Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pretentious, neither scholarly nor a compleat video guide.

Despite beautiful cover, excellent photos & lobby cards, a fairly accurate intro, Meyer deserts us as a writer and perceptive analyst. Each entry begins with totally confusing and meaningless drawings, a silly "mood guide" and then some of the poorest analyses one could over read marred by such trashy expressions as "f**k-ups and f**king up," "metaphorical crap" and "boppy," to name a few. He does provide some very good indexes, but NO VIDEO INFORMATION for each entry. Eg. GUN CRAZY should have CBS/FOX Video, No. 7337 VHS.Greatest sin is Meyer's attitudes towards noir and its creators. For example, his comments about Orson Welles re: TOUCH OF EVIL. To comment on the latter's girth and "self-hatred" has nothing to do with Welles' genius. The entire ms. is sprinkled with these kind of trashy, personal speculations which detract from the entire work.Mostly, it is NOT a complete video guide to film noir.