Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Awful - Hollywood at its worst....

I usually try not to write negative reviews -- following my Mom's advice about not saying anything at all, blah, blah...But this movie is simply awful. And I write that it is awful not out of malice but out of disappointment. With such a stellar cast -- Diane Lane, John Cusack, Chris Plummer, Stockard Channing, Elizabeth Perkins -- you'd expect at least "watchable." I do not blame the actors or the writer. I blame the directors, the producers, the editors and the Hollywood movie "machine" that lacks the courage to do something that is not formulaic and trite (and supported by a snappy soundtrack). It is easy to see how this movie got made, but unfathomable that it got made this way....