I hate Star Wars.

I really do. I used to hate him, but I quite like him now. But about Star Wars... he could not be more wrong.

He's basically right about Star Wars. Just because nerds like it it and it made a lot of money, doesn't make it a good film.

Alas, even 'The Hottie & The Nottie' has a story, it's just not a very good one. Star Wars is tremendous.

but previously not that he really likes The Exorcist? It's pretty much the only thing most people know about him!

but I reckon Chewbacca could probably have him in a fight.

and like Star Wars..

theres nothing worse than people who say controversial things just to get a bit of attention

he has opinions and he sticks to them, he's not a critic who "just slags everything off for the sake of it", he's entitled to hate star wars

everyone should go and watch the new Mexican film Guerras de Las Galaxias in which a poor boy from a shanty town discovers he is the son of the evilest man in universe and does battle in space, in a metaphor about Iraq. Kermode commented "The anti-capitalist agenda it sets up, along with rational characterisation just makes this vital, really really vital. But for the love of god don't go and see it otherwise I'll have to write a piece in a year about how I hate it."

Mind you, he was right about Pirates of the Carribean.

;-)

i happen to think he's wrong about the exorcist, right about star wars.

still think he's kind of a dick though.

i went to this q&a with werner herzog at the curzon the other month, and kermode was the host/interviewer. me and my friend had this plan to find and meet herzog afterwards, because he's a big hero. the plan failed miserably, he was incredibly discreet and disappeared. kermode, though, had ducked out in order to position himself in the bar, and was sitting at the table facing the screen exit doors, head cocked to one side, looking 'thoughtful' and acting shocked and surprised when people came and said hello, as if that hadn't been his whole plan all along. it was pretty funny. maybe you had to be there...

Plays in a skiffle band, he therefore gets my respect.

but I think Star Wars is pretty dull, episodes 1 through 6. Not nearly enough Ewok action for my liking

Not really my thing. So I agree with Mr Kermode.

harmony korine was the worst film director of all time.

i think this is why i hate him.

I think he's one of very few critics worth listening to, and I agree to an extent on Star Wars. The whole phenomenon surrounding it has been very well orchestrated but the films themselves are not masterpieces, although I don't think they're useless.

but what I mainly think of when he's mentioned is a clip Charlie Brooker showed on his TV show of Kermode on Newsnight Review sounding off rather pompously about video games (much to Brooker's contempt). I think it was Kermode anyway

Anyway the first three Star Wars films are still good fun, not as good as say the Indiana Jones trilogy but still good. I think one problem is they now get blamed a lot for the 'wham-bam blockbuster' nature of today's movie business. And Kermode can state his opinion, he does tend to come off as rather smug about it though.

but I still think he is talking rubbish, the first three contain literally hundreds of iconic and sometimes even poignant moments. If he doesn't like them he doesn't really doesn't understand films or the concept of entertainment.