Word: weirdness
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...only moonwalker still working for NASA, straight-talking JOHN W. YOUNG, is a technical overseer for a range of upcoming space projects. "I think it is absolutely amazing that 25 years later, we do not have a base up there with human beings exploring that weird place...
...movie comes across as somewhat of a weird mix. it's based on a French film, supposedly radically rewritten by Cameron a la "Three Men and a Baby." But that's not quite...
Jeff Daniels provides some balance as Travens' older, slightly more jaded partner, Harry. He can act like a nut, but ask him a question about a bomb and suddenly he's Mr. Wizard, spouting off details about detonation wires and weird timers. He seems to be in constant analysis mode. And the gear the LAPD folks wear is really cool--black and futuristic, a cross between battle armor and the suits in "Dune." They look like they can handle anything...
These paintings start the train of American fantasy that will lead to San Simeon and Caesars Palace. They are wildly corny but in a weird way convincing: they bite off so much more than they can chew that you can't help assenting to them. And the target of their moralizing is none other than Andrew Jackson, who Cole (and many of his patrons) feared was becoming an American Caesar, filling the once virtuous republic with the corruptions of opportunism. It seems that Cole the landscapist and Cole the magniloquent history painter were not, as was once thought, different artists...
Nearly any Hanks character is an intelligent guy who wants to make sense out of the chaos of his life, trying to sustain his dignity when everything has gone horribly weird. He's your best self having your worst day. You are, for example, a man who must dress in drag (in Hanks' 1981 TV series Bosom Buddies). You're a 12-year-old kid who literally grows up overnight (Big). You're a detective whose top informant is a slobbery dog (Turner & Hooch). You're the manager of a baseball team, and your players are all girls (A League...