Con Air = CONtinually AIRmazing

Posted by Ali at 21:06 on 03 Jul 2011

Earlier today I went to a 'breakfast' screening (1pm is still breakfast, right?) of Con Air at the Prince Charles Cinema in London's Leicester Square. It's still awesome, but in ways I never even knew before.

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Posted by Field78 at 13:54 on 10/08/11

The best wasn't even mentioned yet:

Garland Greene: "Define 'irony': bunch of idiots dancing in an airplane, to a song made famous by a band that died... in a plane crash."
Swamp Thing: "Nobody on this airplane gives a flying fuck!"
The Virus: [as a man desperately runs off into the desert] "I hope he likes sand".
Poe: [watching a car getting dragged behind the plane]: "On any other day, that might have seemed strange."

Bottom line: sugar up your overdose of testosterone with some great one-liners, cast actors that know how to deliver them, and all will be fine.

Truely this brings back memories of a time when these things called 'tripods' were used to prevent a movie from looking like a 5-year old shot it, and shots had a median lengh of more than a second (yes, A-Team, that's you I'm talking to).

Posted by Kirsty at 14:03 on 08/08/11

it was on TV on Saturday, and it was amazing. Except the last 10 minutes, which are gash.

Posted by Kirsty at 15:21 on 05/07/11

Colm Meaney is an anagram on My Acme Noel.

Wile E Coyote's favourite Christmas.

Posted by Rummaz at 21:12 on 04/07/11

Chapelle is "the body".

Anyway, I went full circle with this film - I first saw it when I was 13-14 and, of course, thought it was awesome. Then after a few viewings and as I got older I realised how ridiculous it was and, for some reason, that stopped me enjoying it. Now I marvel at how ridiculous it is and enjoy it even more than I did as a teenager.

Posted by Ali at 17:43 on 04/07/11

Colm Meaney is an anagram for Camel Money.

Posted by Luke at 16:45 on 04/07/11

"50 Facts About Colm Meaney"?

Posted by Ali at 16:44 on 04/07/11

Colm Meaney is a cold meanie.

Posted by Luke at 16:26 on 04/07/11

Everyone is in this. Even Colm 'Transporter Room' Meaney, he's definitely in it.

Posted by Kirsty at 16:23 on 04/07/11

ConAir is a truly great action film, and its strange to me that it is 15 years old and all of the people in it were famous then and are still going strong now. Who's come up in the last 15 years as an action hero that would be in this kind of explody movie? Statham? Fuck off.

I would only like to add:

Dave Chappelle is in this? Really? I had no idea.

Posted by Nick at 01:55 on 04/07/11

I'm quite fond of The Prince Charles Cinema and was there for the Lost marathon last year. Not such a fan of the weird uphill screen in the basement and the staff who literally said "You're weirdos, we'll see you in 4 days" and then literally disappeared never to be seen again.

Posted by Ed at 23:19 on 03/07/11

Shit, I was totally thinking of going to this for my second Prince Charles visit of the weekend. Then I didn't wake up till midday.

Agree 100%, especially about the supporting cast. One of those films where you always forget who else is in it other than the main few actors, then every time you see it you're like: "Oh he's in it! Awesome! Oh, AND him! YES!" (See also: The Rock.)