Let's Add It All Up...

Rating: 2/10 (7 July 2010)

I did see this movie, with the same anticipations that many shared, it looked like it would be great from all the hyped TV ads...(But please read through to my second paragraph!) And then I actually saw this monstrosity-pardon my pun. Awful doesn't begin to describe this "steaming pile" as so many others have affectionately called it. Yeah, the CGI was cool in spots, but it had almost no plot, weak acting and had too many gaps of logic, well beyond what a good movie does to suspend one's believe in reality--> that "rebar" event highlights this completely. (Keep READING!!)
My REAL reason for this post is to take IMDb to task for giving this PoS such an unusually high rating...7.4 to date. I back my thoughts with evidence from their very own site... I perused through the "Post your review" pages, sorting them using the "Hated it" filter. There are 106 pages of reviews that "Hate it", 1060 responses. The first 50 pages of these reviews carry only one or two stars. By page 75 (yeah, 75 out of 106 that hated it) the reviews manage to give it six stars... Now, I sorted all the reviews by "Love it" and you get just 90 pages and 894 reviews out of the 2010 reviews in total, as of the time that I wrote this. Funny that the two figures add up to 1954 reviews in total, I guess a few of you are on the fence... and IMDb does have a Love/Hate category...for the 56 of you out there...LOL.
But still, how can there be more negative reviews than positive reviews (by 166), and this thing still ends up with a 7.4? And like I said, the first fifty, yes 5-0 pages(one quarter of the total pages of reviews) contain reviews with only 1-2 stars!! Something more that this movie smells fishy to me...didn't that monster have gills??
SO, MY QUESTION TO YOU, the reader of this post is, who is IMDb really working for? I would think this movie deserves maybe a four or five overall rating at best, and IMDb tells us it's a 7.4. Is it because someone is perhaps stuffing the ballot box, so to speak?... I can't see how a movie can get such overwhelmingly bad reviews, in VOLUMES, and still generate a 7.4?
I know math does not seem to be a strong point for most people anymore, but the math on this one really REEKS of something awful. So what's the scoop IMDb, care to respond? I'd be shocked if this post makes it to the main page, but I will applaud them if they let it fly, if for nothing more than freedom of speech... But I think my point is valid. Let me and IMDb know what you think of my thoughts, VOTE ON THIS REVIEW!!