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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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" . . . because i 'm a scientist . that 's what we do ! " --- dr .
alexander mccabe ( bob gunton ) , in response to why he created evil bats .
alright folks , stop me if you 've heard this one : genetically altered animals wreak havoc on a town and a small band of locals , assisted by a specialist in the particular animal 's field , must team up to stop the mutant creatures before they can multiply and spread across the earth .
oh yeah , the military is on their way to bomb the town as well , so they are running short on time .
sound familiar ?
such is the plot of the destination films release of bats .
dina meyer stars as the " bat specialist " sheila , who is pulled from her research ( along with her annoying sidekick , played with irritating deftness by leon ) in order to help a small texas town figure out why some local citizens and animals have been chewed to death recently .
with the help of the local sheriff ( lou diamond phillips ) , a cdc official ( carlos jacott ) , and a scientist ( bob gunton ) , sheila discovers it is indeed bats ( who have been genetically altered by gunton 's character to be more aggressive and omnivorous , in order to be used as a military weapon ! ) .
i have to say here
that i knew exactly what i was getting into going into this film .
there 's not a frame of promotional footage i have seen for the film that would have led me to believe it was going to be any good .
in this respect , the film never disappointed me .
this film reaches a level that transcends the " so bad
it 's good " level and borders on the downright insane .
the effects are awful , the script is contrived , and for most of the feature i was laughing at things that were supposed to be taken seriously ( i think ) .
i challenge anyone to sit through the scene , where a bat stalks a baby in a crib while another bat terrorizes a patron eating at a diner , with a straight face .
thankfully , the performances are as good as they can be considering the material the actors had to perform with .
dina meyer has always been the highlight of any of the films she has been in ( johnny mnemonic , dragonheart , and starship troopers . . .
the latter being the only film out of that batch with any actual merit ) , and this one is no exception .
while one never really gets the impression that meyer 's character could be a bat expert in reality , one never really cares to doubt it either .
she gives as good a performance as could be expected , plus she 's nice to look at for an hour and a half .
lou diamond phillips is also serviceable here , as the small town sheriff turned eventual hero .
although when we first meet his character he knows bats are the reason for what 's going on in town , for some reason later on he suddenly becomes amazed to learn that the actual cause of the deaths in town are because of bats .
the only bad performance in the film is that of leon 's .
he is relegated to the " i 'm not sticking around here !
" character and proceeds to repeat variations of that line for the majority of the film even though he stays .
anyone who ca n't immediately tell that bob gunton ( the bad guy in patch adams and countless other films ) is going to eventually turn on the gang and side with his creations before his eminent death will probably be surprised , but i highly doubt it .
even if he had n't been the villain in just about every film he 's ever been in , so many obvious hints are given to indicate the devious act that it holds no shock whatsoever .
in fact , his death is welcome , because it finally starts moving the plot towards the finale .
if the plot does n't sound ridiculous to you yet , then check out these little tidbits : a multitude of bats inexplicably disperses when a police officer cocks his pistol .
an entire town disregards the sheriff and doctor 's orders to stay indoors after a curfew is instigated , causing mass hysteria when the bats come out in full force , killing several townsfolk .
a government official blows off shelia 's instructions ( to wait until dawn to install a cooling unit in the bats ' cave that will kill all of them off ) by pulling a night job , resulting in the death of an entire military unit .
a cavern full of bat feces never ignites when a phosphorus flare is lit right in the middle of it .
finally , to top it all off , this little texas town is showing nosferatu in it 's single screen theater ( for reference , our town has over a million people in it with nearly 150 movie screens , and we 're lucky to even get kevin smith 's dogma ) .
the most laughable part of the movie though comes from the ill - conceived bat puppets .
while the actual bat attack scenes are shot with rapid fire editing ( making the scenes nearly impossible to comprehend what 's going on ) , the scenes where a bat is called upon to interact with a live actor are usually shot more low - key .
therefore we the audience get loving close - ups of the most unrealistic , rubbery bat puppets ever committed to film
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being able to see the puppeteer 's arms would be the only things that could have made these creations worse .
after all of this , if you still decide bats might be the movie for you ,
do n't say you have n't been warned .
trust me when i say that it 's a lot more fun to trash than it is to sit through .
i just wish that dina meyer would be cast in more roles or at least choose better films to appear in .
she 's definitely a talent that is going to waste in films like these .
