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 September 5, 2008 at 1:15pm: Member response to Prime Suspect 7 nonreviewer:

"Disc one would not work on one of my vcrs.."

Um... That's because VCRs play videotapes!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on September 5, 2008 at 2:54pm: Two mistaken short orders.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 4:41pm: 24: Season 3

Page 15 has four customer service issues instead of reviews.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 4:41pm: 24: Season 3

The previous page has two.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 4:43pm: 24: Season 3

The previous page with two non reviews at the bottom.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 4:55pm: 24: Season 3

Check the bottom of this page for another one.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jennhay on September 5, 2008 at 4:58pm: I don't know if this has been posted or not but the page for "Life on Mars" has 17 reviews which are not reviews, as the show has not been released. Just a bunch of whining about it being a US remake of a BBC TV show. I've flagged all of them.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Life_on_Mars_Season_1/70095631?trkid=2...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 5:16pm: Yup. Two pages back.

Just click your way through our links and you'll be adding your non review flag to all ours.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 4:59pm: 24: Season 3

This page has a non review at the bottom.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 5:29pm: 24: Season 4

The last page has two non reviews. One of them is from one of our "old friends" who has posted many, many copied and pasted blurbs exactly the same for multiple seasons of a series.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 5:32pm: 24: Season 4

This page has four non reviews.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ed8r on September 5, 2008 at 5:36pm: 24: Season 4

A customer service issue on this page begins as if it were a review: "I love 24..." Then there are three more complaints at the bottom of the page.; ▶ Reply to This