MovieChat Forums > Dose of Reality (2013) Discussion > Fake Reviews - won't watch

Fake Reviews - won't watch


I refuse to watch movies with fake reviews on principle, because all that does is support that tactic on all new movies. If you want good reviews try making a good movie.

reply

wth r u talking about...

reply

What he's talking about is the latest trend for someone connected with a movie to post a glowing review, even though it is crap. Always click on "See all my reviews" beside the reviewer's name to check if it's legit or not. Here, you will see that this "lbrookse" has never written any review for any other movie before - a dead giveaway that it's simply promotional garbage you are reading.
And yes, before some smartarse jumps down my throat and says "Well, everyone has to write their first review sometime" - that, of course is true, but if it's a person who knows how this board works, they would be upfront about saying it's their first review, and they would follow it up by reviewing other movies.
Here, the fact that this "person" has never written any other reviews, has written a glowing review for a movie which almost all others says is nowhere near as good as that review, and has not openly stated it's their first review, all lead to the conclusion that this was written by someone who has a vested interest in you spending money to see the film!

reply

gotcha, had no clue that was a new thing going about this website...well that is unfortunate, especially since it is actually a pretty good film (i.e not amazing) but better than a lot of the garbage that came out so far this year...

reply

Shhh! Don't say things like that on here, I've just had a beatdown on my thread for daring to complain about the fake reviews. Apparently, it's fine to post fake reviews on here but not to complain about them lol. You gotta love the IMDB :-)

"Hasta la vista, baby."

reply

BriannaLempesis gave a fake review, checked her history and the only review written by her is on this film and makes it sound like this was the best film ever made.

So, in honor of Brianna and her fake review, I torrented the movie just to delete it, clicked "No, Review was not helpful," and rated it the lowest star.

Maybe they will think twice next time, about making movies that is.

reply

so you're the film police?

reply

The film and acting isn't bad at all, suspenseful and intense. As for fake reviewers...meh. Any one who regular posts and participates in these discussion groups would not take a total stranger/newbie review seriously anyway. Now, I guess I will be investigated by the film police--I'll save you the trouble, I've been an IMDB contributor for over 12 years and have watched more than 700 movies this year alone.

reply

You mean you stole this movie? OMG?! You obviously didn't watch it to give it the lowest star. It's a pretty good film but you can't see that for want of being spiteful about someone's review.

---
Scientologists love Narnia, there's plenty of closet space.

reply

[deleted]