My boyfriend and I were talking about my reading tomorrow night at BookWoman and where it was being advertised and how and he asked me, “Have you Googled yourself lately?” He told me that when he Googled me as “Jette Kernion” he found all sorts of interesting links. He was impressed that sites promoting movies had excerpted my reviews and/or linked to the reviews, even if they weren’t positive. That’s been happening to me for awhile, since SXSW 2005. But The Beau’s comments intrigued me, and I decided to do my own Google search under “Jette Kernion,” since usually I do vanity searches only under my last name, or with some other combination of search terms.
The Beau was right — there were more links to my reviews than I remembered from sites for specific movies. This seems to happen most with SXSW films that don’t yet have distribution and that are eager to highlight any kind of recognition or publicity from critics. I was pleased, but not particularly surprised.
Then I found this page. Scroll down a bit and you’ll find a quote lifted from my review. Read the quote carefully.
Now go read my actual review of that film. (It’s a short one, trust me.)
To quote myself (accurately this time), I couldn’t stop laughing. This is the first time someone has ever truncated a fairly negative review of mine to make it sound positive. I may not be at Cannes right now, but I feel more like an influential film critic than ever before. What’s next, will local theater owners start throwing pies at me?
4 thoughts on “a genuine movie-critic moment”
Comments are closed.
Even for Zooey Deschanel, I can’t see that movie.
And if you have become influential enough to receive pastry attacks, I hope the pie is chocolate.
In addition to your genuine writing talents, it probably doesn’t hurt one bit that you have such a cool name.
You’re no one until you’ve been mis-quoted! Congrats!
(Sorry I’ll miss the book signing – still in Scotland.)
What a hoot! (And I love that you are officially Jette. It’s the coolest name.)
Ah, the … trick. Enjoy your site. Just forget to come here as often as I should. Keep up the good work, Jette. I see you’ve emply the surgical technique as well–with better results, though. 😉