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!

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Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 3, 2008 at 8:45am: Now some non reviews from the pages for Prime Suspect 1. I started on the last page and worked my way forward.

This page includes 4 that I see as non reviews.

Back a page and there are 2 "reviews" that ask for another disc to be sent.

Two pages previously, someone only wants to register a complaint: "Again, and again" about closed captioning and below that one is a complaint about the discs: "We played Disc 1 & 2..."

Go back a couple more pages and look at the "review" at the bottom: "Hey!! Prime Suspect # 1..."

And finally, check the last one on the first page, here.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 9:30am: Flagged but presented here for your amusement: Wow, they found crack in a disk (Netflix as drug mule)! Then after smoking it, they believed Netflix will read their post, conjure another disc in their queue, and levitate it to the top!
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I loved disk 1, eagerly loaded disk 2. It kept flashing "Reading." Took it out and found crack. Have you another copy of disk 2?? If so, move to the top of my list.

Disc 2 was cracked all the way thru to the middle and would not play. I have had to reorder it. Very frustrating.

I would like to see it since it arrived damaged. Please override the replacement request and send it at once. Thank you.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 9:34am: Also, with three comments on one page like this, I do suspect that's a double-sided disc so they are sending back and receiving again what they want, just playing the wrong side.
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I want it back because it wasnt the one I wanted from last years on TV. I wanted to see the end of that one. So, I want both Disc 1 & 2 of Prime Suspect 1.

Disc 1 was in the envelope for Disc 2 so I need to orde disc 2 again Prime Suspect 1. It is great but I need to see how it ends. M; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 8:56am: "I could not get pass the bad English tapeover"?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 9:12am: At least it wasn't a bad English combover! (Ow, my eyes!); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on September 3, 2008 at 2:01pm: It's crazy-hard trying to explain to people that if they see Italian movies of a certain era, they're seeing everyone dubbed in later, even if they see the Italian version.

Notice how many Italian movies of the '50s-'70s have wildly international casts? Every country would get its own language dubbed in after the shoot, and so every language has its own "original" theatrical version of (a lot of) those movies.

That's why Criterion released both the English language and the Italian language versions of Visconti's The Leopard, starring Burt Lancaster, for example. Don't think too hard about who is speaking for co-star Alain Delon in those two versions.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 9:12am: "It wasn't the original movie I wanted"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 9:48am: THIS GUY REALLY GETS ON MY NERVES!!! (see his writing style to know what I mean)

It looks like they're all reviews though some less helpful than others (according to your taste).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 3, 2008 at 10:19am: Just enough "helpful" content to avoid being non reviews.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by spiderpig on September 3, 2008 at 11:45am: Heh. EVEN his LIST titles are like THAT. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on September 3, 2008 at 2:17pm: I THINK MAYBE he's used to TALKING TO HIS FRIENDS in sports bars. Where it can be kind of HARD TO HEAR.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 3, 2008 at 2:55pm: WHAT?! -- OH... SPORTS BARS! ... (Liquor and sports and communication, what a mix!); ▶ Reply to This