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Episode 3: Speed (1994) · Take #2: Movie Reviews

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Hi ladies and gentlemen, this is episode 3 of the Take Two pod
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with Mom and Dad. I'm dad.
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And I'm mom. And today, we're gonna be doing
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a podcast on one of our favorite action movies.
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Do you want to do the drum roll, Mom?
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Speed 1994, directed by Jan de Bont.
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Jon Debont. Diamond and starring Keanu
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Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock.
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Yep, the kids were just put down for the evening.
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Been a busy day at home. No naps for either one of them.
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Pretty hectic. They get a little.
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Crap, she's a baby. Yes, she left.
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Yeah, but not as much. She missed her last nap, right?
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She did, yeah. It was very chaotic.
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I was so overstimulated at one point that I just looked at you
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and I said nobody talked to me for 20 minutes.
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Yeah, it was, it was a rough 1. So weather is shite outside, so
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it's tricky. You can't really take the kids
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out. But anyway.
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It's unsafe to take a baby out it feels like -30 one.
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That's how cold it is. So we're going to do speed
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today, um, 1994 starring Keanu Reeves, right?
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Who else is in there? Send Sandy.
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Bee I already, I already said that.
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Sandy B. Yeah, I said Reeves, Dennis
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Hopper and Sandra Bullock. And he beat my crush.
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Your crush. OK, the synopsis for speed.
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An extortionist bomber rigs a Los Angeles city bus to explode
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if its speed drops below 50 mph. For the metric system people,
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that's 80 kilometers an hour, forcing a young cop and a female
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passenger to keep it moving and save everyone on board.
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That was going 80 kilometers an hour that whole time, OK, when
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they said 50, I didn't make the connection in my mind.
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Right, because metric system. So I thought it was 50
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kilometers an hour. So I'm like, OK, yeah, that's
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like a leisurely speed. 80 is crazy.
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Is crazy. Are you ready for the movie of
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the year? OK, It stars Keanu Reeves, Sandy
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Bee. This movie came out in 1994.
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As we've said already, the box office was crazy.
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It did $350 million worldwide on a budget of 30 million.
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Yeah, adjusted for inflation, that's about $800 million
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worldwide. Oht my.
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God, which is basically a blockbuster.
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Yeah. When was the first time you
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watched this? You showed it to me the first
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time I watched it. Really.
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Yeah, you. It was when we were dating.
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Early, early when we were dating, um, and you have it on
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Blu-ray. So you said that you wanted me
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to see it and you asked if I'd ever seen it before, and I said
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I don't think so. My mom loves to tell the story
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of taking me to the drive in when I was like two or three for
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Speed 2 cruise control. Oh my God.
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And I loved it so much that when we were leaving the drive and I
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started crying like I had a full out tantrum because I loved it
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so. Cried for Speed 2 cruise
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control. OK, you're failing to notice.
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I was like two or three at the time.
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I was very young, but I loved it so much and I was so bummed we
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had to leave the drive in. And it's such a shame that Drive
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and start to think anymore because it's really such a great
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way to see a movie. There's still a thing, it's just
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it's not as much as a thing. In the city Common, yeah.
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It's a small town thing now, yeah.
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What did you think of it the first time you watched?
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Again, Dad remembers the first time he sees movies.
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I don't really remember. I I know that I liked it the
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first time I saw it, but I don't, I don't know.
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I like, I don't think I loved it.
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I still don't love it. It's not one of my favorite
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movies. Dare.
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Good. Well, I remember the first time
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I watched it. This was on cable TV and we had
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recorded it on VCR and VHS and I watched this all the time and it
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was the TV version so they had bleeped out a bunch of the
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swearing. So some of the scenes like it
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had that Kung Fu movie dubbing and it looked really weird and I
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never understood why because I was like 6 years old when I
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first saw it. But this movie, Oh my God, I had
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the biggest crush on Sandra Bullock when this movie came
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out. She's selling.
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It Oh my God, like as a six and then I turned 7.
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I had a huge crush on her and Keanu Reeves.
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This guy was my hero in this movie.
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So if you don't believe me when I was for my 7th birthday,
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there's a video there's there's footage of this.
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I'm wearing a white T-shirt and beige khakis, just like piano at
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the end of the movie, and my T-shirts tucked in.
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And I also had a little plastic toy.
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It was a blue water gun. It was a little 9mm and I used
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to pretend I was. I was Jack because he was.
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He's super cool in the movie. So just a little tidbit there.
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So you don't like it that much? It's not that I don't like it
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that much. I do like it.
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I just said I don't love it. There are a lot of movies that
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have a special place in my heart.
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This one, you know, it's a popcorn movie.
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It's fun, but it's I don't adore it.
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I mean, this movie is it's one of the best action movies ever.
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And we just finished watching it actually.
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So it's fresh in our heads. And there was multiple scenes
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where I looked over at you and you were just like, gripping
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onto the pillow. Yeah, it's it's a nail biter.
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Yeah, it's definitely on the edge of your seat thriller.
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So I love this movie. I have it on Blu-ray.
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It is bunch of movies try to be this movie after the fact and
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they get close. But there's something about this
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movie that everything about it works, I think.
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But we'll get into that later. But I can get into it now.
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It's I love this movie because all the characters are they seem
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like real people. Jack played by Keanu Reeves,
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Harry played by Jeff Daniels, his partner, just very like they
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all seem the guy from Terminator, Miles Dyson.
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I only know him as Miles Dyson. He plays the captain or the
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Lieutenant of the LAPD. He looks and seems like a cop
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would. And the people on the bus, the
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people on the bus. One thing I love about this
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movie, nobody ever. There's no characters that take
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over the movie. There's no character that's
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super stands out. Everybody's got a little quirk
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here. There a couple of lines, but
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there's no like very obvious OHT, here's the, you know, the
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teenager, here's the loudmouth, here's the the rich person.
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I mean, it's public transportation in LA, so you're
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not going to find a lot of rich people there.
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But everybody has a little line here and there, but they do not
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overpower the movie, which I think is really, really clever.
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A lot of movies do that and they focus in too much on these
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background characters and it kind of takes you away.
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This movie, it's a friggin roller coaster ride, but I love
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it and it's by a Sandy Sandy B Crush all the way all the way.
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I'm still have a crush that sounds.
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Like yeah, always. So we can go to segments.
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What? What's your cringiest moment in
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the movie? So I have a couple, um, every
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time the bomber speaks is cringy.
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He wants to be like a 1930s bad guy twirling his mustache.
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Every time he, he, he talks, um, the whim of a madman.
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I like that. Ha ha ha, ha.
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He calls Jack a pump. A punk couldn't interest you in
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a bribe there, could I? Like, you can just picture him
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twirling his mustache. And then when he opens his money
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bag and the ink packs explode, he goes, my money, my money.
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It's it's very cartoonish. So you're saying Dennis Hopper
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is the villain is cringey. He's very cringy.
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Most of his lines are incredibly.
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Cringy couldn't disagree any anymore.
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I I think I have a whole segment about it, but well.
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We'll get into your segmentation, but that's that's
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my one. Just he has a lot of very cringy
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lines. The other one is, and I'm sorry,
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you're not gonna like this Keanu Reeves, AKA Jack and his
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monotone acting. He plays the same character in
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every movie he is in. Yeah, and also in the elevator
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scene, yeah, there's like 7 people whose lives are hanging
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in the balance and he's just smacking his gum so offensively
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he's like, how much time we got? Yeah, he's playing it cool.
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No. Take my hand.
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Take my hand. Come on.
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Come on, lady. Come on.
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That's really. Good.
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You like it. Take my.
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Hand. But he just.
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He comes off as cocky in that scene and unlikable.
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He becomes much more likeable later in the movie.
