March 2007
30 posts
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Lucky You
Take one part Rounders
Add romantic comedy
Then subtract the soul.
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Deja Vu
I’ve seen this before
A Philip K. Dick story
That he never wrote.
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Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Dobby comes to warn
But Harry returns to school
Answers Tom’s Riddle.
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
Duped into action
Rambo leaves no man behind
Leave your brain behind.
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Bobby
A cast of washed-ups
Old Bobby Kennedy clips
Do overshadow.
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Harsh Times
Psychos or Batman
There isn’t much in between
When you’re Christian Bale.
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The Wedding Singer
Mulleted Sandler
Croons the ’80s power songs,
His own wussy one.
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Hide And Seek
DeNiro in this?
I just can’t figure it out
Million$ of reason$.
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Death Of A President
Huge controversy
Little too realistic
Not entertainment.
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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Potter goes to school
Amid fame, expectations
Doesn’t disappoint.
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Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man goes black
Gets moody, wears eyeliner
But then he goes back.
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The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Neon hot, fast cars
Ignite the Toyko nights
As they drift away.
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Jesus Camp
Evangelicals
Training kids for Holy War,
Social awkwardness?
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Let's Go To Prison
Oh prison humor
It’s mild entertainment
It’s also quite crude.
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The Big Bounce
Awkward double-cross
With not too much comedy
At least there is sun.
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Sneakers
Before the remake
Of one Ocean’s Eleven
This group humor heist.
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Fast Food Nation
Too many stories
Converging lives that don’t converge
I ask: “Where’s the beef?”
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The Pursuit Of Happyness
A film Will Smith’s in
Recalls when Will Smith remade
“Just the Two of Us”.
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Half Nelson
Crack-smoking teacher
Changes lives but ruins his
Drey is his rehab.
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School For Scoundrels
The stand-out pupil
Gets schooled in being a jerk
Round and round we go.
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Reign Over Me
Sandler and Cheadle
They play well off each other
In dealing with loss.
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Stranger Than Fiction
Eiffel’s “masterpiece”
Hardly a film master-work
No matter the end.
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Dancer In The Dark
Bjork loses sight
In her mind musicals play
Morbid song and dance.
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Rocky Balboa
Rocky: the comeback
In both the ring and franchise
A suitable end.
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Blood Diamond
Who backstabs who last
All over a shiny rock
This is Africa.
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Marie Antoinette
Where are the accents?
This is about a French Queen?
Or a valley-girl?
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The Holiday
Diaz and Winslet
Encounter cliches galore
Once they swap houses.
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300
Impossible odds
Yet Leonidas holds firm
With testosterone.
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A Good Year
Russel finds himself
A vineyard that makes bad wine
But great memories.
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Zodiac
Graysmith gets obsessed
A killer taunts the police
Fincher makes a film!