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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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if beavis and butthead had a favorite movie , from dusk till dawn would probably be it . scripted by quentin tarantino and directed by robert rodriguez ( desperado ) , the movie panders to the very worst in sex and violence -- and is incredibly fun to watch .
it starts off as a pulp fiction - type crime story , with criminal brothers george clooney and tarantino robbing a convenience store .
because this is a tarantino movie , however , it 's not just a case of pull the gun and take the loot , it 's a case of a hole being shot through someone 's hand , a man on fire jumping out behind the counter and the entire store blowing up as they drive away .
the opening scene sets the tone for the rest of the movie -- everything overdone and nothing as it seems .
clooney and tarantino bring a hostage to the motel and then hijack an rv with a family in it .
harvey keitel plays the backslidden ex - preacher and juliette lewis his daughter , whom registered sex - pervert tarantino eyes endlessly .
you know you 're mentally unbalanced when you find lewis the least bit attractive , although she 's not nearly as obnoxious as usual in from dusk till dawn .
the first half of the movie has the criminals and hostages trying to get to and through the mexico border , clooney 's strategy involving hiding in the rv shower while lewis is on the toilet .
it does its trick ; the border guard takes one look at lewis relieving herself and immediately goes blind , never noticing clooney or tarantino .
once they get to mexico , it 's time to wait at the rendezvous point ,
a topless bar called titty twister where we 're once again reminded tarantino wrote the movie as he drinks champagne off the foot of a stripper .
finally , after about ten minutes of intercut boob shots and clooney forcing keitel and lewis to drink with him , the stripper turns into a vampire .
soon half the people in the bar are vampires and the other half fall or fight back .
that 's right
, we 've come all this way to see a vampire movie .
but like everything else , tarantino takes this age - old genre and twists it to his own ends to produce over - the - top entertainment .
so we get holy water condom balloons , heads rolling , quadruple impalement on an overturned table and keitel getting bitten by a vampire and announcing he only has a few minutes left before he becomes " a lap dog of satan .
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the from dusk till dawn dialogue is 100 % tarantino , hovering between absurd and disgusting ( as when they 're entering the nightclub and cheech marin announces the main attractions of the titty twister ) , but always entertaining , and is a huge reason the movie is so much fun to watch instead of being one more second - rate gorefest .
clooney , keitel and especially tarantino are so over - the - top with their delivery that the dialogue is that much more hilarious , ensuring not one second of from dusk till dawn is taken the least bit seriously .
stuff like this would be terrible in any other movie , but tarantino and rodriguez know exactly what to do to entertain people , even if there 's absolutely no message or meaning to from dusk till dawn .
pulp fiction had the vulgarity and violence for a reason , but this movie just throws it out for cheap entertainment .
from dusk till dawn is n't the classic of modern cinema that pf is , but is does prove you can do a good job making a really bad movie .
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P


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on the basis of this film alone , i never would have predicted that , in two years , quentin tarantino would become the country 's biggest hotshot director .
reservoir dogs
has hints of the tarantino brilliance that emerged in pulp fiction , but is a much less substantive , more conventional crime story than the big pf .
here 's what the two movies do have in common . . .
--scenes of intelligent , amusing dialogue with no relevance to the plot --a story that jumps back and forth in time rather than going in a logical , chronological sequence --graphic yet necessary violence
--an engaging crime story --dialogue liberally spiced with swear words and racial / gender slurs --three of the same actors ( harvey keitel , tim roth and steve buscemi )
--a mexican standoff ending , although this one is considerably less optimistic than pf reservoir dogs is an entire hour shorter than pulp fiction because it 's only got one story to tell rather than three .
crime lord joe cabot ( veteran actor lawrence tierney ) has assembled five criminals who have never even met each other to pull a diamond store heist .
the five are instructed not to reveal their real names or personal details or anything the cops could use if one of them was captured and interrogated .
instead , they are all given code names off the color chart -- mr .
white ( keitel ) , mr .
pink ( buscemi ) , mr .
orange ( roth ) , mr .
blonde ( michael madsen ) , mr .
brown ( tarantino ) and mr .
peach ( tarantino 's chin ) .
most of the movie 's running time is spent with mr .
white and pink waiting at a warehouse for the others to arrive .
mr .
orange , meanwhile , is on the floor , dying from a gunshot wound .
