Guilty Pleasure B Movie: "Con Air"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

For some reason this has gotten a lot of play on cable when I've been working nights recently. Hadn't really watched it before...

Good Guilty Pleasure Elements:

-3 of the most "over the top" actors in recent times, Nic Cage, John Malkovich, and Steve Buscemi

-Produced by "over the top" action spectacle Bruckheimer company

-Completely over the top story including plane crash landing on Vegas Strip in the movie's climax.


"Roadhouse" gets a lot of love in the Lounge, but give me "Con Air"...

[mitchum]

1. Man, when I saw the coming attractions for that...

I first thought it was something in the "Airplane" franchise, but after a couple of minutes with no gags, I actually yelled aloud in the theatre, "Holy fuck, they're serious!"

[lady raven]

2. I have to admit...

I love it too. I find something oddly sexy about Steve Buschemi, and, as a child of the 80s, I still have quite the thing for John Cusack.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. I thought the villains (Malkovich, Buscemi and Rhames) were great.

But the rest was not so good.

[tuvor]

4. What does personal grooming have to do with the movie, anyway?

[MarianJack]

5. 7 words for you, Mayberry Machiavelli!

"PUT...THE BUNNY...BACK...IN THE BOX!"

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. "But Cy-"

"...onara."


:D That movie is awesome- you have to have a huge suspension of disbelief to believe that a plane full of the most notorious criminals in the country has only like three guards. :eyes:

[realisticphish]

8. and that

they would be locked up using locks that can be picked with a straight pin

[jobycom]

7. What's not to love? Way better than Roadhouse!!

Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, Ashley Judd, Steve Buscemi, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames? C'mon, even a cheesy script with that cast has to work at least a little bit.

I actually love the movie, but I tend to watch for characters, and don't really pay much attention to goofy-ass premises or special affects. I use chase and fight scenes to go grab popcorn. I was up a lot in Roadhouse.

[Divameow77]

11. I don't think Ashley Judd was in it,

wasn't it Monica Potter?

[jobycom]

19. You're right! I'veconfused them before, in Along Came a Spider

And thanks for the subtle way of correcting me, rather than screaming "YOU'RE WRONG, MORAN!. :hi:

[ET Awful]

9. What I found puzzling about that movie is that the one time I've ever

seen Buscemi look halfway sane is the time when he's playing a psychopath :evilgrin:

[ellie]

10. This was on the premium

movie channels a couple weeks ago and I admit, I got sucked in and watched practically the whole thing. It moves quick, it's cheesy, and it's great entertainment when you want that sort of thing.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. Great escapism.

I watched Buscemi in "Escape from LA" last night and boy that's some doozer of a movie that manages to be unintentionally brilliant.

[DS1]

13. Too much slo-motion walking for me

It can't even make Steve Buscemi look cool OR dangerous

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Don't forget

The creepy guy coming back to joing the crowd carrying a doll. The screenwriter is a complete son of a bitch.

[DS1]

20. Yeah

but when the plane was taking off again, one of the camera shots was looking over the shoulder of the little girl. He didn't 'off' her.

[Shell Beau]

15. Haha! I know one of the actors in that movie.

The convict that flew the plane. We call him Tank. He also played in Breakdown and was the naked guy in Sideways and Rosco in Dukes of Hazzard!

[peekaloo]

16. I'll take a lame Cusack movie over any Swayze "film".

Even if it's not about a hair dryer. :dunce:

[CornField]

17. Define irony

"a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." (Sweet Home Alabama)

I love that show. Cusak... :loveya:

[LynneSin]

18. Steve Buscemi made that movie

I mean Cage & Malkovich were good but nothing could touch that sick perv playing barbies and having tea with that lil girl in the drained out pool.


Plus the best Con Air quote comes from Buscemi:

<"Sweet Home Alabama" plays in background>
Garland Greene: Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

[El Fuego]

21. "Put... the bunny... back... in the... box."

That was my favorite part.

[ragin_acadian]

22. Bruckheimer...

sometimes I wonder if he decides on all the explosions and crashes, and then says: "and now all we need is a script"

[RockaFowler]

23. I admit it - I like it too

I own the DVD. It's one of those Armageddon, Bad Boys kind of nights that you just need a real good cheesy movie. Plus as someone mentioned earlier - John Cusack. Gotta love him!