Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: NOT funny and very unpleasant

Unlike the reviewers who had read the book and perhaps thereby gained the strength to stick with this lugubrious film, I came upon it naively at Blockbuster. I want to disclose at the outset that I couldn't watch the entire DVD and had to turn it off after about an hour, so maybe I missed something profound. I suffered miserably through the first hour hoping that it would redeem itself, but the principal character is so thoroughly unpleasant, both in the way the part is written and the acting, that it was sheer torture. The supporting cast was more appealing, but the pace of the film was excruciatingly slow, the attempts at humor repeatedly fell flat, and since nearly all the action took place in the main character's apartment, the result was unrelieved claustrophobia. All of which left me with a whopping case of renter's remorse -- life is too short to waste watching films like this, even if you live to 100!