In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.

of all the films i 've come to see this year ( 1997 ) , i think only chasing amy had as many " laugh - out - loud " moments
.
i 'm not saying that i was hysterically rolling on the floor while watching waiting for guffman , but my mouth burst open with at least a delighted guffaw at least every couple of minutes .
and i think i 'm the kind of person that laughs least at movies , even when i find them funny .
usually all you can get out of me is a warm smile , so to get me laughing out loud , and so frequently , is a really good sign .
waiting for guffman is the story of blaine , missouri , a town celebrating
it 's 150th anniversary , and the musical that is being put on for the big event .
the play is being directed by corky st .
clair ( christopher guest , who also wrote and directed this " mockumentary " as well as co - writing several original musical numbers ) , the effeminate broadway hopeful determined to make this production a smashing success .
teaming up with st .
clair are a handful of blaine residents : allan pearl ( eugene levy ) , a jewish dentist who spent his youth not as the class clown , but sitting right next to him and studying him , ron and sheila albertson ( fred willard and catherine o'hara respectively ) , a married couple setting their sights on hollywood , libby mae brown ( parker posey ) , the dense but fun queen of the dairy queen , and a few others .
everybody in this movie is brilliant , absolutely so , but levy particularly stands out .
these characters are portrayed with such saddening realism that you ca n't help but love them , as pathetic as they really are .
although levy stands out , guest , willard , o'hara , and posey are all wonderful and definitely should be commended for their performances ! if there was an oscar for an ensemble performance , this is the group that should sweep it .
some humor was a tad uneven from the rest of the film and , even after starting very humorously , they nearly lost me with the tad - too - long intros . as delightful as it was , it began to get monotonous .
thankfully , just as your about to say " ok , maybe i should run to the bathroom " , they finally get past the intros and onto the rehearsal scenes .
like a play , this film gives a very three - act feel , the intros ( funny , but almost too long ) , the rehearsals ( even funnier ) , and finally , the actual performance of the play ( excellent ! ) .
like i said , each character really shines , even when done with a subtle approach .
you ca n't really watch these people and not think they 're real people !
even they way they talk , with awkward pauses and stumbles that do n't feel staged at all , you feel like you 're watching a real , albeit funny , documentary .
and even with silly lyrics , the original songs when the play is finally put on , are absolutely wonderful !
as a word of note , despite it 's " r " rating , waiting for guffman is really quite clean .
this rating came from a brief , very brief use of the grand - daddy of all swear words .
even if that really bothers you , let me say that it 's not presented in a vulgar , cheap - laugh way .
it 's actually quite humorous and tastefully done !
it might be hard knowing what to expect with waiting for guffman .
it 's silly humor , but it 's also so dry , subtle , and intelligently done that you 're not insulted by it .
it 's always really nice to see a comedy that is n't all slapstick and vulgarity , and this film is one of the better ones of the better ones !
i 'd recommend seeing it !
P

renee zellweger stars as sonia , a young jewish wife and mother frustrated by the constraints of her hasidic community in brooklyn .
her husband ( glenn fitzgerald ) is a religious scholar whose all - in - a - day's - work attitude on sex fails to tame the " fire " she feels within , as so she confesses to the rebbe ( after hearing her fiery confession , the rebbe suddenly gets frisky with his pleasantly surprised wife -- and dies the next morning ) .
sensing her frustration , her husband 's brother ( christopher eccleston ) gives her a job in his jewelry brokering business in exchange for raw , passionless sex that just fans sonia 's still - burning flame .
on the job , sonia befriends ramon ( allen payne ) , a cool blast of hunky puerto rican water who does his own jewelry designs when not working as a grunt in an upscale jewelry store .
can fire - taming be far be that far behind for the ever - smoldering sonia ?
just about everything in writer - director boaz yakin 's rings false , starting with the improbably cast zellweger , who does an adequate enough acting job but simply looks too waspy for the role .
a better fit would have been julianna margulies , who outshines zellweger as sonia 's take - no - crap sister - in - law .
some of sonia 's baby steps toward liberation , such as indulging in a non - kosher egg roll in chinatown , come off as silly .
yakin attempts to spice up the proceedings with a touch of magical realism -- in the form of the recurring presence of sonia 's long - dead brother 's ghost -- make the story feel even more trite than it already is .
"
i did n't know what to expect .
it 's like something you chase for so long , but then you do n't know how to react when you get it .
i still do n't know how to react .
"
--michael
jordan , on winning his first nba championship in 1991 .
..
or , my thoughts after meeting him on november 21 , 1997
N

there 's nothing quite like a gory anime .
really , and this is the truth , no other genre in film gets away with such violence without a word being said in the media about it .
with anime , a common shot is watching a body getting quickly cut in two , and the rest of the insides falling out seconds afterword .
this is a standard practice in anime , or at least the half dozen or so titles that i 've seen .
vampire hunter
d is a gory , gory film .
if they ever made a live version of the film , it would be banned in several countries and given a rating somewhere below xxx .
it 's not that it 's
gore is unique -
it 's just like other gory animes - but this one was supposed to stand out because of the complexity it 's story , characters , animation , etc . . .
it really did n't .
it was disgusting and gruesome , which overshadowed the story , what little of it there was .
it seems that in the not too distant future vampires and evil control the world , because god knows that our local police force just ca n't seem to get a handle on vampires in the movies .
one evening , a blond peasant girl , drawn to look 17 and innocent ( a foreshadow that we will see her naked , i guessed early on it would be in the shower or in a rape scene )
is out fighting evil in her local forest preserve when she stumbles onto the private property of a ten thousand year old vampire ( insert strom thurmand joke here . )
of course , he never put a ? no trespassing ? sign on his yard , so one ca n't really blame her , but he 's upset anyway and demands retribution .
she gets the obligatory bite on the neck ( are n't there other places to get blood from ?
it seems like a bite in the elbow would do well enough .
if it 's good enough for doctors to draw blood from , then why do vampires stray from that sight ? ) to fight the spell , she enlists the help of a mysteriously tall , dark and handsome vampire hunter
( you guessed it , his name is d ) .
the vampire hunter is torn between fighting vampires , being attracted to the 17 year old peasant girl and finding reasons not to talk too much .
you see , like all heroes in these kinds of stories , he 's a brooder , who 's sole purpose in life is to remain really , really silent .
when he speaks , it 's in cliches .
heroes like this are bad when they 're live , even worse when animated .
later the vampire hunter storms the castle to meet the big bad vampire , who wants to marry the peasant girl because he 's bored after 10 , 000 years of living ( the only clever vampire insight made in the movie ) , will vampire hunter d rush to save her in time ?
will we see blood and intestines spattering on every place imaginable ?
in it 's defense , the animation , when focusing on being original rather than recycling anime slicing , could at times be original .
the talking hand was clever - and i think the inspiration for a skateboard - related logo .
and that 's the best defense i can think of .
i understand that vampire hunter d is supposed to be a fave among anime fans , but i really do n't see it .
it 's an excuse to watch blood dripping from teeth , blood exploding out of eye sockets and horses necks , and most importantly , like all violent anime , it is an excuse to see animated breasts .
why ?
what is the point of that ?
maybe i have to understand the genre and look past the obsessive gore and mysogny .
i 'm not a prude
, i just do n't think it 's warranted .
it puts itself so far out in front of the movie that everything else gets lost .
is there a neccesity in seeing a 17 year old in the shower ?
of course not ?
it 's done for shock .
it 's tasteless and despicable .

N