CON AIR (1997)
Director : Simon West
Cast :
Nicolas Cage……………………..Cameron Poe)
John Cusack……………………...U.S.
John Malkovich…………………..Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom
Ving Rhames……………………..Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones
Nick Chinlund…………………….William 'Billy Bedlam' Bedford
Steve Buscemi.................................Garland 'The Marietta
Colm Meaney …………………….DEA Agent Duncan Malloy
Rachel Ticotin…………………….Guard Sally Bishop
Dave Chappelle…………………...Joe 'Pinball' Parker
Mykelti Williamson……………….Mike 'Baby-O' O'Dell
Danny Trejo……………………….Johnny 'Johnny-23' Baca
Steve Eastin………………………..Guard Falzon
Renoly Santiago ……………………Ramon 'Sally-Can't Dance' Martinez
Etc..........
Story:
Cameron Poe, of the US Army, is found guilty of manslaughter after killing a drunk man while protecting his wife outside a bar, he is sent to jail for eight years. Finally, he's being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the most dangerous criminals in the country, who somehow took control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country with the plane. The D.E.A quickly learns of the event and plans on shooting the plane down, but U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin sees Poe as an ally and tries to work with him before his superiors shoot down the plane.
23 Favorite Quote
(sort in order of favorite level)
1. Garland Greene: “What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?”
2. Cyrus Grissom: “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to Con Air.”
3. Duncan Malloy: “Beautiful? Sunsets are beautiful, newborn babies are beautiful. This... this is fucking spectacular!”
4. Vince Larkin: “You with me, or do you need me to draw it in crayon, like usual?”
5. Cyrus Grissom: [holding a gun to Cameron Poe's head] “Before I kill you, Poe. I just wanted you to know the last thing that little Casey Poe ever gets to smell will be *my* *stinking* *breath*!”
6. ["Sweet Home Alabama" plays in background]Garland Greene: “Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.”
7. Cameron Poe: [to Larkin] “Sorry boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you.”
8. Cyrus Grissom: “The last guy who told me to have patience, I burned him down and bagged his ashes.”
9. [they can't reach Vince Larkin]Duncan Malloy: “Of course you're having trouble reaching him. He's off saving the rain forest, or recycling his sandals or some shit.”
10. Cyrus Grissom: [to Johnny 23] “I despise rapists. For me, you're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you're really thirsty. But, in your case, I'll make an exception.”
11. Duncan Malloy: “This is a situation that needs to get unfucked, right now!”
12. Garland Greene: “One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.”
13. Johnny 23: “Do you know what I am?”
Cameron Poe: “Ugly all day?”
14. Cameron Poe: “They somehow managed to get every creep and freak in the universe onto this one plane. And then somehow managed to let them take it over. And then somehow managed to stick us right smack in the middle.”
15. Cyrus Grissom: [Poe and Cyrus stopped Johnny from going for Guard Bishop] “Do you fly, Johnny?”
Johnny 23: “No.”
Cyrus Grissom: “You keep that in mind when you look at her. Because if your dick jumps out of your
pants, you jump off this plane.”
16. Cameron Poe: “Well, Baby-O, it's not exactly mai-thais and yatzee out here but... let's do it!”
[runs through hail of gunfire, explosions, etc]
17. [to the pilot whom he is holding at gunpoint]
Cyrus Grissom: “And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse!”
18. Vince Larkin: " ‘The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by observing its prisoners.’
Dostevsky said that... after doin' a little time.”
Duncan Malloy: "Fuck you!" Cyrus Grissom said that after putting a bullet in my agent's head, okay?”
19. Guard Falzon: “It smells like someone shit in your mouth.”
Pinball: “He told me he loved me.”
20. Billy Joe: [to Poe] “Chicken shit. 'Cause of pussies like you we lost Vietnam. I'll tell you that.”
21. Guard Falzon: “See, this kinda thing puts me in a foul mood. These rules will be enforced. If there's a hint of trouble, if any of you so much as passes gas in my direction it offends my delicate nasal passages, your testicles will become my personal property.”
22. Agent Sims: “I'm DEA, d'you know what the fuck that means?”
Pinball: “It means you're the most crooked nigger on this plane!”
23. Pinball: “I don't know how to tell ya this, Cyrus, but we are three white guys short. Or as they say in Ebonics, ‘We be fucked’.”
