90'S GRAB BAG: Speed (1994)
“Oh darn.”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of terrorism, explosions, murder, bombs, bomb threats, car crashes, gunfire, police, death.
By all logistical rights, this movie shouldn’t exist, let alone be a massive hit. The director used a highway in construction to set up massive special effects sequences that quite often had to be done multiple times and reset in different locations to match continuity. And all of this is because the movie is about a bus. A bus that has to go faster than 50 miles per hour. Somehow, some way, Jan de Bont mustered up all of his filmmaking experience to come out swinging with a debut feature that redefined the action genre. And it doesn’t hurt that a slow-burn action star and a breakthrough comedic actress had some of the best chemistry we’ve ever seen, and they’re alongside Dennis Freaking Hopper. This is one of those movies that really makes you think of that term “movie magic.” Hold the remote real tight and don’t drop it as we discuss Speed this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive..
Excerpt taken from “Main Title” from the motion picture soundtrack to the film Speed, composed by Mark Mancina. Copyright 1994 Fox Records, Inc.
Excerpts taken from the film Speed are © 1994 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Excerpt taken from “Armenia,” written and performed by Einstürzende Neubauten. Copyright 1983 Some Bizarre Ltd.
