another maniacal Armond White review, this time "Fahrenheit 9/11"

or bowie or whatever. i'm lost.

kid passes off song lyrics as his own original writing, nobody in class notices, end of story

huh? what does this have to do w/ armond white?

It was a scene from Squid/Whale, and White claimed that it was improbable that the lyrics wouldn't be recognized.

White:

Director-writer Noah Baumbach mimics the inverted narcissism of Capturing the Friedmans, presenting his Park Slope denizens as the brain trust of New York literary culture in all its bedraggled, half-ass, suburban-manque vanity. Real (average) moviegoers are said to stare back at the screen in numbed stupefaction, however screening rooms buzzed with the press's self-satisfied chuckles. Propaganda for ourselves. Most New York critics should have recused themselves from judging this mirror reflection. Their lack of such scruples matches Baumbach's lack of talent. The mind-boggling moment when his alter ego (Jesse Eisenberg) rips off a Pink Floyd tune at a music contest and, supposedly, no one in all bourgie Brooklyn recognizes the theft, demonstrates the downright plagiarism and nepotism of Baumbach's career.

lol @ armond insulting the intelligence of "average moviegoers"

you know how in robocop there's the secret "directive 4" that doesn't permit him to arrest an officer of OCP? and when he tries to arrest dick jones, he stops suddenly and starts jerking around strangely--and no matter how hard he tries, he can't bring himself to make the arrest?

that's sort of how it works when i try to read anything written by armond white.

Armond, you're FIRED!

don't we all wish.

(That was your cue to draw a service revolver from your artificial leg-holster and send him crashing out the window 40 stories to his demise, then I go, that's some nice shooting, son)

"what's your name?"

"baumbach."

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5654/endcredit.gif

Da da da da daaaah / Da da da duhhhh!

lol @ armond insulting the intelligence of "average moviegoers"

No cad, he's saying that they're perceptive for being unamused at what draws "self-satisfied chuckles" from critics.

I liked TS&TW myself.

i didn't like it one bit but the pink floyd thing may qualify as the WENDY KROY hiccup: and other flaws in other films

morbs that's not nec. what i get out of "numbed stupefaction" but ok

but reread! Sometimes numbed stupefaction is the only proper response, to WW2 alternate histories for example.

or one-note posters

that's not fair, max posts about things besides gettin stoned

just take your zing like a man, Morbs.

i don't see any

yeah yeah i still think he's misusing stupefy if that's what he's going for but here's a bigger point--whatever you think about the squid and the whale it telegraphs what its targets are really well and there's absolutely nothing inside baseball about it

lol was that a sockspottin' post by morbs? if so, kudos

i dont know how i got dragged into this, but let me be clear, i only post about being stoned

You did not have sexual relations with that bong.

let me be clear

choom u can believe in

does armond ever acknowledge that n baumbach is kind of cute? because i feel like that is important

http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2010/03/11/exclusive-armond-white-dislikes-baumbachs-movies/

Despite his negative view of Baumbach’s films, White points out that he is a “huge admirer” of the director’s wife, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.

“I think Jennifer Jason Leigh is the best actress in America,” White said. “He thinks I hate his mother, but I really love his wife. That seems not to matter. I’m on record calling her the best actress in the ’90s, but that seems not to matter. So, where is the grudge? You look at my reviews of Jennifer Jason Leigh and I’m praising her to the skies.”

some of my best friends are jennifer jason leigh

lol

White denies ever saying that Baumbach’s mother should have aborted him. “Reading the English language, I am not calling for him to be aborted,” White told HollywoodNews.com. “But (Hoberman) decides I am calling for Noah’s abortion. He sides with the mob. What a jerk.”

armond is straight up lying in that interview

because he once said that he didn't have to meet baumbach to know that he was an asshole cuz he'd seen his movies, which he said was a better way to judge anyway -- so unless he "likes" or "has nothing against" assholes, then he's just dancing -- altho maybe to have a high self-esteem it would be technically necessary for him to "have nothing against" assholes

that's a nice paragraph to read as innuendo btw

altho surely the biggest asshole in this whole thing is the guy who goes by the name "J. Hoberman"

i wonder if he ever has a single non-haughty moment in his life, or if you could wake him up in the middle of the night and catch him completely off guard and he'd still go "how DARE you sir, i demand retribution"

altho surely the biggest asshole in this whole thing is the guy who goes by the name "J. Hoberman"

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.)

How so?

you make it sound like "j. hoberman" is some kind of bizarre pen name. his name is jim hoberman.

and i don't see how he's doing much of anything aside from answering the question of whether or not white actually wrote the words he is said to have written. obviously there's no love lost between him and armond, but that appears to be true of the entire human race.

pretty much i'm saying that it begins and ends with "j. peterman" - no one else is allowed to do the "j. [last name]" thing -- and at least his name was JACOPO

& i have no problem with his blog post about armond -- i just thing the name abbreviation is pretty douchey

why?

i think it's pretentious

okay "Jordan S."

;-)

Damon has perfected looking down his nose at his superiors, fellow grunts, shifty-swarthy Iraqis—and us. It is an insidious, racist, fascist characterization.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/king.jpg

pretty much i'm saying that it begins and ends with "j. peterman" - no one else is allowed to do the "j. [last name]" thing -- and at least his name was JACOPO

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 12, 2010 6:54 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

the hell?

j-ho came before seinfeld ne way

i was

kidding

i do think it's pretentious tho

unsure what seinfeld has to do w/ this

jacopo was a character in seinfeld. none of this matters. j hoberman is a fine critic and armond white is... not.