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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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i have a great idea for a movie , one that ca n't miss .
see , i 've got coolio to do a song for the soundtrack , and about fifty athletes and celebrities to do cameo appearances .
it 's about professional basketball , so i 'll release it right around the nba finals to guarantee added publicity .
as for what the movie is actually about . . .
well , that will all sort itself out eventually .
i figure it will be a comedy , so i 'll throw a half - dozen writers at it and take the best of whatever they come up with .
maybe we 'll put a gender spin on it , see if we can get some women out to see it , too .
eddie is one of those phenomenally lazy films that infuriates me more than any other kind .
twister , as inane as the script might have been , at least required some creative technicians ; mission : impossible , overwrought plot and all , at least involved genuine effort .
eddie just sits there , hawking up a formula story without any laughs , and makes every possible bad decision when a decision is required .
whoopi goldberg plays eddie franklin , a new york limo driver and die - hard knicks fan who is suffering through a dismal season for her beloved team .
coach john bailey ( dennis farina ) has lost control of his overpaid prima donnas , and the losses are beginning to mount .
the dwindling attendance inspires new team owner wild bill burgess ( frank langella ) to try a publicity stunt in which a lucky fan will get to be an honorary coach of the team .
the winner ( surprise , surprise ) is eddie , who becomes a fan favorite , and eventually the actual coach .
the knicks continue to lose , but eddie has some sassy tricks up her sleeve to inspire her troops .
incidentally , the knicks eventually start winning .
please raise your hand if that comes as a shock , and i will invite you to my all - night marathon of the bad news bears , major league , angels in the outfield , the mighty ducks , the big green , cool runnings and little giants .
awful teams in sports comedies make miraculous turnarounds ; it 's what they do .
those teams usually involve kids , for a very sound comedic reason : it 's funnier when they screw up , and they 're more sympathetic .
those which _ do n't _ involve kids usually have actual actors in the lead roles , for another very sound comedic reason : they generally have developed some sort of comic timing .
eddie was cast under the misguided premise that it 's easier to make basketball players look like actors than it is to make actors look like basketball players .
this finds nba players like greg ostertag , dwayne schintzius , rick fox and malik sealy delivering punch lines as though they were reading them for the first time off a bazooka wrapper
( though sacramento kings center olden polynice has a nice moment describing a black hole to fellow players ) .
perhaps that all did n't matter to anyone because there are so few punch lines , and because the whole film is one big casting gimmick .
steve rash directs
the spiritless script as though waving a flag of surrender and screaming , " do n't blame me , i just work here .
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perhaps it was patently obvious to him that eddie is n't a movie -- it 's a cameo appearance that trips over a plot every once in a while .
among the notables who lend their faces to this travesty are donald trump , new york mayor rudolph giulianni , former new york mayor ed koch , david letterman , letterman regulars mujibur rahman and sirajul islam , espn broadcaster chris berman and knicks announcer marv albert , as well as dozens of nba players and several nba arenas .
and those are the real jokes in eddie .
nothing these individuals say or do is funny ; you are supposed to be laughing simply because you notice , " hey , it 's donald trump ! " or " hey , it 's mujibur and sirajul !
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it 's difficult to decide whether eddie is so bad because it was so shamelessly lacking in imagination or because it ca n't even get the cliches in a cliche - ridden genre script right .
the knicks coach who is eddie 's antagonist early in the film reappears at the end , but he is n't given a chance to be the villain eddie desperately needs .
neither is frank langella , and none of the athlete - actors have the ability to give whoopi goldberg anything to play off of .
that leaves her to do her street - wise miss thang routine , but with no character , no sharp lines and no help .
eddie is n't just a bad movie with a formulaic premise .
it 's a movie that makes you feel cheated and offended , because someone came up with a poster and a marketing plan to which they had to attach an actual movie , and you had the nerve to believe it was going to be a comedy .
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N


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stephen , please post if appropriate .
