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FilmPG-131997
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Directed by Jan de Bont
A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of the hijacker, it's up to the one cop on vacation and his soon to be fiancé (hopefully) Annie to regain control of it before it kills the passengers and causes an environmental disaster. Insurmountable and daunting tasks await them on their perilous journey throughout… From TMDB
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Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 action thriller film, directed by Jan de Bont, starring Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock and Willem Dafoe.
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neutral · AI labelView post →I think we all have little demons that sit on our shoulders and continually whisper the same lies we already know to be lies in our ears. Mine constantly tells me, "Speed 2: Cruise Control isn't a bad movie. You just weren't in the right mood every time you've watched it."
neutral · AI labelView post →Replace a word in a movie with ‘butthole’ Speed 2: Butthole Control
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #lastfourwatched are all influenced by the fact that my 5 year old picks everything now. Frankenweenie was cute and surprisingly violent, Speed 2 is fascinatingly bad, and Spider-Man 3 deserves a second look. fuck that dogs purpose movie though, ontologically evil flick
negative · AI labelView post →My friends and I often refer to the "Speed 2 effect." Ebert had the only positive review of that movie. If you read it, he describes a really pleasant summer day where he watched a stupid movie in an air conditioned theater with a cold drink and warm popcorn. Sometimes it just be like that.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️ Haven’t watched much as I was on a cruise last week (hence needing to watch Speed 2 and Titanic on the plane over). Wicked was playing on the ship, and Limelight was the film for the flight home! @letterboxd.social boxd.it/1LxY3
neutral · AI labelView post →if i ever stop i will explode, like that movie Speed and, to a lesser extent, Speed 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Speed 2
neutral · AI labelView post →just heard one of my kids in the next room mention the subtitle of Speed 2, “Cruise Control,” and ONLY JUST NOW processed that the subtitle for this movie that I haven’t seen since 1997 is a pun on the cruise-ship setting
neutral · AI labelView post →You’re locked inside a movie theater for 24 hours. You can only watch movies starring one actor the entire time. Whose filmography are you choosing? #moviesky #filmsky (Even SPEED 2)
neutral · AI labelView post →High Speed 2? More like Speed 2!!!* *You know, 'Speed 2: Cruise Control', the underwhelming film. www.ft.com/content/e0ec...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Season 2 premiere of Silo this Friday, Nov. 15, is called "The Engineer." It was written by Graham Yost who wrote the movie that made Speed 2 possible. #Silo
neutral · AI labelView post →I have two volumes of his reviews where he hated the movie. I want another collection of his raves about bad movies. Speed 2, Congo, The Phantom Menace, etc. The man loved trash.
neutral · AI labelView post →Speed was an absolutely stellar movie. I pretend the sequel doesn't exist. Mr Reeves knew Speed 2 was 💩
negative · AI labelView post →Chops Top 5: Sandra Bullock movies 1. Speed 2. Gravity 3. Miss Congeniality 4. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 5. The Heat #chopsfives #topfive reply or QT to share yours
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean that is by some margin, the largest amount of momentum I've ever seen directed at a bollard, or certainly anything man-made that didn't then immediately crumble. Compare with Speed 2: youtu.be/gBxaGB65TB8
neutral · AI labelView post →Truly, a singular kid's movie will end cinema. That's what happens when people stop watching the true greats like Speed 2
positive · AI labelView post →Film YouTube is great because you'll get videos called "Speed 2: Cruise Control EXPLAINED" for even the most straightforward, unambiguous plots ever put to screen.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d have him go as the guy he played in Speed 2 with those leeches because that garbage movie haunts me, it might as well haunt the neighborhood
negative · AI labelView post →Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie: SPEED 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Speed 2 would have been so much better as a Statham movie. fight at the buffet. fight down the water slide into the pool. C-level comedian taken hostage.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched the stupidest movie ever made.. "Speed 2: Cruise Control"
negative · AI labelView post →#Defoebruary #Moviesky Kicking off my Willem Defoe deep dive/movies I haven't seen with the box office disaster: Speed 2 cruise control (1997) Director: who cares (Jon de Bont)
negative · AI labelView post →Judging by her review of the recent film Wilson clearly has sketchy knowledge of the history of film so won't be able to learn any lessons about remakes from the failures of Speed 2 , Beverly Hills Cop 2 , Robot Cop 2 ....
