In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
One example is below.
Q: plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
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it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
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there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
A: N
Rationale: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").
Q: david lynch 's " blue velvet " begins and ends with colorful , bright shots of flowers and happy americans mowing their lawns in a seemingly perfect american town .
however , what lies inside this nominally safe atmosphere is a " strange world " of drug dealers , sadists , and murderers .
the opening and closing shots are a wonderful contrast to the rest of the gloomy , disturbing film .
they show not to make assumptions from first glance and that oddness is common in all places under all circumstances .
odd would be a perfect adjective to describe this film , its characters , its direction , and its story .
thankfully , the obscurity that " blue velvet " relies on is enough to make this film enjoyable . since its elements are so originally weird , you never know what will happen next .
this is the main goal of a movie ; to be spontaneous and surprising .
" blue velvet " miracuously succeeds at this even though it contains mediocre acting .
lynch creates such a hypnotic world that it is hard to resist his style of story telling .
the film starts off with the discovery of a severed ear by a college boy ( kyle maclachlan ) .
from this point maclachlan finds himself involved with a lounge singer ( isabella rossellinia ) who has lost her son and husband to a kidnapping .
the plot is much more detailed than the aforementioned and this is what makes david lynch 's story telling so amazing .
maclachlan becomes involved in a forbidden relationship , in another relationship that could have been taken straight out of a high school flick , and he is put into the shoes of a drug dealer who has some wild adventures with some wild friends .
through these multiple stories , maclachlan lives multiple lives and as we follow maclachlan , we are introduced to a variety of interesting subplots .
lynch masterfully builds these subplots but he does not piece them all together in the very end and make a convenient crowd pleasing conclusion .
instead he leaves some ambiguity and forces those curious enough to get the real meaning to watch the film several several times .
lynch has been known to do this with a number of his films meaning he may be too esoteric for some hoping to get a hollywood ending where the good guy gets the girl and everything turns out fine .
however , for fans of odd difficult indies , " blue velvet " could be just what they are looking for .
it is very hard to discuss " blue velvet " without discussing the performance of dennis hopper 's sadistic frank .
most of the other actors in the film were not very memorable .
kyle maclachlan lacked one important aspect for his role , a personality .
laura dern was consistently annoying .
but dennis hopper stole every scene he was in .
his evil character was just plain old frightening in his mannerisms from his obsession to velvet to his incessant breathing from a gas mask .
frank is a character that comes along once in a blue moon .
many producers know this and have inevitably begun to typecast hopper as the bad guy .
just like his villain in " speed " , hopper is over the edge with cursing and screaming every chance he has to speak .
this harshness is exactly what frank is , so weird and twisted that it is hard not to look at him , even if he theatens you to look away .
"
blue velvet " has characters and stories you will never see in a movie again .
for this sole reason it is recommended .
but also see it to admire lynch 's obsession to avoid the norm .
even if this film is a little too weird for you ,
it 's hard not to congratulate a guy for trying something new and sticking to it .
A:
P