A good first-hand account of attending a studio press junket, courtesy of online film critic Eric D. Snider.
Most of what he writes is not news to any of us in the movie-critiquing biz. But I suspect that those of you who aren’t may not be so familiar with the way things work.
Paramount has reacted to the piece by banning Snider from all future screenings, which I think only makes them look bad — the article doesn’t bash Paramount at all, as far as I can tell, except that he says they’re wasteful with their money. Boo hoo. Eric mostly seems to be making fun of himself and the other junketeers, none of whom he mentions by name.
Movie City News’ David Poland feels Snider more or less deserved what he got. I don’t. Snider’s piece is better written than 90% of the junket articles out there, and it serves to remind people that there is an Oliver Stone movie about 9/11 coming out, which bytheway, Snider doesn’t say anything bad about.
Like his namesake, I assume Mr. D. Snider is “Not Gonna Take It.”
cool junket story link ..thanks
Makes me want to be a critic
Critics don’t do that kind of thing often (and freelance critics like me, never)
Being a junketeer is what gets you to such things, and requires a lot of interview transcribing.
That bathtub was awesome…
Mostly to take down the man… and stir the big companies up and get them all pissed off.
That sounds like fun.