He usta be good. Once or twice a year he still is.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 05:25 (nine years ago) link
I don't get the hubbub. I remember his year end lists being tasteful. It's not like a new Transformers movie came out.
And when he was editing himself for the city paper or whatever it was, his copy was raw, but it wasn't uneditable.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
It's here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396040/tenth-annual-better-list-armond-white
I think I had the same reaction to last year's list - none of it really "shocked" me, in so much as these things (or Armond) could.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Its probably a credit to him that after all these years we might expect him to "shock us" on any level.
Never sure why he bothers with the picks that are so obvious as to be redundant. Don't know why it needs to be said that Journey to the West is better than Maleficent.
― tsrobodo, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
whether or not i'm shocked, i felt his phrasing deserved a poll
Best Succinct Film Pan From Armond White's 10th Annual Better-Than List
― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link
Korengal > Citizenfour
Sebastian Junger honors the risks of Afghanistan soldiers while Laura Poitras celebrates Edward Snowden’s anti-American paranoia.
300: Rise of an Empire > Interstellar
Noam Murro and Zach Snyder raised 3D pulp to a level of sensual, visceral astonishment but Christopher Nolan couldn’t get past nerdy, boring imitation-Kubrick space oddity.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Wrong Journey to the West...
― Frederik B, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
Throughout 2014, movie culture, as we used to know it, collapsed. Old Masters Godard, Bertolucci, Resnais and Troell kept the faith yet went ignored.
Best not to open your annual screed by citing a film that has been lauded with awards as "ignored."
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
He's right about Lego Movie and Snowpiercer.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link
SNOWPIERCER knowingly cartoonish and funny though.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 10 January 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
He seems to want to fuck Chris Pratt
http://www.out.com/armond-white/2015/6/10/jurassic-dreams-chris-pratt-haunts-fanboy-wet-dreams-spielbergs-dino
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Heaven forbid.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
i'm just sad this wasn't in the national review
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
He has a new piece in OZY. lol
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
This -- "he’s like a gainfully employed Matthew Rush" -- is pretty o_0 tho.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
The Jurassic World script doesn’t allow Pratt the personal charm — the wink — that Harrison Ford brought off as Indy, hero of many adolescent boys’ dreams. Pratt’s eyes are gentle, yet his stout-thewed crouch and voluptuous trapazoids overwhelm this formulaic movie — and Bryce Dallas Howard’s shrill, vapid Park supervisor. She’s unappealing as Owen’s love interest. Maybe a lesbian critic could try justifying her cold acting but who can say what hetero guys who see Jurassic World put into their spank banks? I bet it’s Owen.
this paragraph sure takes a turn
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
i don't read a lot of out magazine but it's not really the place i'd expect an "i dunno, maybe a lesbian will dig it" aside
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
LOL, 'cause that's totally what lesbians are into, Armond. Demeaning, frigid female characters who learn the value of having children with hot dudes over the course of the movie.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
C Pratt was much cuter when a bit fluffier.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Not my type in either form.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
his stout-thewed crouch and voluptuous trapazoidshis stout-thewed crouch and voluptuous trapazoids
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm sorry, I missed the part when the voluptuous trapazoid ate Newman
voluptuous trapazoids
Pretty impressive in the context of the word "velociraptors."
Or it would've been had his movie bothered to mention any dinosaurs at all.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
his movie review
OUT magazine is generally aimed, like all "gay" mainstream pubs, at fairly rich white men who don't know (m)any lesbians and think 'centrist' Dems are tot awesome bcuz "marriage."
Maybe only 12-year-old boys are still into dinosaurs.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
his voluptuous reviews
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
i would have been a little more impressed if he'd spelled trapezoid correctly
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Attended the screening last night with a 29-year-old boy who was verrrrrry much still into dinosaurs.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
though this did come up when googling http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trapazoid
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
Reading Armond reviews is like falling into a trapazoid.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
the first two entries for "stout-thewed" are from armond, followed by a few from conan books and a few from the 19th century
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
so Armond is a dinosaur who writes reviews
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
i never thought anyone other than robert howard used the word "thewed"
― goole, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
trapawhat now? tight editorial shop over there at out, huh
anyway, oh, armond. i wonder who else could conceivably write for both out and NRO (i don't really)
― goole, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
there are still gay Republicans, and in the case of O-bots, close enough
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
haha morbs. this is a perfect example of how your elitist scorn just reveals your own small-mindedness (this is point that, because of same small-mindedness, you will or can never take to heart, alas). now, i couldn't care less about this film, but there's really no reason why anyone /wouldn't/ be interested in dinosaurs!
you're a really sad person, you know that?
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
also, girls like dinosaurs too.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
obsessed vs interested
i'm not crazy about you, either
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
it would be a badge of pride, if i gave a fraction of a shit
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
a dinosaur shit.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
jeez that Armond quote is some wacky misogynist shit
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
although frankly there's a certain pathos in observing your scorn for anyone who doesn't have the same limited habits of mind
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
xpost
yeah the title of this thread (the 1st half anyway) is of enduring relevance
actually my previous post applies to both morbs and armond, so i'm on topic despite myself
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
previous previous i mean
l-r Goldblum, amateurist
http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbjlo0Retv1qedl16o1_1280.png
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
l-r Morbius, everything in the entire world
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
l-r: armond, voluptuous trapazoids
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
l-r:Armond, what he thinks lesbians are into
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
l-r: Goldblum, people who think Armond can possibly be represented by Goldblum
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link