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Yeah, but I don't like him in that scene.
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I don't like the guns backing. And the interesting thing is,
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Keanu Reeves is such a nice guy in real life.
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He's not cocky at all. He's known to be very humble.
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Yeah, very down to earth. He's literally, literally being
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called the nicest man in Hollywood.
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He is a. Canadian, he is a good guy.
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He's a Canadian. He's Canadian, yeah, but he
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lives in the US. Yes, he drives a Harley now.
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He's fully Americanized. We are proud to have him as a
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Canadian because he is known to be one of the nicest people in
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Hollywood. He's nice to cast and crew
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members. He's kind and respectful to
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fans. He's known to donate huge
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amounts of the money he makes to charity.
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He has a sister in a wheelchair who he adores.
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He is such a great guy, but he's not a great actor.
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I disagree, but anyway um, so that's the the villain and the
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main character are cringy, that's what you're saying?
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He's not, he's not cringy per se, I just find his acting it's
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not very believable and it's a bit monotone.
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OK, OK, alright, wow, we're getting off to a good start
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here. Just ripping into the two main
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people of the movie. OK, cringiest moment.
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So for me, I had a really tough time finding a cringy moment
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because everything about it, like all the little cringy
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moments, they fit very well into the movie.
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This for the 90s. This is the difference between
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liking a movie and loving a movie.
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No, I don't see the cringe you. Can't.
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No, I saw the cringe, but it doesn't.
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There's nothing. If I took it out, I'll be like
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the charm is gone. You know the the, the tourist
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guy on the bus. He I could have said he was
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cringy. He was, but he was supposed to
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be you. Well, there was no one thing I
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noticed about the bus. I mean, it's the 90.
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It's 94. There's a lot of race relations
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stuff happening in Los Angeles at the time, but there was like
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a bunch of different races on this bus and they didn't really,
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you know, I guess they did kind of like isolate one of them with
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the Hispanic guy. Get away from me.
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Yeah, I thought that was a little.
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I'm not here for you, man. I'm not here for you, man.
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Let's not do this. So.
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You know, where was I going with this?
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Yeah, like a lot of things could have been cringy, but it was
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just, I think it was super subtle.
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Some of the some of the lovey dovey moments between Sandy B
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and Keanu were a little bit cringy.
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Yeah, making out in that subway car after they both almost.
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Died after a day like that. They were making all kinds of.
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Comments after a day like get into that later.
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You would not be horny. You would be.
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Just don't know what we'll see. We'll get into that later.
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But so I don't really have a cringy moment.
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So there's a bunch of them. It's the 90s.
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You know, you could have said the guy with the Jaguar when
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he's like, he's switching seats and Jack's trying to jump on the
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bus and he's like, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.
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You know, because he's trying to get into the driver's seat.
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I mean, it's funny. It's supposed to be, there's
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supposed to be a little bit of charm, but I'll get into Keanu's
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acting later cause I gotta defend my guy because right off
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the bat you're coming for him. So most iconic moment or quote?
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I'll go first this time. Alright, so most iconic moment
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for me, Jack going under the bus on that little trolley to disarm
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the bomb. Super tense moment.
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Yeah. Totally out of the blue because
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that's the last thing that you think he would have done because
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he gets off the bus and they're talking and they're trying to
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figure it out. And they just cut to him in like
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a bulletproof vest with. And then there's this little
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this little go Kart thing with wheels and he climbs onto it and
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you're like, yo, is this guy for real?
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Like when has that been done in a movie before?
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It's also hot how much he trusts Annie.
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That's what I'm saying. Sandra Bullock, like he makes
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eye contact with her when he's got that.
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Sexy don't fuck up, bitch. I'm.
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The guy real quick, it's hot how much he trusts her.
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Well, she you saw how she was driving.
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Yeah. She's a freaking ultimate
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badass. It's a redemption for lady
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drivers. That whole movie.
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She's. So listen, a woman said that.
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I didn't say that. OK?
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That's all I'm saying. So another epic moment that had
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to bring up Jack jumping out of his Bronco, running towards the
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bus when he gets on the freeway and these slams the door and
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he's running on the side. He breaks the glass, He's like
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open your door and the bus driver is like, what the Hell's
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going on? That whole sequence.
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I don't know what it is. Maybe the camera angles or just
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the way like everything smooth. The way he jumps out of the car
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and he's gunning it for the bus is like super awesome.
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Like it's so cool. He's the coolest guy in this
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movie. I don't know, like every guy.
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You have a crush on No, no, forget.
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Every guy listen, any guy who sees this movie wants to be
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Keanu in this. He does everything cool.
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He's cool at the elevators, he's cool to get on the bus.
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He freaking jumps out of a Jaguar to get on to the bus.
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Like he's the ultimate cool guy in this movie.
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Anyways, just saying, um, so for quotes, actually you do moments
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and then we'll go to quotes. Well, I don't have moments, I
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only put quotes. You don't have an iconic woman.
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I didn't put an iconic moment because there was like a couple
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of really good one liners that I just liked a lot.
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OK, And I felt felt those were more I like those better than
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any of the moments. So OK, I will.
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I'm jumping the gun a little bit.
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Harry is my absolute favorite character in this SO.
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You're skipping guy you. Skip, I know, but I just ate two
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of my quotes are. His OK.
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So one of my quotes is Jack looks under the bus and he's
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looking at the bomb and he has the Ferris Bueller.
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Cameron from Ferris Bueller is on the bus.
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He's talking to Harry on his phone and he's repeating
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everything that Keanu saying onto the phone.
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And Keanu goes fuck me. And the guy just like gets all
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dirty eyes and goes O darn. Yeah, because he's a little,
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he's a little vanilla guy, right?
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He's and he's scared. It's sweet.
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It's like a sweet and he's scared, he's terrified.
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He's and he's scared. Yeah.
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So you know, so I really liked that.
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I thought that was cute. And then my 2 hairy quotes are
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the first one is in the elevator scene.
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They're risking their lives and they goes 30 years of this and
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you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
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Yeah, 30 more years of this. Yeah, yeah.
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And. Your line, it's a good line.
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It comes up later and I really like it.
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And then also when they finally find out who the bomber is in
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the office, Harry just goes, that's our scumbag.
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That's our scumbag. We got him.
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It's such a good moment. So those those are a few of my
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favorite quotes from the movie. Those are good, good picks.
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So for me, I got Pop Quiz Hotshot that happens a bunch of
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times in the movie. Yeah, no, it's awesome.
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When Miles Dyson tells him don't get dead, that's that.
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That happens a couple of times. Don't get dead.
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I like that. And how many lives you got?
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Yeah, he's like, he says, remember crazy, not stupid,
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right? Then they're describing the
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bomber, which is very accurate. The guy is nuts, but he's not
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dumb. Yeah.
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And then Howard Payne, we've got all the balls in the world right
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here, man. When he's holding Harry with the
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bomb to his chest and Keanu was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
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fucking shoot you. And he's like, he's like, put
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her down now. He's like, we got all the balls
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in the world right here, man. Like who says that?
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And then what? Interactive TV Jack Where the
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future ha ha ha. I told you he's he's a 1913
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awesome twisting his Muslim awesome.
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You put white paint on his face, he's the joker.
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He literally is the. Joke, I know.
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You're just naming all the bombers.
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Quotes No, he's lit OK and then. It was just cons.
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It was only cons. It was just cons.
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There was no baby. It was only cans.
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That fucking that one kills me every time.
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Use your key. So it was only Cam take my hand.
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Come on, lady, come on. OK, so classic cancelled.
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Is this a classic or is it gonna be cancelled in 2026?
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I, I say classic, like you said, nothing about race or gender or
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anything comes up. It's very, it's very safe.
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It's not even really that dated. No.
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In terms of how people are interacting.
