| Haiku Movie Reviews | By Ginohn |
Movies reviewed in 2001
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| MONSTERS INC. :)
A cute, short story of the universe next door, for kids or monsters. |
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| LIFE AS A HOUSE :) Man, Kevin Kline's pills are amazing! They even make piercings heal up. |
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| GUMMO :)
Poignant, repugnant, horrible everyday life in a white trash world. |
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| THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE :) The antithesis of Sam Spade is a barber who doesn't say much. |
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| HARRY POTTER AND THE
SORCERER'S STONE :) Who'll win the most points, Slitherin or Gryffindor? I really don't care. |
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| MULHOLLAND DR. %}
An elaborate puzzle, too puzzling for some, but worth unlocking. |
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| JOE DIRT :)
It was easy to forget Joe was David Spade. Could be the weird hair. |
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| K-PAX :)
On K-Pax, our films put the audience into delusional states. |
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| JUST VISITING :)
It's just pretending to be The Visitors, but made for Hollywood. |
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| ZOOLANDER :|
Stiller's character is, sadly, as good looking as he is funny. |
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| GREENFINGERS :) Cute, enjoyable film about cute, enjoyable murderer inmates. |
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| LIFE OF BRIAN %} The story of a man, laughed at by us and cursed by fundamentalists. |
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| SAVING SILVERMAN :| Silverman's friends can't save him from the sequel to American Pie. |
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| THE MUSKETEER :(
Mix Kung Fu swordplay, Old Westerns, and French novels. Could it be good? No! |
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| THE RUTLES: ALL YOU NEED IS CASH %} Terrific in-joke for fans of the post fab four. Splendidly thorough. |
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| THE BIG BLUE (DIRECTOR'S
CUT) :| Strange, "director's cut" seems to mean "director's stretch" in more ways than one. |
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| JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK :) Not so much a film as a checklist of fun things to do while filming. |
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| MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL %} There's a reason why this is the most quoted film since Steamboat Willie. |
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| NURSE BETTY :)
Surprisingly dark, with doses of innocence and comic relief. |
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| BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER :) Predictable and plastic, just how homophobes want us all to live. |
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| DANCER IN THE DARK %} Painful musical -- a great tragedy that I wish I hadn't seen. |
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| PLANET OF THE APES (2001) :| Like Batman -- great sets, bad plots, and promised sequels. Damn them all to Hell! |
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| HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING :) Valuable insights into the mental disease known as "marketing." |
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| A. I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE :| lost intelligence and got more artificial as it went along. |
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| MEET THE PARENTS :| Without good actors this would just be more slapstick. It could really suck. |
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| THE DISH :)
Historically-based films always make me wonder what really happened. |
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| 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY %} Great special effects, without help from computers! (Except HAL, of course.) |
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| TAMPOPO %}
Fistful of Ramen? The Magnificent Kitchen? Spaghetti Eastern! |
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| MOULIN ROUGE! %}
Artists dupe a duke to throw a show about lies, lust, absinthe, and dough. |
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| BUFFALO '66 :) It hurt to watch this -- everyone in the film was completely insane. |
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| SHREK :)
It's okay to be ugly, but short people got no reason to live. |
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| SET ME FREE (EMPORTE-MOI) :) Few films show how life can be both sad and lovely. They're all French, of course. |
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| A KNIGHT'S TALE :)
The guy's really hot! This film's formulaic but it has great jousting . |
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| YOU CAN COUNT ON ME :)
Figures, that the first successful human clone was McCauley Culkin. |
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| FREDDY GOT FINGERED :)
Pretty sick humor, but what was really shocking - Tom Green can skateboard! |
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| MEMENTO %} Carefully designed to make you forget what you just saw. A good scam! |
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| DUCK SOUP %} A fine collection of skits destined to inspire the great Bugs Bunny. |
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| BLOW :) If at first smuggling doesn't pay, try try again. Or -- blame your parents. |
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| TOMCATS :|
Wins the Oscar for best "destruction of cello with plaster porpoise" |
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| RAPA NUI :) Crazy, chopping down all the trees to move stone heads... Ooh, look! A new car! |
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| SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE :| I think the vampire broke free from the film and killed the editing staff. |
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| GALLIPOLI %} A good prescription for those who consider war to be romantic. |
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| ERIN BROCKOVICH :)
Julia Roberts IS Erin Brockovich IN Erin Brockovich! |
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| CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON %}
I never thought that someday, somebody might make a good kung fu film. |
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| O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? %} The Coen brothers bring Ulysses to the South. This film's bona fide! |
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| HANNIBAL :( Must be difficult to make a gory movie so very boring. |
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| SNATCH :)
It'strimly vallent, eenfar pikers, bet, natbed iffecken tacket. |
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| PRACTICAL MAGIC :)
Can't say anything negative, because a witch loaned us the movie. |
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| CHOCOLAT :) A child's fairy tale designed for chocoholics and cathoholics. |
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| MISS CONGENIALITY :)
How long do we have to pretend Sandra Bullock is unattractive? |
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| A HARD DAY'S NIGHT %}
Beatlemania as a form of happiness will never grow old. |
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| BETTER THAN
CHOCOLATE :) Better than real life - the people in this movie fall in love too fast. |