Note: I've stopped writing haiku movie reviews. Here are all the ones I did from roughly December 1999 to September 2000.

I got the idea of haiku movie reviews from Wunderland, which is a site with all sorts of fun stuff. These are all reviews I wrote of movies I've seen lately. Most recently viewed are first on this list: Lost in Translation The Hulk Treed Murray Me, Myself, and Irene Once Upon a Time in the West The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Chutney Popcorn For a Few Dollars More Hamlet Croupier U-571 Road Trip X-Men Erin Brockovich High Fidelity Mallrats Ghost Dog Chicken Run 8 1/2 Women American Psycho The Virgin Suicides Drowning By Numbers The Terrorist Naked Killer The Green Mile Sleepy Hollow Restaurant The Next Best Thing Titus Being John Malkovich American Beauty Holy Smoke! Topsy-Turvy Magnolia Galaxy Quest Mansfield Park Liberty Heights All About My Mother Last Night Toy Story 2 Guinevere The Straight Story Splendor Dogma Fight Club Run Lola Run The Sixth Sense Go Sorted alphabetically: All About My Mother American Beauty American Psycho Being John Malkovich Chicken Run Chutney Popcorn Croupier Dogma Drowning By Numbers 8 1/2 Women Erin Brockovich Fight Club For a Few Dollars More Galaxy Quest Ghost Dog Go The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Green Mile Guinevere Hamlet High Fidelity Holy Smoke! The Hulk Last Night Lost in Translation Liberty Heights Magnolia Mallrats Mansfield Park Me, Myself, and Irene Naked Killer Once Upon a Time in the West The Next Best Thing Restaurant Road Trip Run Lola Run The Sixth Sense Sleepy Hollow Splendor The Straight Story The Terrorist Titus Topsy-Turvy Toy Story 2 The Virgin Suicides Treed Murray U-571 X-Men

All About My Mother More accessible funny Almodóvar film with lots of women. American Beauty Bleak suburbs satire. I found all the characters unsympathetic. American Psycho Cold dark satire of rich yuppies and serial killing. Odd ending. Being John Malkovich Hilarious film with Lovecraftian subtext: body possession. Chicken Run Fun poultry action flick with references to World War II movies! Chutney Popcorn Funny indie film. Lesbian Indian gets pregnant for sister. Croupier Dark moody bleak film; cold amoral characters; good if you like that. Dogma Vaguely humorous. Pretentious theology. Disappointing film. Drowning By Numbers Lush slow art film has absurd murders and a great Michael Nyman score. 8 1/2 Women Slow wacked Greenaway. I like his early films that have a Nyman score. Erin Brockovich Erin Brockovich: smart, funny, caring, sexy, and quite bad-tempered. Fight Club I love this dark film. "You met me at a very strange time in my life." For a Few Dollars More Not sure if I've seen this classic western before; I'm glad I did now. Ghost Dog Forest Whitaker is cool urban samurai in mafia film. Go Three interwoven plots have humor and suspense and Sarah Polley! Galaxy Quest Any sf fan will laugh out loud. Much better than it needs to be. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Classic western with Ennio Morricone's most famous music. The Green Mile A rare prison film with sympathetic guards and heartwarming magic. Guinevere Photographer woos and mentors younger women until they leave him. Hamlet Blue and gray gloom worked for me, as did Ethan Hawke's melancholy Dane. High Fidelity John Cusack is great. Romantic comedy with good music geekdom. Holy Smoke! Kate and Harvey try, but this risky script has a fizzling second half. The Hulk Just like the comic With lots of ethics in it : Never kiss a frog     (guest review by Ianik Wright-Larin) Last Night People spend their last few hours in diverse ways as we watch the world end. Liberty Heights Funny and poignant. 1950s Baltimore as it might have been. Lost in Translation I think I know why they were lost in translation: they didn't play go.     (from an idea by Ianik Wright-Larin) Magnolia Great ensemble cast. Good, bleak, disturbing, and long. Awesome storm at end. Mallrats Finally saw it. Somewhat disappointing, it's no Chasing Amy. Mansfield Park Jane Austen subplots interleave with various complex romances. Me, Myself, and Irene More Farrelly fun. Laugh-out-loud stupidity, weird slapstick Fight Club. Naked Killer Hong Kong action flick: cops, gun fights, bad subtitles, and assassin babes. The Next Best Thing Light film with yoga turns into Kramer versus Kramer dreariness. Once Upon a Time in the West Slower western with great "Man with Harmonica" at final showdown. Restaurant Interracial love, starving artists work and play, good lowkey drama. Road Trip Somewhat amusing lowbrow college hijinks, but Tom Green annoys me. Run Lola Run Spiffy visuals. Compelling replay gimmick. Excellent soundtrack. The Sixth Sense Bruce kicks ghost butt? No! Insightful drama with twists! "I see dead people." Sleepy Hollow Mediocre script but you should see this for the Burton visuals. Splendor Romantic screwball comedy about a girl and her two boyfriends. The Straight Story G-rated Disney heartwarming tear jerker with David Lynch's style! The Terrorist Slow Indian film girl on suicide mission intense and unique Titus Shakespeare's bloodiest revenge drama with modern cool art direction. Topsy-Turvy You'll learn much about Gilbert and Sullivan from this long funny film. Toy Story 2 Good graphics, dull songs, clever script, fun adventure. A worthy sequel. The Virgin Suicides Well done downer film. Seventies nostalgia meets serious teen angst. Treed Murray Murray in the tree Sharks are watching a squirrel Manipulation     (guest review by Ianik Wright-Larin) U-571 Cool submarine stuff! Standard summer script, but this film sucked me right in. X-Men A good action film! Allegorical subtext and good kickass fun!

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