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The only thing is cell phones would probably affect this movie
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because he would have got the pay phone call and then maybe
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call his police captain and said there's a bomb on this bus, you
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need to like stop it, pull it. Someone would be live tick
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talking the whole thing. Oh yeah, there would have been
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people on the bus live streaming the whole thing.
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Yeah. And that's what I hate about
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today's world. It kind of just like those
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people on the bus would have all been like video calling their
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families, which is sweet and all, but it takes away from
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what's happening in the movie. It's more pure than they
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couldn't. Yeah, more pure that they're all
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just on the bus. Those people are terrified.
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They're never knowing if they're going to see their families
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again, which is very scary. But yeah, cell phones probably
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would have ruined it. But yeah, you're right, it's not
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that dated. Yeah, it's not.
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For me, you know, after they the scene, I don't think it would
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get cancelled, but there's a couple of moments where I was
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like, you're you're on, you're on the job here, Keanu, like
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what are you doing? They did that hard right turn
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with the buzz and Keanu immediately starts spitting
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game. You know, like he's like, if we
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get out of this, I'm getting me some of that.
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And then you're like, oh, you know, like that's an come on
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guy. Like there's a bomb on this bus.
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Like have some be professional. And then she starts hitting
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back. She starts hitting on him and
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then she's like, you know, um, I'm not going to be available to
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drive the bus tomorrow, you know, like.
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It's mild, though. I mean, you're bringing some
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levity. Yeah, Yeah.
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But be intense intently. There's a few jokes.
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No, no, I think it's great. But you know how society is so
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well, it's an appropriate. You're supposed to be there's a
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bomb on this bus. I like it, don't get me wrong.
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I think some people are just, you know.
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Yeah. I hear you.
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Can you watch this with your parents?
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Yeah, it's safe. Yeah, I say F Yeah, it's a
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wicked action. You might get a little
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uncomfortable with that passionate kissing.
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You know what I love about this movie though?
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Any language. You don't need to speak English.
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You don't even need to like. Helps, no?
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But you tell you tell someone in the language that they speak,
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you say translate to bomb on bus 50 miles an hour can't get off,
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it will explode. Amen.
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They're watching. It doesn't matter what language
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because you could watch it on mute or even no dialogue.
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You have everything else, the sound effects, but minimal
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dialogue. You're good to go.
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That's hard to do in a movie. I mean, I, I don't necessarily
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agree with that, but, well, it's it's your argument that's fine.
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No, I'm just saying any language, like somebody in Japan
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turned this on and someone just said that if they only had the
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synopsis in Japanese, they could enjoy the movie.
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I guess. You're really you're really
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against this movie? I'm not against.
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It on, bring it on, bring it on. Beach.
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I think you need the dialogue. OK, favorite and least favorite
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supporting character? Go ahead.
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My favorite easy Jeff Daniels, AKA Harry.
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He gives dad vibes and best friend vibes simultaneously.
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He feels like a comforting person that you can rely on.
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So he's the perfect guy to be your partner as a cop.
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But I do have to say something that's kind of, it's kind of
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ridiculous. I, my whole life have confused
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Jeff Daniels with David Coulier. Who?
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Uncle, Uncle, Uncle Joey from Full House.
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David Coulier, look him up right now.
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They look so similar to the to the point where I thought David
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Coulier was in Dumb and Dumber. For years I thought that was
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David Coulier. It's not.
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Yeah, they do look the same and. They look the same they're and I
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I looked him up there, they're within like 4 years of each
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other. In whatever, yeah, I don't like
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I get full house. Wow, that's a flashback.
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Yeah, he's basically like him. And I found out, David.
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How old is he now? He's like 66 and Jeff Daniels is
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70. Jeff Daniels, he's not really
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just a comedic actor. This guy is just like he does.
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Everything he has him in The Martian is incredible.
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Yeah, so. And in that show, we watched
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what was it called Looming Tower?
22:42
Looming Tower, The miniseries, Yeah.
22:44
He has chops. Oh yeah, As Randy Jackson would
22:48
say, he could blow. OK, we're we're under quoting
22:53
Randy Jackson. Though that's they would say
22:55
that about singers. Sure, I'm just being silly.
22:57
OK, yeah, that was a tough call for me.
23:00
I wrote Harry down 1st and then I removed them.
23:03
How dare. I know it was hard.
23:05
I'm gonna go out on a limb here now, um, favorite supporting
23:10
character is going to be Dennis Hopper, the bomber.
23:13
He's not a supporter. Let me just main character.
23:16
Let me just let me you always do.
23:19
This guy's character is probably the top 15 villains of all time.
23:24
OK, he he blows up a little old lady.
23:27
He's a menace in this movie. He laughs at everything bad that
23:31
happens, like everything happens in his favor.
23:34
He laughs at them maniacally. OK, he makes jokes about Sandy's
23:38
body parts just blowing and smithereens and they're like,
23:41
oh, they can't even count body parts.
23:43
He's also mocking her with. The I know it's crazy and Dennis
23:49
Hopper has played villains in a lot of movies.
23:51
He was in Waterworld was bad, but he was in True Romance.
23:57
He was, he played King Koopa. He played Bowser in the Super
24:00
Mario Bros movie. Yeah, he was the villain.
24:04
So this guy is a track record for playing villains.
24:07
RIP, by the way. But he is, as soon as he dies in
24:11
this movie, The movie, just like there's this release of
24:16
relaxation because this guy is on the whole time and he is
24:21
super smart and villainous. He's always one step ahead and I
24:25
think he's frigging the movie is shit without him.
24:28
If they cast somebody else as the villain, it would have been
24:33
just another action movie. But he's perfect.
24:35
The guy's terrifying way of the future, ha ha ha ha.
24:40
You know, but like I said. The whim of a mad man I like.
24:44
That man, I like that, yeah, just saying that you can see him
24:47
spinning his, his imaginary mustache.
24:49
But I, I think it's a little bit too much.
24:51
But I guess it does kind of work in an action movie because
24:53
there's a little bit of inherent cheesiness in 90s action.
24:57
Yeah, but I'll give you an example.
24:59
Comparatively, this movie I think you've seen a couple
25:02
times, but Die Hard, the original villain is the guy who
25:07
plays Snape. Alan.
25:09
Alan Rickman. Yeah, a true gem.
25:11
Yeah, he's a great villain in that amazing.
25:14
But he's not as scary as Dennis Hopper, because Dennis Hopper is
25:18
fucking calculated, but he's unhinged.
25:20
The fucking opening scene. He sticks a a screwdriver or a
25:24
knife into this poor security guard's ear.
25:27
Yeah, like he chill like. You got your R rating in the 1st
25:31
10 seconds of the fucking movie. Yeah, I was going to mention
25:35
that that scene in particular is very bloody and it kind of
25:38
shocks you. I know, I know.
25:41
It shows everybody. This guy means business.
25:44
OK, you love Dennis. Let's move on to Lee's favorite.
25:46
Characters, so go ahead at least favorite.
25:50
Just for lack of. I just picked the Ferris
25:54
Bueller, Cameron Lee's favorite. Yeah, I don't, I don't know what
25:57
his name is in the movie. He's just a random tourist on
26:00
the bus. I don't hate him, he's just
26:04
annoying. But he's supposed to be.
26:06
Yeah, but he you gotta like him at the end and the beginning is
26:09
really annoying. Ohe ohe baby crying.
26:13
No, that was one wine fake out. Umm.
26:20
Earlier she pulled her own passy out and furiously waved it in
26:23
the air until I went in there, took it out of her chubby little
26:26
fist and put it back. In her eyes were closed too.
26:28
Her eyes were closed, she was just furious with herself.
26:32
Yeah, you gotta go. OK, should I take this?
