does Mark Kermode have good taste in movies
Did he die? What's with all the Kermodethreads?
>>217799430I remember him defending Ghostbusters 2016 and stopped caring
>>217799594if only...
>>217799430Prefer to watch his reviews after I've formed my own opinions, sometimes he's right but sometimes>>217799613
what a fucking DORK
i think my taste is better but i can't express my thoughts about movies or what makes them good or bad as good as mark kermode
>>217799430He's a fucking nerd, I don't think he has good taste because he is a fucking autist but one thing can be said is that he does absolutely love films so fair play to him
>here's the thing...
>>217800226I'd say the same, he's not a pseud as he genuinely loves fillums but he does have bizarre taste sometimes
>>217799430Very inconsistent and will refuse to change his opinion at times in a way that becomes embarrassing. Like hating Pirates of the Caribbean so performatively that he eventually insisted Prince of Persia was a better film, which it obviously is not. Or praising Twilight. Or slagging off young Keira Knightley so much her dad allegedly wound up smacking him. Sometimes he’ll bizarrely berate a film for not being what he wanted it to be rather than engaging with it for what it actually is, which is pretty basic stuff an art critic should be above. His tv intro for the uk premiere of the original Ring where he ruined the ending made him look like an utter cunt too. But he’s passionate about cinema, I’ll give him that
>>217799430Complained about The Counselor having unrealistic dialogue. Gee, Mark, do you think the philosophical modern day Faustian thriller written by Cormac fucking McCarthy of all people might just not have been going for absolute realism? Sometimes he seems smart and sometimes he acts like a mong.Also once he likes someone he tends to refuse to criticise them, so he ends up being nice about something that’s obviously shit, like Warcraft
>>217800296>Or slagging off young Keira Knightley so much her dad allegedly wound up smacking himShe's a horrendous actress tbf
>>217800344>Complained about The Counselor having unrealistic dialogue.does any movie say the film title more often
if he was born ten years later he would've been a cringe youtube reviewer. He's a fucking pleb
>>217799430>does Mark Kermode have good taste in moviesI don't know about that, but the man has seen a lot of film, and usually has informed and concise opinions. I'll still always be an Ebert-chad as far as reviewers go.
>>217799430Sometimes. Other times, he definitely doesn't.
>>217799430he recommended rlm in his bookit's more laughable than any of his movie takes
>>217799613>I remember him defending Ghostbusters 2016 and stopped caringThis is enough to disregard him completely desu
>>217799430Not really (he thinks the Twilight movies are better than the Star Wars OT for fuck's sake), but he's a genuine cinephile who's carried by his enthusiasm and natural charisma, so he's the only critic I listen to. He has a lot of iconic rants, and there are several movies I've seen because he recommended them.
>>217802918He's a very sincere cinephile, but his politics are absolutely trash. Don't even bother with any of his reviews about movies with overt feminist messaging, he will carry water for it regardless of its actual merit.
>>217799430*sign*Here's the thing,
>>217799430Most of the time yes. He's the only critic who's opinion I would generally trust. He was one of the only critics to not only praise Joke Foile a Deux but to say that it was better than the first film which obviously makes him based
he's rather unpredictable but that means sometimes he goes against the grain in ways I really appreciate like being one of the few critics to champion Blonde during the big feminist backlash
>>217803245It's his best trait. He has championed Fire Walk With Me ever since its release, despite the hatred that film received initially. Time really vindicated him on that one.
clued me into watching some bongshit called Bait which turned out to be quite gooddont pay enough attention to the man to know about his tastes in general though
yes and no. he likes kino, but also flicks. his rant reviews are still a good listen
>>217803004>he will carry water for it regardless of its actual merit.Of course: he's savvy enough to know where his bread is buttered.>He's a very sincere cinephilelol
If he likes a movie, there's no one better at the moment.... if it failed to interest him, he just can't talk about it generally. I think female reviewers are great at skewering a bad movie, but with Mark Kermode you get the sense that he's already over it so there's less cause to commiserate by listening to his take.
>>217803004>Don't even bother with any of his reviews about movies with overt feminist messaging, he will carry water for it regardless of its actual merit.but you never end up believing him when he's forced to give a fake thumbs up,. no intelligent person would be confused by one of his 'false positives'.
i wish people understood that when guys like ebert or kermode get big it's because they have trash middlebrow taste that's sufficiently inclusive of a large audience. you know who mark kermode is because your granny is the kind of person who would listen to him on the radio and chortle at his inoffensive jokes and nod along in agreement as he recommends some banal crap starring colin firth.
