Oh, I feel your pain!
Kermode is a Manx name, and MK certainly mentions going to the Isle of Man a lot, so I think it's his real name. No idea if he's related to Frank.
I would like it if he'd not mention the Exorcist. Just once, you know.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago) link
What Chuck says vis a vis his skiffle band leader on the Baker TV show is correct. He was a regular on the Radio 5 morning edition as film critic, so much so he got a spin-off afternoon show before R5 went tits up. Don't care who he is related to, his quiff must annoy critics sitting behind him.
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/arc/topic/4817.html
seems like another one of those alt-universe ILXs!
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link
yes and what pete said
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
I missed the Oscar podcast because I was on holiday and would quite like to hear it. Does anyone still have it and feel like ysiing it or something?
― Alba, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://download.yousendit.com/7D61C33261BBFFD4
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Excellent. Thanks James.
― Alba, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
his real name is Mark Fairey.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think he's a very good film reviewer at all, but listening is a ritual.
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I quite like it when he fills in as film critic for the Observer, if only because he's a lot better than Phillip "give the whole fucking plot away, why don't you" French.
― chap, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Happy birthday Mark Kermode! A bouncing 45 today!
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess Kermode and Lamarr will be fighting over the last skiffle box set in the shop.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
it's funny this whole 'is he frank's son' business. i don't think he is anymore, but he *is* manx, i'm pretty sure (like frank and me), and his real name, acccording to wiki (fairey) is also kind of manx-y.
definitely a revolutionary communist though.
― banriquit, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) Kermode can distract Lamarr by pointing across the room and saying "hey, isn't that a rare King Tubby 12" over there?"
― snoball, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
dear Mark Kermode, shit being "dark and edgy" does not equal shit being good. kthxbye
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
im reading his book, its only a movie. some amazingly boring/dull passages. quite a lot actually. it might be funny to you mark, but to the rest of us its just painfully ordinary. its good when he actually talks about films, but even then, its often blurred with a load of other stuff which isnt THAT amusing in a way it might have been good if he talked about his actual life outside of movies more but im thinking maybe there isnt that much to tell?either way, he shuold probably just stick to writing about movies. when he tries to write about himself, it quickly becomes ho hum.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
just waste
― Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 6 July 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
everything about him
everything he speaks to in british culture
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/fadetoblack_zps029fe225.gif
― slam dunk, Friday, 19 July 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
http://i1.cdnds.net/11/02/movies_mark_kermode.jpg
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/mark-kermode-film-critic-observer
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link
Join us for a brand new quarterly BFI strand hosted by popular film critic duo Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, in which they ask a special guest from the movie world: ‘If you had control of a cinema for one day, which five films would you show?’ Their choices must fit distinct categories: kids, family, main event, and a late-night double-bill.Featuring clips and plenty of Kermode and Mayo’s trademark ‘wittertainment’ banter, this promises to be a very special evening.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 29 May 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
no way bfi
― soref, Friday, 29 May 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
does anyone have a word for this fellas defence
jesus what an awful presence
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
I was gonna say I'd rather go outside and lick the pavement than watch his show tonight so maybe somebody else
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
Let me put it this way: I was excited for a second to see this bumped
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
the clips are excellently chosen but fuck me what keeps this guy in work
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
What show are you guys talking about
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
mark kermodes something or other
i asked the wife
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
A BBC 4 thing - his second series of it I think - where he explains his basic thoughts about how films work, for basics
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
very much so
the links are imaginary except in his head, where i imagine they are also instructive and interesting as opposed to thinks mark kermode is just saying over good clips
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
elizabeth the first was henry viiis daughter
this is one of mark kermodes secrets of cinema
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
the fuck ever told this fool he had insight in him
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
He hangs out with Simon Mayo, the intellectual equivalent of having an ugly best mate to make you look hotter
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
I might rewatch the story of film, that had good clips and also a mark whose thoughts/voice I can stand to listen to
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
he gets the work from the bbc bcz the bbc gives work to ppl who work for the bbc (= mark kermode, for more than 25 years iirc)
he's bad not good also his real name is mark fairey use his real name
(i know momus mentioned this upthread but it's true anyway)
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
xp is that mark me?