the police had arrived at the scene of the crime way too soon , leading white to believe one of the five was an informant .
the story 's background unfolds through a series of flashbacks , of the crime itself and the meetings between joe and the criminals prior to the crime .
eventually , blonde arrives with a police officer hostage , and what follows is a truly brutal , uncomfortable torture scene .
let 's just say picasso would be inspired by what blonde does to the cop 's ear .
a lot of the time , reservoir dogs seems like your typical gangster heist - gone - wrong movie , but there are a few sequences that are uniquely tarantino .
the opening scene in the coffee shop starts the movie off on a high note the rest of it does n't live up to , as the criminals plus joe have a conversation on , among other things , tipping philosophies and their interpretations of madonna 's " like a virgin .
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another scene involves roth 's lengthy manufactured story about running into a group of cops and a police dog in a bus station bathroom while carrying a giant bag of marijuana .
neither of these have much plot relevance but are given ample time to develop , like the captain koons gold watch speech in pulp fiction , only here these sequences are more enjoyable than the rest of the movie .
reservoir dogs is good
but it 's no pulp fiction .
answer:
P


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when i first heard of contact , the hype was building it up as a sci - fi blockbuster .
now , with that in mind , coupled with the knowledge of jodie foster 's involvement in the project , i thought " what in the world is foster doing in a sci - fi blockbuster ? ? ?
" . as it turned out , my expectations were completely nullified and turned topsy - turvy .
robert zemeckis , back from the euphoria created by his last film , forrest gump ,
once again proves his mastery in fusing tales of adventure with along the endearing lines of human spirit .
do n't get me wrong , contact is sci - fi ?
but with a definite difference .
based on the late carl sagan novel of the same name , the story delves itself in questions on science and god ; fact and faith .
allie ( foster ) is a radio astronomer .
she spends her time listening to the stars , via ultra - huge communication dishes in search of intelligent life beyond the solar system .
her passion for ` long - distance communication ' is the result of her younger days being spent avidly in front of a ham - radio system ( a hobbyist radio communication device ) which her late - father bought for her .
a scene which particularly strengthens the audiences ' view of the passion is when she asked her father whether she could contact her late - mother through the ham - radio system in which her father replied " not even the most powerful radio in the world can do that , now " .
allie 's research is based on the seti project ( search for extra terrestrial intelligence ) , in which she listens to radio emissions from other galaxies in the hope of finding one which would suggest intelligent manipulation .
her work has never been off the scrutiny of the us government , which considers it a waste of taxpayer 's money and politically unviable , her supervisor ( tom skerritt ) pulls the plug on seti .
undaunted , allie managed to gather a loyal group of ` believers ' and eventually found funding from a large private corporation .
the following months were treacherous to their hopes and research as they are contantly pressured by the government but all that changed when one day , she caught an emission of a seemingly intelligent repeating sound - wave .
the news of her find attracted hordes of alien believers , cultist , the media and of course , the government .
the situation became intense upon her discovery of pictorial plans on building a form of transport which were embedded within the repeating sound emission .
as the world join forces to build this transport , allie is desperate to be the one to go .
she enrols herself among a few hopefuls , to represent the world when the transport is ready for operation .
her eligibility for the spot failed when she is questioned on her beliefs in the existence of god by the president 's spiritual advisor ( mcconaughey ) ; allie , being an atheist , a result of her belief in fact and science , refuses to budge upon questioning .
at this point the movie plot thickens considerably as she is romantically involved with the president 's spiritual advisor .
a strong point which propelled the movie is the depth of its main characters played by foster and mcconaughey .
from the very first meeting scene , it is obvious that the two of them was sort of kindred spirits but they were worlds apart in almost all aspects , foster being a person drawn to science and facts and mcconaughey being one who believes in faith , hope and the power of the unseen .
the meeting of their worlds , added with the situation which they are put into makes the entire storytelling process near flawless .
many people who read the synopsis of this film would find it a tad too ridiculous , but by actually immersing yourself in it , gives you an entirely different perspective ; one which is free from bias and pre - conceptions .
zemeckis and his team of screen writers have done a remarkable job in telling this tale through film .
contact works by not delving in controversy but rather , touches the thinking audience , urging them to ponder upon the questions raised in the film concerning fact and faith ; whether one can actually find compromise within .
i consider contact as one of the must - sees for this year .
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P