I don’t recall assigning a rating to Up in the Air anywhere… but like you say, who knows. Somebody could even have stolen my content, stuck a rating on the end of it and called it their own.

I fully intend to take your suggestion and watch the movie in its intended form. From what I could tell, I think I’ll like it.

I only called it a review because I remember seeing you associate a rating with it.Re-reading this post, it wasn’t here, but I’m almost positive you put a rating to it either on IMDb or wherever it was I read this post. If that was the case, I don’t see how you could do that. But maybe I was mistaken and didn’t actually see a rating… Who knows.
But if I may offer a suggestion- go check it out and DO watch it. Then review it (or make a post about it). You’re missing out.

Look, call my post “horrendous” all you want — just don’t call it a review. It’s not a review, it’s a cheeky blog post about me slowly realizing that I had a faulty screener of Up in the Air and feeling gypped about it.

Also, to be clear: I’m not a movie critic. I’m a blogger. (I’m also a SAG member, which I mentioned at the beginning of the post in order to indicate why I receive any screeners at all.) True, I have posted a few movie reviews before, but I don’t think two or three reviews out of nearly 150 posts on this blog makes me a Film Critic.

As for your entreaty that I “just review the movie, or shut up about it,” I have a question: how the hell could I have written a review of Up in the Air? I haven’t seen it! As for shutting up about it… come on now. It’s my blog, and I’ll post on it whatever I feel like posting. If you don’t like that, please remember that you are welcome to post comments telling me how much I suck.

And my screener copy played just fine, as did the print when I saw it at a screening.