# Describe a movie in haiku
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203 "2022-08-24T03:05:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/1 "2022-08-24T03:05:03Z")
Please hire seven men
They will defend the village
But four of them die.
Name the movie, then add one of your own.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/2 "2022-08-24T17:07:42Z")
The Magnificent Seven
five disparate youths
sit in morning detention
they leave awakened
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/3 "2022-08-24T18:21:18Z")
The Breakfast Club
Young man is well trained
As post-Bond secret agent:
Manners maketh man.
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/4 "2022-08-24T23:21:39Z")
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Not sure of this one?)
Life imprisonment.
Chipping a hole in the wall.
Mexico is nice.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/5 "2022-08-25T00:28:05Z")
The Shawshank Redemption
Paul Newman’s building
Burned for fourteen-hundred floors.
Here comes Steve McQueen!
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/6 "2022-08-25T13:23:56Z")
Towering Inferno
Snowy Chicago
Man blows hole in plane
Pilot lands plane safely
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/7 "2022-08-25T17:15:26Z")
Airport
Southern belle is cute
but real tough, too, in wartime;
is steel magnolia
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/8 "2022-08-26T13:19:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> Southern belle is cute
> but real tough, too, in wartime;
> is steel magnolia
Pearl Harbor?
pass
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/9 "2022-08-26T22:22:14Z")
No, not that. Think pre-WWII.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/10 "2022-08-26T22:28:49Z")
_Gone With The Wind._
New guy, first mission
First you must kill two people
Then play cards and win.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/11 "2022-08-26T22:35:34Z")
Correct!
Don’t recognize your movie, though.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/12 "2022-08-27T02:17:23Z")
_Casino Royale_
Three spooky stories:
Dead witch claims ring; phone call from
Hell; vampire Karloff.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/13 "2022-08-27T02:33:27Z")
_Black Sabbath_
He sure looks guilty,
But one man asks some questions;
They all change their mind.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/14 "2022-08-27T02:51:53Z")
> [@Riemann](#):
>
> Black Sabbath
Impressive, sir! I doff my hat!
BIP:
_12 Angry Men_
Were we visited
By aliens? In this bad
Documentary.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/15 "2022-08-27T03:40:41Z")
_A Tear In The Sky_
Watery E.T.
Mad SEAL tries to nuke them all.
City in the trench.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/16 "2022-08-27T14:49:09Z")
Whoa! I had no idea. I was going for the 1970 _Chariots of the Gods_, but yours is better.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/17 "2022-08-27T14:53:38Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> I was going for the 1970 _Chariots of the Gods_
Ah, I didn’t know this was made into a film. It got a lot more publicity as a book.
I haven’t seen _A Tear In The Sky_, I doubt that it’s pushing aliens in quite such an extreme way, but the official synopsis says:
> What they find instead are thought-provoking clues into the true nature of the UFO phenomenon and the very fabric of our spacetime reality.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/18 "2022-08-27T14:59:29Z")
> [@Riemann](#):
>
> Watery E.T.
> Mad SEAL tries to nuke them all.
> City in the trench.
_The Abyss_
Cop gains weird powers
That vanish if he sees red.
Wife gets the last laugh.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/19 "2022-08-29T13:03:35Z")
I had to Google that one!
_Super Fuzz_
Two stories in one
Storyteller engages
housewife with the past
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-in-haiku/970203/20 "2022-08-30T00:39:47Z")
_The Bridges of Madison County_
Jack, Rose meet on ship
and romance results, of course;
then there’s this iceberg….
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