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Movie Haiku

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I think an easy festive one


    This isn't charity, it's family
    We are going to have the hap hap happiest Christmas
    Look kids a deer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    National Lampoons Christmas Vacation?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    National Lampoons Christmas Vacation?

    Correct


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Sure move in with me
    Oh God that was a mistake
    He is a clean-freak


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Sure move in with me
    Oh God that was a mistake
    He is a clean-freak


    Two comedy greats
    A buddy-buddy classic
    And a TV show


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 7,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Two comedy greats
    A buddy-buddy classic
    And a TV show

    The Odd Couple?

    (if my guess is correct, could someone share the next haiku? I will be unavailable until tomorrow afternoon :) )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Irish Aris wrote: »
    The Odd Couple?

    (if my guess is correct, could someone share the next haiku? I will be unavailable until tomorrow afternoon :) )
    Yes you have it.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 7,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    OK, let me try one then - hopefully the syllable length is correct, not 100% sure how we split in English

    Based on TV show
    An unusual trio
    a cold war story


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    The Man From UNCLE?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 7,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    The Man From UNCLE?

    That was fast!!!
    Yes, very correct!! I saw it couple of days ago, so came to mind immediately :)

    giphy.gif


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Great film that.


    Two brothers driving
    Play a trick on a trucker
    Don't get tetanus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Great film that.


    Two brothers driving
    Play a trick on a trucker
    Don't get tetanus

    Joyride?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Joyride?
    Yes, I would also have accepted Road Kill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Yes, I would also have accepted Road Kill.

    The film I'm on about had Paul Walker in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    The film I'm on about had Paul Walker in
    You are right Liz, the film was released under two names :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    A marriage deteriorating
    The hopeless emptiness
    It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems but it just jolted out the mathematics


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    I think you went a tiny bit over the syllable limit there :eek:
    But anyway, is it American Beauty?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I think you went a tiny bit over the syllable limit there :eek:
    But anyway, is it American Beauty?

    No


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,119 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Marriage Story?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    ShaneU wrote: »
    Marriage Story?

    No


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  • Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    A marriage deteriorating
    The hopeless emptiness
    It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems but it just jolted out the mathematics

    A Beautiful Mind?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    The theory of everything?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    A Beautiful Mind?

    No
    The theory of everything?

    No

    Do ye want another clue?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Yes please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Titanic Reunion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Ah feckit I've seen it quite recently but I can't think of the bleedin name :mad:


  • Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is it Revolutionary Road?

    Never seen it but I know DiCaprio and Winslet are both in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    ^^^^
    Thats what I was trying to think of. Kept thinking Arlington Road but that's a whole other kettle of fish :rolleyes:
    The friend's son who had the breakdown was a mathematician wasn't he?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Is it Revolutionary Road?

    Never seen it but I know DiCaprio and Winslet are both in it.

    Yes that's it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Your go Homer. Lay one on us.


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