I remember hearing this review at the time and laughing then a few years later stumbling across this film on tv one night and it’s even worse than I could of imagined
Shared by the Kermode & Mayo's Film Reviews Facebook page today--pretty cool. I had a lot of fun posting all my favorite rants back in the day. Pretty sure this was the first one I uploaded.
Guessing you don’t have ‘sex lives of the potato men’ hanging about anywhere still, I keep hearing about it but it’s not on youtube or the web in general as far as I can work out.
Sadly, no. I e-mailed the BBC about it several years ago and they said they didn't have any podcasts archived before May 2005. I've scoured the internet and found a lot of Kermode deep cuts from his days with Mark Radcliffe but still no Sex Lives of the Potato Men. It's the Holy Grail of Kermode rants, heh.
"If I was a GP and someone came into my office and pitched Revolver, I would reach for the medicine cabinet, I would prescribe electroshock therapy, leeches, get men in white coats, take their shoes away..." LOL
I saw this at the cinema in Finsbury Park/Holloway. The film suddenly stopped and everyone thought there was a problem with the projector - but that was the end of the film.
Another reference to that horrific monstrosity that is "Sex Lives of the Potato Men"... I would LOVE to hear Mark Kermode's review of that film. I've been searching for it for months but only ever found written quotes from it.
@Svelter I'm with you. Kermode admitted in another review that he liked elements of Lock Stock, particularly after the Americans branded it as a comedy. As far as mindless entertainment, Lock Stock, Sherlock Holmes and even Snatch are good fun. It's when he took himself seriously as an auteur that things went south.
I'm loving Kermode. Though I differ with him on many movies, his Tarantino critiques & Ritchie hatred mirror my own - the only difference would be I hated the Holmes movies. This is hysterical!
"We will bleed you dry ,You will give us every penny you have got. Its only natural that you somehow thing you are being conned." *Somehow being conned!!!* I think the fact that you straight up told Jason to give you all his money was a bit of a give away.
I remember reading a preview of this film in a magazine (probably Empire) describing the complex themes of this film and it said "He's read a few books that Guy Ritchie" Yeah, and it seems like he didn't understand any of them! Guy Ritchie has always struck me as being a bit thick.
To be honest, I like Lock Stock as well, and in my mind, Ritchie has yet to make something that good again. Snatch was an incoherent mess, Swept Away while still enjoyable was very campy & while the Sherlock Holmes films were good, they were just good mainstream films. I hope his next film. The Man from UNCLE may be that good, but I doubt it.
Andrew Tregoning True. I thought that Snatch was incoherent. It tried to juggle too many plots, and because of it, it becomes really incoherent. If people are calling Ricthie a Tarintino knock-off, and that Lock Stock was his Reservoir Dogs, Snatch is definitely not his Pulp Fiction, but rather his Four Rooms.
@Svelter I'll take your word for it. I haven't seen it in years. And I agree on Snatch, but I still enjoy it as disposable entertainment. Plus, I absolutely love Brad Pitt as a mumbling Irish gypsy.
Believe it or not, I actually think he's pretty good in Revolver. The one redeeming feature. And he's also good in a movie called London. He just needs to step out of his comfort zone every once in a while.
I thought it was campy but really quite enjoyable and different. Mark Strong was fantastic. I think a big part of how you like it depends on which cut you see- I can't remember how many different cuts there are, but I saw the one with the 'pool' ending. The other versions are shit and about 20 minutes shorter.
When I first started watching "Revolver" it was the philosophical stuff that I really liked about it because it did feel different and clever. I felt like I was watching a new take on things which is always kind of exciting. Now I feel like an asshole. Thanks for that.
I still remember Guy Ritchie said that the only people who would like Revolver are super intelligent. I thought it was an arongant statement and killing your audience. There was nothing clever about this film.
@Ballowall Theres a difference between being clever and making a movie that goes back and forward to past and present events that all tie in at the end
He's a critic! He has to watch films he might not particularly like. Also, 'critic' implies negativity but he praises films, directors and actors very regularly.
Critic, is short for engaging critically, meaning not blindly thinking everything is great/poor, though thinking about how personally relate to and understand. Critic does not imply negative, this is a common misconception.
