Critics and reviewers of any sort, be it tech, food, music, books, theatre, or film, are always a target, especially if they write something negative. That’s understandable: if you can dish it out, you’d better be able to take it. If the returned criticism is constructive. But what do you do if it consists of downright animosity and threats of lawsuits?

Gregory Conley of Your Video Store Shelf (store and blog) recounts how one director/ screenwriter couple are planning to sue him on what he feels amounts to a bad review of Forget About It (2006; Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch), despite how they’ve couched all the correspondence. The details are simultaneously laughable and scary, but some of the animosity seems to come from some mis-reported facts, partially due to incorrect details at IMDB, which still list an actress that’s not actually in the film.

Problem is, film blogging is NOT exactly like print-based film criticism or even that on TV. If you’re a blogger, you know what I mean. Errors do happen, and part of it stems from the fact that blogging often means writing a whole bunch of posts in a very short time. I’ve had my own run-in with errors (see the comment from “Stephanie” on my partial review of Golden Compass, which in retrospect I really should have labelled as being a partial review), so I sort of understand how Conley must feel.

Conley has also posted a lengthy update on the situation.

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