@@ZeppelinBigFan i don’t think i have laughed harder at a movie review than kermode’s fred the movie review Ahhhh!!! flibbbitt AHhhh!!! mute him out that and film socialisme
I saw this with my girlfriend. She LOVED it. Somewhere in my heart, I KNEW it was the beginning of the end of our relationship. I am happy to elaborate...
***** It's one of her favourite films. She can watch it anytime and it really cheers up. It didn't cheer me up. I don't mind the predictability and frothiness of it. However, I didn't laugh once - it was just too saccharine. Then there were two bits that I actually found a little unpleasant; the first was when she intimates she wants a baby and he goes "whuh?" (and ensuing plan to buy a dog to try and avoid a grown up conversation about having children) and then when he meets his friend and he starts hitting on the girls because he has a dog. Both really weird and leery scenes that (I believe) attempt to imply this is a man's default setting. We didn't get to the end. She turned it off as I had really hurt her feelings after I (unforgivably) kept talking and criticising it all the way through. Awkward silence followed. Early night. Beginning of the end.
Tweed Echidna Great comment! Differences in movies should by default determine if a relationship will work or not. However, I have to disagree somewhat. Yes the Owen Wilson character is an asshole but I always thought that was the point. Marley and Me is about unstable, immature adults slowly maturing over time, with Marley as the glue that holds Owen Wilson's life together. It's not a perfect movie, far from it! But I for the most part liked Marley and Me. Congrats on escaping a bad relationship good sir!
Whether it's 'Marley and Me' or 'I' depends entirely on the context. For example, Marley and I made a shit film together' or 'Mark Kermode doesn't like Marley and me'. That's why I take Kermode's advice on films and not grammar.
Listened to the podcast in work yesterday and nearly died laughing at this rant. It had been a while since he really let loose at a crappy film, and I even thought he was mellowing out. The best rant in a long long time! :-)
Pretty much everyone in my film class said they cried at this film, and that "anyone who doesn't has no heart". This film has no heart. It's a vile and disgusting pool of poison.
I agree with everything he said, but I still sobbed at the end of the movie and now that movie really is my guilty pleasure go to. I hate it, but I find myself drawn to it when hung over.
"Shouldn't it be Marley and I?" They are so fucking British. I love it so much. I believe he referred to this afterwards as the movie that is in fact less fun than actually putting your dog down.
Aniston is the biggest one trick pony in the business. Shes played the same character in every movie since friends and theres more of the same to come. she sud go back to a US tv show that gets canceled after season 1 like all the rest these days
I'm 21, still living at home, and that's a home that has always had at least one dog as long as I've lived there with one break of 1 or 2 years between two of them, and I got through the book okay, but the movie was worthless. Having a dog doesn't play so much into it as just having plain bad taste in movies. As Kermode says, if you love dogs, be with your dog, take it for a walk, don't pay to see Marley and Me. Possibly read the book, it's not half as painful.
I enjoyed the movie alot althou that might have something to do with the fact that as a kid i had a white lab who's death was very similiar to marley's, as a result i didn't find it too sickly and everything, i guess if you don't relate to it then i could see why it would have been too much.
@sirheavyhitter When using the phrases "X and I" or "X and me", simply cut out "X" and form the rest of the sentence to see if "I" or "Me" is necessary. So if I were to say "I am tired" then it would be "X and I are tired". If I were to say "That belongs to me" it would be "That belongs to X and me".
This is my favourite kermode rant- beats dark of the moon and sex and the city 2. Absolute gold. However I will give dark of the moon, as that had a non verbal kermode uncut of him banging his head against a well for three minutes straight
Today was the first day that I ever seen this movie. By far the saddest movie I've ever seen. However I loved the movie but the ending was so sad. I actually cried real tears lol my boyfriend thought it was so funny
I know I should hate this film but I just can’t. Although I did feel the need to watch Dead Man’s Shoes or some other gritty ‘the world is hell and life is pointless’ type movie afterwards. Turning and turning on the widening gyre...
"universal themes" is the worst generic descriptor to use because its VERY obvious that its trying to be as accessible to as many people as possible purely for the sake of reaching a bigger market, all for more money. Its just extremely cynical that phrase
Ha ha I also thought of the number 23! I'd be more scared of letters running out really (well ... not scared at all!), but there's only 26 letters, in English anyway, an array of symbols, but an infinite amount of numbers! To Mr Wage, I say, When you are scared of numbers running out look towards pi, for it simply won't end!
Kurt Cobain's guitar playing is the sound of someone with terrible digestive cramps. Owen Wilson plays the guitar in those sofa ads that make me feel sick. Coincidence?
@@bloodorange6713 absolutely. Nirvana sounds brilliant. That queasy gut sound is an artistic choice, and they more than pull it off. I was just making a silly joke about Kurt Cobain's general nausea, and my specific nausea when I saw those stupid sofa ads.
The thing is though, a lot of critics liked this film, including Roger Ebert. Kermodes definitely right about it in a lot of ways though. It's somewhat touching at the end but it's pretty corny for the most part.
@sirheavyhitter It depends on the context. Your example "You and I need to sort this out." is grammatically correct but if you said "This needs to be sorted out by you and I." that would be grammatically incorrect. If you are the subject then it is "me" and if not it is "I".The trick is to take out the other person (or dog in this case) and see if it makes sense.
Seeing as it's a review of the film and not of the novel, that doesn't diminish the importance of Mark Kermode's opinions or observations. He's not reviewing how well the novel has been adapted - he's judging the film on it's own (cliched and predictable) merits.
Mark seems to be forgetting that the "I have a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics" line was actually uttered by the Denise Richards character, Christmas Jones (yes that is the character's name), in the (hideous Pierce Brosnan) James Bond film The World is not Enough. It became a "jump the shark" meme after that for the obvious laugh-out-loud stupidity of it. Also, Mark, Owen has a TEXAS ACCENT. Mark is doing a vaguely New York accent so it sounds nothing like Owen Wilson, if that was indeed his goal.