26:34
Off No, no, no. I'll just pause it.
26:36
We'll be right back. Yes.
26:39
So yeah, just for lack of anyone else, like in Jurassic Park, I
26:44
hated the guy that I picked, the insurance lawyer.
26:47
I don't hate anyone in this movie.
26:50
Nobody gives me that X so I'm just picking him.
26:52
Just your least favorite. He's just a little annoying, OK?
26:56
I don't hate him. All right, all right.
27:00
That's weird. Least favorite for me.
27:03
I had a couple of tough ones but this is very niche.
27:07
One the VHS news guy who makes the tape.
27:11
Yeah, he seems so. Deep pissed me off bro.
27:14
His mouth is hanging open. We're fucking trying to save
27:17
people's lives. Fucking asshole.
27:19
Like chill out. He's like, I want you to take
27:21
the tape and run it so it keeps looping and he's like, all
27:25
right, tape it, tape it. He's like it's taping, bitch,
27:30
this is life or death. It's turbulent fucking.
27:33
Teens really dumb too, like he seems.
27:36
Dumb. No, he does it on the spot.
27:37
He knows what he's doing. But bro, relax.
27:40
This is life or death. It's not, you know, you're not
27:44
ordering a friggin pizza and it's taking too.
27:47
Long was that just a moment of shitty acting, though he was
27:49
trying. To wasn't sorry, wasn't taping
27:52
it wasn't shitty acting. I think.
27:55
I don't know. Maybe he's trying to act like he
27:58
was under duress, but it just came off like.
28:00
You know what I think this guy, they're like, listen, you're an
28:03
extra, but we might have, we might have a line for you.
28:07
And they're like, you're gonna have to respond to Miles Dyson
28:12
and say it's taping. But then he's like, oh, he goes
28:17
back and he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to fucking do
28:19
this. And he's.
28:21
Like and he just gives it to her.
28:22
He told himself, he didn't tell anybody.
28:24
He's just standing in front of mirror.
28:25
He's like, it's taping. And then he's just like, fuck
28:28
it, I'm going for it. And then they're like, all
28:30
right, action is like, all right, I want you to tape it.
28:33
Tape it. It's.
28:34
Tapering. But yeah, maybe that's just
28:36
that's why I'm saying maybe it's a moment of shitty.
28:38
Director No, I think the director probably said cut and
28:41
they're like don't do that. And then he did a bunch of
28:44
shitty takes after and they're like fuck, this is the only good
28:47
one so. They had to keep it.
28:51
Anyway, our cultural impact, what do you got?
28:55
So this movie, it's very it's very prevalent in pop culture,
29:02
but it really, I read something that said it redefined the
29:06
action heroes because Keanu is a lot more of an every man
29:11
compared to the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the day.
29:16
And what's the Who's the guy that plays Rocky?
29:20
Stallone the big joke guys? Yeah, they were.
29:23
They were the quintessential action stars of the 80s and 90s.
29:26
And then Keanu comes in. He's in good shape and
29:28
everything is a good looking guy, but he's not out of
29:31
control. Jacket.
29:32
I think it started with Bruce Willis.
29:34
He wasn't yoked and diehard. It may have started with Bruce.
29:38
Well, it's interesting you keep bringing up that hard cause I
29:40
have something but later. But yeah, it kind of redefined
29:44
the action hero and it worked so well in this movie that they
29:47
were able to use more kind of every man type guys.
29:51
Although Tom Cruise was already on the scene and he's more of an
29:54
average Joe kind of too, not a super huge jacked bodybuilder.
29:59
But he's like the American Jackie Chan now.
30:04
Yeah, well. This is on stance.
30:05
And that's a whole different argument, but it did kind of, it
30:09
redefined in that way. It launched Keanu.
30:12
Reeves children's tears to stay young.
30:16
At lunch, Schiano and Sandra Bullock's careers and they both
30:20
became huge stars after this. Sandra Bullock is still one of
30:24
the most beloved female actresses of all time and her
30:30
hairstyle in this movie. You know who's supposed to be
30:33
the bus driver? Is that her?
30:37
Oh. Ellen DeGeneres.
30:39
Oh no, that no, that would not have worked.
30:42
For numerous amount of reasons. It was before she was.
30:46
I'm doing finger quotes gay though.
30:48
Probably no. No, but sure before she was out.
30:51
But totally different movie. Yeah, totally different.
30:56
Sandra and Keanu have really good chemistry, but it also,
31:00
just like I was saying, it just launched their careers.
31:02
And her hairstyle in this movie is so good.
31:04
Like every time I see it I want to cut my hair like that.
31:08
On top of that, the stunts are pretty epic.
31:10
Jumping the bus over the bridge. That was in the trailer.
31:16
The airport scene, Keanu jumping onto the bus and all the effects
31:21
are practical. Yeah, the bus jump, they did it
31:24
on Myth Busters. To see if it could be.
31:26
Done. Yeah, they did it like exact
31:29
replica and it was busted. It can't be.
31:32
Done well, yeah, obviously the bus didn't do that, but it was
31:34
still. No, but the myth Busters, that's
31:36
what they do. Right.
31:37
It was still awesome practical effects that they used to make
31:39
it look like that's. Part of culture.
31:40
Yeah. Yeah, it is, yeah, which was
31:45
common. The practical effects were
31:46
common in 90s action. But this was a great example of
31:49
it. And again, later, we just were
31:52
talking about this when we were watching it, the bus running
31:54
into the plane and the huge explosion.
31:57
It's a real explosion. Yeah, that stuff doesn't happen
32:00
anymore. They it's all CGI now because of
32:02
all the laws about smoke and carbon dioxide and all that
32:06
stuff. So.
32:07
Yeah, but we have a really good example of some really cool
32:10
practical effects with this movie, and it shows up in pop
32:15
culture a lot. There's even a whole South Park
32:17
episode that has a whole chunk of it.
32:20
It's just a speed RIP off. It's messed up.
32:23
It's the little wheelchair kid. They rigged his wheelchair with
32:27
the bomb. Oh my.
32:29
God, and then Kenny goes on like, the little, little trolley
32:33
to try to save him and dies because Kenny dies in every
32:35
episode. Yeah.
32:36
Yeah. So it's pretty messed up.
32:38
Brings the bomb. Well, they were trying to make
32:40
his wheelchair into a time machine.
32:43
Oh my God. But like the person that made
32:45
The Time Machine also made it that it would explode if it went
32:47
below a certain speed. So it just they just were
32:50
chasing Timmy the whole movie while he's riding on.
32:54
South Park the next level man. It's pretty offensive, but I
32:57
mean, that's how you good as it was, it was even.
33:00
They mentioned in Simpsons too, right?
33:02
Simpsons had, yeah, Homer, he's talking to Lenny and Carl.
33:05
He's like describing the movie, like point for point.
33:09
And then he's like, I think it was called the Bus that couldn't
33:13
slow down. He forgot the name of the movie.
33:16
Like, it's a really easy movie title to remember.
33:19
And classic Homer. He just forgets it, right?
33:23
Did you have any other points for cultural impact?
33:26
Yeah. So cultural impact, I mean, if
33:29
you want to say personal impact too.
33:32
I wanted to be a cop for a very short amount of time after I
33:35
watched this movie. I thought it was the coolest
33:37
thing ever. It probably is, but like I was
33:41
like, this guy makes being a cop super cool looking.
33:46
Obviously it's an action movie. I've seen other action movies of
33:50
people being cops, but I think it's the Everyman vibe that
33:56
makes you go. I could do that.
33:59
So there was a lot of years. Mind you, this is all before I
34:03
was like 16 where I'm like, I wanted to be a cop.
34:06
But anyways, that's a different. There's a lot of action movies
34:10
where the main character is a cop or an FBI agent.
