When director Jan de Bont set about casting the various faces and secondary characters that populated bus #2525 in his 1994 actioner Speed, it was very important to him that they reflect the ...

That’s the average speed of a vehicle in Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus, the operator featured in the film. In an analysis of Los Angeles-area bus performance since 1994, Matute finds that Santa ...

And when a dazed, terrorized passenger in the movie Speed decides she’s going to stand in the stepwell while the bus is going 50 mph, well, she can’t say they didn’t warn her: A bomb goes ...

Weeks later, Jack witnesses a mass transit city bus explode and nearby a pay phone rings. On the phone is that same bomber looking for vengeance and the money he's owed. He gives a personal ...

It's an incredibly simple premise; a Los Angeles bus is rigged to explode if its ... It's a simple formula, but Speed worked in 1994 and it still works now. Popular Now: AMD rumored Radeon RX ...

When the bus crashes into the plane and explodes ... or its absolute aversion to plot-heavy bullshit. Instead, Speed wins for 1994 because it’s the most iconic movie of its year, the one ...

Several bombs do explode in Speed. The most spectacular of them takes out a whole jetliner in an enormous fireball — an all-timer of Hollywood pyrotechnics work that puts just about any ...

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