How budget-friendly Speed became a MASSIVE HIT

[@whrecordings]

In just one summer we had Speed, The Lion King, True Lies, The Mask, Natural Born Killers and more, the 90's really was a golden era for film.

[@manicvila]

I love your videos. Can’t stop watching! Great work!

[@thedudeabides3138]

Great essay, thank you for posting.

[@willienelsongonzalez4609]

Gotta admit, Keanu and Sandra had great chemistry in Speed. Good decision from Jan to give Keanu a buzz cut and to also have him bulk out, dude straight out looked like a pit bull!

[@peterwolf4230]

You have a clip of Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man while saying it was a failure...except it wasn't.

[@davidmylchreest3306]

This doesn't work without Keanu and Sandra. They are perfect for their roles.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

Oh I don't know - I think it would have worked just fine with someone like let's say BRENDAN FRASER in the Jack Traven role, after notable performances in "School Ties", "Encino Man" and "With Honors" - matched with MARISA TOMEI as the Annie Porter character, coming straight off of her 1993 Oscar win for "My Cousin Vinny". Swap out Jeff Daniels for WILL PATTON. Let's go with J.T. WALSH in lieu of Dennis Hopper as the disgruntled medically discharged bomb squad cop. CHRISTOPHER WALKEN or GARY BUSY would be obvious contenders for that type of screen chewing villain. Actually, DEAN CAIN would have made a good Jack Traven back in 1994 too, coming in at the height of his TV success on "Lois & Clarke: The New Adventures of Superman". He certainly had the physicality as he played football for Princeton and then briefly in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills. Shares the racially vague mixed Asian and Caucasian quality that Keanu Reeves has too. I bet ASHLEY JUDD (she being mostly cut out from 1994's "Natural Born Killers") or KRISTY SWANSON (she did the not so dissimilar "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen in 1994) could have also played Sandra Bullock's character of Annie quite well. But perhaps they'd both be slightly too conventional. MICHAEL BAY was originally offered "Speed" as his feature debut in the director's chair, but went for "Bad Boys" instead. No doubt Bay would have turned it up to eleven.

[@mrchow4924]

Mate, don't stop, these are brilliant. You're going to grow very big with this content!

[@andreimadasov4955]

Speed wasn't a low-budget movie by 1994 standards. Officially it had a budget of $30 mil (some say $37mil) making it a mid-budget action movie. Top-tier Hollywoood blockbusters of that time were mostly in the ballpark of $50-60mil (with a few exceptions like True Lies or Die Hard 3).

[@deeprivercanada]

Well put together, excellent narration. Subscribed.

[@reptongeek]

Two fun facts about Speed 2 Cruise Control. 1) The final sequence cost as much as Speed!, 2) For a time on Rotten Tomatoes, it was Sandra Bullocks lowest rated movie at about 4%. Her highest rated (until Gravity came out) was Speed at 90% or thereabouts I would be happier than a kid in a candy store if this film got inducted into the National Film Registry. Even my mum loved it when I showed it to her

[@desipanda7461]

Great Video.

[@mastermindmartialarts]

What a great video. And I thought I knew everything about Speed.

[@mrmiesfies3941]

Your videos are so good. AAA quality. I wish you a million subscribers and more!

[@masudashizue777]

It's hard to believe that the film was actual made with all these hurdles to clear.

[@uzetaab]

I re-watched Speed 1 & 2 a few months ago. The first one still holds up. The second one is not as terrible as I remembered it as, but still not great.

[@cgunawardena0]

Keanu and Sandra could make a sequel, now that Keanu is a hot action star again after the John Wick series of movies

[@broghad8241]

Speed 2 already exists man. Its awful

[@paulzenco6182]

Low budget? 30 million was mid budget in 1994

[@jakethet3206]

Repeat after me: “Yawn” De Bont & Graham “Yoast”. Pro tip: If you want to sound like a film expert, learn all the name pronunciations before making the videos. All these people are like “You’re videos are amazing!” but I guarantee you this: as long as you keep saying key names wrong, the real cinephiles won’t take you seriously.

[@Hollywood_Lore]

Thanks man, its painful to admit, but you're right. In english you often don't know how to properly pronounce stuff until some native guy tells you)

[@jakethet3206]

@ Well, I don’t agree. It’s completely available online. Just google the names of the key players, and you’re good. It’s all there, online. Directors, producers, and lead actors.

[@ShahedChowdhuri]

@@Hollywood_Lore it”s all good. Now you know and you can do better next time. FWIW, I watched Speed when I was growing up in Bangladesh and I was aware of the correct pronunciation, probably from behind the scenes footage on TV or explained in a magazine back then. Just do more research next time, and your videos will keep getting better. All the best! p.s. also look up Steven Seagal. :)

[@Hollywood_Lore]

you're right, most of the thimes it works, but didn't work exactly with Jan De Bont, try out yourself

[@leeweesquee]

Imagine if Ellen said yes

[@LukeWago]

So, halle berry was right

[@TruDis01]

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