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

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

Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 March 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link

just take your zing like a man, Morbs.

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link

i don't see any

Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 March 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link

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

call all destroyer, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link

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

velko, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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

max, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link

You did not have sexual relations with that bong.

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 March 2010 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link

let me be clear

choom u can believe in

velko, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link

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

A B C, Friday, 12 March 2010 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link

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.”

ILX's Dopiest Poster (latebloomer), Friday, 12 March 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link

some of my best friends are jennifer jason leigh

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link

lol

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 March 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link

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.”

some dude, Friday, 12 March 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link

armond is straight up lying in that interview

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link

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

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link

that's a nice paragraph to read as innuendo btw

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link

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

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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"

some dude, Friday, 12 March 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link

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?

The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link

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, 12 March 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link

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

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link

why?

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link

i think it's pretentious

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link

okay "Jordan S."

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link

;-)

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link

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

gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link

i was

kidding

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link

i do think it's pretentious tho

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link

unsure what seinfeld has to do w/ this

just sayin, Friday, 12 March 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link

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

gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link

Love that defence. "What's he mad at me for? I'm obsessed with his wife, doesn't that count for something?" Nope, that probably doesn't help at all.

I can't believe how much I hate Armond White - it's the kind of shuddering, visceral loathing I usually only experience with politicians and Fox News hosts. His political readings are usually so insanely contrary that he reminds of that guy who posts long blogs about how Lady Gaga is a tool of the Illuminati.

gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 12 March 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Trying to figure WTF about Jennifer Jason Leigh's body of work in from that decade makes her the "the best actress in the ’90s" according to Armond White. The only role of hers that I could recall from that time period was in Dolores Clairborne. I can't recall anything special about her performance in that film.

The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link

I find her an irritant.

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link

i think she's kind of not-good, but she did do some good movies: miami blues, kansas city, hudsucker proxy... existenz.

gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Watching her act is like watching a Palmetto bug on its back, squirming.

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link

i was gonna say "mary louise parker would have been better in those movies" and i guess that's JJL had an "arc" on weeds

gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Existenz was good, but Armond seems to be a Cronenberg hater so I can't see him appreciating her acting in that film.

The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link

what a dilemma for armond "consistency" white

gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link

like her a lot in mrs. parker & the vicious circle, existenz, the king is alive

zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link

for the record, JJL is fantastic

Get the Flaps Out (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link

white "denied responsibility" for making the abortion comment before holberman got the review he made it in from the library and put it online, leading to his pathetic "Reading the English language, I am not calling for him to be aborted" defense. What a prince this guy is.

zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

She and Phoebe Cates make Fast Times at Ridgemont High on for the ages!

The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link

one for ages

The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

More caffeine please!

The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

gave me a high-on for the ages

goole, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Hudsucker, Existenz, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Fast Times, Synechdoche, Palindromes, The Hitcher (lol), the Anniversary Party - she's been good in a lot of stuff

Get the Flaps Out (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link

it's kind of sad that Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rachel Leigh Cook have become intertwined in my mind when I read their names, right

we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link

doesn't sound sad to me

goole, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link


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