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

ayo i just posted that

dudes you are NOT taking an armo article seriously right?

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:04 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

only film crit to take seriously imo

Armond has a charming talent for piling adjectives and adverbs as if the use of them transformed the object of his wrath into whatever he thought of him.

Like if he called Hoberman a "narcoleptically slavish ladybug."

It exposes the hidden conspiracy by him and his backward children (you know who you are) to control film discourse.

kind of impressed that hoberman didn't take too seriously all these weird "global conspiracy" zingers

rly dunno how anyone can defend a. white here. this is the most transparently bad faith shit-talking i've seen displayed in serial public utterances this side of an NRO Corner writer

http://flann4.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/strangelove.jpg

j hoberman and the "inner circle"

"ok yeah i DID call for someone to be retroactively aborted, but it's not like he's offended, RICH PEOPLE love abortion!! ps he's RACIST, because of Precious!!"

armond white always reminds me of his fellow esteemed critic meredith merridew:

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsM/12385-19246.gif

Gore Vidal?

"Given this crisis, I can no longer keep silent about the conspiracy"

My favourite line. Reminds me of something you'd find in a very long letter in a local newspaper's crank file.

That’s hegemony.

^^^^ great title for a musical version of this white/hoberman dust-up

I'll bet Glenn Kenny is cursing his new years resolution to stop dicking on other critics.

From Armond's Participation in the Slate's 2004 Movie Club:

A review should be judged by its substance. Its argument should be engaged. Name-callers who ignore the argument are just being insulting; it's a feeble attempt to simply dismiss the argument.

perhaps Glenn hasn't fully resolved!

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2010/03/jim-hoberman-begins-his-work-day.html

would it be possible to reconstruct armonds political philosophy
― max, Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:12 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

1. all other critics are wrong
2. they are motivated by their hatred of america and me black people me/black people (same thing)

i think if you are taking this asshole seriously you have been conned

it's funny to see armond railing against "gossip obsessed media" with this particular column

By resurrecting the corpse of Georgia Brown’s undistinguished, forgotten movie-reviewing career

c'mon, son

this column is so absurd

Watching The Squid and the Whale, I thought, "Laura Linney can probably write pithy reviews."

Capsule review: Greenberg is a mite less obnoxious than Baumbauch’s other films (better photographed, too: I liked Harris Savides’ image of Stiller barely swimming across a pool—possibly an homage to my joke that Baumbach was the rat at the bottom of Margot at the Wedding’s pool).

hahahaha hold on -- armond is floating the idea that the 'greenberg' cinematographer trojan horsed a reference to an armond zing of baumbach into the movie??????

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/GetOnMyComp_gm.jpg

Don’t get it twisted: This Greenberg squabble is not about me

http://i35.tinypic.com/x1f448.jpg

This Greenberg squabble is not about me

this is like red-alert level of orwellian doublespeak. congrats, armond!

fuck, i did not know this was the magazine's effing COVER STORY!!1!!ONE!

what kind of a readership is it?

truly batshit editorial move

one that is unknown aside from the antics of armond white, from what i can glean

Is there a gif of Armond White with him shrugging exaggeratedly captioned "THAT'S JUST ARMOND!" in 80s sitcom font?
Because if not, I would like to commission one...

perhaps Glenn hasn't fully resolved!

He's definitely slipped a few times, but I'm waiting for an all-out relapse that sees the 'Armond White-ism of the Week' come back.

The NY Press usta be well worth reading 10-20 years ago, when Armond shared film duty w/ Godfrey Cheshire, and there was a regular column by Dennis Perrin.

*slowly backs away*

haha

gramscian whos been mugged

― Lamp, Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

fuck, i did not know this was the magazine's effing COVER STORY!!1!!ONE!

what kind of a readership is it?

truly batshit editorial move

― lipster grifter (history mayne), Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

well i've never read single thing in the ny press not written by armond so it's like i think he's pretty much all the bullets in the gun

so, he likes the new Bellocchio a lot.

"Telephone" was more exciting that any feature-length American film released so far this year

yes he's talking about the lady gag video

he needs an "everyone knows it's butters!"-type theme

The title Kick-Ass enshrines a bully’s ethic. Though it is unpopular to say, this proves Tarantino’s contribution to Abu Ghraib mentality. Perhaps

But the lyrics in "Telephone" are a different matter: "I don’t want to talk anymore/ I left my head and my heart on the dance floor" celebrates a heedless refusal to communicate; to mindlessly, heartlessly indulge pop culture

i guess dancing is pop culture now \(o_O)/

J0rdan, name a single decent American-made feature film this year.

Tarantino’s contribution to Abu Ghraib mentality

kind of undeniable as a general principle.

thread's not the same since omar/gear left ilx

we ah dooley appointed fehduhral mahshuls

yeah, dancing is pop cuture, where the fuck u been?

he did?!

xxxpost

is omar/gear the same person? most of you make no impression on me.

J0rdan, name a single decent American-made feature film this year.

"shutter island"

& anyway, the "telephone" video sucks too!

"the runaways"

doubt it's better than Gaga video

Armond does a music-video program at Lincoln Center every summer, maybe you should fly in and troll him.

gear got hitched and has better things to do now than dissect insane armond screeds and scumbag yelper reviews