Last week I took a look at some of the movies of which the general consensus is they are classics, but I don't necessarily agree. As promised, this week here's the flip side to that coin, the films that I love, but others may think I'm a little stupid for doing so. These are basically guilty pleasures that I really should know better than to enjoy, but that doesn't mean watching them can't stick a goofy grin on my face and make me forget whatever other crap is invading my life.
5. Con Air
I'd argue with many people that this isn't actually a bad film, it's just highly implausible and tremendous fun, when a band of some of the most dangerous criminals in the world, led by John Malkovich's Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom, take over the plane transporting them to a new prison. Nic Cage is our justifiably law-breaking Navy seal hero catching a ride home with his ridiculous hair, and John Cusack the only man on the ground who believes in him. The cast is as impressively diverse as the film (Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, Mykelti Williamson, Dave Chapelle, M. C. Gainey, Colm Meaney) and Steve Buscemi plays a cannibalistic paedophile. Who (SPOILER) gets away. As in, he's free. In a casino, gambling, in public. We're told he once drove around wearing a young girl's head as a hat. Earlier in the film, he has tea with a little girl playing with a doll, and later we see a smashed tea cup, the girl nowhere to be found. So, presumably he killed her, possibly eating her? This is the oddest scene to put into an action film, especially when you consider Buscemi's Garland Greene isn't in the top 3 antagonists! And did I mention he gets away? And no-one seems to be looking for him?
5. Con Air
I'd argue with many people that this isn't actually a bad film, it's just highly implausible and tremendous fun, when a band of some of the most dangerous criminals in the world, led by John Malkovich's Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom, take over the plane transporting them to a new prison. Nic Cage is our justifiably law-breaking Navy seal hero catching a ride home with his ridiculous hair, and John Cusack the only man on the ground who believes in him. The cast is as impressively diverse as the film (Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, Mykelti Williamson, Dave Chapelle, M. C. Gainey, Colm Meaney) and Steve Buscemi plays a cannibalistic paedophile. Who (SPOILER) gets away. As in, he's free. In a casino, gambling, in public. We're told he once drove around wearing a young girl's head as a hat. Earlier in the film, he has tea with a little girl playing with a doll, and later we see a smashed tea cup, the girl nowhere to be found. So, presumably he killed her, possibly eating her? This is the oddest scene to put into an action film, especially when you consider Buscemi's Garland Greene isn't in the top 3 antagonists! And did I mention he gets away? And no-one seems to be looking for him?
