Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
Reviewing the Reviewers
My wife roped me into watching this third installment of the Anne of Green Gables series. Secretly, men are gluttons for true romance, and I am no exception, so I "reluctantly" agreed. But this movie was unendurable. Far from the living room, I fiddled with other reading, but I couldn't help thinking about what sort of audience the writer was aiming for. As a stand-alone movie, it's simply terrible. So I assumed that it was just about sequel money. But it failed miserably as a sequel too. As I reviewed the reviews of reviewers more literate about the Anne literature, I also noticed the sprinkling of +positive+ reviews. Then I got distracted with answering the question: "who could possibly write a positive review like this?" Discounting the innocent and the immature - the one-liner reviews began to evince a pattern of...shall we say...inauthenticity. This can be seen by looking at the "see all my reviews". One line. One paragraph. Worthless. By contrast, the negative reviewers were all very colorful people - even passionate. I don't know if Amazon has anyone looking for dummy reviews, but if they don't, they should.