Indeed.(o)(o) wrote:Hadn't paid much notice to Mark Kermode before but he's pretty funny.
Which is why I hope that the reason he didn't get the "Film 20xx" job - taking over from Jonathan Ross, when he was forced to leave the BBC after the Andrew Sachs incident - and was seemingly passed over, despite clearly being the obvious and best "heir apparent" for the show, for Claudia bloody Winkleman - whose only role, as she knows so little about the subject, is really just to ask the real film expert on the opposite couch what the actual correct answer is, after she pointlessly offers that "it was, like, woah, awesome and shit or something or nothing. Like, no, but... yes, but... no, but... woah, totally awesome. Umm, Megan Fox was hot." meaninglessly for five minutes - was because, simply, he was actually offered the job first and simply declined it.
Because, otherwise, if they didn't even consider the guy who does actually know about films, always gives excellent reviews with proper insightful criticism (not that horrible plague in modern reviewing where someone insists on telling you what they would have done instead, if they were making the film, completely ignoring the basic requirements of a film review, in that it should tell you what the actual film is about - not what some imaginary film that never happened might have been - and whether it was any good) and does it all in a brilliantly witty manner then, well, they need to be taken outside and shot in front of their families.
Okay, admittedly, I'm ranting here.
But just compare this all-too-typical pointless chattering shit about absolutely nothing useful or insightful whatsoever - which is really nothing more than reading out a list of movie names and, quite randomly, just seeing if either of the presenters can remember which actors were in it (and when not doing that kind of thing, it's just Claudia reading out viewer's tweets, because TV executives erroneously believe this "appeals to the youth". You know, all the youth who no longer watch TV anyway and haven't really given a shit about what flicks are being shown down the local cinemaplex (if they even still have one) since 1978, which was the last time the 19th century technology ever seemed genuinely exciting to a young person) - to the earlier Kermode magic posted above:
