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* The show being played to a coma victim, who showed the first signs of waking and is now recovering and married, has to qualify. What makes this even more awesome is the fact that this happened during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKWoi0PMWg one of the most epic Kermodian rants.]]
* Kermode takes BreakTheHaughty to new heights with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1LQkZKYsaY his review of]] ''Film/JohnCarter.'' Hearing him tear up a movie by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3igM1OGhwI a director who said that he can't make anything with $5 million]] and [[BlatantLies that he makes movies just for himself]] could make you fist pump. What's more, the listeners join in!
* Mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHvRhq36hw patiently dismantles]] Creator/MichaelBay and ''Film/PainAndGain'', partly by comparing it to Creator/RichardLinklater's ''{{Film/Bernie}}'' - a film based on a true story that was ''good'', because "Richard Linklater is an ''intelligent'' person" and to Creator/PaulVerhoeven's ''{{Film/Showgirls}}'', a film which the director insisted was intended to be a satire of misogyny and Vegas/Hollywood culture, [[SelfDeprecation but by the filmmaker's own admission failed to achieve that end in the eyes of the audience]]. He lambasts it for its misogyny, tone-deaf attempts at satire, "grotesquely inappropriate" visual sensibility and also suggests that the film is so soulless that even Creator/WernerHerzog would actually be ''scared'' by the "void-like abyss of blackness the depth and enormity of which it is impossible to comprehend."
** And on top of that, there's his utter demolition of Creator/MichaelBay and his "pornographic sensibility" in every single ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' review.
* His calling out on various filmmakers for using the ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars mantra is generally a sight to behold, notably seen in his reviews of Creator/KevinSmith's ''Film/CopOut'' (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2f2rgnLSs8 here]]) and Creator/MNightShyamalan's ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8HVurzYdUw here]]).
* Announcing that ''Film/{{Gravity}}'' is worth seeing in 3D.
* Any review in which he attacks the "insulting" practice of superimposing the head of a tall actor onto the body of a short actor for the sole purpose of comedy, used in such films as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYhDGAwExI films]] as ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/FredClaus''.
* Saying that he would quit if ''Film/BrideWars'' didn't end up being one of the ten worst films of the year, and winning.
* Radio 5 listeners sometimes have moments, by writing in with their own input that chimes with Mark's own criticism. For example, one of the responses to Mark's review of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' is as follows:
-->'''Simon''': Ben in Aberfeldy: "Thought I'd send you my thoughts on ''Terminator Salivating''. First: 'I am Creator/ChristianBale, hear me roar.' Second: The film is a terrible mess, and there was nothing in it I haven't seen before. There was some [[SpecialEffectFailure suspicious CG]] in places, and aren't we all glad Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger keeps a handy batch of mist floating gently over a certain part of his otherwise exposed nakedness. The last ''Terminator'' film was by no means a masterpiece but was enjoyable and disposable. This incarnation, however, just felt as if it had fallen off the Creator/JerryBruckheimer robot film production line and then staggered shakily into a corner where it died a slow and painful death. This is a film which, ironically, has no heart."
-->'''Mark''': Can I just say that was very well written and very eloquent.
* The ''Film/SexAndTheCity2'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc review]]. When the Good Doctor trashes your film and brands its "disgustingly wealthy" characters "''imperialist American pigdogs of the highest order''", you know you've nowhere to run.
-->'''Mark''': Basically its entire portrayal of female liberation is the right to buy expensive shoes, and I don't believe for one minute that these people are depictions of real women, I just don't.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNUYspbEVyM review]] of ''W.E.'' Kermode and Mayo call out the film's defending of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VIII]]'s and Wallis Simpson's Nazi-sympathising as being an unfair label pinned on them by people "selling a lie" as utter nonsense. He's ''especially'' critical about the film un-ironically presenting [[ConspiracyTheorist Mohammed Al-Fayed]] as a resource of helpful information.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMesRmz1dEI These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL9I9hHCTJY two]] videos from a Creator/Channel4 show in 1999 showing Mark tearing into censorship and the banning of movies.
* It's good to hear Mark demolish alleged "comedy films" that are genuinely offensive, unpleasant, or just plain unfunny, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zI-YEJiGRc such]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCGU0FCb9c as]] ''Film/LittleMan'' and ''Film/{{Norbit}}''.
** In a month where he had to sit through a number of such alleged comedies (including the disappointing ''Film/Zoolander2''), that he found ''Film/Deadpool2016'' a consistent laugh-generator worth the label of "Comedy", despite technically being a super(anti)hero flick, was something he found rather a welcome relief. Which was an awesome surprise, if you were expecting him to pan it.
* His rant about ''Film/{{Entourage}}'', which he describes as such staggering consumerist pornography that it makes ''Sex and the City 2'' - already a film which made him start singing the "Internationale", the anthem of the international Marxist movement, in retaliation against its characters' conspicuous consumption - look like a revolutionary call to arms.
* Creator/TomHiddleston on guitar and vocals with Mark on bass belting out "I Saw the Light" together? Happened -- of course it did: neither need much excuse. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_VpP0cxQA Judge it for yourself]].
* When discussing ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and the variety of reactions to it Mark and Simon took on elements of the conspiracy-minded social media UnpleasableFanbase who accused them of being paid shills for Disney for their positive reactions to the film, and vice versa explained that negative reactions are actually allowed too, since everyone is entitled to their opinion.
* His frequent and sincere praise of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' qualifies as this. Whether you agree with him or not, it takes some serious balls to be so openly positive and supportive of something so many people love to hate and insult.
* His favourite film of all time is ''Film/TheExorcist''. He commemorated its 25th anniversary by making a documentary about it - ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwuN1EWqn14&t=1s The Fear of God: The Making of The Exorcist]]''.
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