| Haiku Movie Reviews | By Ginohn |
| Movies reviewed in 2002 |
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| ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS :) This is a sweet film about how to work kindness around life and death. |
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| PUNCH DRUNK LOVE :) It puts the manic in romantic, otherwise it would just be rot. |
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| FRIDA :)
She who plays Frida looks like my friend Luisa (except the eyebrow). |
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| DIE ANOTHER DAY :| It's Austin Powers made on a bigger budget, but without the laughs. |
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| FAR FROM HEAVEN :) Leave it to Beaver loses all its innocence when shown in color. |
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| DOG PARK :|
Made for TV from a series of one-liners. Decent soundtrack, though. |
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| BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE :) Poses this question: Why don't more Americans move to Canada? |
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| 8 WOMEN :)
Hey, what if Hitchcock made a mystery in French, as a musical? |
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| GO :)
A triptych lesson -- how to mishandle drugs, guns, and automobiles. |
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| IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
(1963) :| It's a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long slapstick comedy. |
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| IGBY GOES DOWN :) Another sad tale of a rich boy getting sex from older women. |
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| TADPOLE :|
In this episode of Three's Company, Jack's son hits on his step mom! |
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| THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST :) What would it be like if you could watch two Woosters with no Jeeves in sight? |
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| THE GOOD GIRL :|
The message, that life is bland, unfortunately makes a bland movie. |
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| HORSEY :(
All the characters pronounced sorry as sorey, over and over. |
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| ONE HOUR PHOTO :)
It fools you into imagining extra scenes. Two movies in one! |
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| LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) %} Martin's dentist song remains one of the best film scenes in history. |
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| NO SUCH THING :)
All style, some substance, but we learned there's no such thing as a conclusion. |
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| THE BOURNE IDENTITY :) Ah, what a relief -- a thriller with good acting and no slow motion! |
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| FULL FRONTAL :)
A story around a play within a movie, and so on. But why? |
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| GOLDMEMBER :)
I laughed till I cried, then suffered a terrible smelting accident. |
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| MEN IN BLACK II :( Quick, somebody who can make me forget this film neuralize me now! |
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| SPLENDOR :)
A non-typical alternative romance with predictable end. |
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| MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING :) My big fat romance disguised as a really long Windex commercial. |
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| REIGN OF FIRE :)
An ancient plot line returns to wreak destruction, but the film hangs on. |
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| THREESOME :) Guy loves girl, girl loves other guy, other guy loves first guy, and so on. |
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| MINORITY REPORT :) "Thinky" movies should not demand that you ignore "cartoony" physics. |
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| CORKY ROMANO :|
Some very funny moments - if you like Kattan - and don't expect much. |
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| NOVOCAINE :|
Steve plays a dentist? Little Shop of Horrors is a much better film. |
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| DAZED AND CONFUSED :) Nostalgia dazed me but the paddles confused me. I don't recall them. |
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| BANDITS :) A modern version of Butch Cassidy mixed with that film called F/X. |
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| CHANGING LANES :| Nice acting, subplots, character development. Missing something though. |
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| SPIDER-MAN %}
Is he strong? Listen, bud, he's got... genetically re-engineered blood! |
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| ICE AGE :)
Great animation, strange anthropomorphisms. That sloth sure was fast. |
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| MONSOON WEDDING :) A pan-cultural curry of languages, love, music, and dancing. |
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| LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT :| Yet another film that tells us to enjoy life before it's over. |
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| VAN WILDER :(
A bland plot spiked with Jim Carrey wannabes. Second-rate teen raunch. |
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| PANIC ROOM :|
Jodie Foster turned down Hannibal, now she hides from the Three Stooges. |
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| KISSING JESSICA STEIN :) Like Ally McBeal, with less hallucinating and better acting. |
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| GHOST WORLD :)
Some viewing advice: don't waste your time wondering what the title means. |
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| THE 74TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS :| A Beautiful Mind is a terrible movie to waste on Oscars. |
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| A BEAUTIFUL MIND :| Hollywood can't film real life, but my proof won't fit within this haiku. |
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| SHOWTIME :|
Even though these guys are famous, they don't come close to Super Troopers . |
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| DOGS: THE RISE AND FALL
OF AN ALL GIRL BOOKIE JOINT :|
Novel shower scenes and interesting characters gamble with bad sound. |
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| 8½ WOMEN :| After dozing off, I woke and found the movie weirder than my dreams. |
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| QUEEN OF THE DAMNED :| Oh no! Vampire Goths run amok! Can we be saved by Vampire Hippies? |
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| SUPER TROOPERS %}
Real trooper humor, with sexy German thieves and -- Afghanimation! |
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| BLACK HAWK DOWN :| Maybe Ridley Scott meant to give the audience raw battle fatigue. |
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| THE SURE THING :|
An 80's romance about how a complete jerk picks up a nice girl. |
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| GOSFORD PARK :) Lots of characters, concurrent conversations, masterpiece theatre! |
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| KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE :| Lots of panty shots... Japanese animators really creep me out. |
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| THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS :) As families go, This movie is just a slight exaggeration. |
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| AMÉLIE %}
Want a romantic comedy set in Paris? Let the French do it! |
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| THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING :) Wonderful settings and stunning deviations from Tolkien's story. |