson's famous description of the plot of Speed. He can't remember the name of the movie (despite saying it several times), but other than that, it's pretty spot on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrIvKKT_nk Try typing "The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down" into IMDb! Have you been to Simpsons Land in Universal Orlando? Rumor is it might close next year since Disney now owns The Simpsons and their contract with Universal is running out. I'm going to Disney World and Universal in a couple months and that is a must do item on my itinerary.

Robert Inman

Thanks Jax! The action in this never lets up - even though most of the folks I worked with in 30 yrs as an EOD tech think the bomb aspects of this are a bit cringy, the acting and action more than make up for it 😃

Tim Heron

When Payne first revealed that a bus was rigged with a bomb, Jax's expression was hysterical. I don't think I've ever seen anyone that mortified.

Big Honking Cheese

I like that Jack tells Payne "I'm gonna rip out your spine I swear to god" after Harry dies, and in the end he pretty much does.

Mubiki

In my head I always like to imagine that they track down the Tune Man and give him an award and a new car. He was awesome.

Ed Scoglio

Loved that you threw in a dig at the 405 freeway, the most hated freeway in SoCal. Of course it would be! Fun fact, I was actually born on that freeway! 405 Eddie and Freeway Eddie were my nicknames growing up! At the end of last year, I saw this challenge to list your favorite movie from every year since you were born and 1994 was a tough year to pick, but I ended up choosing Speed and it is so good! Fun fact, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock admitted in separate interviews on the Ellen talk show that they had crushes on each other while they filmed this and hadn't admitted it, so their chemistry was very real! The director had also encouraged Keanu to cut his hair and the producers freaked out because he'd buzzed his trademark long hair. They also ran out of money before they could shoot the subway finale, but the movie tested so well, they showed animated storyboards of the ending, and the audiences loved the movie so much that the studio gave them the money to finish the movie! And they really did get the bus to jump a long distance, not over a huge gap, but they got it to jump father than they expected and ended up destroying some cameras. The 105 hadn't actually been opened yet. They were building it and they got permission to use it for filming. I have been stuck in an elevator before. It was the freight elevator at my work. The thing was a piece of garbage that broke constantly. I was trying to take my break, everyone else had already gone on break so I was by myself. The elevator shuddered and didn't move and I was stuck there. No one responded to my texts or calls. I was there about a half hour before people realized what happened and got the doors opened. Happened like 3 more times to me, but I was able to figure out how to get the doors open myself.

Marshmallow Venom (실리콘 밸리)

OK, who's playing in the football game? A reasonable guess is the University of Arizona - Annie's school. At the 47:49 mark, you can see part of the end zone and there is a Z in the lettering, so this bears that out. They do wear a dark jersey with white pants and a white helmet, so they seem to be the team on offense. To further bear that out, I found a picture of some of the players from the 1993-1994 roster (when they were the Pac-10 conference champs and winners of the Fiesta Bowl, which was played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, home of their in-state rivals, the Arizona State Sun Devils, from 1971 through 2006). The defensive team seems to be wearing gold pants with a red stripe, a gold helmet and white jersey. My first thought was that it was Florida State, and I googled it and they do indeed wear that jersey. So does Boston College, but neither team played Arizona in 1994 or even 1993 (the movie was released in 1994). But they play Arizona State every year, and with the Z in the end zone, it could be Arizona State instead of University of Arizona. And I did find a picture of an AZ State player from 1994 in a white jersey with yellow helmet and yellow pants with a stripe down the side, albeit narrower than the one in the game. But all of that is making some huge assumptions that the game he's watching is one that would have been played around the time of filming. But one also has to consider that he's definitely not watching a college football game sometime before 11 AM on a weekday in 1994. No way. So it's a tape, and then one must consider the fact that it would have to be footage for whom 20th Century Fox could get the rights. I kept digging and Grok found this: Arizona Wildcats vs. New Mexico Lobos (September 19, 1987). In the film, Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) watches a college football game on TV in his hideout. Fan research (notably by Ryan Sellers, shared via the 50 MPH podcast) identified the specific footage as this 1987 game. A pass from Arizona quarterback Ron Veal to receiver Fairholm matches a sequence visible in the movie (around the 47:53 mark). It’s an older broadcast that was cleared for use in the film, and one of the teams is fittingly the Arizona Wildcats—the same team referenced later when Payne calls Annie a “wildcat” after seeing her University of Arizona sweatshirt. OK, so just based on all that work, I deserve the 1k lamby points! Also, and I'm ashamed that I had to edit this comment to include this, excellent reaction, Jax! You clearly had a great time. Now, in a massive tangent, how about watching the Korean drama Crash Landing on You? You clearly loved Extraordinary Attorney Woo and I am over my head for K-dramas, so it's just a suggestion.

Adam Doyle

There is a cute interview on the Ellen show where Sandra said she had the biggest crush on Keanu but never acted on it, then in a later interview, Keanu said the same thing. Just great chemistry between the two.

Adam Doyle

If you watch the sequel, he is back for another scene.

Mister Lou

when people see Keanu, they see John Wick, Matrix, Constantine, Speed or Point Break.. but I see Duke Caboom!