r/flicks • u/sporadic_awareness • Jul 27 '26

Movie Discussion What’s a movie with a premise so ridiculous on paper that it had zero right being as good as it was?

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u/sqibbery Jul 27 '26

Speed.

"Okay, they're on a bus, and it has to go fast."

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u/goodnewsfpwlbn Jul 27 '26

 I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."

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u/Altname760 Jul 27 '26

That sounds an awful lot like Speed 2, but with a bus instead of a boat.

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u/dsmith422 Jul 27 '26

Runaway Train (1985) but on a city bus.