SPEED was the first movie screened in a Dolby Surround sound In India (Chennai). The environment in Devi Theatre was electrifying, mind blowing sound. The whole hall was jam packed and people screamed their lungs out on hearing the score. Mark Mancina's best score as far as I can recall.
The whole title sequence is a minature effect. Absolutely incredible. The score is still amongst one of my favourite main themes of any action picture. Brilliant!!!
Exactely when movies didn't have generic music. ;) The 90s was the best (Terminator 2, Twister, Independance day, Speed, Jurassic Park, True Lies, Armageddon, Titanic, Deep Impact ... The 90s was the gold age of movie music. ;)
Saw this in the theater the day it opened. My brother and I were sitting around the living room one summer afternoon and we decided that we could make the next show time. The problem was the movie started in 15 minutes and the theater was 25-30 minutes away. Like the movie, we sped through traffic and opened the doors to our theater just as 20th Century Fox came up. I will never forget that! Great memories!
I had my mom drive me to Specs through a hurricane the day we had off school just to get one of the first VHS copies and watch it again all day. Great times and the opening score and elevator scenes were the best and met Keanu and he was so pleasant and down to earth and just amazing.
My favorite Keanu Reeves & Jeff & Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock film of all time, I was 12 when I first watched it with younger 9 year old brother CG :)
Speed, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Bad Boys, Rush Hour, Enemy of The State, Passenger 57, The Rock, Under Seige, The Negotiator, Metro, Goldeneye, Eraser, Terminator 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Cliffhanger, True Lies and Kiss The Girls are the greatest action thrillers of the 90's!
This was and always will be the best action movie. There are no movies like these anymore least not ones without Dwayne Johnson. Where is a great action movie that doesn’t have DJ no superficial model chick, and no massive explosions in every corner of the screen?
and during the Lockdown channels were Airing this movie. as of the making of this comment I'm going tent camping one week with my Friends and were watching this movie when we get there. One knows it and there doesn't they saw it so for the camping to rent the DVD from the library for a fun movie night.
There was a sense of intrigue and purpose with the cinematography in the 80s and 90s, especially without the overdone HDR and nauseatingly rehashed color (de)grading that we're deluged with these days. Miss that film look.
This movie came out about 94. But I remember I didn't really notice this piece of music until a couple years later when SKY used it on a promo for the Tyson Holyfield fight in 96. Then I put 2 and 2 together and realised it was actually from Speed
2:24 There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.
The editors of the opening credits of these movies with Mark Mancina doing the score are perfect, when the score peaks. *bang* 'Composed by Mark Mancina!' Bad Boys did the same on the opening as well.
Unless you're expecting absolute credibility, this film is hard to hate. Although admittedly, director Jan DeBont fiseled in quality after this and Twister. Haunting could've better but worse, imo. J D Bont did something with Nicholas Cage or Liam Neeson a few years ago, but I forget what. Even with this opening sequence, I love how the music intensifies with the speed of the elevator, what happened to all that after the 90s decade?
It's quite interesting that this moving I used to watch When I Was Little when I was sitting down with my father at the time it was processing the early 90s I must have been round about 8 or 10 years old and I couldn't understand it at to have potential time for there is a hidden message inside this movie pre warning a person of their future which the Americans can predict somebody's future
Just to think that the intro is actually extremely boring and long... but the music makes it an awesome experience. As a teen, i thought this movie had the best music.
@@cjpwolf2436 Speed Originally Had The 1981 Fanfare (1994 Laserdisc, 1994 & 1996 Premiere Series & TCF Selections VHS & 2002 DVD (USA & UK)), Some Prints (1996 Widescreen Series & 1997 DVS VHS) had the 1994 fanfare, 1999 US & UK DVD Had the 1998 Fanfare
@@juancarlosavilasalinas9911 I feel bad for him. Because the plaster was the best thing [not on the 2004 DVD which has the camera sideways witch is a bad Idea]
