Gilmore Girls Season 3 DVD and annoying Amazon reviewers...

[kybearfuzz]

I'd read somewhere that Season 3 of Gilmore Girls was being released on DVD in May. I quickly zoomed to Amazon.com to see when it will be available.

As I'm reading the details, I came across this scathing review by "John Q. Public" of this season and am a bit aghast at what he had to say:

"Third season of the series saw more badly written dialoge between Loraeli and Rory, the romances went no where, the supporting cast look like they are on drugs when they say the lines, and intelligent mothers and daughters will see the superfisal side of this piece of trash from AOL Films."

While John has the right to say whatever he pleases, per our wonderful First Amendment, I totally disagree with him. He seem to completely miss the boat on the series. Perhaps the humor and the writing is a bit above him, seeing how his spelling and grammar are atrocious. Having him argue what is good or bad writing is akin to having a nun handing out sex therapy.

Given his inclination to rate things low, I decided to delve a bit into his other reviews... and there are a lot of them. Basically, this dude reads, watches, and listens to all sorts of pop culture media.. and likes none of it. My curiosity gets the better of me at times, but I cannot fathom why a person would spend so much time reviewing things he apparently doesn't like. If he truly has read, listened, and watched all of the things he has reviewed, when does he work?? Basically, anything I like and enjoy, got two stars or less, including some great Britcoms. The only thing he seemingly rated five stars was an old Jimmy Stewart flick about our armed forces and the only four star was the Animated Star Trek cartoons.

The kicker is when I found his review of the new War of the Worlds movie that HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET. It garnered a wonderful star out of five. He must be psychic... or psycho. I picture the comic book guy from The Simpsons for some reason.

Still, he has the right to type in whatever he pleases and most people, according to the ratings of his 100+ reviews, aren't listening to him. It's solace in a way. After all, if you basically don't like anything you review, and it appears that you rate things low on purpose whether you've actually seen it or not, what is your opinion truly worth?

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Wow. Having been around the 'net a good while, I see these kinds of people often in various online forums etc. Some live by the internet, some don't, but what I see with "John Q Public" is someone who obviously lives by the online world and has nothing good to say.

I think I may have run across a review of his at one time or another on Amazon.

I'm amazed as how some people in general can't write a decent review at all on something, be it positive or negative in overall content.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, I think we're all pretty guilty of our preferences, but I've never understood perpetual negativity.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Me neither. If I'm giving a review, I try to be as objective as I can and be as honest as I can if good, but with a caveat, I'll mention my overall opinion, but also state the the caveat as well.

But as you say, we are all guilty of being subjective in our reviews.

[cmorley.livejournal.com]

I don't trust Amazon reviewers for two very important reasons:

1. Most of the reviewers seem to being reviewing simply to make themselves feel self-important in the world. They probably haven't even seen the source material on anything they write about.

2. To prove they don't care about the source material, much of it is written BEFORE THE SOURCE IS RELEASED, like with your War of the World example.

I really wish Amazon would disallow reviews until a week after the product has been released. But until them, I'm ignoring each and every review on there.

PS: Number 3. is that most reviews seem either too gushy or too negative; where are the objective reviewers?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised Amazon allows people to rate things prior to their release. On occasion, I find a reviewer that seems to have the same tastes I do, but usually I don't follow the reviews that closely.

[scifibear99.livejournal.com]

I went to Amazon and read a few of his reviews. He doesn’t like anything. If he didn’t like the first or second season of Gilmore Girls, why did he watch the third? I agree that he is probably reviewing these shows without seeing them. He just enjoys giving bad reviews. It’s what makes him happy. I usually don’t pay any attention to reviewers, because I have enjoyed some really bad shows and movies. I love old b-movies. Many have bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad directing, but they are still fun to watch. I Know; I’m strange.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Old B-Movies are pretty cool, because they are known for their poor quality and bad acting, so there are no real surprises. I consider them a specific genre of movies.

As for the Amazon grouch, I agree, he just likes to complain. My guess is that he may see an occasional episode and makes a judgment, if he actually watches them at all.

[cincy-dave.livejournal.com]

Amazon reviews drive me crazy. I can't stand it when someone review a product before it has been released.
My other peeve is when people don't review a DVD, but just recap the plot. I've seen some people who recap the plot over every episode of some TV show released on DVD. Ugh. Drives me crazy!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I've heard of people giving bad reviews, but to give essentially no opinion at all is kinda of strange. You would think that most people who are interested in the movie would already know something about it.