In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
One example: 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
.
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
.
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 )
Solution is here: N
Explanation: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

Now, solve this: my inner flag was at half - mast last year when nick at nite pulled " dragnet " reruns off the air .
sure
, i 'd seen them all at least once , but i could always count on at least a few inadvertent laughs from ultra - serious jack webb when there was nothing else on tv .
even though " dragnet " is out of circulation at the moment , we webb anti - fans still have the d. i. , a 50 's propaganda piece for the military that is almost as hilarious as the famous " blue boy " episode of " dragnet .
" for anyone like me who got laughs out of webb 's rapid - fire speeches and straight - faced seriousness , think of the d. i. as what would happen if sgt .
joe friday ever enlisted , because he plays exactly the same character here ,
a no - nonsense old fart who looks with disdain at the younger generation and loves to give long- winded , melodramatic speeches on any topic . in this election year , i 'm more convinced than ever that webb and bob dole were separated at birth .
the movie opens in characteristic fashion as one recruit after another knocks on webb 's office door and enters .
he gives each one a different series of cranky criticisms before the credits come up .
the " produced and directed by jack webb " card pretty much goes without saying .
this is his movie all the way , and after the first twenty minutes of him chewing out his recruits for no reason , i was wondering if there would even be a plot .
i certainly would have been entertained by an hour and a half of trademark webb rants , but the d. i. gives us more -- much more .
webb 's mission is to make a man out of private owens , the local screw - up .
the captain gives webb three days to convert owens into marine material or , the captain will " personally cut the lace off his panties and ship him out myself .
" ( whether the " lace panties " part refers to webb or owens remains unanswered . )
this , of course , gives webb an excuse to focus all his crotchety energy on making owens ' life a living hell .
for those of you who have n't been indoctrinated into the pleasures of webb watching , here 's a reprint of a typical monologue of his .
i ca n't duplicate his hilarious delivery on paper , but the words should at least partially convey what i 'm talking about . ..
" now you listen to me , youngster .
someday you 'll wake up fighting on a beach and you 'll pray to god somebody
does n't get killed because of your foolishness .
..
i 've got a headline for you : every time you make one of those little mistakes of yours , you 're gon na turn around
and i 'll be standing right there .
"
i could n't write down all the reprintable dialogue from the d. i. ( nearly all of it belongs in the bad movie hall of fame ) , but i tried to include some of the more noteworthy lines , like one from the scene where webb unwinds from a hard day 's work by going to the local bar ( where he orders a tomato juice ) .
he meets a woman who , coincidentally , also orders tomato juice but walks away from a typically - stimulating conversation with webb to flirt with his arch - rival , another marine
d.
i. webb marches over to the table , gets up in her face and says , " just what kind of a dame do you think you are ?
" bogart he ai n't .
the other d.
i. gets one of the few memorable non - webb lines when he confesses to the girl , " he 's a damn good
d.
i. ..
.
i guess i 'm just a little jealous .
" join the club , we 're all jealous of jack webb 's way with women , which is showcased even more amusingly in a later scene , as webb finds his way to the woman 's place of employment , a lingerie store , and stands around looking incredibly flustered at the negligees on display .
"
you expect me to talk to you .
..
in _ here
_ ? !
"
he exclaims , no doubt intimidated by the barrage of bras .
the woman goes off to help a customer , leaving webb to fend for himself once again in this palace of estrogen .
a little girl spots him in the store and demands , " what are you doing in here .
..
you 're a man , are n't you ?
"
he does n't reply , but you know he 's thinking in his head , " what an odd species of human -- so small .
must be one of those children
everyone 's been talking about .
" this poor girl , scarred for life by
her early encounter with jack webb , would later swear off the male gender entirely , just one of the many lesbian conversions he 's responsible for .
the movie does n't focus too closely on webb 's romance , it also continues the owens subplot with probably the most memorable scene in the entire movie , where webb forces his platoon to spend the entire night searching the ground for a flea owens killed during one of their drills .
after two privates hatch a scheme to present webb with the wrong dead flea , webb asks owens , " was that flea you killed a male or female ?
"
owens replies , " a male , sir .
"
webb yells to the platoon
, " this ai n't the one ! " that such a scene ( along with the rest of the movie ) was intended to be taken seriously defies comment .
but we know it was all presented with the utmost seriousness when a title card at the end thanks the marines not only for their cooperation in the making of the d. i. , but for iwo jima , guadalcanal and every other major battle of the first half of the 20th century .
webb held the military in such high esteem that all the soldiers in the movie ( with the exception of owens ) were played by actual marines .
someone wanting to parody this movie could n't do a more comical job than webb did .
it makes it all the more ironic ( like raeeyain on your wedding day ) that the man had no sense of humor himself .
there 's a scene in the movie where the guys are on their break time discussing something and one of them breaks into laughter .
webb bursts in the room and shouts , " what did i tell you about laughing ? !
"
to which the private replies , " sir , only nine - year - old girls laugh , sir ! "
and let me tell you , i was as happy as a nine - year- old girl while watching this movie .
Solution:
N