Comments on: The Ten Word Review

The Ten Word Review

chrismear — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:01:11 -0800

The Ten Word Review Review anything you like, but in ten words or less. For example:
A Scanner Darkly: Rotoscoping gives Keanu a soul. Shame he opens his mouth.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:04:56 -0800

Seems like overkill when you've got Four Word Film Reviews (which has this terrific summation of Saving Private Ryan: "Boy gets own room.").

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:09:21 -0800

I needed a place to review people. Finally it's here!

By: Acey

Acey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:17:24 -0800

Wasn't this a MeFi Project at one point?

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:20:56 -0800

Silly, but enjoyable. Four and ten words are very different beasts.

By: Luddite

Luddite — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:26:54 -0800

Hey cortex, that's 11 words!

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:26:59 -0800

Overly verbose!

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:27:36 -0800

Damn. I wasn't even trying, for the record.

By: desuetude

desuetude — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:27:37 -0800

You can check out the occasional movie review haiku in Philly's City Paper for more of this sort of thing.

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:28:56 -0800

new on ten word reviews-- metafilter.com: Blue page where all this traffic is suddenly coming from. good stuff.

By: ninebelow

ninebelow — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:33:17 -0800

Very strange to open MetaFilter and read your own words.

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:33:23 -0800

I've always had a soft spot for the extremely terse review. Like Book-A-Minute, which gives the most surprisingly cogent sumary of Dune that I've ever seen: Frank Herbert I'm lots smarter than you are. I challenge you to understand even one of my paragraphs! Reader Gee, Frank Herbert is smart. I can't even find the plot.

By: Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:33:27 -0800

Reminds me of Movie A Minute. Longer, but I like the pseudo-script style they use.

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:34:19 -0800

Ack, borked link. Should read Book-A-Minute

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:34:45 -0800

Also, Jon Mitchell, you owe me a Coke.

By: bitdamaged

bitdamaged — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:44:52 -0800

More posters there need to learn: 10 word description != 10 word review

By: mendel

mendel — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:53:18 -0800

bitdamaged: Amen. Was just coming in to make that comment. Not that there's anything wrong with 10-word synopses (and I'd say that all of the four-word "reviews" are synopses), but it says review, dammit.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:55:49 -0800

bitdamaged, mendel, I am wrong and I apologize

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:02:01 -0800

The review for Shark Sandwich was merely a two word review, which simply read "Shit Sandwich."

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:03:15 -0800

proust - rememberance of things past - man eats cookie, confesses everything in obsessive detail

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:04:11 -0800

kirkaracha, I hear you.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:05:57 -0800

too long didn't read About 10 years ago, I wrote a review of The Trial, by Franz Kafka. here it is in its entirety: Utterly inscrutable. (no worries, I've figured it out, since then)

By: Twang

Twang — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:09:33 -0800

It's not just the n-word limit; it's the dash o' wit. My favorite review ever: The House Beautiful is the play lousy. Just one more from Dorothy: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:13:00 -0800

all-time favorite book review line: "this book fills a much-needed niche." now, please make your book go away so we can have our much-needed niche back!

By: weston

weston — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:38:40 -0800

Rotoscoping gives Keanu a soul. Shame he opens his mouth. Review Haiku.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:08:33 -0800

The review for Shark Sandwich was merely a two word review, which simply read "Shit Sandwich." But expanding it to ten words would make it even stronger:

Shit sandwich. And I'm not so sure about the sandwich.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:15:09 -0800

My favourite review so far: "Night at the Museum" - UAGHGUHAUGHAUHGUAHGUAHGUAHGAUHGAUGHGUHAGUHAGUHAGUAHGUAHGAUGHUAG UAUAUUGHAUGHGUAHGUGHAUGHAUGHAUGHGAUGHAUGHAUGHAGUHAGUHAUH ... and so on.

By: SinisterPurpose

SinisterPurpose — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:18:24 -0800

Finally, a sluice for my flood of opinionations after one too many cups of coffee. Thanks MeFi. I wooooove you.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:19:27 -0800

The shortest review I ever saw was one for the film "Volcano." It read simply: Blows.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:32:05 -0800

Wow, I'm starting to see a lot of reviews that use quite a liberal definition of "word". Maybe they should have some sort of "maximum 20 letters/word rule? It's not too often they make a movie about Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:35:57 -0800

One of my favorite music reviews was for the band Bad English, which is fronted by eminently forgettable schmaltzster John Waite. The review: "Bad English? That's the least of their problems."

By: Chinese Jet Pilot

Chinese Jet Pilot — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:59:25 -0800

Brilliant. I admire the way that the site turns an ordinary web chore into a mental challenge. This isn't the shortest review, but I always liked the last line in David Wild's Rolling Stone review of the Johnny Hates Jazz album Turn Back the Clock: "David hates Johnny Hates Jazz".

By: BeerFilter

BeerFilter — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:27:34 -0800

Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes. Cornflakes.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:59:03 -0800

I wonder if this was an outgrowth of the older Livejournal Ten Word Review community...

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:41:39 -0800

It was indeed, or so attests the site.

By: leibniz

leibniz — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:51:30 -0800

This one just popped into my head contact: woman reconciles religious and scientific beliefs through faulty reasoning.