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N


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ready to rumble is not a masterpiece in film ; i have a problem even regarding it as a film .
it 's more of a show , a big commercial for ted turner 's world championship wrestling ( wcw ) .
the movie is almost entirely about and fully showcases the wrestlers of the wcw like diamond dallas page , goldberg , and sting .
the story is very minimal and basic .
there are these two guys , gordy ( david arquette ) and sean ( scott caan ) .
they are two twenty - something wrestling fans from wyoming .
when they go to a live event for the big match up , there favorite wrestler jimmy king ( oliver platt ) is defeated and his career is announced to be over by the mean commissioner titus ( joe pantoliano ) .
gordy and sean decide to go on a quest to find jimmy and bring him back to the top and defeat the evil titus ' plans .
on the way , they meet some people , have some fun , and clean up some port - o - potties .
sounds great huh
, well it 's not .
the movie makes many attempts at humor , only a few of them work .
the jokes that make you laugh , however , do not outnumber the film 's many duds .
there is a funny repertoire between arquette and a convenience store cashier played by ahmet zappa .
the cashier is very mean to arquette so arquette dreams of ways to get him back .
i especially enjoyed one version in which they have a wrestling match and arquette 's tag team partner is ' macho man ' randy savage .
they wrestle between the aisles knocking over cans and getting body slammed on the floor .
the other good part of the film is the sexual confrontation between arquette and rose mcgowan .
mcgowan plays sasha the head nitro girl , the cheerleaders of the wcw .
she becomes attracted to gordy and they have some nice , funny scenes together especially one scene in which arquette calls mcgowan 's breasts foreign objects than punches her directly into the face .
now what did n't work in this movie ?
that would be the rest of it .
the flick was filled with stupid potty humor about farts and toilets .
the two lead characters work for a port - o - potty cleaning company and when they crash the truck , the excrements spill all over the road .
it 's not funny ; it 's pathetic and brainless .
the film is giving homage to how blindly faithful of their wrestlers but not all wrestling fans are that way .
i watch it for entertainment
and i would think some people would take offense to what is said throughout the movie .
the main characters in the film actually get to wrestle , like that would happen to any fan , especially to 2 that stalk a wrestler and sneak him back onto set .
also , i wondered how they got into the backstage so easily ; they just walked right in .
i like wrestling .
i watch it at home and laugh .
it 's continuously funny and has great characters
otherwise i would n't watch it .
this movie was n't even funny or fun to watch like the wrestling on tv .
the only fun i had in the movie was pointing out the wrestlers i knew .
the funny thing was that many of the wcw featured wrestlers like saturn and chris benoit have left wcw for more money but are still featured in the film prominently .
the movie was too dim - witted to be funny .
it is possibly the most useless and under - developed film ever .
a recent film in this genre of fans would be the kiss fan film , detroit rock city .
that movie was interesting , well done and continuously funny unlike this film .
the acting was good plus the jokes had humor and made you laugh .
now that the scream trilogy is over , arquette has nothing else to do so
he has to do crap like this and be a spokesman in those dumb 1 - 800-call - att ads .
at least he has a hot wife in courtney cox .
he 's in the funny parts of the film but there are n't enough to make him look good .
the music was bad
also feature such overplayed tunes as kid rock 's " bawitdaba " and " cowboy " .
martin landau has a great cameo as a classic , hard - nosed wrestling trainer named sal that whips the king back into shape to regain his throne .
script is important to a film but this piece of crap could have been made with a couple of scribblings on a napkin .
a fan of the wrestlers who are featured in the film probably wrote it .
at times the movie even tries to show wrestling as real .
