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I've been veging out watching movies, c/- a friend with a large collection of .avi files. To keep up with the general poetry theme, I now offer reviews... in haiku.

Fantastic Four 2: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Despite cool graphics
And brief nude Sue, it's still just
Incredibles Lite.


The Incredible Hulk

Take one scientist,
Add gamma technobabble:
Get live-action Shrek.


Jumper

Haven't read the book,
So don't mind total rewrite:
And I liked the bus.


Spiderman 2

Like Keating's Batman:
Heroes are dull; film was saved
By the cool bad guy.


Ironman

Never liked the books:
Boring pisspot in tin suit.
But this movie rocked!


Toy Story 2

It must be so dull
To be Pixar.  They even
Do perfect sequels!


And as a bonus, some reviews of the TV shows I've been downloading lately:

Heroes

It's OK, don't cringe:
Maya is gone, Suresh too;
You can watch again.


Seven Days

Guy goes back in time,
Fixes what once went wrong - yawn!
I miss Journeyman...


Battlestar Galactica

Four years on the run,
Being horribly human,
Then: Golgafrincham!


And, courtesy of the wonderful lauredhel, the BatPup and I have been watching... this:

The Moomins

Small ugly muppets
Have cute Nordic adventures;
Sweet, light-weight and weird.

To the tune of We All Stand Together by Paul McCartney:

Frogs:
(Camp camp camp
Camp camp camp
Camp, camp-camp-camp-SPLOSH!)

Dame or serf, squire or King,
Festival's here, let the party begin
Tents are pitched, garb's unpacked
We all dread the weather...

Frogs:
(Camp camp camp
Camp camp GLOOP!)

Drink your ale, watch a fight;
Handsome wench flirts with a beautiful knight;
'Way on high, clouds float by:
We all dread the weather.

La-
Drenching our tents in the night
Drip drip drip splash
Wake in the night,
Tent looks a fright...

Sail or swim, boom or bust,
One thing is certain: it's better than dust!
Feet in boots, boots in bags...
We all dread the weather.

We all dread the weather!

In the nineteen sixties and seventies, the BBC had their quarry, which stood for every alien world in Doctor Who, Blake's Seven, the Hitch Hiker's Guide and all the rest of that era's SFTV.

In the nineties and noughties, the USA has its own BBC Quarry. This is a short but stirring song about that.

O Caprica

O Caprica!
Our planetary home!
True alien world of glass and shining chrome!
So much unlike any Earthly place,
A strange world, through and through...
Though a little like Metropolis...
New York... Seattle too...
God, now I think, it's all the same...
O Caprica, Vancouver is your name!
O Caprica, Vancouver is your name!