Put away your phone!
Eric Kohn could now be the most-hated movie critic in the world.
Kohn took a novel approach to reviewing "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at the Cannes Film Festival: He live-blogged it, sending text messages from his cell phone in the middle of the theater. (The texts were compiled on the blog of IndieWire's editor Eugene Hernandez.)
Reaction was swift.
- Denis Faraci at CHUD.com was incensed: "It's bad enough when a regular jackass whips out their phone and bathes everyone behind them in a blue glow during a movie while they text away like a moron, but for a film critic like Eric Kohn to do this... well, there's no badge that can be revoked, so he should probably just have his texting fingers broken."
- Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere concurred: "Lame. Kohn and Indiewire were simply looking to be first to provide the very first commentary on the film anywhere in the world -- except it wasn't commentary but rudimentary (i.e., quite crude) descriptions of scenes as they happened."
- And Rob Gonsalves at eFilmCritic had the funniest take - Kohn's text-messaging from the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" premiere in 1981.
Kohn took a novel approach to reviewing "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at the Cannes Film Festival: He live-blogged it, sending text messages from his cell phone in the middle of the theater. (The texts were compiled on the blog of IndieWire's editor Eugene Hernandez.)
Reaction was swift.
- Denis Faraci at CHUD.com was incensed: "It's bad enough when a regular jackass whips out their phone and bathes everyone behind them in a blue glow during a movie while they text away like a moron, but for a film critic like Eric Kohn to do this... well, there's no badge that can be revoked, so he should probably just have his texting fingers broken."
- Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere concurred: "Lame. Kohn and Indiewire were simply looking to be first to provide the very first commentary on the film anywhere in the world -- except it wasn't commentary but rudimentary (i.e., quite crude) descriptions of scenes as they happened."
- And Rob Gonsalves at eFilmCritic had the funniest take - Kohn's text-messaging from the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" premiere in 1981.
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