Con Air Movie Details
Con Air taglines:One wrong flight can ruin your whole day
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| Directors: Simon West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 out of 71,330 votes |
“Con Air” 1997 by Simon West – Movie Goofs
“Con Air” Plot Summary
A newly released ex-con and former US Ranger finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.
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“Con Air” Goofs List
- Continuity: When Bishop tries to restrain Pinball, her hat has fallen off, yet it reappears, disappears, and reappears on her head.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Diamond Dog gets the small arsenal out from the belly of the plane, he opens a box of shotguns. He pulls them out and throws them to nearby cons, but when the camera switches to the cons, they are catching assault rifles, not shotguns, because he’s opened the second box as well.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Duncan Malloy’s car hits the ground, a cable holding the front left tire is visible.
- Errors in geography: When the plane is crashing at the Las Vegas strip the casinos that the plane hits / passes are all in wrong order. The plane passes the Stratosphere and is heading south on the strip. It then hits the guitar for the Hard Rock Hotel, which is not even on the strip, but is several blocks east and much further south. Then they show the Circus Circus sign, which is after the Stratosphere. A few clips later as the plane is about to touch down it passes the white wooden roller coaster of the Boardwalk Casino. The casino is on the wrong side of the plane if it is flying south, and the Boardwalk casino is miles south of The Sands, where the plane finally stops. The next exterior shot shows the Barbary Coast and it is in the correct place south of Circus Circus and to the correct side of the southbound plane. Other shots show the Mirage and the Sands being mixed up and the plane finally ends at the front door of The Sands (which is no longer in existence).
- Continuity: When the plane crashes onto the strip and heads for the casino it passes a white Corvette. When the plane stops, the same white Corvette is there again.
- Continuity: When the plane is headed to crash at the Las Vegas strip, the sky shows that it is sunset or dusk. About two cuts later, the sky is pitch black.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Diamond Dog and another con look similar to some people, leading to apparent continuity errors.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Cameron Poe takes the photograph of his daughter back from Guard Falson. A while later, Cameron shakes him and demands the photograph. But he didn’t really want the photograph; this was a cover for planting the tape.
- Factual errors: The C-123 aircraft does not have lower compartments as depicted in the movie.
- Factual errors: Towards the end of the movie, when the C-123 is over Las Vegas, it hits a neon guitar and separates a portion of the wing. With the amount of the wing that is sheared off, and the fact that the engine on the same wing isn’t running, the aircraft would not be able to level out and would not fly – it would drop onto the broken wing and crash on its side.
- Continuity: Just before Poe meets Larkin, he is surrounded by people with guns. He holds his hands out and away from him as a gesture of surrendering. His arms are back down at his sides for the close-ups, but are out and away from him again during other shots.
- Errors in geography: When the plane in supposed to be over Fresno, we see that it is actually over the intersection of State Street and North Temple Street in downtown Salt Lake City.
- Factual errors: In the beginning, as the film mentions the accomplishments of the US Army Rangers, most of the stock footage from Desert Storm is of US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and US Marines, not of Rangers.
- Revealing mistakes: When the plane is tied to the cement post and is being shot at by Cyrus, there is a frame that clearly shows the hook detached from the rope. It is barely visible in real time, but if viewed frame by frame, it is evident. This same rope attaches itself to Malloy’s car seconds later and lifts it into the air.
- Continuity: When the plane lands in Carson City, it is met by guards wearing “Dept. of Prisons” jackets and a bus painted with “Bureau of Prisons” in the side.
- Continuity: At the desert airfield when Poe and Larkin meet next to the drug baron’s private jet, we see one of the bad guys looking out of the cockpit of the aircraft at them. The window he looks out of in close-up is clearly a Gates/Bombardier Lear jet cockpit window, but the aircraft is a Rockwell Sabreliner.
- Revealing mistakes: When Larkin is driving the car at high speeds to the airfield, he is supposed to be driving along the straight road, yet we can see from the shadow circling round him and the sun moving when he is on the phone, that he is driving round in circles.
- Continuity: The gear stick in the car when Larkin is driving the car to the airfield.
- Continuity: When Larkin is running to a building when the plane is landing at Lerner Air Field, his sunglasses are on. But an instant later when he opens the door and goes into the building, his sun glasses are off.
- Continuity: When DEA Agent Sims is holding Pinball as a human shield, his arm is around/not around his neck between shots
- Continuity: Cyrus orders dead DEA agent Sims’ prison clothes to be put on guard Falzon, but there is no way they would fit the much taller and heavier guard. In fact when we see him being taken from the plane, they are actually quite loose on him. Furthermore, Cyrus shot Sims in the chest (where the heart is). An area where a bullet hole will be clearly visible for people to see. So, it should have been easier for the other guards to find out that these were not real prisoners.
- Continuity: When DEA Agent Willie Sims is shot on the plane, the blood on his lips moves three times.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The whole band Lynard Skynard did not die in a plane crash. Although their plane did crash, only three members of the band were killed along with three other passengers. The other seven members of the band escaped with injuries.
- Errors in geography: Prior to accidentally killing the drunk, Poe is outside of the bar, with a “BAR” sign visible. Alabama prohibits using the word “bar”. It would be a “club”, “place”, or just about anything else, but never a bar.
- Continuity: When Larkin runs into the hangar in search of a plane or chopper, Malloy’s Corvette is visible behind him through the open gate, covered with a blue tarp. Once Larkin is out and considers using the Corvette, the tarp is gone.
- Continuity: More than one Corvette was used for all the shots – there were at least two different model years. The rear shots show a 1966 without back-up lights in the panel, and a 1967 which do have the back-up lights.
- Continuity: Towards the very end of the movie, you see the stuffed bunny being washed down a gutter drain. Poe grabs it and you can see that it is wet, yet when he gives it to his daughter, it is dry.
- Factual errors: The pilot of the Cobra attack helicopter is aiming at the C-123K. We can see him putting the target box on the plane’s port engine. However, external shots of the helicopter show there are only non-guided missiles fitted on it.
- Factual errors: The Cobra helicopters are armed with M197 20mm rotary cannons, but when they are firing into the back of the C-123K, the cannon barrels are not rotating.
- Continuity: We see Larkin put his sunglasses up to his eyes twice in consecutive shots as the DEA helicopters take off to shoot down the plane.
- Factual errors: The only airport in Carson City is incapable of landing a C-123K, as even the unloaded weight of the aircraft exceeds the airport’s published load limits.
- Continuity: In several scenes we see Swamp Thing steering the plane with the control wheel while the plane is on the ground. You actually steer a plane with pedals at the pilot’s feet when the plane is on the ground, not with the control wheel.
- Factual errors: Baby O states that if he doesn’t get his insulin within two hours, he would die; however, this is not how diabetes works and is a common misconception in movies and TV. Unless Baby O’s glucose levels are incredibly high (which is highly unlikely, as it is obvious he has [up to that point] been controlling his levels) he would be able to go for months on end before having such serious health problems. Far more dangerous is for a diabetic to take insulin when his glucose levels are low.
- Continuity: When Garland Greene removes the doll from the little girl’s tea party, in the close up of the doll’s head, he clearly uses his right hand to lift the doll, but when he sits down, he is holding it with his left hand.
- Errors in geography: When Poe and Larken chase the fire truck they end up in a tunnel that appears to be near Las Vegas Blvd. The only tunnel in the city is a bypass to the airport that connects to the 215 Freeway which didn’t even exist until 1998.
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