34:13
Yeah, it's very common. Also, so many movies have tried
34:16
to mimic this whole idea of it's kind of a bottle movie.
34:22
It's in one location, but kind of not like nonstop, similar
34:25
movie title, similar situation, right?
34:28
There's a plane, the plane is going to explode.
34:31
It's like almost the same. We don't know who the bomber is
34:33
or whatever. That movie is great, don't get
34:36
me wrong. But if you had to put them side
34:39
by side, Speed takes the cake. Yeah, but they are a different
34:42
vibe. Yeah, but they take that and go,
34:45
OK, how do we do a different version of Speed?
34:51
And there's a bunch I can name with tons of movies.
34:54
But, you know, even Speed 2, the sequel, they couldn't, they
34:58
couldn't capture that magic in a bottle again.
35:00
Yeah, it was impossible. Like it was on a cruise ship.
35:04
What? Cruise ships are slow bro.
35:07
Yeah, it's really stupid. You know, anyways, so yeah,
35:11
cultural impact, it's great. Also the director, John Debont,
35:17
this guy had made, I think he's made like 5 movies and they're
35:21
all bad. This is his piece to resistance.
35:25
Well, The thing is, it's pretty formulaic speed, but it does it
35:30
so well. This created the formula though.
35:33
This is the. Original recipe.
35:35
Existed. No, I disagree.
35:37
This is the original recipe. What other movies is like this?
35:42
Will die hard. It's kind of like it.
35:45
Yeah, but it's not as like nail biting.
35:48
Is. Yeah, it is when he walks on the
35:51
glass and stuff, Yeah. Those nail biting.
35:54
It's it's good, it's a good movie, but this is like I'm
35:58
going to take die hard. I'm going to I'm going to put
36:01
pre workout in it and some caffeine and just like let's go.
36:05
And Kiana's voice. Anyway, also guess who was
36:10
supposed to direct this movie but turned it down?
36:14
Now Michael Bay. No.
36:16
Not Steven Spielberg, Who? Tarantino.
36:19
Oh Oh no, it would have been so gory.
36:23
Supposed to do this movie, but he turned it down and now it's
36:26
one of his favorites, he says. I wouldn't have been able to
36:29
make it as good. He's.
36:30
Literally said that, but if he had made it, first of all there
36:33
would have been a lot more racial slurs.
36:35
That's a different movie. Right.
36:36
And it would have been a lot gorier.
36:38
Yeah, it would have been a totally different.
36:39
Movie. Yeah, it would have been.
36:41
OK, soundtrack, what do you think?
36:46
It's a typical action movie soundtrack.
36:48
I didn't think it was anything groundbreaking.
36:50
It definitely gets it gets your blood pumping, it gets your
36:53
nails biting, but I didn't think it was.
36:56
Anything writing your nails gets you to bite your nails.
36:59
Not your nails. Your nails don't bite.
37:01
Nail biting. OK, that's like an adjective to
37:05
describe. So this movie soundtrack.
37:10
Go on the highway, turn it up and I guarantee you you'll start
37:15
to speed and probably lose your license.
37:17
OK, if you don't believe me, try it.
37:20
I'm telling you, get on the highway, obviously not with the
37:23
kids in the car, but turn this volume, turn the soundtrack up.
37:27
It is crazy. How much songs you shouldn't
37:30
listen to in your driveway because.
37:32
It just gets you too put it on when you're on the treadmill or
37:34
something and you're going to be like running like Jack trying to
37:38
get to the train and stuff like that or get to the bus It's
37:41
wicked. I didn't notice.
37:43
It it's iconic. They actually made a remix of
37:46
the original theme for Cruise Control and it was like a techno
37:51
remix and it was pretty good. But the movie vom.
37:57
OK, who gets to spin off? So again, we're going back to
38:00
Harry. I love him so much.
38:02
I think they could do a whole show, like a law and order type
38:05
detective series of a younger Harry solving crimes.
38:10
Because I just love the character.
38:11
I want to see more of him. And plus, throughout the movie
38:15
we see him that he's a seasoned detective.
38:18
He has good instincts. There could be a crisis every
38:21
episode. He's the bomb squad like expert.
38:23
Right. Yeah, he could.
38:24
Yeah. It would be obviously a bomb,
38:26
like a law and order type thing, but with bombs.
38:29
And you know, there could be a new crisis every episode.
38:32
He would throw a little quips in.
38:34
I think it would. Be really good character.
38:36
He's such a good character. He could carry a whole show.
38:38
They could have several seasons. For spinoff, I was a tough one
38:43
for me. I would love to see a prequel of
38:47
the bomber as a cop before he loses his mind and starts doing
38:52
like crazy terrorist. Shit, but then you know he's
38:55
going to go bad, so do you really want to see him being a
38:57
good guy knowing? Yeah, there's a lot of movies
38:59
like that. You want to know what happened
39:00
before, you want to know what made them tick.
39:03
And obviously he was working. And from the story of the movie,
39:08
he a charge goes off. He was trying to defuse a bomb
39:11
and I guess he lost his thumb on his left hand.
39:16
So they're like, you can't work anymore.
39:18
So I think enforces retirement and.
39:22
Well, they kind of noted that he was on disability cause he has,
39:24
yeah. He had those so I think, I don't
39:26
know what happened with his pension but they mention it like
39:29
you give a cheap gold watch and a shitty pension.
39:32
So he's like, I paid my dues by losing my my hand.
39:37
Yeah. So he wants, he snaps.
39:39
I mean valid. I mean, sure, but you know, but
39:45
that's, that's, that's how it is.
39:46
Like people go to war overseas, they lose their limbs, they come
39:50
back and they get nothing. They can't even work, ever.
39:54
Again, well, no, but the worst thing is the damage to your
39:57
mind. No, no, no PTSD as.
39:59
True pop and a soldier. No, I know ruins your life.
40:02
You don't get taken care of when you get back and it's really a
40:04
sad situation, Most of these people the.
40:07
Only cases you do. If you can work that they'll use
40:12
you, but if not you're you're basically just a person in a
40:17
wheelchair. Yeah, that's.
40:18
True. So for me, yeah, I would say
40:22
spin-off, you could go any direction you go, Harry.
40:25
I like that one. You could go with the bomber,
40:30
you could even go. You could pretend the SQL
40:33
doesn't exist and you could do you know another SQL with Sandy
40:39
B and Keanu as a sequel doesn't have Keanu because he saw the
40:44
script and he's like no no no this is trash and I respect him
40:47
for not doing that movie. Yeah, but it's nice that Keanu
40:50
and Sandy be didn't have any bad blood because they did do the
40:53
lake house years later together. They they secretly like each
40:56
other, like Sandy. Beach.
40:58
Is it a secret? Well, Sandy Beach was on Ellen a
41:01
while ago, which is kind of funny because she was supposed
41:03
to be a bus driver, but they literally like they were talking
41:06
about speed. And she said that had Keanu
41:12
asked her out at those time, at that time or even later on,
41:16
because she's kind of been in and out of marriages, she would
41:20
have been down and everybody went nuts because they had that.
41:23
Chemistry was real, man. They had good chemistry and also
41:26
he's the nicest man in Hollywood, so she probably just
41:28
saw how sweet and kind he was and and liked that about him.
41:31
Yeah, double feature. What are you watching?
41:35
What this? So it's funny because we
41:37
mentioned, we've mentioned Diehard several times.
41:40
I think Diehard goes well with this.
41:42
They're both 90s action movies with the terrorist in it.
41:45
I feel like they pair well together.
41:47
One of them is a summer vibe, one of them is a winter vibe.
41:50
They're kind of, they would go well together if you wanted to
41:53
have like a 90s action night. That's a good call.
41:55
I like that. Me, it was a little bit
41:59
different. I based it on the actors.
