https://www.out.com/armond-white/2017/11/30/call-me-your-names-sex-lives-rich-and-immodest
I don't regard this as actually from the maniacal side of things, but certain to raise hackles.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
fabulous url
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
what, NRO wouldn't publish it?
Also:
nstead of powerfully exploring gay passion as in this year’s Paris: O5:59 and God’s Own Country, Guadagino’s movie is regressive. It harkens back to a pre-Stonewall sensibility in which closeted emotions are inflated due to an out-dated, introverted and mostly inept sensibility.
Did he watch the scene where Elio grabs Oliver's balls, or, like, the whole movie? Elio hides the crush from no one, himself least of all.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
I don't disagree that Paris and God's were more unbridled tho. But that's certainly not the ONLY measure by which films about gay romance should be judged.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I have never used a bridle.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
You're missing out.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Seven Bridles for Seven Brothers.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
i’m bridling at this offtopic horseplay
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Jump in the saddle, hold on to the bridle
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
Armond writes regularly for Out as well as Soto's favorite t.p.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
God's Own Country is quite bridled
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 30 November 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
It's beautifully bridled.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
Better-Than 2017: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455151/annual-better-movies-list-european-films-dominate
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
fucking moron of course backtracks on Lady Bird once other people loved it as well, the same as he did with The Hurt Locker.
― omar little, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
hipsterism run amok.
hipster decadence.
without appreciating its coup de grâce rebuke of hipsterism
it's always worth control-f-ing hipsterism with Armand, it seems. I'm probably a bad person, but I do occasionally agree with him about some widely liked movies - but don't like to talk about it. But Jesus wept "Edgar Wright’s autism action film" - stfu man!
― calzino, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
Sentence most in need of an editor: “Plain, neo-realist beauty exposes the useless, cynical sanctimony of three ahistorical, sanctimonious, paranoid fantasies.”
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
But Jesus wept "Edgar Wright’s autism action film" - stfu man!
Can I confess that I had no idea wtf he was talking about here? So, Baby was autistic? Or Wright is somehow crafting an "autistic" style of filmmaking (whatever that means)? Seriously, what the hell is he talking about?
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
It's the point behind his original review: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448901/baby-driver-almost-great-beguiled-hipsterdom-last-knight-pyrotechnics
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
I actually agree with about half of his review of The Post.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
I'm probably a bad person, but I do occasionally agree with him
oh come onarmond is great(imo)agreeing with a controversial critic does not make anyone a "bad person." i'm sick of that leap people make with controversial people.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWg1CGJXkAAoS99.jpg
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
oh god just heard about his latest. Look I love when he's a mischievous pill when he's writing about movies, but this kinda shit is disgusting
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
It's ... admirable isn't the word for it, but it's something how many deeper ends he finds to go off of this late in the game.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
this is just boring though, like i don't go to armond for warmed over right wing talking points i could get from literally thousands of people on twitter, i go to him for shit like "the recent Eddie Murphy films that are so personal and ingenious, they transcend racial categorization.”
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
AW will be cohosting a podcast w/ Ted Nugent shortly
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
when you're an irredeemable asshole that everyone in your previous scene despises because you're an asshole, sometimes you run into the everlasting arms of the right-wing. they'll take any piece of shit they can use against the left.
― omar little, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
The last straw. Never reading his shit again, not even for amusement. Fuck him forever.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
and he published worse Tweets about the students than the one posted here
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
the thing about this piece of shit is even his film crit has been full of this stuff the entire time. bubbling under the surface, but there. ascribing the worst motives to those who are different, or hold different opinions. falsifying their positions. positioning himself at odds with everyone. his entire career and at this point his life really is a tragedy. his voice was potentially important, but since everything he's ever said has been afaict disingenuous there's no point in even engaging with his work. basically cryptosicko otm.
― omar little, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
He really was not this way when I started reading him ('97), at least to this degree. I don't think he did at the City Sun (a black-interest weekly in NYC) either, where he was arts editor '84-96.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
i remember him being surly back in '99-'00, but i think around the time this thread started he began to go off the rails considerably.
― omar little, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
I emailed OUT earlier today asking if they were aware of his recent tweets, and if this would have any effect on his future there. Just got an email back saying that they had received numerous complaints, and while they believe in allowing a broad range of opinions on their site, Armond's column had been terminated for "budgetary reasons."
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
Can’t wait to see how he’ll spin that. Oh wait, that’s like his entire work history since 2004.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
when you're an irredeemable asshole that everyone in your previous scene despises because you're an asshole, sometimes you run into the everlasting arms of the right-wing. they'll take any piece of shit they can use against the left.― omar little, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:15 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― omar little, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:15 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so fucking true
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
Armond mostly otm on The Man Who Came to Dinner
https://www.out.com/armond-white/2018/2/27/seminal-gay-film-man-who-came-dinner-originates-art-shade
Might be one of his last things for OUT; I'm seeing on Twitter they sacked him over the Parkland shit. Can't verify.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
It's discussed upthread. They claim he was dropped due to "budgetary reasons".
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
"We lack enough patience in our reserves to keep you employed any longer."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
I checked with someone who works there and they said they had no knowledge that he'd been terminated, so.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
I have the email from OUT saying that they weren't running his column anymore.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
We're done now
Photoshop can be problematic. But it can also make great agit-prop. Thanks Gary L. Oliver. @greggutfeld @frankrichny @LakeGregory pic.twitter.com/EULbKW40xR— armond white (@3xchair) January 11, 2019
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
His work is now impossible to read. Whenever I click a national review link, which isn’t often, I get a pop up a out being the millionth visitor click here to redeem your free ipad
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 11 January 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
Sorry for the duplicate
You're The One Millionth ILX Double Poster! You Win An iPad!
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
Armond's description of this as "great agit-prop" goes a long way towards explaining his taste in movies.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
this shit bums me out because his reviews are so insane and often inscrutable in a really beautiful way, when he's sharing right-wing boomer memes it's so boring.
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
To trust that we know the difference between fantasy and reality isn’t the same as desensitizing us to violence, not the same as the green-tinted Desert Storm bombing newscasts of the early Nineties that became the template for video games. Those extracted human life; Stahelski and Reeves abstract it. By the late Nineties, in the green-tinted The Matrix, the Wachowski sibling directors dished up postmodern rationales for dehumanization, but the green-tinted hotel-lobby shoot-out in Parabellum dispenses with excuses. The violent game is honestly understood as a game. At a time when a Trump-hating transsexual commits school shootings that trigger a coverup from moralizing phonies, the gun-control argument continues, but moviegoers can use the clear-headed catharsis provided by Parabellum’s comic understanding about the use of self-protective force. The certain popularity of John Wick 3: Parabellum is the strongest repudiation of political correctness imaginable.
― omar little, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Fuck him forever.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 17 May 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
dude was always extremely vile and his opinions always extremely basic college-paper level contrarianism, but he certainly has turned it into a depressingly long series of gigs
― omar little, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
what shooting is he talking about
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link