Mayo/commode Film Show To End After 21 Years

Flippin' yes! Get in there!

I have a genuine dislike for drony know-it-all Commode especially. Supercilious, smug and smarmy. If I want to know if a film's any good, I'll read a mix of reviews online in 5 minutes rather than listen to 45 mins of his dull monotone opinions.

And it was on TV too! I couldn't believe it. As if it weren't bad enough listening to him, looking at the pudgy, dishevelled lump whining on was just too much.

At last I'll be free of the frantic scrabble for the radio dial or TV changer whenever he comes on. Mayo says their derisory show was "too expensive". I'm shocked they were paying him for that drivel.

He says he'll be back. Yeah exclusively on North Norfolk Digital yer fat fack.

 

A bit OTT. I've never had a problem with them and found their evaluations mostly spot on.

 

Can’t wait to see what the next hot take is.

We’ve had C-Sections and Kermode so far, it’s like the forum has it’s very own Piers Morgan.

 

The radio show/podcast is more or less unlistenable thanks to the number of emails they read out and the in jokes. Used to listen to the podcast when I made more of an effort to watch new films, then stopped and didn’t really think about it again.

 

Mrs Keighley is a big fan.

 

Good riddance. Kermode loves himself. Typical film of the week would be a 3 hr Albanian film directed by a controversial Hungarian director about a family drama in midst of the the 1720s Greek aubergine famine. Subtitles of course.

 

I like Kermode. Sure he's smug (I haven't seen a good film reviewer who isn't) , but I generally agree with his reviews.

Mayo however doesn't add anything.

 

I watched one such Kermode film recently, the Hungarian Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time.

Was good, a bit 1980s French cinema in feel, bourjoisey, mad love, that kind of palaver.

I thought his series on genres was very good. He’s a mad film buff and sometimes he sees things in film that are more in his head than in the film itself.

 

Really don't get the hatred for Kermode. There are far more unlikeable people out there than him.

 

Seen that one. Not enough sex, violence or strong language for my taste.

 

So the aubergine being a metaphor for a man’s Johnson goes all the way back to 1720? I thought it was only since the iPhone came out.

 

Kermode personally searched and hunted down missing footage, thought long lost, buried deep in the vast Warner Bros archive for both Ken Russell's The Devils, probably the greatest British Film ever made, and William Friedkin's The Exorcist. I will forever be grateful to him for these 2 remarkable pieces of detective work.

 

I first saw it as a student at a late night showing at Sheffield fantastic Anvil cinema during the mid-80s. I came to it not knowing anything about it and was totally blown away. The amazing performances, discordant score, Derek Jarman's public lavatory inspired sets, and Ken Russell's Ballsy Bombastic direction. It even has a great turn from Brian 'George Roper' Murphy. What is there not to love. I spent years tracking down a decent fully scoped, as complete as possible, version of the film. It's such a shame that Warner Bros US absolutely hate it, and I mean really loathe it, and wouldn't allow a fully restored version to be released, not even a standard Blu-Ray disc. The best I could get hold of was a composite made from the excellent BFI DVD and the bits shown in the C4 version of the Hell On Earth documentary which were only allowed to be shown that one time.







You also need to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Joan_of_the_Angels, another film based on the same historical event. It was brought up by Kermode during the BFI DVD commentary with Russell. He never knew of it's existence and was intrigued by it.

 

There were lots of great films in 1971, off the top of your head, which one was the highest grosser in the UK box office for that year:

10 Rillington Place
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
And Now for Something Completely Different
The Anderson Tapes
The Beguiled
Carnal Knowledge
A Clockwork Orange
The Devils
Diamonds Are Forever
Dirty Harry
Duel
Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection
Get Carter
Johnny Wadd
Kidnapped
Klute
The Last Picture Show
Le Mans
Morte a Venezia
On The Buses
Play Misty for Me
Rouge aux lèvres
Shaft
Sunday Bloody Sunday
THX 1138
Trafic
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

 

C'mon I'll have to bring the Hammer down on this soon.

 

You've had long enough. It was yours truly's first big screen outing. We certainly had our knockers but we cleaned up at the box office. No Bond Girls but we had trousered frollicking on a mattress with Turnaround Betty. Ah happy days.

 

It’s no Police Academy 2.