" mafia ! "
- crime is n't a funny business by homer yen ( c ) 1998 on a particular night when i found myself having some free time , i had a chance to either go to sleep early or to see " mafia ! " , a spoof of mafia and crime films such as " the godfather , " " goodfellas " and " casino " .
at 84 minutes in length , i thought that i could enjoy a few laughs before getting a good nights sleep .
but by my account , i think that my laff - o - meter only registered a few grins , one giggle , and maybe one chortle .
i suppose that you could justify your time as homage to the venerable hollywood star , lloyd bridges , who just recently passed away and whose last performance was in this film .
" mafia !
" chronicles vincenzo cortino 's ( lloyd bridges ) life . separated from his family when he was young , he escapes to america and tries to live an honest life .
but as fate would have it , vincenzo grows up to be a powerful and klutzy crime lord .
following in his footsteps are his two sons , joey ( billy burke ) and anthony ( jay mohr ) .
like all siblings in powerful crime families , they squabble over power , the future of the family , fortune , and women .
" mafia !
" is co - written by jim abrahams , who also contributed to some gut - busting funny spoofs such as " airplane " and " the naked gun .
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but these previous movies were funny because the jokes seemed more universally understood and there was more of a manic silliness at work .
as i write this , i also wonder how many people have actually seen the movies on which this spoof is based .
crime movies in general contain a lot of profanity and violence .
it 's a tough genre to parody .
i was kind of hoping that they could somehow spoof the profanity used in all of those crime movies , maybe by having all of the tough crime lords say " please " as they decide which sector to take over , but this opportunity was never explored .
there were one or two moments that made me smile such as the scene where vincenzo is dancing with his newly we d daughter - in - law .
a gunman shoots him several times .
the impact of the bullets cause him to make these wild contortions that force the wedding band to change music styles to keep up with him , from the samba to disco to the macarena .
i think that i just gave away the best part of the film .
oh well , that just means that you can go to sleep a little earlier .
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N


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blade is the movie that shows that wesley snipes really can live up to his potential as one of hollywood 's premier leading men .
blade is based on the comic book character of the same name and has that comic book kind of feel to it .
it is a very stylish movie and for the most part that style works very well .
although , at a few points i thought i was watching a music video as opposed to a movie .
the ideas behind blade are good , as is the basic plot of the story .
but at times , things seem to get a bit muddled , and the writers appear to want to do too many things at once .
that really does n't take away from the story too much , but it does hurt it a little bit .
blade ( snipes ) is half man , half vampire .
his mother was bitten by a vampire when she was pregnant with him and as a result he has many of the classic traits of a vampire .
including a thirst for human blood that must be kept under control by a special serum which quenches his blood lust .
blade has spent his life hunting down and killing vampires as a sort of revenge for the fact that one of their kind killed his mother .
but this is n't as easy as it seems , because the vampires in blade 's world are more sophisticated than the ones that you find in most films .
the government and other authorities know of the existence of vampires , but they let them feast of the population at large because they are taking bribes from the vampires .
where do vampires get money ?
well , in blade , they run multinational companies in order to finance their vampire organizations .
i personally thought that this whole secret corporate world run by vampires to be a very clever idea , and a great addition to the movie .
blade runs up against the evil deacon frost ( stephen dorff ) a maverick in the vampire community .
he is n't content to live among humans , and is convinced that the vampire race is the superior one and he means to insure its superiority .
he has managed to translate the ancient vampire scrolls that tell of the method of making him an all - powerful vampire -- rendering him virtually unstoppable .
it 's up to blade to see that this does n't transpire .
admittedly , blade is style over substance through and through .
the story is a relatively forgettable one , but it is fun none the less .
the acting in blade is just about what you would expect from a movie of this type .
this is n't a film that is going to win accolades for its performances , and the actors know this .
the movie is played for fun and nobody seems to think otherwise .
it 's a popcorn movie , and no one involved has any illusions otherwise .
blade 's production values are as slick as any that you will find in your typical summer blockbuster .
the combat sequences between blade and his vampire targets are incredibly well done .
although , the mtv - style cuts did get on my nerves after a while during long sequences .
blade is a fun movie with an interesting take on the vampire genre .
this is not the movie for those of you who like your vampires in tuxedos and living in coffins in the basement of some gothic castle .
what blade excels
at is bringing the classic lore of the vampire into the next century with a fresh outlook on life .
very cool .
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P