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 Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 8:32am: High School Musical 3 has six more prerelease nonreviews after the first one that has been mentioned here previously (with several since deleted, if memory serves). Please flag these puppies!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 11:11am: Fourth post down: "why is this...?"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 11:15am: "Disc 1 is the same vol1 disc 2 fellow fanns fudgeing poop mother jo mama good bye i thing" (but it is a Spongebob Squarepants nonreview after all).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 11:21am: Fourth post down: "What a waste of 15 minutes..."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 1:19pm: "Fat Albert is a..."

Now how pathetic do you have to be to pick on a fat kid in a cartoon?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 1:53pm: Three "would love to see this" nonreviews.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Desertflower on October 7, 2008 at 3:40pm: I find it funny that reviewer #3 addresses #2 in his review!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 2, 2008 at 4:20pm: Saw 2 min.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 3, 2008 at 7:46am: Umm....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on October 3, 2008 at 4:03pm: The DVD was broken when it arrived.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jcranma on October 4, 2008 at 5:01pm: Hey guys! I don't know what happening here, but it seems that all of the reviews are not reviews at all. What do you guys think?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on October 6, 2008 at 9:06am: I don't worry about reviews of Unavailable titles since they will no longer appear under a search or any other means (short of running across the movie in someone else's reviews or ratings). (My Unavailable lists contain about 550 Unavailable titles that I have run across to date.); ▶ Reply to This

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