Where Do the 10-Votes Come From?

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2007)

The primary selling point for STARDUST is to enjoy seeing Claire Danes and Michelle Pheiffer -- two for the price of one. Claire Danes is definitely worth seeing, but Michelle is too-often made up to look age 95+ and/or she's either murdering people or transforming them into animals. One big negative on Claire's part: She plays a star. No, not a Hollywood star, I mean a rock, mineral. I prefer my women to be flesh and blood, but herein she LOOKS human enough, but she's a rock!
Lots of man-to-animal transformations, too many really; and other stuff borrowed from other pictures. There are no rules, no restraint, no real purpose guiding the story to any sort of resolution. We meet Robert deNero as Captain Shakespiere, a super-mean pirate who doesn't have enough sense to sail his ship in the water. No, he sails it in the sky via a helium balloon. How stupid! Also he's a cross dresser who likes to doll-up and dance the can-can in his cabin.
There are 8 dead brothers, sons of King Peter O'Toole, handing around in faded black & white, all murdered, one enjoys keeping an ax implanted in his head -- the show-off! Once a man, now a goat. Once a man, now a mouse. Boring! We've seen all this fantasy stuff before, usually not silly or stupid, but STARDUST truly makes no sense at all. The entire movie collapses in excess of magic in the final and stupefying 15 minutes.
Question: How does an indisputably dreadful movie garner so many 10 votes? Are the studios inputing votes or paying voters? After all, they've paid for rave newspaper reviews for decades. Too bad there isn't a good way to keep this site from corruption. As a security expert I cannot think of a way IMDb can police this site and still let you and me express our opinions.