I enjoyed this movie very much. It is not top-shelf drama by any means, and the central idea of the film is overcooked, but the actors are charismatic and engaging, the cinematography and editing are wonderful, and the movie is just plain fun, not a boring scene in it. I never saw Swept Away. I mean, why would I, it had fucking Madonna on a deserted island, anyone who saw that deserved what they got. You were supposed to know better than to watch that movie in the first place. But Lock, Stock and Snatch are classic, and Revolver is a pretty good effort, and worth seeing if you like Guy Ritchie movies.
I feel like he's trying to defend it artistically at first, by saying that you shouldn't look at it as a typical Guy Ritchie movie. But then almost everything he says from then on contradicts that.
@marasmusine I agree with you! Mark Strong was amazing in this turd of a movie. Those glasses! The sinister quiet! It was the first movie I've seen him in, and I was really impressed. The rest of the movie was stunningly bad. When Ray Liotta snapped up in bed and PULLED ON A HAIRNET, I lost all respect. And THE NERVE of Ritchie, to get philosophers on at the end to try to legitimize that rubbish. Ick.
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THE LAST PLACE YOU WOULD LOOK FOR YOUR ENEMY IS THE HEAD INSIDE THE FOOT OF THE COLOR GREEN AND THE NUMBER SEVEN...Absolutely superb.
Reminds you immediately of the The Counsellor review
"He has to wake up tomorrow and think, I made Revolver"
@JOE IS DRIVIN SUNNY FLORIDA Not that bad. I’m not a critic though.
Ray Lee Otter, the greatest actor of a generation.
Director of 2001: A Space Oddity. Very strong Alan Partridge vibes here
I remember hearing this review at the time and laughing then a few years later stumbling across this film on tv one night and it’s even worse than I could of imagined
Could have
I fucking love Mark Kermode. Especially in rant mode. The only film critic I have any respect for by far.
What about Mike Stocklasa!?
did they stop letting people phone in after Barry? Good decision
"Pithy but a bit rubbish quotes" great line
" 2 stars out of 20 " Died of laughter right there.
Shared by the Kermode & Mayo's Film Reviews Facebook page today--pretty cool. I had a lot of fun posting all my favorite rants back in the day. Pretty sure this was the first one I uploaded.
Guessing you don’t have ‘sex lives of the potato men’ hanging about anywhere still, I keep hearing about it but it’s not on youtube or the web in general as far as I can work out.
Sadly, no. I e-mailed the BBC about it several years ago and they said they didn't have any podcasts archived before May 2005. I've scoured the internet and found a lot of Kermode deep cuts from his days with Mark Radcliffe but still no Sex Lives of the Potato Men. It's the Holy Grail of Kermode rants, heh.
SkagWinesack you posted this 9 years ago. FUCKKKKKKK
"I loved it!"
2 mins later
"Not that bad, not brilliant"
i can relisten to this clip so many times
"If I was a GP and someone came into my office and pitched Revolver, I would reach for the medicine cabinet, I would prescribe electroshock therapy, leeches, get men in white coats, take their shoes away..."
LOL
9:48 'numerical, kabbalistic, colour spectrum claptrap'
What a great turn of phrase!
This review always makes me laugh my ass off and feel good
I love Kermode's Madonna impression!
play this at 0.75 speed and kermode is every drunk guy that ever tried to speak to you during your lunch break
I was forced to endure this movie by a dude I sort of knew. It's nice to hear someone sensible slag the movie off.
I saw this at the cinema in Finsbury Park/Holloway. The film suddenly stopped and everyone thought there was a problem with the projector - but that was the end of the film.
Another reference to that horrific monstrosity that is "Sex Lives of the Potato Men"... I would LOVE to hear Mark Kermode's review of that film. I've been searching for it for months but only ever found written quotes from it.
"He has to wake up tomorrow morning and think: I MADE REVOLVER!!" Hahahaha damn so hillarious.
I am so pleased that Mark defends Fire Walk With Me. Great movie.
That caller is crazy. He loved it, and then calls it a 2 star film. What the hell?
I’ve just found out from my TV Guide book that Revolver is on Comedy Central on Friday the 13th of March at 10pm!
Thank you. I feel cleansed.
