TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
PROBLEM: i had been expecting more of this movie than the less than thrilling twister .
twister was good but had no real plot and no one to simpithize with .
but twister had amazing effects
and i was hoping so would volcano volcano starts with tommy lee jones at emo .
he worrys about a small earthquake enough to leave his daughter at home with a baby sitter .
there is one small quake
then another quake .
then a geologist points out to tommy that its takes a geologic event to heat millions of gallons of water in 12 hours .
a few hours later large amount of ash start to fall .
then . . . . it starts .
the volcanic eruption . . . .
i liked this movie . . .
but it was not as great as i hoped .
i was still good none the less .
it had excellent special effects .
the best view .
. .
the helecopters flying over the streets of volcanos .
also . . . there were interesting side stories that made the plot more interesting .
so . . .
it was good ! !

SOLUTION: P

PROBLEM: in one of my many videos i have attained from the local library , casablanca was my third classic in some weeks .
the others being citizen kane and vertigo ( yes , i am trying to see as many of afi 's greatest movies ever made as i can ) .
but , casablanca stood out from the rest for me : it was actually watchable .
what most hail as the greatest american film ever , casablanca is n't so much a love story as a political frenzy with a love triangle thrown in .
it seems that star humphry bogart spend about 85 percent of the movie with various leaders of the nation instead of with ingred bergman .
that annoyed me , as did the ending .
why did n't the plan turn around ? ! ?
surprisingly , i enjoyed the film .
i liked bogart 's character and his acting
( not over the top as most actors in his era ) .
i once read about if you had a choice to be in a movie , which one would it be , and a women said casablanca .
at first i was thinking to myself " why ?
" then , as i watched the film again , i understood why .
the movie is very well done and the script top - notch , although i doubt i understood more than half of the political mumbo jumbo .
casablanca is , in my mind , no classic ( like solaris ) , but it is a good film and stylishly shot
.
hey , hollywood , how about this : a remake with harrison ford and anne heche ?
now that would be a classic .

SOLUTION: P

PROBLEM: when a film is produced on a shoestring budget by a couple of hardworking filmmakers and when it tells the story of a genuine tragedy , the easy path for a reviewer who hated the movie is to give it a pass .
toss out your usual objectivity , ignore how many times you checked your watch while viewing it , forget how unbearable it was to sit through , and find some meaningless way to compliment it .
this , of course , will be of no service to your readers , but at least you 'll avoid the hate mail from the movie 's fans .
thus it is with a heavy heart that i review the movie paulina ( not to be confused with the recent movie paulie about a talking parrot ) .
directed by vicky funari as a labor of intense love - she spent the last one third of her life on film - the movie blends documentary footage with historic and fanciful recreations to relate the bitterly sad and true story of paulina cruz suarez .
paulina was a maid in vicky 's household when vicky was young .
i got to learn the film 's background when i attended a screening in which the two women who made it were present .
for those without such context , the reaction to the film may be that it is a parody of a bad indie film .
the acting is amateurish , the story is maudlin , and it has all the visual appeal of a bad home movie . grainy and overexposed , the movie
, shot on 16 mm film and videotape , has little to recommend it .
confusingly composed , the movie jumps about jarringly as it tells its story .
quite bloody at times , the story , full of horrific images , seems designed to shock and repulse us .
why else would you include a scene with a completely nude and bloody 8-year - old paulina ?
another scene has a teenage paulina being fondled on a bus by the man sitting next to her .
in retaliation , she bites off part of his finger .
this covers the both of them in a bucket of blood .
the passengers on the bus then view the girl in their minds as everything from saint to sinner .
one , for example , sees her as an aztec priestess holding out a large heart that she had just cut from a body .
the lugubrious tale has paulina being raped and beaten .
certainly she had to endure a miserable life .
but that does not guarantee that a movie about her will necessarily being good .
i felt trapped in the theater watching it .
only the opportunity to talk with the filmmakers afterwards made the movie bearable .
paulina runs 1 : 28 .
the film is in spanish with english subtitles .
it is not rated but would be an r for violence and nudity and would be acceptable for older teenagers .

SOLUTION:
N