Rapidly going off the Mayo/Kermode review show….
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SuperMylo64 — 15 years ago(February 04, 2011 10:23 PM)
To the OP - 100% agree, getting sick of listening to
- 12 year olds getting shout outs for expressing opinions that don't ring true, nothing makes my eyes roll quicker than hearing "children" talk about cinematography and narrative arcs.
- Twilight sycophancy - Those movies are mind numbingly beep all of them, let it go Dr. K, you're starting to sound like a dad desperate to be cool in the eyes of his kids (Also see High School Muscial/Zac Efron sycophancy).
- Harry beep Potter - I don't care, I never did, I never will - Please let's just all move on and stop devoting LARGE portions of the show to it.
- Mayo's "Critical" encroachment - He should realise he was merely the vessel for Dr.K's words, STFU and get back to his mindless middle class twittering.
- Endless references to Twitter - No one cares.
- Friends of the show Jason Isaacs & David Morrissey - I love both JI & DM, they do great work, but their not your or my friends, its getting very painful and the whole "hello" thing is completely out of hand.
- Emails from people who feel the need to list every single academic achievement they ever got, its just surreptitious grandstanding and shamefully elitist (This also includes endless mentioning of Manchester University).
- The code of beep conduct - Please, please stop this now. Either go to a better class of cinema or stop whinging about it. (This also includes ANY mention of crisp sucking or the consumption of noisy food)
- Richard Bacon - He has almost nothing to do with the show, but I just don't like him on account of him being a massive try-hard tool (I reference the show where he basically rimmmed Mark Millar on live radio - I mean "Kick-Ass" was good, but not THAT good).
- Smug self congratulatory/self referential emails - There's just way too many of these to dive into but the basic theme is "The Dr was right", "I love the Dodge Brothers", "I couldn't find a 2-D showing", "it was just as good in 2-D", "3-D can suck my dick" (OK, I made that one up, but its going that way!), "I once got raped by bins of the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, its my most favoritest cinema ever ever ever". These messages are clear radio bait and its shameful they get read out.
Rant over.
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seronie — 15 years ago(February 09, 2011 04:19 AM)
Sounds like you must dislike A LOT of what they produce as there is a great many of that in the shows lately, though I have a different, less critical perspective.
4, 6 and 7 are generally tongue in cheek, so they're okay with me.
2 and 3 occur when there is a new release of these franchises so it's excusable.
10 your point about radio bait is sometimes clear, yeah I wish there were less of those (though I do think 3-D is the Devil).
1 - also true. I'd imagine they're quite precocious 12 year olds, but they can hardly comment on cinematography. Presumably the producers find it cute.
5 - twitter is an up to date way of commenting on things, it's here to stay.
8 - yeah this has run its course.
9 - I like Richard Bacon, tho i wish he'd stop defending 3-D.
"Frankenstein was creator,not the monster.A common misconception held by all truly stupid people" -
al_1978 — 14 years ago(January 20, 2012 06:19 AM)
Bacon is a tool of the highest (or lowest, you choose) order. This is empirically demonstrable fact. I am right, everyone who says otherwise is wrong.
He should be sacked immediately and Mayo punished in some horrid way for making way for the man. -
al_1978 — 14 years ago(January 20, 2012 12:55 PM)
And his replacements are rubbish and not due the [rofessional respect he seems to think he has to pay them.
Tho he is wrong on points of fact from time to time, such as with some film he made reference to a few weeks ago featuring Dolph Lundgren. It, in fact, 5b4does not. -
April221968 — 14 years ago(January 26, 2012 11:49 AM)
I agree, Mayo is the problem though. On Friday Mark had three films to review in the last five minutes and all we got was Mayo clowning and holding up the reviews that I listen for. Fire Mayo please BBC.
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al_1978 — 13 years ago(July 13, 2012 06:43 AM)
No, Kermode is as much to blame. And there are too many things squeezed in toward th eend. They should have giests more rarely and use the show for it's stated purpose. They have just said they will talk film today, after they have stoppeed covering racist and scottish footballers. They will be getting another text from me to remind them of that shortly.
http://www.imdb.com/board/20449417/board/thread/201659047?d=201659047#201659047 -
kath_a90 — 14 years ago(June 11, 2011 03:12 PM)
To Tokyofist I 100% agree with your rant. All that plus a general air of smugness (well smugger then when they started). Have been a fan for ages but I'm just a bit fed up now. Time for a rummage round itunes me thinks for a different review program.
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seronie — 15 years ago(February 13, 2011 06:36 AM)
Well, needless to say, I can happily wade through 2 hours of twitter, code of conduct, hello to Jason Issacs for 30 seconds of Yogi Bear. That was VERY very funny and vintage Kermode.
"Frankenstein was creator,not the monster.A common misconception held by all truly stupid people" -
SuperMylo64 — 15 years ago(February 15, 2011 11:12 PM)
You reckon the good Doctor has seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-2cEt0hh8 -
Passport-To-Pimlico — 15 years ago(April 05, 2011 02:41 AM)
The very WORST thing they seem to do these days is to waste time reading correspondence from annoying listeners boasting about their training for some marathon or run or other.
This is particuarly annoying as, A) It always comes across as a veiled boast about their athletic achievement and, more importantly, B) Since when were movie fans into fitness???!! Listeners emailing the show shouldn't be talking about running and getting fit, they should be pointing out geeky mistakes the duo have made, or making obscure references to unavaialble movies. Podcast listening film fans ought to be big, fat, wheezy, sweaty types, like Harry Knowles and not constantly banging on about how many miles they've achieved that morning.
If We Don't, Remember Me -
Casper_Raid — 14 years ago(June 12, 2011 01:19 AM)
I've enjoyed Kermode's views on film ever since his Extreme Cinema introductions all those years ago and I enjoy the review show for the most part, I just find his impressions and silly voices irritating. A lot of them weren't funny the first time, and repeating them every week is just obnoxious.