Movie Review Haikus

Posted on | August 4, 2004 at 10:32 pm | 4 Comments

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.

Category: Movies

4 Responses to “Movie Review Haikus”

Hereditrix
August 5th, 2004 @ 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.
Flasshe
August 5th, 2004 @ 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…
2fs
August 5th, 2004 @ 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.
Hereditrix
August 6th, 2004 @ 8:45 am

Put a tiger in your tanka!