Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): How Do You Like What You See? . Class Of 1984 has always been marketed as as a B exploitation film.  Hell, I remember when I was a kid finding it in the "horror" section of the local video store!  Though the film does have it's exploitation elements for sure, Class Of 1984 is a damn good movie.  It could have been promoted as a more serious film(it actually was intended to be a more serious drama) and win over more critics, but like they mention in the documentary featurette, the scenes of violence and punk rockers and such were enough to prejudice some people into thinking the movie was something less than what it actually was.  I never saw much of Perry King's work before or after this, but he's a very good choice as a kind of wimpy music teacher who thinks that through the power of knowledge, he can help the troubled teen, Timothy Van Patten.  In fact, King's music class is probably the best behaved of the entire school with Van Patten as the only real rotten apple in the bunch...when he attends.  Pretty boy Van Patten is kind of a teenage Godfather who runs drugs and hookers out of a punk rock club.  His gang consists of three annoying thugs and one very annoying chick.  When King pisses Van Patten off, the war begins.  It starts off pretty simple with vandalism and practical jokes, but ends up being quite deadly.  King goes through the movie in the role of dogooder throughout all of Van Patten's antics.  I think most guys would have broken down long before King's character does, but when King does break down it's well worth the wait.  If you let yourself get into the story, this movie will make your blood boil as you feel the frustration King feels.  Whenever he retaliates, he's the one who gets in trouble, though you know he's really not doing anything wrong.  It's like in real school where a guy would hit you with a spitball and no one would ever see him, but you'd be the one caught when you fired a spitball back.  Plus the frustration mounts coz every rotten act Van Patten commits is brushed off coz "no one saw him do it" and the fact that he's a juvenile.  The film builds to a fantastic final confrontation that gets downright brutal.  Lots of great performances all around.  Van Patten should have gone on to be a bigger star, but it never happened.  He's does a great job as the evil, sly psychopath.  Of course special praise must be given to Roddy McDowell.  He's fantastic in this.  They couldn't have picked a better guy for the job.  Many thanks go out to Anchor Bay for putting this great film out on dvd.  There's a good halfhour documentary on the disc that speaks mainly to director Lester, as well as two of the actors.  Recommended very highly.  Yesiree, Bob
Output (English): POS