@Svelter I'm with you. Kermode admitted in another review that he liked elements of Lock Stock, particularly after the Americans branded it as a comedy. As far as mindless entertainment, Lock Stock, Sherlock Holmes and even Snatch are good fun. It's when he took himself seriously as an auteur that things went south.
"I'm going to play the trailer to get it out of the way"- foreshadowing
Looks like a criminal in you prof
I'm loving Kermode. Though I differ with him on many movies, his Tarantino critiques & Ritchie hatred mirror my own - the only difference would be I hated the Holmes movies. This is hysterical!
"Lock Stock and Snatch" sounds like a separate film on its own.
i enjoyed revolver. then again i am a big fan of existential films.
i saw it when it came out and just thought it was very dull. i think i'm ready to watch it again
"We will bleed you dry ,You will give us every penny you have got. Its only natural that you somehow thing you are being conned."
*Somehow being conned!!!* I think the fact that you straight up told Jason to give you all his money was a bit of a give away.
"Two stars of?" Kermode: "Twenty"
would love to see kermode's face when the caller says he loves it
"Honestly, it's one of the most beautiful films that I produced in six years. I'm in love with this film."
Luc Besson
Ray? Ray? I mean...you've done some funny things in your career, but really?
Totally sweet Sham 69 reference.
I remember reading a preview of this film in a magazine (probably Empire) describing the complex themes of this film and it said "He's read a few books that Guy Ritchie" Yeah, and it seems like he didn't understand any of them! Guy Ritchie has always struck me as being a bit thick.
"I feel sorry for Guy Ritchie because I can wake up tomorrow thinking'I didn't make that film' but he's going to wake up thinking 'I made Revolver'!!"
Ten more years!
You hit the nail on the head ha ha niice one !
Jason Statham in a wig???
I like it. I bought it on DVD and have watched it a few times.
Thank you.....I havn't seen Revolver yet. If you have let me know what you think.
Green isn't in the middle of the colour spectrum. Cyan is.
It's a movie in the rare position of not being quite as bad as many people say... but also being a movie that dares you to admit just how bad it is.
4:30 - Ray Liotta's screen test for Avatar...
Very charming.
Exactly. His three best films.
Kermode's laugh at 10:00 is brilliant
:)
lock stock is a great film, it just depends what you're judging on - substance or entertainment imo
Anything that's truly entertaining (i.e. not just entertaining for idiots) is always substantive as well.
To be honest, I like Lock Stock as well, and in my mind, Ritchie has yet to make something that good again. Snatch was an incoherent mess, Swept Away while still enjoyable was very campy & while the Sherlock Holmes films were good, they were just good mainstream films. I hope his next film. The Man from UNCLE may be that good, but I doubt it.
i watched snatch for the first time yesterday actually, i totally agree with you, it made me mad!
Andrew Tregoning True. I thought that Snatch was incoherent. It tried to juggle too many plots, and because of it, it becomes really incoherent. If people are calling Ricthie a Tarintino knock-off, and that Lock Stock was his Reservoir Dogs, Snatch is definitely not his Pulp Fiction, but rather his Four Rooms.
...Unless you think Pulp Fiction is an incoherent mess as well. Snatch is much, much better than his later films, anyway.
mark's freaking hilarious here.
I can't imagine people so dense that they'd compare a masterpiece like Fire Walk With Me with Revolver
I love how weary he sounds at the start of it. You know you're in for a good rant then!
@Svelter I'll take your word for it. I haven't seen it in years. And I agree on Snatch, but I still enjoy it as disposable entertainment. Plus, I absolutely love Brad Pitt as a mumbling Irish gypsy.
Love when Mark quotes from the press notes and calls it out on its BS! LOL. Great fun!
I'm glad we agree I'm the only one with a point to make. Anything else to add?
@TulseLuper Your shot choice for the example scene is a lot better than the one in the actual movie.
F E A R M E !
I loved Revolver
@graemeoliver84 Reminds me of an exchange from A Fish Called Wanda: "Apes don't read philosophy...yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it."
Believe it or not, I actually think he's pretty good in Revolver. The one redeeming feature. And he's also good in a movie called London. He just needs to step out of his comfort zone every once in a while.
'I can wake up tomorrow morning, and think: I didn't make that film!'
