What’s Aged the Best?
Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves and the relentless premise
In the discussion (9)
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- Young Bullock and Reeves’s crew cut, physique, and progressively dirty white shirt are nominated.
- Reeves reportedly arrived with a shaved head and spent two months getting into shape.
- The stay-on-or-get-off exchange is nominated and suggested as an alternative title. — Bill Simmons
- The bus going under fifty and exploding is a great, simple movie premise; the action moves faster than Die Hard.
- Die Hard on a bus is nominated; Money Train and another Denzel train film prompt comparisons. — Bill Simmons
- Young Bullock is selected as a star whose potential becomes unmistakable, with an athletic-breakthrough analogy. — Bill Simmons
- Annie’s kindness toward Sam and her easy joke about not driving next time make her especially appealing.
- Reeves is selected for trustworthy, decisive command that contrasts with his earlier stoner and surfer image.
- Reeves’s haircut is chosen because it would still work today.