More Movie Talk

As an addendum to the previous entry: apparently somebody forgot to tell the Sony Pictures employees in Orlando that all critic pre-screenings of The Benchwarmers were off.  Roger Moore, the Orlando Sentinel's movie critic, was invited, and since his review was the only one on the wire service (2 other critics got to see the film, but weren't wire service providers), it was picked up by many other papers.

That's where the fun begins, because after Sony found out, they promptly sent their PR department into full damage control mode — calling Mr. Moore a liar who wrote a bogus review, and who also snuck in to see the film in order to get his review.  (So which is it, guys?)

Some days I wonder how Sony ever managed to reach Gigantic Evil Corporation status when they can't even seem to keep the simple things in order.

(Roger Moore's blog entry on the Sony fallout is here, and his original review is here.)

>On a side note: I blame any spelling or grammatical errors (or just plain incoherence) in the above post on the fact that I'm way too tired to still be up.