the wrestlers form alliances , go to people 's houses and beat them up .
it 's utterly ridiculous .
the whole film was a wasteful , dumfounding experience .
the movie was made to pay homage to the fans , telling them things that made wrestling , not the wrestlers .
the wrestlers are making more money to make a movie to thank the fans for begin fans by paying 5 dollars to see a potty - humor movie .
the wcw sucks and this movie is just a pathetic two - hour commercial to watch it .
if you 're going to watch wrestling watch wwf , it 's actually entertaining .
the wrestling is betters , they 're funnier , more diverse , and have better entrance themes .
oh and the girls are hotter .
is this what movies have become , 2 hour - long commercials that you have to pay to see ?
do n't waste your money .
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N


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you do n't have to know poker to like " rounders , " but it might help .
that a great deal of this sharp little drama is set in the back rooms of new york 's cardshark underground astoundingly does n't limit its accessibility , even for those who ca n't tell royal and straight flushes apart .
" rounders " ' success , then , is owed to its proficient cast and intriguing portrayal of a world not many viewers will be familiar with .
the dialogue may be filled with terms that only true players will grasp , but you do n't have to speak the language to understand the words - a statement that pretty much sums up the effectiveness of the whole show .
matt damon , fresh off his " good will hunting " hot streak , is perfect for the role of mike mcdermott , a young law student with a tremendous gift for gambling .
but after losing all of his tuition money in a killer high - stakes match with russian poker aficionado teddy kgb ( john malkovich , deliciously hammy ) , he shifts his focus to scholarly matters , leaving his true area of expertise far , far behind .
things change , however , when mike 's old buddy worm ( edward norton ) re - enters his life - it seems worm , just out of jail , owes a hefty sum to nasty thugs , and is counting on his friend 's superlative skills to help him pay off the debt .
that " rounders " ' story quickly molds itself into a conventional , predictable tale of redemption does n't hinder its potency .
director john dahl , infamous for his neo - noirs " red rock west " and " the last seduction , " gets extremely convincing mileage out of the been - there , done - that plot mechanics by trumping up the relationship between mike and worm .
damon and norton bring so much to their roles that they 'd be worth catching even if " rounders " ultimately folded , but the movie ups its fascinating ante by contrasting their wildly different ways of winning .
any sequence where the two men sit at the table together is an unarguable highlight .
if only the other character interaction was as successful , " rounders " might merit consideration when it comes time to number the year 's best films .
current " it girl
" gretchen mol is sweetly appealing as mike 's girlfriend jo , aware and weary of his seedy past , but her scenes with damon number too few to be very effective .
john turturro 's aging mentor and famke janssen 's tempting siren , both interesting sketches , are hampered by the same limited screen time .
and as a wizened judge , the great martin landau makes memorable a role that 's mostly a plot device
- he 's on hand mostly to sort - of save the day and provide a voice for " rounders " ' moral .
that moral , by the way , is " our destiny chooses us , " and it 's something of a surprise when " rounders " supports this solemn proverb by eschewing the conclusion you might expect ; mike does learn from his mistake , but neither the mistake nor the way he learns from it is what it initially appears to be .
in the end , " rounders " sees gambling as less a mere addiction than a potential art form , but the poker itself is only a metaphor for a much larger picture .
the road to true fulfillment lies within the realization and exercising of your natural passions , the movie espouses , no matter what they might be .
here , low - rent lowlifes like worm just are n't cut out for the cards .
screenwriters david levien and brian koppelman entertain and educate in their quest to vividly render a culture that 's often generalized by movies ; even complete poker neophytes should cross the line from observers to participants when the movie gets to its concluding game scene .
inside every adventurous filmgoer , there is a desire to be taken someplace new and exciting , and
that 's the precise allure of " rounders .
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it ultimately matters not that a few of our tour guides feel partially - realized or that the journey itself is cluttered with sites we 've seen before , because the final destination is a satisfying one
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in the end , " rounders " holds a winning hand .
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P