And we're back! We've decided to begin 2024 with a series of good ol' fashioned (and perhaps some new-fashioned) heist movies, beginning of course with perhaps the silliest romp ever made, Con Air. Con Air stars Nicholas Cage as an Alabama soldier who is too powerful for regular laws and must be subjected to super laws when he nobly and selflessly* beats a man to death for flirting with his poor helpless wife and is sent to prison. Once released he becomes a passenger on "Con Air," a prison transport plane where we meet all sorts of attitudes toward prison and criminality (and Steve Buscemi is there!).
We can't say this movie is intentionally commenting on the prison industrial complex, but we can say that it is ridiculous and that we're mostly here for Nic Cage's accent.
Don't forget to email us for transcripts (thejuiciestbitspodcast@gmail.com) or just to say hello! Also, don't forget to subscribe and comment!
*this beating is neither noble nor selfless, and we tend to think he should have used his words/driven away in his car, which was RIGHT THERE.
