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 Con Air celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! So I decided it would make a great movie of the month. Starring Nic Cage  John Cusack https://i.imgur.com/6SnunF3.mp4 John Malkovich https://i.imgur.com/te5jHut.mp4 and special guest (among others) Steve Buscemi https://i.imgur.com/E9AdapN.mp4 It's a ton of fun, filled with one liners and explosions. It has a great ensemble cast with supporting actors like Mykelti Williamson, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, Danny Trejo, and Dave Chappelle (who gets thrown out of a plane if you want to see that happen to him). So come celebrate 25 years of Con Air! https://i.imgur.com/W6rMJyx.mp4 Edit: you can watch it in HD if you have Prime Video, but also it's free on Tubi! MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Con air is a lot of fun with a wild concept and a great cast. Definitely a 90s staple of action. My one hot take on it though is that I think Nic Cage is held back too much in this role. He plays a cool, calm hero, but Cage is at his best when you feel like he’s going to lose it. Luckily everyone else is bringing the crazy.
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Jun 2, 2022 01:07
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I feel like Cameron Poe is on the more exaggerated side of things than a lot of the truly awful action movies Nicholas Cage has made where he's just a dude with slick-backed hair and a gun, but, yeah, it's still dialed down from where you want to see him. For some random context, Rachel Ticotin, who played the female corrections officer that Poe protects, also appeared that year in Turbulence, a different movie about criminals hijacking an airplane, starring Ray Liotta, who recently passed. It is also available on Prime. Con Air was director Simon West's first feature film and is easily his best, as compared to such films as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Expendables 2. That said, he did some good work directing music videos when he was starting out. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Jun 2, 2022 01:13
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Sir Kodiak posted:Con Air was director Simon West's first feature film and is easily his best, as compared to such films as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider It was also Jerry Bruckheimer Films first movie which surprised me. (Not Burckheimers first production credit though obviously)
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Jun 2, 2022 01:16
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There’s a version of this film I could see where Cage plays Cusacks character, but dialed up even more. But then that’s really just his role in the Rock which came out before it. Is this one of the only two that Cage and Rhames share? (Bringing out the dead as the other)
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Jun 2, 2022 04:56
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This movie feels very Jerry Bruckheimer (it's sandwiched between The Rock and Armageddon in his production credits). I looked up the cinematographer, David Tattersall, to see if he was a Bruckheimer regular, but apparently not. Instead he went on to shoot Soldier and the Star Wars prequels. Bruckheimer never worked with Simon West again either.
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Jun 2, 2022 05:25
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checkplease posted:There’s a version of this film I could see where Cage plays Cusacks character, but dialed up even more. But then that’s really just his role in the Rock which came out before it. Kiss of Death.
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Jun 2, 2022 09:06
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The whole concept of a decorated soldier getting hard time for defending his pregnant wife from knife wielding rapist bar trash in the south because "hes a deadly weapon" or whatever is almost to ridiculous for even this movie,,,a movie where steve buscemi is supposed to be the most dangerous psychotic serial killer in history. They could have made him guilty of something a jury would actually give a poo poo about.
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Jun 2, 2022 21:15
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Didn’t he make a deal? But the judge just hated military people or something and gave him max penalty.
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Jun 2, 2022 23:25
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honestly Rules of Engagement was worse in that regard in just about every aspect
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Jun 3, 2022 13:27
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question do you think Steve Buscemi's character went on to live a normal life?
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Jun 3, 2022 13:28
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Alan Smithee posted:question He changed his name and went on to a successful, long running career as a character actor and volunteer fireman.
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Jun 3, 2022 16:50
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Not long after he joined an oil rig before succumbing to space dementia on an asteroid. Should have never put him on that plane.
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Jun 3, 2022 23:23
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oh wow i had totally forgotten that Dave Chapelle was in this
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Jun 6, 2022 00:41
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An absolute blast of a film, entertaining from start to finish, with a sense of constant escalation. Every time I rewatch it (every couple of years) I think "maybe this time it'll be too silly for me", but no, it's still great. I am also grateful to Homestuck for pointing a particular demographic of young nerds toward this movie for the first time back in '010 or so.
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Jun 6, 2022 16:04
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Getting my watch in right now. Good poo poo. Nic Cage telling Mykelti Williamson "I'm going to show you God does exist" is 
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Jun 7, 2022 19:57
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I saw this in the cinema back in the day and I had brought a 1,5 liter bottle of Pepsi that I managed to finish about an hour into the film. I had to piss so bad that it was physically painful for the last 30 minutes or so but I didn't want to miss a second so I powered through until the end. 10/10 stars.
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Jun 12, 2022 19:53
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I've never actually seen it, now's my chance I suppose! 5 minutes in I'm beginning to realise that this isn't the same film as Airplane, and my life has been a lie. Edit 2: Well that was an extremely silly film. Pretty good! Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Jun 12, 2022 |
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Jun 12, 2022 20:30
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Malkovitch grew frustrated as there were a lot of rewrites on set. I thought he was great as Cyrus.
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Jun 15, 2022 19:05
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He absolutely should have just gone to trial, he never would have seen the inside of a prison cell! But I love this dumb fun movie 
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Jun 16, 2022 23:57
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Just watched Wild at Heart and I realized that both feature Nic Cage going to jail, his blond gf raising their kid whiles he’s in jail, and then meeting this at end of the film where he gives them a stuffed animal. Both versions of Cage also have a southern accent of sorts.
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Jun 19, 2022 03:12
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I mean, one could make the argument that Nic Cage went to prison because he got convicted of manslaughter (no witnesses to back up self-defense claims so it's plausible the jury was convinced) but the filmmakers had to have the judge say "you're going to jail because you are a lethal weapon". I mean, it's dumb but the movie kinda is overall (in a good way) so it makes sense but still.
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Jun 22, 2022 07:33
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His wife and the bar owner? (Whoever says "Cameron this guy's deyy-ed")were witnesses weren't they? Edit: ok the wife sees them 3v1 him then runs off to get some guy. Also it's weird how the drunk guy who's like mid 30s at most is still fixated on Vietnam in 1997. banned from Starbucks fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 16:25
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banned from Starbucks posted:His wife and the bar owner? (Whoever says "Cameron this guy's deyy-ed")were witnesses weren't they? They weren’t there for the part where he does the nose bone into brain urban legend move, or for when the guy pulled a knife. And his friend takes the knife and runs off so it’s not there for evidence. However the judge throwing out the plea bargain because of his ninja training is an all time moment, very worth it
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Gertrude Perkins posted:I am also grateful to Homestuck for pointing a particular demographic of young nerds toward this movie for the first time back in '010 or so. That’s me. Homestuck instilled a lifelong love of Cage (which itself got me into filmmaking.) I themed my bar mitzvah after the man lmao EDIT: It is fine that I resurrected this year-old thread because I am on an airplane.
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