neutral · AI labelView post →I can still remember what it felt like watching Speed 2 in the cinema, like someone put salt in my fuel tank. Keanu was wise to jump that ship, how can you make a film about speed on a boat that never goes above 18mph?
negative · AI labelView post →It wasn't clear to me until I watched the film last night that Speed 2: Cruise Control is not, in fact, an action film, but a romcom in which Sandra Bullock goes on the Worst Date Ever but tries to make a decent fist of it all the same. Would recommend! Also it has Lucy from Twin Peaks in it.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Speed 2: Cruise Control for the first time and… …I’m so confused. And I don’t understand why I’m confused, and I don’t *like* that I’m confused because this is a sequel to a movie about a 💣 on a bus, and idk which is more ridiculous: the plot or my confusion by it.
neutral · AI labelView post →New on the blog today, my thoughts on BOX OFFICE POISON by Tim Robey. A hugely entertaining roll call of filmic wreckage from the past hundred years - featuring Doctor Dolittle, Catwoman, Speed 2 and many more! #FilmSky #BookSky 💙📚 #BookReview jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →I couldn’t remember how to spell Willem Dafoe’s first name so I had to look him up on IMDB. What was the first movie I thought of to locate him? Speed 2: Cruise Control
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm now wondering how fast the boat was going in Speed 2 (a film I have never seen)
neutral · AI labelView post →Speed 2 is a fascinating movie because i cannot think of another sequel that: only follows the deuteragonist, changes the format so much it might as well just be a new movie. There's no hostages on the boat and the boat can never run into LA traffic so there's no stakes. Who cares how fast a boat is
negative · AI labelView post →I wanted to watch Die Hard, my partner wanted to watch a Sandra Bullock film so somehow I’m rewatching Speed 2 for the second time this year. First time was on the flight to our cruise in summer. But hey, on the very rare occasion he actually wants to watch a film, who am I to judge? (I am judging)
negative · AI labelView post →Speed is not a Christmas movie. Speed 2: Cruise Control is an Arbor Day movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, baby. Want to come over for dinner and a movie? I just bought a DVD of Speed 2 at the gas station. I've never seen it. Cool. Hey, can you bring a DVD player. Thanks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watching Speed 2 (don’t ask) and I groaned when I heard UB40 on the soundtrack…a second later FFS UB40 ARE IN IT! SHIT NOW THEY’RE PLAYING MULTIPLE SONGS. Christ on a bike man what a dogshit movie compared to the first
negative · AI labelView post →#Watching THE HEAT Bullock and McCarthy's verbal and physical comedy more than make you wish there was a sequel. C'mon, Sandy! You did Speed 2 and Miss Congeniality 2. Your sequel standards cannot be that high. letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflo... #letterboxd #letterboxdfriday #movie #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →"Bay didn’t do this movie." (Chris) "But did he do Speed 2?" "No, but it’s a Bay trope." (Andrew) "It’s in the Bay area." -Con Air
neutral · AI labelView post →The script for SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL was originally written as the third installment of DIE HARD. Both Bruce Willis and filmmaker John McTiernan thought it was so bad they refused to do the movie. It sat on the shelf for a few years before it was recycled as the sequel to Speed. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →HE ALREADY KNOWS THE BETTER BOAT MOVIE IS SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL
neutral · AI labelView post →"Correct me if I’m wrong, but I swear on my Amazon stream, the 20th Century Fox theme song sounded out of tune. It’s like we have that little confidence in this movie, we’re going to play the theme song wrong." -Speed 2: Cruise Control
neutral · AI labelView post →Five #movies for this weeks #moviechallenge In the Grey (2026) 🔁 (2026 rewatch list) Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) 🔁 Seriously slept on movie. Godzilla Minus One (2023) 🔁 Forgotten Island (2026) 🔁 (Theatrical re-watch) Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow Fox apparently blocked him for roles because he turned down Speed 2.....a film that has a worse Rotten Tomatoes score than Die Hard 5.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh sure, Robert Wise was talented and respected, but could he have made a movie like Speed 2: Cruise Control? 😁
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't believe this was the last movie he made before SPEED 2 killed his career like the bolt gun from No Country For Old Men
neutral · AI labelView post →Speed 2 was a faulty sequel not because it was a bad movie, but because they went from the main character being a bus to a cruise ship. That's too big. It should have been a series about progressively larger vehicles. Not doing so killed the franchise
neutral · AI labelView post →Speed 2. It is the only movie I've rented that I stopped watching in the first 20 minutes and returned to the video store. I *detest* that shaky-cam bullshit.
