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Apollo 13

Half-Assed Internet Research

Apollo 13 The Rewatchables

Zero-gravity filming, practical sets and the origins of Failure Is Not an Option

In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 01:26:17Read transcript
  • Spielberg is credited with suggesting parabolic-flight filming
  • The actors filmed in brief zero-gravity intervals during long flights
  • Full-size modules and a chilled set are reported
  • The splashdown was reportedly filmed in a Universal lot lake
  • The USS New Orleans substituted for the unavailable Iwo Jima
  • Bacon praises Hanks’s intensive astronaut training
  • Failure Is Not an Option is reported as wording created for the movie, later used by Kranz as a book title
  • Mission-control leadership is said to have been consolidated, leaving Glynn Lunney out; the transcript renders the name imperfectly
  • Marilyn’s lost ring is said to have been recovered in real life
  • Bacon’s repeated Jack/Jackie character names are listed across seven productions
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Speed

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Speed The Rewatchables

Would Harry as villain improve the movie, and who commands the bomb squad?

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:58:42Read transcript
  • The panel prefers the finished version over the reported Harry-villain script
  • Who is the most important Jan? De Bont is compared with Jan Hammer and others
  • What is the bomb squad’s hierarchy when Jack and Harry keep improvising?
  • When does Jack’s attraction to Annie become another motivation?
  • The fictional Chris Ryan obituary tangent is not treated as a fact about him
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Speed

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

Speed The Rewatchables

A Bomb Squad spin-off, Howard prequel or reunion sequel

In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:53:45Read transcript
  • Speed 2 is rejected
  • A Bomb Squad movie or Joe Morton mentoring replacements is proposed
  • A Howard Payne prequel in Atlanta is proposed
  • A third movie with Reeves and Bullock would attract interest, depending on director and story
  • A married Jack and Annie face Howard’s son during a road trip
  • An electric-car battery rule and a daughter’s wedding are added
  • A Boston–Martha’s Vineyard ferry gives the boat premise another try
  • None of these hypothetical ideas is an announced production
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Speed

Picking Nits

Speed The Rewatchables

The bus physics, Harry’s raid and the final chase’s continuity

In the discussion (19)
Approx. transcript time · 01:47:21Read transcript
  • Jack answers an improbably timed payphone
  • He could have disabled the tires before the bus reached fifty
  • LA traffic and the hairpin turn cannot sustain the required speed
  • Weekday-morning college football is implausible
  • Jack’s screwdriver grip and prolonged fuel leak are questioned
  • Harry’s limp disappears before the raid
  • Jack setting down gun and badge is contrasted with period LAPD behavior
  • Helen’s explosion damages surprisingly little and uses up the door bomb
  • Airport access and the delayed choice to use its runways are questioned
  • The blown tire should affect stability immediately
  • Harry should anticipate a bomber’s booby trap
  • A 1994 wireless bus camera is questioned, though the tape-loop trick is praised
  • Paying the ransom is considered against the enormous damage
  • Airport-to-downtown travel time is implausible
  • Howard’s dead-man trigger during the gunfight and fistfight is debated, including an objection that he retains it
  • Doors and Howard’s missing dye stains create continuity problems
  • Howard choosing a fistfight over a gun is questioned
  • News of the bus explosion should reach Howard sooner
  • The panel emphasizes these flaws do not spoil the movie
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Speed

Casting What-Ifs

Speed The Rewatchables
In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 01:29:50Read transcript
  • Speakman is reported as attached during Paramount development
  • Baldwin and Grieco are discussed as other Jack possibilities
  • The Ellen DeGeneres story is explicitly treated as a denied urban legend
  • Berry’s own regret and description of the earlier static-bus script are cited
  • Other alleged Annie candidates remain uncertain
  • Craig T. Nelson reportedly could not leave Coach to play Mac
  • Ed Harris was considered when Harry was the villain
  • McTiernan, Harlin and Tarantino reportedly declined directing
  • McTiernan’s version is imagined as marginally better
  • Michael Bay reportedly sought the job before his feature debut
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Speed

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Speed The Rewatchables

Sean calls Speed the last truly great American pure-action movie

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:26:49Read transcript
  • A participant suggests Jack’s de-escalating language as an alternative to aggressive policing
  • Sean distinguishes pure action from science fiction, superheroes, secret societies and mythology
  • Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Ambulance, Taken and Bad Boys are offered as counterexamples
  • Bill provocatively argues the destruction costs could outweigh saving the bus; the others push back
  • The hot-take framing and objections are retained rather than treating this as advice
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Speed

What’s Aged the Worst?

Speed The Rewatchables

Speed 2, stereotyped passengers and continuity problems

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:20:34Read transcript
  • Hopper’s running is criticized
  • College football on a weekday morning seems implausible
  • Harry’s limp changes and disappears
  • The stereotyped passenger ensemble is criticized, citing Janeane Garofalo’s routine
  • Speed 2 and its explanation for Annie leaving Jack are rejected
  • The early screenplay’s paramedic description leads to a discussion of Halle Berry’s reported involvement
  • The panel distinguishes a useful driving qualification from unnecessary racial framing
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Speed

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Speed The Rewatchables

The jump’s physics, the extra subway act and Jack’s punch lines

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:19:07Read transcript
  • One participant dislikes the jump’s lack of upward incline while others defend the sequence
  • The additional act after escaping the bus feels less perfect than the first ninety minutes
  • Bringing Annie downtown is questioned as a device to preserve her involvement
  • Howard’s bomb speech feels forced to one speaker
  • Sean reiterates his dislike of the Arnold-style punch lines
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1974 film

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