42:01
So I would watch The Matrix the first one because it's like
42:06
these two movies are peak Keanu. You're in the mood for Keanu on
42:09
the. No, I'm saying yeah, like these,
42:10
this is peak. I mean, he did John Wick after
42:13
John Wick is up there, but this is peak matrix one and and speed
42:17
like this is his, you know, whatever you want to call it.
42:22
Like this is his Michael Jordan Championships.
42:26
So neither of us wanted Speed 2 cruise control, no.
42:29
Absolutely not. About.
42:32
That's terrible. Also you could watch Speed and
42:36
then a time to kill which is peaks and B in the time to kill
42:41
with Matthew McConaughey. I love that movie and for
42:44
personal. Reasons well.
42:46
With no, no, no. But she's super hot in both
42:50
movies, so. She is.
42:52
She's more sexy in A time to kill.
42:55
I know, that's why you watch both of them.
42:59
Take it or leave it. She's more girl next door in
43:01
speed but in time to kill. She's just sex on a.
43:03
Stick Also just a little hot take you could say that Dumb and
43:08
Dumber is a secret sequel to this movie.
43:12
And Harry he didn't die Also named Harry in dumb and Dumber.
43:17
He didn't die in speed, he they blew up and he had brain damage.
43:21
That's messed. Up and he became a little bit
43:24
dumb. So they're like, bro, you gotta
43:26
go. So they fired his ass and then
43:29
it meets Jim Carrey and he just becomes buddies with them.
43:33
And then they, you know, they he becomes, he washes like he
43:38
grooms dogs. You love Dumb and Dumber too
43:40
much. Nobody else wants to watch that.
43:43
No, Dumb and Dumber is fucking amazing and both movies came out
43:46
in the same year. 94 Yeah. This guy has range, man.
43:50
Jeff Daniels has because when I first watched Dumb and Dumber, I
43:57
didn't put two and two together that that's Jeff Daniels because
44:00
I was a kid and I'm like this guy, like I actually thought he
44:03
was dumb because Jim Carrey, I knew he was in other.
44:06
Movies. Yeah, that's.
44:06
How? I knew he was in other movies,
44:08
right? He was in the mask and stuff.
44:09
I'm like, oh, it's just Jim Carrey.
44:11
But when I saw Jeff Daniels, I'm like, oh, this guy's actually
44:13
dumb. He doesn't.
44:14
Understand. I didn't understand.
44:16
Anyways, turns out I was the dumb one because I was the kid.
44:20
And thought so all kids are a little dumb, yeah.
44:22
So what are? You gonna plot twist?
44:24
OK, Leave a penny. Take a penny.
44:27
What scene are you taking out? What scene would you put in?
44:30
I chose to not take anything out or add anything in.
44:35
OK like I said it is a bit formulaic but I think it vibes
44:38
well. Maybe the ending runs a little
44:41
bit long, like after the bus. It's kind of it's like a fake.
44:46
Ending and yeah, it's kind of not as good after after the bus,
44:49
but they have to have some kind of closure with yeah with the
44:53
bomber so. I have some problems with the
44:54
ending, we'll get into that after but.
44:56
Yeah. So I, I, I didn't wanna take or
44:59
or I didn't wanna take out or add anything.
45:01
I thought that it was. It's pretty well balanced except
45:03
for the ending could be maybe a little shorter.
45:05
Yeah, opening credits are long as hell, so I would have
45:11
shortened that a bit. It's just the elevator shaft and
45:14
everybody's name in the movie and their uncle.
45:16
But. All 90s movies like that.
45:18
Though but silver lining, once you realize what roller coaster
45:22
ride you're going on in this movie, it's worth the wait
45:26
because it's like this calm before they turn everything up
45:31
to 11. Yeah, that's gonna give you
45:32
anxiety for two. Hours, like nonstop, you know,
45:35
it does not stop this movie. Yeah.
45:37
And there's a perfect example of it later.
45:39
I never noticed that till tonight.
45:41
I watched this movie a gazillion times.
45:44
And I just noticed it. And I'll tell you about it.
45:46
And it's it's it's fucked because they did it on purpose.
45:50
They had to have because otherwise it's super dangerous.
45:55
Anyways. OK, lazy Sunday vibes.
45:58
For me, not really. This is more of a Friday night
46:02
movie where you turn the lights off and you have a bucket of
46:04
popcorn. It's a popcorn movie to me
46:06
because it's it's not relaxing. You're biting your nails.
46:10
You can't have a lazy Sunday where you're sitting there and
46:13
you're all tense. Sure, sure.
46:15
So for me, no. So for me, the opening where
46:21
Jack gets his coffee and heads to work, it's a beautiful sunny
46:25
day. That's all the vibes.
46:27
That whole opening scene where he goes and he's chatting with
46:30
the the barista and the bus driver before the bus driver
46:33
gets blown to smithereens. It's not the opening scene.
46:36
But that scene, like that's like, I get up in the morning, I
46:39
make my coffee, I turn the TV on, just walking into the coffee
46:44
shop. I'm fucking good to go.
46:46
Like I'm watching that lazy Sunday vibes all the way.
46:49
And then, you know, the the payphone rings and like, let's
46:52
let's go. We're in.
46:53
OK, so we feel differently. OK.
46:56
This is your segment here Miscellaneous.
46:59
We're not doing movie alias. I don't know, is that next?
47:02
That was supposed to be next. Yeah, cool.
47:04
I like that. It was like just a one word.
47:06
So my options are one word. So instead of speed, it could
47:10
just be called bus. Bus is good.
47:13
Or Drive, which is also the name of Orange Gosling movie.
47:17
But Drive works, and also, ironically because you brought
47:21
it up earlier, nonstop. Yeah, nonstop would be.
47:24
Good stop would have worked for this I mean.
47:26
It would have been. You know it got used later
47:27
obviously, but. Yeah, I couldn't think of
47:30
anything honestly. The closest I got was stay above
47:34
50. That's way too long.
47:37
I know there's no other. That's what I'm saying.
47:39
Like this movie title is perfect.
47:41
It's really hard. Like you can't touch it.
47:43
It's one word would have been. One word.
47:46
Yeah. It gets pretty much everything
47:49
across. Like you get what it's about.
47:52
It's about going fast, you know what I mean?
47:54
And it delivers. It does.
47:56
It's fast. Unless you want to call it bomb
47:59
on bus. Yeah, you could, but.
48:03
That's all on the nose. Yeah, but you know what you're
48:05
getting into though, when you see the commercials.
48:07
Yeah, that's true. So the next segment is when I
48:10
added it's called miscellaneous slash shower thoughts.
48:14
Just because we didn't have a catch all for random thoughts,
48:17
we had random commentary we had throughout the movie.
48:20
Let's just call it shared thoughts.
48:21
OK, we'll just call it shower thoughts.
48:23
OK, go ahead. So I just wanted to note the
48:26
button guy in the elevator scene is such a.
48:30
Dick, he goes. Good job Bob.
48:32
The button was already lit up, but good thing you pushed it
48:34
again because it might really be broken.
48:37
And then the elevator starts going down.
48:39
He's like, what did you do, Bob? Yeah, Bob, like did you?
48:42
Push Bob catches strays like crazy in that scene.
48:45
Yeah, that guy's a Dick. So that's something that I
48:49
thought was worth mentioning. Also, why did they tell the bus
48:55
driver about the bomb before telling him he can't slow down?
48:59
If you know there's a bomb on your bus, instinctively you're
49:02
going to slow down or stop so that everybody can get off the
49:05
bus. I think he gives them the bomb
49:07
on bus note and then just expects him to just keep.
49:10
Driving. I think he didn't realize that
49:13
the guy had already cracked 50 because the traffic was bad, so
49:16
he was going slow. He was just getting on the
49:18
freeway because he was looking at the speedometer.
