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Seeing him in a role like this makes you want to see him take on a role where he can be the loose cannon.
Or when he throws the chunk of wood at the cannon.
There's a story of sorts (lots of people chasing a revolutionary war cannon purported to contain the Crown Jewels of England), and a moral of sorts (don't be afraid to risk), but they're just scaffolding for the gags and shtick.
The best part of the movie was at the end when they fire the cannon at Uncle Sam and you can see the string pulling him back through the house.
Ditto the wonderfully ridiculous, uproarious and utterly preposterous scene where the shark jumps some ten feet up into the air as if was shot out of a cannon and bites a guy hanging out of a helicopter in half.
Ted Barner (John Phillip Law) is hired by a company to transport a freaking' laser cannon across Indonesia to a mine.
Things get even more convoluted when our team receives word the mine needs the cannon, like, now because some miners are trapped and - cue ominous trumpets - Forster's brother is among them.
The bumbling janitor Ernest P. Worrel (Jim Varney)and his wishy-washy, history-professor friend, Abner Melon (Ron James), stumble upon an old revolutionary-war cannon known as "Goliath," that Abner has been searching for his whole life.
The only entertainment value to be found as Varney mugs endlessly and destroys everything around him is in the hopelessly slack direction, which leads to such lapses in logic as a cannon rolling for miles along a completely straight road, a sequence that is topped only when the cannon bursts into a garden but leaves the fence behind it completely intact.
Just think about cannon, Kojak and Quincy.
But now having seen it it's quite clear I was missing something fairly excellent in the cannon of the "Bio-pic".
James Woods delivers a sensationally intense, wired and riveting performance as shrewd, sleazy and blithely amoral maverick loose cannon Detective Lloyd Hopkins, who obsessively investigates a series of vicious homicides that have been going on for fifteen years.
It's not fair to see the stooges get killed by a cannon at the end of the film.
The problem with the Supreme Leader’s calculation, however, is that Ahmadinejad is a loose cannon.
When protests erupted, the government, in a fit of blind idiocy, set the police upon peaceful protesters, men and women, with long batons, water cannon, and tear gas.
As for the Somali people, al-Shabaab treats them like cannon fodder, and uses their country as a platform for jihad and as a base for a small financial empire based on extortion and environmentally rapacious charcoal exports.
Yet Syrian civilians are the cannon fodder.
Yet three centuries ago there was also technological progress, from the mechanical clock and the watermill to the cannon and the caravel, and on to strains of rice that can be cropped three times a year in Guangzhou and the breeding of merino sheep that can flourish in the hills of Spain.
Many demonstrators seemed to conclude that the only thing to do was to put on helmets and gas masks and brave the tear gas and water cannon.
It led them on; they advanced to this crystalline sound as men advance to the sound of cannon in battle.
Suddenly, a roar of thunder was heard, and a spout of fire darted out of the tube as from the mouth of a cannon charged with grapeshot.
On the forecastle was mounted the latest model breech-loading cannon, very heavy of barrel and narrow of bore, a weapon that would figure in the Universal Exhibition of 1867.
I can do no better than to compare him with a powerful telescope that could double as a cannon always ready to fire.
Mate, man the gun in the bow!"Our forecastle cannon was immediately loaded and leveled.
"And $500.00 to the man who can pierce that infernal beast!"Calm of eye, cool of feature, an old gray-bearded gunner-- I can see him to this day--approached the cannon, put it in position, and took aim for a good while.
A launch and whaleboat from the new Astrolabe were steered to this locality, and after going to exhausting lengths, their crews managed to dredge up an anchor weighing 1,800 pounds, a cast-iron eight-pounder cannon, a lead ingot, and two copper swivel guns.
On February 8, as early as the first hours of daylight, Mocha appeared before us: a town now in ruins, whose walls would collapse at the mere sound of a cannon, and which shelters a few leafy date trees here and there.
"A cannon going off," Ned Land replied.
And she protested that she was not mocking him, when the report of a cannon resounded.
Immediately the sound of all the bells and the repeated discharge of an old Spanish cannon belonging to the town proclaimed its joy at this great event.
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