Very hectic week at work, for reasons which I don’t want to bore anyone with.
So, since I haven’t had a lot of time lately, I thought I’d do my latest movie reviews as haikus:
The Village
Don’t go in the woods
Big nasty creatures live there
Maybe not - who cares?
Opie’s daughter’s hot
And even though she is blind
She can do it all
Thunderbirds
Give me more rescues
Not Die Hard: Tracy Island
With third-rate spy kids
Childhood dreams live
TB machines cool on screen
Ouch! Bright colors hurt
I think that about says it all. F-A-B.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Hereditrix // Aug 5, 2004 at 9:50 am
These are great, Rog! I wish more reviewers would express themselves in such a laconic form — a tanka would also be OK, if they found the haiku too restrictive.
2 Flasshe // Aug 5, 2004 at 9:53 pm
Thanks, Amy. I got to thinking, "Hey! Maybe I could do a movie review haiku webiste, where I could post my haikus as well as ones submitted by other people!" But then of course a web search revealed this is not an original idea.
I’d never heard of tankas before. Hmmm, there doesn’t appear to be any movie review tanka sites…
3 2fs // Aug 5, 2004 at 10:08 pm
Tankas are like haiku, only their main subject matter is macaques.
I’m pretty sure Jim Morrison wrote a whole bunch of ‘em.
4 Hereditrix // Aug 6, 2004 at 8:45 am
Put a tiger in your tanka!