I was watching Speed 2 last night and before you say it, yes it gets dark at 5pm and I don’t have any paid streaming services at the moment. Free YouTube movies for the win! This movie is from 1997 so you can imagine how dated it is now after so many technological advances just in the past 25 years. Sandra Bullock is great though and even though the movie is simply too long (I fell asleep after the 3rd ending), I think it filled in quite nicely as the entertainment for an evening.
Music in movies matters a lot. Right off the top of my head I’m thinking of movies like A Knight’s Tale, Elizabethtown, The Lion King… movies with fantastic songs weaved in to the storyline perfectly. Oh, how about my favorite rom com movie ending ever, Never Been Kissed? The way they used The Beach Boys “Don’t Worry, Baby” was 10/10. That’s a specific song at a specific moment and another great example is the wedding scene in Crazy Rich Asians. Using “Can’t Help Falling in Love” was simply to die for! It was excellent.
Speed 2 on the other hand, used the same song, one of my favorite versions actually and it was basically just background noise. They had a chance to bring the song to the forefront of the scene but instead it’s basically just a forgettable moment and I hated that! It’s the dinner scene with UB40 on stage singing “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and if you aren’t paying attention you’ll miss it. Just like the movie producers did.
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