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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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actually , i 'm fairly sure the experience of having my flesh torn and mutilated by barbed wire would have been more positive than watching this movie .
" baywatch " babe pamela anderson lee proves once and for all that she should keep her
double - d 's on the small screen .
at least there you do n't have to pay to see her cleavage .
and for those viewers out there who would only lay down money for this movie in hopes of seeing pam topless ,
hate to burst your bubble , but there are no full - fledged nude scenes in barb wire .
you would n't be reading this review right now if i had known that fact going in .
i ca n't go back in time and reverse my mistake , but i can warn other horny teenage boys out there .
they do tease us a few times with scenes where you almost see her topless
but if she is nude , it 's so quick you ca n't even tell for sure whether you 're seeing her andersons or not .
a nipple hallucination sort of thing .
barb wire was adapted from a comic book , interesting because pamela is probably the only woman who looks like a comic book character in real life , even wearing low - cut leather to do office work ( businesswoman bondage wear ) and having unreal body proportions .
yes , like the mona lisa , pamela anderson is a man - made beauty , probably in more senses than one .
she is a definite beauty , though , and looking at her is never an unpleasant experience .
you 'd just think the woman who began her career as a playboy playmate would n't have any reservations about appearing nude in the movie , because it 's obvious
she was n't pulling a sharon stone and trying to make people pay attention to her acting skills .
i mean , she shows off more cleavage here than a jeweler 's convention .
the movie is set in the year 2017 , " the worst year of my life , " pam says .
( " the worst movie of the year , " i say . )
america is going through a second civil war and pamela is a nightclub owner in the only free city in the nation ( silicone valley , i think ) .
she also hires herself out as a bounty hunter when the price is right , posing as first a stripper and later as a prostitute .
but do n't call her " babe .
"
she hates that , and reminds us of that fact way too many times .
imagine , a woman who does a trapeze strip tease in a bar while having a hose sprayed on her being referred to in such a sexist , demeaning term .
a liberated woman like pamela anderson should n't have to hear words like " babe " during a strip tease , especially since that movie about the talking pig was such a success .
the plot ( ha - ha ) revolves around a pair of contact lenses that allow their wearer to pass through the congressional directorate 's retina scanners .
in the words of one of the characters , they 're " more than meets the eye .
" reminds me of the " transformers " cartoon , and i sure wished the movie could somehow be transformed into something decent , but that never happened .
no ,
the movie just continued on its path of lame action scenes starring pamela van - damme , big - busted kickboxer , and her resistance accomplices , ex - boyfriend axel ( tamuera morrison ) and cora ( victoria rowell ) .
thank god they did n't name her cora reef .
one bad character name is more than enough .
pamela originally does n't take sides , giving some speech about she 's only loyal to the money they pay her , but she changes her mind once the congressional bastards kill her blind brother , jack noseworthy of bon jovi " always " video fame .
i still do n't know if barb wire is a step up or step down for noseworthy , but he definitely is nose worthy ( even if he is n't sponge worthy ) .
pam gets ready to avenge his death by grabbing up an armful of semi - automatic weapons and strapping an ammunitions belt to her chest .
it 's not rambo . . .
it 's bimbo !
mark my words , barb wire will be all over the cinemax network in a year .
it 's got all the elements of the direct - to - video releases featured on hbo 's bastard cousin , the cable channel i 'd never watch if it did n't somehow come free .
it 's got the non - titillating scenes of voyeurism , laughable flashbacks , bad dialogue and action cliches out the wazzoo
.
there 's even a narrator at the beginning setting up the movie 's premise while the words scroll up the screen .
someone needs to tell pamela the wookie this ai n't star wars .
if you 've seen any action flick of the past fifteen years , you 'll recognize plenty of lifted elements .
barb wire has the obligatory trucks flipping over , car crashes , explosions , broken glass and slow - motion shots of bodies falling hundreds of feet to their death .
this is one of those automatic - pilot movies anyone could write or direct .
barb wire has only two things going for it . . .
and i think you know what those two things are .
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N


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one of these days , i 'll make good on my promise never to rent another abel ferrara movie .
king of new york and body snatchers notwithstanding ( and
bad lieutenant is only fit for a single , emotive viewing ) ,
his exploitation flicks have fallen into a rut of hoary art - house trappings .
it 's a perfume - drenched , coke - addled visit to the seedy pornography shop , where beautiful models ( no , hookers -- no , courtesans ) usher you through the silk curtains .
ferrara 's only consistently smart move has been casting
christopher walken over and over again , since walken can make a good movie great and a loathsome movie durable whenever he 's onscreen .
his 8-minute scene in the addiction is the saving grace of that otherwise abysmal , unwatchable , and pretentious failure .
when he starts talking about his vampiric bowel movements , or questions whether lili taylor has ever read naked lunch , there 's a much - needed dose of humor in an otherwise terminally unfunny affair .
you know those gothic club kids who are too cool to smile and let you know they 're actually having fun ?
the addiction is that movie .
walken , sadly , does not appear in the blackout .
the central role of matty , a junkie film star whose lightning paced hollywood life among the beautiful people is inevitably leading to his destruction , is played by matthew modine ( who takes what he can get after cutthroat island ) .
much like the protagonists of michelangelo antonioni 's terminally bored cultural elite , matty is involved in a bitter pill " relationship " with high fashioned model annie ( at least i think she 's a model . )
matty 's lady is played by french actress b ? atrice dalle , arrested twice for cocaine possession during filming of the blackout -- not that you needed to know that , but it lends credence to the idea that ferrara 's entire oeuvre has been filmed in a fucking blackout .