>>217804028the new crop of reviewers seem to see themselves as part of the product, rather than a critical by-product with set standards... it seems like 'openness' is the watchword for movie reviewers. If Kubrick were working today, no reviewer would be allowed to shit on one of his films, which sounds great in theory, but criticism should help a director who cares about their audience. Obviously reviewers like Ebert had to play politics as well, but he could sideswipe movies 'on the right side of history' for their structural faults.https://collider.com/roger-ebert-worst-acclaimed-movies/https://screenrant.com/great-movies-roger-ebert-hated/
>>217799430I used to listen to the Kermode-Mayo film review podcast on walks to college back around 2010. Back when I thought I needed someone else's input on what to enjoy. He was constantly simping for certain directors. Uncool Brit cringelord.
One thing I miss about the extinct crop of (practicing or former) Catholic directors and reviewers... the sense that morals an ethics were more important than having your own political views mouthed onscreen. There was a sense that characters in action could depict ethics anywhere. Ebert still gave a sense that his views were at least informed by serious consideration as a student of the catechism or something. Post New Hollywood, it's hard to pin down directors or reviewers to a consistent worldview. I mean with Alfred Hitchcock, you had a sense that Saboteur might've been his youthful reflection on what going through WWI was like at age fifteen, but that Shadow of A Doubt was a grown man's notion of what living through war could do to the human spirit. When he gave up Selznick's adaptation of Poe's Murders On the Rue Morgue, it seemed to be because he thought I Confess was a more cinematic proposition or meditation. PSYCHO and Frenzy both address elements of women's liberation but it doesn't hang its hat on saying its good or bad, it just demonstrates how characters react to it.
>>217800034Yeah he's good at "the voice of reason"
>>217804596wut, Shadow of AD was from the niece's POV, more like bad reintegration into society. Very little about his experience
This is the sort of schizophrenic Catholic Liberal review that one can no longer find.>the movie is bad because it depicts sexual misadventures in naughty way, rather than in a fun wayhttps://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982
>>217804720Spoto said that both the niece and uncle Charlie were Hitchcock's stand-ins, I think Hitchcock did most of his writing work on that film so there are direct sequences where it's just the director pouring out his own heart through their dialogue. Hitchcock was the little kid who was 'always reading' and Spoto says the niece represented the goodness of America, contrasted with the cynicism of a wisened expatriot Brit.
>>217804596>but it doesn't hang its hat on saying its good or bad, it just demonstrates how characters react to itI would much rather this than any kind of moralizing, be it Catholic or liberal. If you confine yourself to a particular ethical viewpoint, the range of stories you can tell is substantially smaller.
>>217804891>I would much rather this than any kind of moralizing, be it Catholic or liberal.You might like Hitchcock's Rich & Strange... which is about a British tourist couple who suddenly find themselves able to travel in their youth. No intellectual commentary really, no ponderous monologues but some literate quotations and commentary spoken at the right moment of conversation. The trick is getting the characters to reveal themselves in action rather than speak for themselves it's an endlessly comic film.
>>217805112what Harold Bloom called Shakespeare's 'talking aloud'; letting the character suddenly hear themselves speaking aloud for the first time, those sorts of moments of recognition go straight through the heart of an audience, as Kubrick stated.
I just watched his review of Melania Hes a raging redditard. Hes seriously just as derranged as keith olbermann.
>>217804596This isn't even something exclusive to Catholicism, and you don't need to be Catholic to have a consistent world view and morals. Lynch wasn't Catholic, Kubrick wasn't Catholic, Welles wasn't Catholic, etc. I think it's just that the world we live in now is fundamentally more immoral (and vague, nebulous, lacking direction) than it used to be.
>>217805381I don't wish to suggest that, but there is something about a general perspective that can snipe Lynch's Elephant Man at a distance for its shallow emotionalism or talk about the boring characters in a technically competent Kubrick movie that seems especially lucid and consistent on the page. I wish more monographs on film had the concision of like Rohmer and Chabrol on Hitchcock.https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/full-metal-jacket-1987
more likemark commode