49:20
Right. No, immediately, No, he's like,
49:21
don't slow down, don't slow down.
49:23
That's true. So he knows that it was already
49:26
it was already armed. You should not have told them.
49:29
You should have said don't go below 50 and then conveyed
49:33
because if you do a bomb is going to.
49:35
Explode. Also, I think that the bomber,
49:39
he knew that Jack shows up because he has the camera on the
49:44
bus. He's fully aware of what's going
49:46
on. So I don't think he armed it
49:48
until Jack showed up. No, it shows it getting armed
49:50
before Jack is there. It shows the bus go above 50 and
49:54
gets armed. OK, what else you got?
50:00
I think that the stupid red herring of the carriage is
50:04
stupid. The stroller, yeah, it's full of
50:07
cans. Why wouldn't like?
50:09
And the woman pushing it, from what I can see, does not seem
50:13
like a homeless person like that had a cart full of cans.
50:15
So why? Why is the carriage full of
50:17
cans? Maybe she's not a homeless
50:19
person, but maybe she's like one of those people that live like
50:22
a, you know, they're not well to do.
50:24
So she has enough clothes to like she has a place to live.
50:28
Like maybe she lives in a trailer park or something and
50:32
she the only form of her taking those cans to get money is just
50:36
the stroller she has. Like that was, that was like a
50:38
fancy pram stroller. Like that was a fancy stroller,
50:42
yeah, but it wasn't a. Release it wasn't fancy.
50:44
In the 90s they would have said that's garbage, you know what I
50:48
mean? I don't think so.
50:49
I think that that was because it had like the little shade over
50:51
top, like they could lay a baby down in.
50:53
Those are like not your regular stroller.
50:55
That's the one you get when the baby's really small.
50:58
It only lasts for like 6 months and then you move on to another
51:00
one That's. A rich people never seen one in
51:02
real life that wasn't the children's toy.
51:05
Well, it it's because it was in the 90s, I don't think that they
51:09
exist anymore. So, well, no, actually I have
51:11
seen them. I I have a point for that,
51:13
actually, for Charlotte. Thoughts.
51:15
Yeah, I think that scene, the baby stroller full of cans is
51:20
terrifying even now, even though I know it's full of cans.
51:24
It was only cans. It's just cans.
51:26
Yeah, they start laughing. It's like.
51:28
That scene, that's the first time I've watched it.
51:32
I think as a parent, I think maybe we watched it in the last
51:39
couple of years. But anyway, that move, that
51:42
scene, I know it's full of cans, but watching that stroller go
51:45
flying gave me some trauma, bro. I was like fucked up for a few
51:50
seconds because I don't know, like it's just terrifying.
51:54
Well, I could mention that in the next segment too.
51:56
I have like a little anecdote that goes with that.
51:58
OK, well anyways, you brought it up so I'm in the shower.
52:01
Thoughts. What else?
52:02
What else you have? I have a laundry list.
52:06
Here but I just thought it was funny that they say Jack a lot
52:09
and it's pre Titanic because Jack is also over set in
52:13
Titanic. Well, it's all the action heroes
52:15
are always Jack or John. John.
52:17
McLean, John. Matrix.
52:19
Jackson, John. Jack this, Jack that.
52:22
Yes, the. Jackal.
52:23
But they say they say Jack a lot and I just thought it was funny
52:26
because in Titanic Rose also says Jack way too much.
52:30
They're always jacking it. Pissed that they killed Harry.
52:34
That was fucked up. Yeah, I mean.
52:37
He was the best character and he looks at that bomb, he knows
52:40
he's fucked. Like that was unnecessary.
52:42
He did not have to die. That makes it so.
52:44
He did. He did have to die to push the
52:47
story forward. No, yes, he is what keeps Jack
52:51
level and calm and makes him see straight.
52:54
He's his guide. Like he's is almost like his
52:56
guardian Angel and everybody likes Harry.
53:00
And the fact that the villain kills him and then calls him up
53:04
and fucking trolls him on the phone.
53:06
That's average bro, like that's what makes the villain so good
53:11
and you killed like one of the favorite characters.
53:14
Well, yeah, he's literally my favorite.
53:16
I was, I I was pissed the first time I watched that movie.
53:18
I was shocked that happened. And every time when I know that
53:21
part is coming, I dread it because he's such a good
53:23
character. That's why it's such a good
53:25
good. Movie.
53:25
It's a bummer man. And I just have one last shower
53:28
thought. Why is this asshole complaining
53:31
about money when he has a nice single home in fucking LA?
53:36
Yeah, that's. True.
53:36
Why why do you need millions if he hung out hold onto that house
53:40
for 10 years would be worth millions of.
53:43
Dollars. We don't know what part of LA he
53:44
lives in like I don't know at. All it had a nice yard and it
53:48
was a nice single. Maybe down the road there's.
53:51
It wasn't incompetent. Bunch of gangs I don't know.
53:54
It wasn't in Compton. You could tell us a nice.
53:57
We don't know what nice is in LA and what's not.
53:59
It looked like a nice house. It looks like a nice house, so
54:01
that guy needs to just collect his tiny pension and shut the
54:03
fuck up over to you. OK, so I got a few things here
54:08
in Charlotte. Thoughts.
54:10
So the reason why this movie is so thought through and so well
54:15
thought out. When Jack gets off the bus the
54:17
first time, he tells everybody I'll be back.
54:20
He jumps off the back door and gets on to that, grabs onto the
54:24
police SUV and he's talking to Miles Dyson through the window.
54:31
They don't stop, they keep driving.
54:34
They're going like 70, 80 kilometres an hour because he
54:40
has to go that speed for the bus, right?
54:43
So jumps off the bus, they don't stop.
54:45
You see the airport moving behind him.
54:48
They could have pulled over and talked, but they didn't.
54:51
The second the Jack gets out of his gets off of the phone and
54:56
it's off the payphone in the beginning, he does not stop.
55:00
This guy is in his car, he's driving full speed to the get to
55:03
the bus. He gets out of his car, he runs
55:05
to the bus. He gets into a Jaguar, speeds to
55:09
catch the bus, jumps onto. It yeah, it's a good point.
55:11
Fucking fat like he's not and then they and then the next time
55:16
you see him from the SUV when he's talking while it's moving
55:19
is he's on another truck getting on to the little.
55:22
Buggy getting. Ready and I've never noticed
55:24
that before I was like, holy shit.
55:26
They really like they like they don't want this movie to slow
55:30
down. I think it would have ruined the
55:31
tempo. Is that the thing you said would
55:33
have been dangerous? It wasn't on purpose.
55:35
Yeah. Why?
55:36
No, no, no. It's like, it's not like it
55:38
doesn't make sense. You're watching this.
55:39
Like, why are they still going like, pull over that bus, that
55:42
SUV's not gonna blow up, you know what I mean?
55:44
But it is dangerous. Like, why are you doing that?
55:47
You have to do it to get them off.
55:49
But now you're like, you're still doing it.
55:51
I think it's movie tempo. They're controlling the speed of
55:54
the movie. Yeah, if you see Jack just
55:55
standing there chatting with people, it ruins the suspense.
55:59
This movie came out June 10th, 1994.
56:03
Do you know what happened one week after this movie?
56:06
No. The O'jays.
56:09
No way. Yeah, the OJ Simpson freeway
56:13
chase. And he's driving a Bronco as
56:15
well. Yeah, that's.
56:16
And there's a clip. There's one little scene.
56:19
It's a helicopter shot of Keanu's Bronco on the freeway.
56:23
And I started smiling when I saw that.
56:26
And I looked it up while we were watching.
56:28
I'm like, there's no fucking way.
