Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Jason Coyle and Richard Drumm, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Jan de Bont’s Speed 2: Cruise Control.
SWAT team member Alex Shaw decides to take his girlfriend Annie on a luxurious ocean cruise, planning to propose to her. Fate has other plans, in the form of mysterious terrorist John Geiger, who has a score to settle and a score to pull, hijacking the liner and setting it on a collision course for disaster. Soon enough, it isn’t just Alex and Annie’s relationship that finds itself careening out of control.
At time of recording, it was ranked 97th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 16th August 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Speed 2: Cruise Control at the Internet Movie Database.
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- Anne Bergman at The Los Angeles Times reports of Speed‘s surprising popularity with female audiences, July 1994.
- Bernard Weinraub at The New York Times reports on how Speed established director Jan de Bont’s directorial bona fides, June 1994.
- Alex Pappademas at Grantland looks back on the success of Speed, June 2014.
- Sandra Bullock talks to Cosmopolitan about her breakout role in Speed, November 1994.
- Sandra Bullock talks to Rolling Stone about returning to work on Speed 2, June 1997.
- Keanu Reeves talks to GQ about turning down Speed 2 and his exile from 20th Century Fox, April 2019.
- Claudi Eller at The Los Angeles Times reports on Fox’s bullishness about Speed 2 heading into the summer season, January 1997.
- Sharon Waxman at The Washington Post reports on the jam-packed summer blockbuster season, April 1997.
- Patrick Goldstein at The Los Angeles Time discusses how the summer blockbuster season has become increasingly inflated, August 1997.
- Simon Brew at Film Stories looks at how Fox sold the domestic distribution rights to Titanic to Paramount, April 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes looks on the unlikely success of the re-release of Star Wars, February 2017.
- Gregg Kilday at Entertainment Weekly reports on the “equivocal” success of Fox’ animated Anastasia, January 1998.
- Kara Dennison at FanByte recalls Keanu Reeves’ decision to play Hamlet in Canada instead of making Speed 2, February 2020.
- Kenneth Turan reviews Speed 2: Cruise Control in The Los Angeles Times, June 1997.
- Roger Ebert reviews Speed 2: Cruise Control in The Chicago-Sun Times, June 1997.
- Stephen Junter reviews Speed 2: Cruise Control in The Washington Post, June 1997.
- John McTiernan talks to MovieLine about how Speed 2: Cruise Control was remarkably similar to an early pitch for Die Hard III, August 2001.
- Brian Cronin at Comic Book Resources examines how the movie that would become Die Hard With a Vengeance was briefly considered as a possibile Lethal Weapon 4, March 2013.
- Keanu Reeves admits to Extra that he would be open to returning for Speed 3, December 2021.
- Jason Patric talks to The Irish Independent about how making Speed 2: Cruise Control helped him fund Your Friends & Neighbours, February 2003.
- Jason Patric talks to IGN about why he chose to make Speed 2: Cruise Control, January 2003.
- UPI reports on Keanu Reeves’ motorcycle accident, May 1996.
- Ian Goldstein at Entertainment Weekly reports on why Keanu Reeves turned down Speed 2: Cruise Control, October 2015.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist talks about how user ratings became useless on the internet, September 2022.
- Geraldo Valera at RogerEbert.com considers why Speed 2: Cruise Control is so hated, February 2013.
- Witney Seibold at /Film reports on the bullying and harrassment that Jake Lloyd received for his work on The Phantom Menace, June 2022.
- Jake Lloyd talks to The Daily Mail about how the reaction to his work on The Phantom Menace turned his life into “a living hell”, March 2012.
- Ahmed Best talks to BBC about how the internet’s reaction to his work on The Phantom Menace drove him to suicidal ideation, July 2018.
- Mark Chalon Smith from The Los Angeles Times interviews young audience members who just watched Speed 2: Cruise Control, June 1997.
- Chris Hicks at Deseret News considers the inclusion of Lolita in Speed 2: Cruise Control, June 1997.
- Scott Jordan Harris at The Guardian discusses the inclusion of a prominent deaf character in Speed 2: Cruise Control, March 2021.
- Willem Dafoe talks to The Hartford Courant about his work on Speed 2: Cruise Control, June 1997.
- Willem Dafoe talks to The Mirror about his career choices and options, June 2002.
- Janet Maslin reviews Speed 2: Cruise Control at The New York Times, June 1997.
- James Ryan at The New York Times considers the scale and spectacle of Speed 2: Cruise Control, May 1997.
- The cast and crew of Speed 2: Cruise Control talk about the scale of the production, June 1997.
- Jan de Bont talks to The Los Angeles Times about his concern for the future of spectacle-driven movie-making, June 1997.
- Jan de Bont talks to The Christian Science Monitor about the risk that escalating spectacle poses the future of Hollywood filmmaking, June 1997.
- Judy Brennan and Chris Nashawaty at Entertainment Weekly report on the building bad buzz around Speed 2: Cruise Control, April 1997.
- Susan King at The Los Angeles Times reports on the box office performance of Speed 2: Cruise Control, June 1997.
- Ian Parker at The New Yorker reports on how cinemas had to issue refunds to Ben Stiller fans who showed up for Greenberg, April 2013.
- Sandra Bullock talks to The Los Angeles Times about how the failure of Speed 2: Cruise Control effectively reset her career, May 1998.
- Sandra Bullock talks to The Deseret News about how she was somewhat relieved that Speed 2: Cruise Control bombed, May 1998.
- Sandra Bullock collects her Golden Raspberry Award, March 2007.
- Kimmy Robertson talks to Pop Geeks about her experience on Speed 2: Cruise Control, May 2016.
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