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One year after my first attempt, on a sunny Saturday morning, my husband Shawn dumped me into the ocean at the Kona Pier and, with 2,500 of my closest friends and competitors, we started swimming as that cannon went off promptly at 7am.
Gunpowder, cannon.
In 1453, the Turks brought their super weapon: a monster cannon that could fire a 15 hundred pound stone ball over a mile.
He had this idea, a little mental experiment: You take a cannon, you put it on top of a hill.
And I can still vividly remember furiously finning to reach this old, encrusted cannon on a shallow coral reef.
Well, obviously the next thing to do was build a cannon.
They had two machine guns and a cannon, and they had 90 horsepower Ricardo engines.
Fortunately the weapon wasn't loaded and no one was hurt, but other times "oops" moments are tragic, such as last year in South Africa, where an anti-aircraft cannon had a "software glitch," and actually did turn on and fired, and nine soldiers were killed.
But now we have a compressed nitrogen cannon.
We can flip lorries, coaches, buses, anything over with a nitrogen cannon with enough power.
From beginning to end we bombarded with Quaids overacting and ridiculous facial expressions, laying on the "im a loose cannon" act a little thick.
There is also a problem with poor editing, when the school bus flips over, it is easy enough to see the cannon used to do the job.
Look for the painfully obvious special effects mortar cannon that is visible in the street during a chase scene.
Early in the film, one gets the impression that its Conroy is the one whose is a loose cannon.
Running Out of Time rests somewhere in the middle of Johnny To's cannon, in the "solid good" category.
General Hector Cordoba is setting up as near-emperor in Northern Mexico, and steals a huge cannon from General Blackjack Pershing.
he sends his crack mission unit, divided, apprehensive but determined, led by George Peppard, to get the cannon back and bring back Cordoba alive, to put an end to the rebellion.
The attack that captures the cannon, when Peppard's orders are not obeyed by a regular army type, is one of the most electrifying visual and staging achievements in cinematic history; the penetration of Cordoba's stronghold, the revelations uncovered there, and the actions that win the mission team a chance at victory--or almost victory--are flawlessly presented.
The characters come from either an endless supply of suicidally stupid cannon fodder or else they are vacuous, uninspiring sock puppets.
Anybody catch the cannon sequence?
who paid money to have this script made into a feature film?" Well Jigsaw is not that kind of film, instead of asking how this garbage was budgeted you wonder why the makers were shot out of a cannon into the sun.
But the story line is like a loose cannon.
The clunky, plodding (non)direction, trite by-the-numbers script, ugly, washed-out cinematography, ridiculous murder set pieces (a gross fat slob gets blasted right in the face by a miniature cannon!), overwrought string score, morbid gloom-doom atmosphere, largely lousy acting (Karloff notably excepted), cheesy mild gore, poor dubbing and rousing fiery conclusion all lend this enjoyably awful lemon a certain endearingly cruddy and hence oddly amusing ratty charm.
The cop Wai is a loose cannon who is worried about his father who is also a cop who was shot and is in a coma.
He gets a loose cannon and learns he has to compromise to the point where the film no longer resembles the book it was originally based on.
It is hard identify with a woman who keeps a cannon up her pants -- in lue of leggage.
Another comedy about a plucky little country struggling through the jungle of the modern (for the forties) global world with only native wit and pluck to guide them, this is a fine entry in the Ealing cannon.
This is easily the most underrated film inn the Brooks cannon.
Basically all there is to it, you are constantly faced with puzzles to help you proceed such as getting yourself launched from a cannon, having to buy a boat from a dubious salesman, getting past the dreaded piranha poodles, getting caught again and again by natives on an island only to escape buy the same way as the natives keep putting on more high tech doors on your prison, and touching the most violent beast ever just to have a man join your crew of dangerous pirates.
I've always wanted to fire a 10 000 tonne cannon at this deplorable film and now I get my chance.
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