Reviews that Aren't Reviews
Anyone else get cheesed about this or is it just me? People who post reviews about movies that haven't been released yet. I understand that most films are pre-screened but there are quite often reviews that say things like "I haven't seen this film yet, but the trailer looks great." or my favorite " I read the book and they'd better not screw this one up."
An example - there's a review up for Speed Racer that goes like this "I saw the trailer for this movie in the theatre when I went with some friends and saw Alvin and the Chipmunks. It looked really good. Can't wait for it to come out!"
I know there's an option to flag the review as "not a review" but seems to never work. I assume that it takes more than one person flagging to remove it, but anyone know just how many it takes to remove it?
Hey Folks, If you haven't joined the "Reviews that Aren't Reviews" group, you may want to check out what a great job Wowee is doing in getting an organized front for attacking these non-reviews.
I invite you to join the group and post your links to non-reviews in there. It's a one-stop-shop with links to all the Netflix non-reviews, plus we can see that our actions are actually helping get those non-reviews removed.
Join now!
An example - there's a review up for Speed Racer that goes like this "I saw the trailer for this movie in the theatre when I went with some friends and saw Alvin and the Chipmunks. It looked really good. Can't wait for it to come out!"
I know there's an option to flag the review as "not a review" but seems to never work. I assume that it takes more than one person flagging to remove it, but anyone know just how many it takes to remove it?
Hey Folks, If you haven't joined the "Reviews that Aren't Reviews" group, you may want to check out what a great job Wowee is doing in getting an organized front for attacking these non-reviews.
I invite you to join the group and post your links to non-reviews in there. It's a one-stop-shop with links to all the Netflix non-reviews, plus we can see that our actions are actually helping get those non-reviews removed.
Join now!
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Permalink Reply by I'm Not a Turnip on -
Always be assured that those who are so offended by *EVERYTHING* are the same morons who will not lift a finger (sticky or otherwise) to educate themselves so they can live their whiney little lives free from F-bombs, gay scenes, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Desertflower on -
Nicely put there Turnip! so true, so true...
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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on -
Third (last) post: "The DVD was broken"
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Permalink Reply by Ed8r on -
On this page for Eragon: Bonus Material 6 out of 9 entries are non reviews: here.
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Permalink Reply by I'm Not a Turnip on
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Movie vs. book comparisons have quickly become one of my pet peeves. These are the people who would gripe about a portrait because "it's flat" or a sculpture because "it's colorless" when the subject of the artwork is the same.
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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on
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By the time I got there, 6 posts remained: 1 actually a review of the bonus disc in question, 1 a nonreview ("I didn't want this disc"), and 4 reviews of the movie not the bonus disc. I flagged 5.
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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on
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By the time I got there, 6 posts remained: 1 actually a review of the bonus disc in question, 1 a nonreview ("I didn't want this disc"), and 4 reviews of the movie not the bonus disc. I flagged 5.
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Permalink Reply by Ed8r on
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Several people have used the review format to complain about Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel . Here is a list, with links to the pages I found non reviews. Since there is something on every page, you could just use the Next button and go from page to page to the end.
They begin on the second page - "Why do you not carry..." and at the bottom "I am extremely disappointed..."
Page 3 - "I love this movie, but..." and then "I don't understand! You have the first..."
Page 4 - "I loved the first one, but am unable..." and then at the bottom "I have always wanted to see..."
Page 5 - "This movie has been on my queue..." and then "I just LOVE LOVE..."
Page 6 - "loved this as a teenager..." and then "The first side was very good, however,..."
If you don't find them, it may be because our reporting of non reviews is actually making a difference (at least, I found only 8 here versus the 11 that were reported to problem reviews back in March).
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Permalink Reply by Ed8r on
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When I started reporting non reviews back in March, I found one person who had copied and pasted a review into every season of Scrubs. Even though the original "sounded" like a review, does it count as a non review when it's repeated this many times?
Going back to check, I find there are only three of the copies remaining.
Season 1: "Remember Sarah Chalke from 'Roseanne'"
Season 3: "Sarah Chalke from ROSEANNE..."
Season 5: "Remember Sarah Chalke from 'Roseanne',"
But meanwhile, I happened to see this one too: "I haven't seen these specific discs (yet)," at the bottom of the page.
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Permalink Reply by Ed8r on
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Now, why can I see only three on the pages themselves, and yet all of them still appear on the reviewer's own pages?
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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on
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That's how it works, the member still keeps their copy but it disappears from the movie page.
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