Mark Kermode

"His radio show w/ Mayo is horrendous."

this is something that cannot be overstated enough, it's a fucking horrid experience before you even know Leatherboy Commode has a completely fabricated name and is probably part of the Christian dogging movement. I have good memories of Barry Normie reviewing Highlander and Big Trouble in Little China even though he was a complete prick! Whenever I hear this cunt talking I'm ready to launch the fucking radio.

Imagine if Keir Starmer reviewed films on the tadio

still inseparable from this classic vid for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTf_lo1zuqc

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Facebook just suggested I might want to read Mark Kermode's piece in the Observer about working from home.

Facebook was wrong.

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.

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

pic.twitter.com/luK2P2Inqp

whatevs

https://twitter.com/KermodeMovie/status/1245971466514059264/photo/1

this absolute wrongness?

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!

tbf Kermode's being saying, "Actually I don't own a TV", since before it became fashionable for other twats to say it.

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

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.

You think that literally every actor is overrated calz!

The vast majority of them are.

Has the fact that Kermode is a convert to Anglicanism been mentioned?

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

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.

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!

they should be on apprenticeship wages when they are shit, not easy money for just turning up!

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.