After
light-years, they came to a planet
as scenic as home, but apes ran it.
They possessed great
acumen—
far more than the human
thinking: “This can’t be Earth.
No! Or can it?”
(Planet
of the Apes)
appeared in The Spectator |
Though seduced by Elaine’s
sexy mother,
Ben loses his heart to none other
than the cuter Elaine,
which causes folks pain—
but they’ll manage one way or
another.
(The
Graduate)
|
A kid
who was bullied gets wise,
takes karate and wins a nice prize—
a girlfriend—soon
earning
approval by learning
to kick people’s noses and eyes.
(The
Karate Kid) |
“I
see dead people.” Then there’s
a tense
chain of events without sense:
A shrink who’d
been shot
is a ghost. If you’ve
bought
the thought there are specters, you’re
dense.
(The
Sixth Sense) |
Future
spacemen snatch helpless cetaceans
from old Earth, then with strict
calculations
fly back to their time,
absolved of their crime
as the aliens cease their vibrations.
(Star
Trek IV) |
Humankind
must flee Earth, its crops failing,
find how gravity functions for sailing
their ships to the
stars.
With a robot named TARS,
time dilation effects, danger wailing,
the hero, with hopefulness, dives
in a massive black hole and survives,
transmits an equation
(a crucial occasion!)
and thereby saves millions of lives.
While the science behind this bestseller
may puzzle your gal or your feller,
its visuals galore
combined with the score
are what’s made this great film so
darned stellar.
(Interstellar) |