56:30
So they were, they released this movie, um, June 10th, 94 and a
56:36
week later OJ's freeway thing. So what wow, did he get the, you
56:42
know, was he inspired? Who knows?
56:44
No, he was trying to freaking flee the country.
56:48
I mean, he wasn't going to Mexico.
56:50
Yes, he was. Was he?
56:52
Yes, he was headed for Mac. Was it?
56:54
Yeah, he was headed for Mexico. I don't know.
56:56
Also why did the bomber ask for 3.7 million?
57:00
That's so fucking random. He says in the movie that he's
57:03
very calculated and he said like he figured out the amount that
57:06
he would need to live on. But like in the nineties, 3.7
57:10
million, that's like a billion dollars today.
57:13
To 4 What's this .7 business? Well, like I said, he's been
57:19
he's he's a greedy little motherfucker.
57:21
No, ask 4 million or five. Why are you picking 3.7?
57:24
That's very random. That made no sense to me unless
57:28
he calculated how what kind of money he could carry across of a
57:32
border because he asked for specific bills and stuff like
57:37
that. So maybe he weighed it and said,
57:39
oh, this is the amount that I could physically carry because
57:41
I'm an old guy with the bad arm and stuff.
57:43
I just answered my own question. Yeah, there you go.
57:47
Yeah, baby Stroller mentioned that also.
57:51
What did the Hispanic guy do before the bus ride?
57:55
When he's like, get away from me?
57:56
He points a gun at Keanu, remember?
57:59
He's coming down here for you, man.
58:01
Let's not do this. There's probably a warrant out
58:04
for his arrest for something. Maybe.
58:05
But I want to know what he did like.
58:08
Was it like, did he steal somebody's bike?
58:09
He had a gun, so he probably had an unregistered.
58:12
Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
58:15
That part has aged a little bit poorly because it feels, it
58:19
feels a little bit bad taste for the Hispanic guy to be a
58:22
criminal. I mean, yeah, but you know what?
58:26
It's LA. Yeah, but.
58:27
So you don't know who's on that bus, right?
58:29
It could be like, it's not always going to be people going
58:32
to work. One thing I I was noticed, they
58:35
should have had a couple of kids on the bus.
58:39
It would have raised the stakes even more.
58:41
Like when there's children involved, people like Yo.
58:45
Yeah, but there's no way the kids would have been calm.
58:47
Well, I think what happened, they got the bus driver off
58:50
because he was injured. They would have let the kids off
58:52
too. Yeah, You know, would have been
58:54
like, don't bring kids into this.
58:55
So. But he fucking blew up that old
58:58
lady, so he might have tried to blow up.
58:59
The kids That old lady was one of my least favorites, but I
59:02
took her off the list. Oh, I yeah, I wanna change my
59:04
least favorite to her. She was selfish.
59:06
She's like, I need to get off the bus, Annie, I need to get
59:09
off. Like what about us?
59:10
What about us? Um, does this movie hit
59:15
different as parents? So I literally just thought of
59:19
this as we were talking about the stroller filled with cans.
59:22
That scene is disturbing as a parent, especially like the I
59:28
spent a lot of time pushing our son around in a stroller when he
59:31
was a baby. And if it wasn't dead winter, I
59:34
would be doing it with my daughter too.
59:36
And I'm going to do it when it gets warmer.
59:38
I'm going to be pushing her in the stroller.
59:39
Any time I had to cross a busy road.
59:42
Oh my God, I used to loop my arm under the stroller and then hold
59:46
another piece of it just in case for some reason that I had like
59:50
an arm spasm and let go for a second.
59:51
Like that's how scared I was, the stroller rolling into a busy
59:54
St. and I used to turn the stroller so like the wheels were
59:57
not facing towards the busy St. like I used to take steps.
1:00:00
Don't get dead. I used.
1:00:02
Yeah, don't get. Crazy, not stupid.
1:00:04
I used to keep, I used to take steps to make sure that that
1:00:07
could not happen because that is one of my worst fears because a
1:00:10
driver may not be able to stop in time and your precious little
1:00:12
child is in that stroller like you're everything.
1:00:16
So that part is very disturbing as a parent, but nothing else in
1:00:20
the movie. There's not really much about
1:00:22
kids going on. There's the 4 kids but she she
1:00:24
she dodges them. So this movie hits different as
1:00:26
a parent now. I watched this when I was very
1:00:29
little. I've watched it as the years
1:00:32
have gone by through my teenage years, early adulthood, now the
1:00:36
age I mat. And it hits way different as a
1:00:39
parent because you're like, you don't know, like those people on
1:00:44
the bus, they're grandparents. Like Helen, the lady that blows
1:00:48
up when she tries. That's somebody's grandma.
1:00:51
She just. Got blown off, that's that.
1:00:53
Yeah, those people on the bus, like he's talking to Ortiz or
1:00:57
Gigantor. He's talking to Ferris Bueller.
1:01:00
And he's like, I got a wife, you know, And I'm like, man, these
1:01:06
people like, what if they have kids?
1:01:08
They're just going to work, you know?
1:01:09
Yeah. So it's it does it different.
1:01:12
The stroller scene, it fucked me up.
1:01:15
And as a parent, if I watched that the first time, I would
1:01:19
have lost my mind. Especially with it, we have a
1:01:21
baby, we have a 5 month old. So especially having like a very
1:01:25
small baby, they're very innocent.
1:01:28
They can't fend for themselves whatsoever.
1:01:30
So just thinking about that, it's really, it's messed up.
1:01:34
Yeah, I I agree. OK, so this is the new rating
1:01:38
system that I've come up with. How many baby strollers full of
1:01:41
cans you give it out of 10? Well, that's how I'm doing it
1:01:44
now. Every movie.
1:01:45
It's going to be a different. That's going to associate with
1:01:48
the. Movie.
1:01:48
I give it seven baby strollers out of 10.
1:01:50
OK. And because we didn't review
1:01:53
Jurassic Park at the end of our last breakfast, we didn't rate
1:01:57
it. Sorry.
1:01:58
So we're going to give it a rating now.
1:02:01
So what did you give Speed? How many people?
1:02:03
Seven baby strollers. I give speed nine baby strollers
1:02:06
out of full of cans out of 10. That's too much.
1:02:09
That's your opinion. We'll do Drastic Park after.
1:02:12
Yeah, that was speed. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope
1:02:15
that the audio was a lot better. We got some new mics, so I'm
1:02:19
hoping it's nice and crisp in your ears.
1:02:23
You know, I hope it makes your ears sizzle.
1:02:25
And I hope you enjoyed that episode.
1:02:28
If you haven't seen Speed, go watch it.
1:02:30
It's on Disney Plus. Or you can just probably watch
1:02:34
it on TV because it's on, like, the Movie Network all the time,
1:02:37
if you still have that thing. But yeah, that's our episode for
1:02:41
tonight. We will catch you next.
1:02:43
Time catch you next time. It was just cons.
1:02:47
It was only cons. Take my hand, Take my hand.
1:02:53
How many out of 10 do you give Jurassic Park?
1:02:58
So I can't do that noise, especially with my sore throat.
1:03:01
So I'll say how many Raptor calls out of 10?
1:03:04
Yes, I give it 10 out of 10. Jurassic Park is a perfect
1:03:08
movie. I give Jurassic Park 10 out of
1:03:11
10. That's so good and we just want
1:03:19
to know it. Also, after last week's episode
1:03:22
came out or the last episode came out, the next day a
1:03:27
Jurassic Park themed Super Bowl commercial dropped and it had
1:03:31
Jeff Goldblum in it, Laura Dern and Sam Neil, and that was
1:03:35
completely unplanned. Yeah, the cake, like it happened
1:03:38
the same day. Crazy, crazy that that happened.
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