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?

Some others with non-reviews:
The Dark Knight
Horton Hears a Who
Hellboy 2 ( Netflix doesn't have box art yet and there's already bogus reviews)
Iron Man
Leatherhead (no box art yet, 2 reviews)
etc.
etc.

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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 19, 2008 at 12:55am: "It hasn't come out yet so..."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by thatboy on July 19, 2008 at 4:03am: After almost 18 months of membership, that's the one review they saw fit to write. Is there a psychologist in the house?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gattopardo on July 19, 2008 at 9:16am: Just flagged it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gattopardo on July 19, 2008 at 9:17am: Checked "not helpful" -- 13th person to do so.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 19, 2008 at 11:23am: Not counting others who have clicked since the count was last updated.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on July 19, 2008 at 11:32am: *slowly raises hand* I clicked it too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on July 19, 2008 at 4:23pm: Since it is a review of the trailer and not the movie, I flagged it "not a review" instead.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BigBen on July 20, 2008 at 7:29pm: You can almost forgive them for the review on Fortune Cookie, but how hard is it to tell that it is a DVD player issue and has nothing to do with the DVD?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 21, 2008 at 8:45am: Do you want the sensible answer (that we would make) or the apparent answer (since they didn't figure it out)? Sensible: Not very hard. Apparent: Appawentwy veeeewy difficult! (Elmer Fudd laughter); ▶ Reply to This