negative · AI labelView post →"Bay didn’t do this movie." (Chris) "But did he do Speed 2?" "No, but it’s a Bay trope." (Andrew) "It’s in the Bay area." -Con Air
neutral · AI labelView post →If it’s not Higb Speed then it’s just… Speed 2. That was a piece of shit film ruining a decent original idea, so yes this works.
negative · AI labelView post →I have to have white noise on in background when I’m marking, or else I give up quickly & want to do something else. Usually, it’s a movie. My top 5 comfort 🎞️s to watch while marking are (don’t ask me why, they just are): 1) Speed 2) Scream 3) The Devil Wears Prada 4) Die Hard 4 5) Black Panther
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh God, I forgot about Speed 2: Cruise Control. Thankfully they're doing another film, hopefully this one is better.
negative · AI labelView post →Revenge of the Movie Novelization: Jason Lives, Rocky, and Speed 2 #rocky #fridaythe13th #nostalgia #80snostalgia
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a very good “dumb” movie, but it was probably an absolutely MISERABLE movie to make. Then SPEED 2 happened and de Bont nearly killed several people, including his star, and wrecked a whole lot of other things. Yeah, he needed to be put into director jail.
neutral · AI labelView post →A woman driving a speedboat!?!?!? Now that ain’t right… it just ain’t. What is this movie… Speed 2: Cruise Control??? #MonochromeCreeps #Pitfall #Noirvember
neutral · AI labelView post →With #KPopDemonHunters being so popular right now, I do have to ask... Is the sequel (which I heard is in the works) going to be as good as Terminator 2, or will it be as crappy as Speed 2? Also, even if others may not like the movie, will the fans be, um, respectful to them?
neutral · AI labelView post →Lazynets. The crappy film Speed 2 (1997) had this device being used through a D-Sub connector to hack the ship. We've been trying to work out whether this was a PDA from the period or just a non-functional prop. It's the wrong shape for a Newton, could be a Palm. Any ideas?
neutral · AI labelView post →I read an absolutely wonderful book today called Box Office Poison, which was about some of the most notorious flops in Hollywood. Most of the usual suspects(Intolerance, Nothing But Trouble, Cutthroat Island, Speed 2 for starters) were there. But there was also a movie I'd never heard of called
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Speed 2. It's a movie about two absolute lunatics on a cruise: one who's an adrenaline junkie who chases his high as LAPD SWAT, and one who's so oblivious to things around her that she waves a chainsaw at ppl's faces and blows red lights like they don't exist. And they're dating.
neutral · AI labelView post →Speed 2: Cruise Control sounds like an underground anti-Scientology film about Tom Cruise. 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s like that movie Speed 2, except instead of being on a boat, it’s on a bus.
neutral · AI labelView post →On Feature of Habit, here's what we're looking at for the coming days in our last full week of March. 3/19 — Stop Making Sense (1984) 3/20 — The Da Vinci Code (2006) 3/21 — The Muppet Movie (1979) 3/22 — Karate Kid (2010) 3/23 — Speed 2 (1997) 3/24 — Friday the 13th (1980) 3/25 — Vertigo (1958)
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