John Marston Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) the sequel to 1994's Speed. Keanu Reeves decided to not do this but the studio I guess thought Sandra Bullock was enough star power. The location was a cruise liner compared to the bus from the first movie. here is the interesting thing about this movie. It had a whopping 160m budget according to Box Office Mojo. Making it the third most expensive movie of all time after Titanic and Waterworld. Jesus! How did they let that happen? the movie of course was a massive bomb. Making only 48 million domestically and 164 million worldwide. Fox had a pretty bad 1997 which bombs like Speed 2, Volcano, and Alien: Resurrection. Then again, weren't they a co producer of Titanic? So I guess they ended up being OK in the end. Edited February 21, 2017 by John Marston 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 One of the worst sequels ever, and the original is one of my all time favorites. Too bad Sandra didn't follow Keanu's lead and hard passed on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 This is another example of a movie involving water that had a budget spiral out of control. The curse of the seas, I tell you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 24 minutes ago, John Marston said: the sequel to 1994's Speed. Keanu Reeves decided to not do this but the studio I guess thought Sandra Bullock was enough star power. The location was a cruise liner compared to the bus from the first movie. here is the interesting thing about this movie. It had a whopping 160m budget according to Box Office Mojo. Making it the second most expensive movie of all time after Titanic. Jesus! How did they let that happen? the movie of course was a massive bomb. Making only 48 million domestically and 164 million worldwide. Fox had a pretty bad 1997 which bombs like Speed 2, Volcano, and Alien: Resurrection. Then again, weren't they a co producer of Titanic? So I guess they ended up being OK in the end. All I remember about Speed 2 is the UB40 song from the soundtrack. Jason Patric just never got another big movie post this bombing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 On 2/3/2017 at 10:28 PM, AABATTERY said: This is another example of a movie involving water that had a budget spiral out of control. The curse of the seas, I tell you. This movie was actually a much bigger flop than Waterworld 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franfar Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 6 hours ago, John Marston said: This movie was actually a much bigger flop than Waterworld How they spent 110m on a film w/o it's other star in the late 90s is beyond my comprehension Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 This is my guilty pleasure movie. I like this movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75Live Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 At one point a bunch of friends of mine used this as the gauge for a bad movie. It was like "hey was the movie bad, or was it Speed 2 bad?" Although we did use the horrible "i wish I had my chainsaw" a lot when we got food we couldn't cut through it is awful on pretty much every level. Probably the smartest career move Keanu ever did by turning this down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimisawesome Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 I still can't believe i have never seen the whole movie. I have watched the first Speed more than any movie except maybe Die Hard and its easily one of my five favorite films yet I think I watched the last 30 minutes of this movie the night before it came out when I worked in a theater and that was it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 4 minutes ago, jimisawesome said: I still can't believe i have never seen the whole movie. I have watched the first Speed more than any movie except maybe Die Hard and its easily one of my five favorite films yet I think I watched the last 30 minutes of this movie the night before it came out when I worked in a theater and that was it. This movie is trash and a disgrace to the first. Setting it on board a cruise ship was probably the dumbest choice they could've made. Everyone likes to rag on Keanu, but at least he smelled a dud from miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 (edited) After Titanic the three most expensive movies of the 90s were Waterworld, Wild Wild West and Speed 2 lmao Edited February 9, 2017 by John Marston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Still better than Titanic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 This trailer is the very definition of cringe Bullock makes 5 references to the first Speed in just the 2 minutes this trailer lasts. They really wanted to let us know this was the same character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 On 2/3/2017 at 10:43 PM, grim22 said: All I remember about Speed 2 is the UB40 song from the soundtrack. Jason Patric just never got another big movie post this bombing. Despite replacing Reeves, Patric can actually be a really solid actor (After Dark My Sweet, Narc for example). He just happened to have really poor luck. Movie was shit, though. I think the script should have gotten at least ten rewrites before they finished it. Setting it on a cruise ship was especially dumb. At least it gave us a great movie sequel tagline. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJaros Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Anyone else see it in the theater in 1997? I did, and man was I disappointed. A big fan of Speed but this bomb was DOA. Terrible film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmoser3 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 This sequel was very unnecessary, Fox saw that Sandra Bullock was becoming a bigger star, so Keanu basically said fuck this. Then Fox decided to wash it down, and half-ass it. The sequel was only made for the studio, and it would be made just to have Sandra Bullock if she said no, the sequel wouldn't have been made to be honest. How this sequel had a large decrease from the original? The original was smart,and had a very effective idea, that can maybe happen in real life(no joke), and this one was made to go on a cruise. This was dumped in the shitfest of June, studios saw the success of sequels which started to pop up like crazy in 1997. So it bombed because no one wanted to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 5 hours ago, SteveJaros said: Anyone else see it in the theater in 1997? I did, and man was I disappointed. A big fan of Speed but this bomb was DOA. Terrible film. I did, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screambaby Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 'You and I are the only two people who loved speed 2' Gene siskel to Roger ebert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