I can’t think of a film on a lower multiple of talent involved to quality of product.
I wanna watch the movie now JUST because of Kermode's review! #Mad4Kermode
Honestly, it is so tiresome, it is physically impossible to watch the whole thing.
"We can't get it, so, lets hate it"
P.S: BEST MOVIE EVER.
I thought it was campy but really quite enjoyable and different. Mark Strong was fantastic. I think a big part of how you like it depends on which cut you see- I can't remember how many different cuts there are, but I saw the one with the 'pool' ending. The other versions are shit and about 20 minutes shorter.
Funny that he says that he never liked Lock Stock even though he praised it in other reviews....
He does change opinion a bit, which to be fair mine does too, but normally films grow on me , not the other way round lol
Brillant
Admit it, how much you admire Barry for calling in ?
im with kermode on statham, think he has is moments. then again I enjoyed lock stock and found it absolutely hilarious
He's a film critic. It's his job
What has MK created in his life I hear you say well music for one as a double bass and harmonica player in the dodge brothers.
Smart like a pair of little boys shoes.
Ray LiottaR?
When I first started watching "Revolver" it was the philosophical stuff that I really liked about it because it did feel different and clever. I felt like I was watching a new take on things which is always kind of exciting. Now I feel like an asshole. Thanks for that.
I still remember Guy Ritchie said that the only people who would like Revolver are super intelligent. I thought it was an arongant statement and killing your audience. There was nothing clever about this film.
Yeah maybe halfway through he realized the error of his ways and tried to correct himself.
Lock Stock and two smoking sna.... no wait... that's a totally different kina movie :\
It's not that nobody really got it, it's just not many people are able to appreciate the message.
@fieldingmellish44 Very true. Look at Sean Penn's career when they were married.
@Ballowall Theres a difference between being clever and making a movie that goes back and forward to past and present events that all tie in at the end
Watched it on tv a few weeks back what the fuck was that !
He's a critic! He has to watch films he might not particularly like. Also, 'critic' implies negativity but he praises films, directors and actors very regularly.
Critic, is short for engaging critically, meaning not blindly thinking everything is great/poor, though thinking about how personally relate to and understand. Critic does not imply negative, this is a common misconception.
Love mark kemode
Poor Barry.
What the heck would Barry know?
"What has MK created in his life" oh come on it's his job to be a critic. He's also slating the performances (Mainlly Ray Liotta)
@TulseLuper Ha ha, yes it's just like that.
Reviews are only opinion, it's not like Kermode is standing outside cinemas preventing people from buying tickets.
May actually check this out just to see if it's as bad or as weird as Mark made it out to be
snatch fair enough, but how can u not like lock stock, its so funny!
I enjoyed this movie very much. It is not top-shelf drama by any means, and the central idea of the film is overcooked, but the actors are charismatic and engaging, the cinematography and editing are wonderful, and the movie is just plain fun, not a boring scene in it. I never saw Swept Away. I mean, why would I, it had fucking Madonna on a deserted island, anyone who saw that deserved what they got. You were supposed to know better than to watch that movie in the first place. But Lock, Stock and Snatch are classic, and Revolver is a pretty good effort, and worth seeing if you like Guy Ritchie movies.
@RockBottomRiser21 maybe he meant 2 stars out of 3
@ 4:08 "I met him at the beach the other day....not interested carry on"
Mayo must be an ass to work with! LOL
I feel like he's trying to defend it artistically at first, by saying that you shouldn't look at it as a typical Guy Ritchie movie. But then almost everything he says from then on contradicts that.
@marasmusine I agree with you! Mark Strong was amazing in this turd of a movie. Those glasses! The sinister quiet! It was the first movie I've seen him in, and I was really impressed.
The rest of the movie was stunningly bad. When Ray Liotta snapped up in bed and PULLED ON A HAIRNET, I lost all respect. And THE NERVE of Ritchie, to get philosophers on at the end to try to legitimize that rubbish. Ick.
I genuinely think that Mark Kermode is the most entertaining man on the planet.
wow.that really hurts I'll probably never comment on you tube again!!!
Did this film leave Mark SCREAMING LIKE THIS? SCREAMING LIKE THIS?
...at least I think so.
Revolver is a great film.