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
I have issues with Cousins but he's a titan compared to Kermode
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
mark s go on the story of film an odyssey
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
they're both bad but the thread-kid is definitely MUCH worse
MK aka MF is married to a critic who is quite interesting not least bcz her work is very knottily BDSM-adjacent which ALWAYS LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT LEATHERBOY KERMODE etc
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
kermode the flog
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
in the S&S office we used to make speculative jokes abt why one or the other's copy was late, jokes involving fisting, i'm sorry this is just the historical facts from a vanished and lamentable time
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
I loved tsof:ao even when I thought he was being a wally (which was sometimes)
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
i think i got attacked for hating, hating cousins in tsof in the relevant thread
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
The speculation of fisting: age-old I mean, that wasn’t an xpost
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
I think Cousins is a good close reader but a bad theorist, whereas Mr Fairey is just bad all over
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
Facebook just suggested I might want to read Mark Kermode's piece in the Observer about working from home.
Facebook was wrong.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
I have good memories of Barry Normie reviewing Highlander and Big Trouble in Little China
― calzino, Friday, March 27, 2020 1:15 AM
Curious about this.
The person who made that video seems to be mostly upset about Kermode promoting Cannibal Holocaust, for ethical reasons.
Only really a few things I dislike
- His rants are tiresome. I don't know why he bothers expending so much time and energy on bad films. He's hardly alone in this but I'd imagine you get this out of your system early on?- He gives thumbs up to way too much blockbuster fluff and crowdpleasers.- He used his Kermode Uncut videos for not enough interesting stuff. Why are his BFI streaming choices so much better? Why didn't he talk about films like that all the time? Did BBC have to approve all the topics?- He has a very low hit rate when he's trying to be funny.
Things I like
- Correct me if I'm wrong but I think he might have done more than anyone to promote Ken Russell in the past few decades. Certainly one of his most visible cheerleaders.- His BFI choices are generally good. - Last year he did a summation of the year's releases and it was surprisingly wide ranging, ton of stuff from all over the world.
Although I would prefer Robbie Collin or someone else, I'm a bit puzzled by the extent of peoples hatred for him. Never thought he was particularly high on the nonsense film analysis scale.
I don't think BBC or any other major channel would have a critic who had completely sensible opinions about shitty blockbusters.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
And, magnificently, we managed to piss off the Daily Mail critic (the one who said I watch too many films) AGAIN! Huzzah! Job done! pic.twitter.com/luK2P2Inqp— Mark Kermode (@KermodeMovie) April 3, 2020
― Mark G, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/luK2P2Inqp
whatevs
― Mark G, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:53 (three years ago) link
https://twitter.com/KermodeMovie/status/1245971466514059264/photo/1
this absolute wrongness?
― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
oh its posted now and I've fucked it as well! Lol what an absolutely stupid challop
it's as bad as saying Jeff Koons was better than Warhol, just utter wrongness. Oldman is a useless twat as well, apart from in Prick Up Your Ears!
― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
tbf Kermode's being saying, "Actually I don't own a TV", since before it became fashionable for other twats to say it.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
inasmuch as they're comparable (not very) most films are better than most TV shows but in a fight between the Daily Mail and Mark Kermode the only winner is the person who didn't see this little spat in the first place
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 April 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
I think Oldman's excessive vanity and egomania are what marks him out as a mediocre (dare I say overrated - no it's banned on ilx!) hack actor, as personified in that shift as Churchill a few years back. Never seen such a risible pile of plop in my life that serious film critics were actually being quite polite about. OMG it was a fucking joke.
― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
You think that literally every actor is overrated calz!
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 3 April 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
The vast majority of them are.
Has the fact that Kermode is a convert to Anglicanism been mentioned?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
some actors are brilliant, even in average stuff like Alec Guinness for example. But Gary Oldman more often than not is the main reason lots of movies are bad imo
― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
there were suggestions of god-bothering tendencies upthread, didn't know the details. figures he'd be into the worst branch of Christianity.
i'm usually with Hitch as far as actors are concerned.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 April 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
yep Hitch was right, there should be a maximum wage for these fuckers and they should be thrown off the set if they come with attitude and ego and should be treated like shit!
― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
they should be on apprenticeship wages when they are shit, not easy money for just turning up!
― calzino, Friday, 3 April 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
i dislike the whole premise of the series, him demystifying cinema, spilling the secrets. the magic is part of why i watch films, i don't want them unmagiced.
― koogs, Friday, 3 April 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link