no kidding .
requiem for a dream has nothing on the junkie presentations seen in ferrara 's movies and his controversial urban lifestyle .
matty and annie struggle over her decision to have an abortion without consulting him .
no doubt , he was off chasing the dragon .
in his despair , matty indulges in a chemical induced weekend of debauchery , tooling around the streets of miami with video filmmaker mickey wayne ( dennis hopper , in full " dirty ol' man " mold smacking models on the ass and telling them to spread their legs .
wider ! )
toward the end of the night , they pick up a teenage waitress also named annie ( sarah lassez ) , start shooting a hastily improvised sexual scene , then matty thankfully blacks out .
something happened that night which haunts him throughout the rest of the movie , and it 's exactly what you think it was .
suffice to say , there 's some confusion over whether he killed annie one or annie two , or anyone at all .
the blackout is typical ferrara :
no plot to speak of , plenty of raunch , and horribly vogue images of matthew modine downing a bottle of jack daniels and a beer while wrapping himself in a see - through curtain in his hotel room by the sea , by the sea , by the beautiful sea .
cinematographer ken kelsch finds inconsistent glory in alternating gorgeous painterly sunsets with docu - style sleaze ( and we 're back to dennis hopper leering at girls in bathing suits .
"
yeah ! ! !
yeah ! ! !
arrrghhh ! " says mr .
hopper .
dirty old sod . )
it 's compulsive viewing in a tacky sort of way , leading to a ridiculous climax where modine seizes control of his destiny .
how 's that for cryptic ?
never fear -- ferrara finds time for some female full frontal nudity to remind us what he 's all about .
i can picture it now .
" take off yer clothes , kid -- it 's essential to depict the inner maelstrom of my central protagonist , and you 're his visual
i
d .
you 're the soul , the heart , the bloodstream of the picture .
take it off !
take it all off ! ! !
ha ha ha !
" friggin ' vampire .
yeah , you , ferrara .
a final word about matthew modine : he 's actually a fine actor when properly cast , but there 's something too squeaky - clean in his demeanor .
he 's ideally suited for sarcastic men in tightly controlled situations , such as his private joker in full metal jacket or the time - bomb nebbish in short cuts ( who is every bit as superb as julianne moore in that famous scene , though no one seems to notice him ) .
[ he was in that scene ?
-ed . ]
here , he 's asked to let it all hang out , sporting a three - day stubble and oily bangs .
he throws around furniture like stanley kowalski , but it 's somehow lacking .
modine lacks the feral intensity of brando , entirely miscast in ferrara 's flesh fair .
better luck next time
, matt .
someday , you 'll be forgiven for cutthroat island , which was n't really your fault in the first place .
maybe atom egoyan will find a place for you somewhere , and all will once again be well in your world .
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N


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saving private ryan ( dreamworks ) running time : 2 hours 48 minutes .
starring tom hanks , edward burns , tom sizemore and matt damon directed by steven spielberg
already being hailed as the ' greatest war movie ever made , ' saving private ryan is an harrowing , saddening and riveting movie .
it may not be the greatest war movie in my opinion , but it 's certainly one of the best war movies made , and one of the best of 1998 .
tom hanks stars as a captain who 's troop has to find private ryan ( damon ) who has a ticket home because his three brothers have been killed in action .
action , drama and even some humour occur as the troop journeys through wartime france to find him .
after the disappointing amistad ( 1997 ) spielberg has returned to form with this excellent movie .
i 'm not the war movie genre biggest fan , but
i found this film to be gripping , and very scary , thanks to the excellent cast , direction and terrifying battle scenes .
tom hanks is superb , straying away from his usually soppy dramatic roles , such as in forrest gump ( 1994 ) .
this time , he plays the role with gritty realism , and is much better for it .
occasionally he overacts the sentimentally , but he generally delivers a fine performance .
edward burns , looking a lot like armageddon 's ben affleck , also delivers a top notch performance , moving away from his roles in films such as she 's the one ( 1996 ) tom sizemore makes less of an impact , but is still watchable , and matt damon reinforcing his position as one of the finest young actors working today .
spielberg directs very well , putting the audience right in the heart of the action of the battle scenes .
and what battle scenes they are !
they 're truly terrifying , yet the audience can not drag their eyes away from the screen
.
the battle scenes are filmed with a jerky hand - held camera , and the panic and confusion felt by the soldiers is emphasized by this technique .
the gore and violence is n't spared either , which body parts flying , and blood spurting .
this film is certainly not for kids and sensitive adults .
other factors help saving private ryan be a masterpiece of 90 's film making .
the cinematography is excellent , and the music score by john william 's is also superb .
it is never intrusive , and adds to the drama on - screen .
but while they are thousands of good things great about private ryan , there 's one major flaw that detracts the genius of the film : the writing .
it is unusually flat , with many of the speeches strangely weak .
the film never really makes any profound statements .
this is not a major gripe , as private ryan is a film of action , not words .
still , the script could of been a lot better .
thankfully , the actors help partly to rectify the situation with their great delivery of their lines .
saving private ryan , in the end , is an excellent film , but not the ' greatest war movie ' due to
it 's weak acting .
this film should be viewed by everyone who has the stomach for it , as it 's rewarding and extremely worthwhile .
it really should n't be missed , and dreamworks skg has finally found it 's first hit movie .
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P