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

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really? Which movies?

Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link

as Bob Dole said, "Stop lying about my record."

So do you guys think Armond was right about Vincere and Wild Grass?

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link

YOU KNOW, MOVIES THAT DON'T MATTER

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link

everything i've criticized him for, i've read.

al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link

really? Which movies?

haha well obviously...

but i was mostly thinking abt his winter's bone review that characterized it as "something new in movies: a 'country-noir' thriller."

an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link

i didn't read his vincere review. i did interview marco bellochio and write a feature about the film for my paper tho. it's possible to think more than one kind of movie is worthwhile.

al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link

you mean like The Girl on the Train and Despicable Me?

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link

not... specifically...?

al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link

those were the exact two types of movies i was thinking it was possible to like

an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link

like, those two, in particular

an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link

im not even sure where this is going

I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Those are 2 AW favorites of this year. I'm just as irritated with his automatic-pilot rants as many of you, but he also thinks more than one kind of movie is worthwhile.

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link

but you ppl only get upset at his "contrarian" takes on your beloved multiplex must-see-on-the-first-weekend shit, so what else is new

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link

the special thing about a. white is not which movies he likes and dislikes but the offhand sweeping contempt at all the other shills and frauds who don't like and dislike what he does. a man alone!!

xp ha that's some kind of xp right there

goole, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link

(I'm not talking about s1ocki or even a non-English-language-film-hater like nrq)

Yeah, he is completely tiresome with the Anointed One stuff, no argument

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

but you ppl only get upset at his "contrarian" takes on your beloved multiplex must-see-on-the-first-weekend shit, so what else is new

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

like 'the hurt locker' iirc

I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

but you ppl only get upset at his "contrarian" takes on your beloved multiplex must-see-on-the-first-weekend shit, so what else is new

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

u mean HIS beloved multiplex must-sees like transformers and GI joe?

al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

even a non-English-language-film-hater like nrq

i've seen like three foreign-ass films in the last week, son

I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link

foreign 'ass films' dont count

al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link

... if he were a cheerful whacko instead of a rageaholic one one he'd be an ilx hero like terius nash or the struttin that ass guy

goole, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link

one of them had emmanualle beart true

I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

but you didn't consider any "great" in the '00s

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.alliancevideousa.com/images/broken-record-765056.jpg

San Te, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link

... if he were a cheerful whacko instead of a rageaholic one one he'd be an ilx hero like terius nash or the struttin that ass guy

― goole, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:02 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

max, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link

people love ebert because hes nice not because hes got any great insight

and people hate armond cause hes a dick

max, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^real talk

Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link

I like a dick who's consistent though.

*sniggers as he waits for joeks*

Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link

as long as they rise to the occasion eh

Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link

or are a head of their times.

Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link

and are very long and hard

latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link

this is like the fourth dick joke i've made on ilx today, btw :-/

latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link

always stick to what you know

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

always dick to what you know

Eric H., Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Bunch of private dicks in here.

Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link

We're your private dicks, a dick for money.

Eric H., Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXSsseXKpzs

Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I really want to see Resident Evil Afterlife now, just to spot the deceptively dark homage to Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Also: "This Resident Evil is superior to Avatar and Inception on every level"

a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Also: "This Resident Evil is superior to Avatar and Inception on every level"

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:38 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark

I doubt I'll agree with Armond on Inception, but Avatar....

Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link

When Alice is resurrected from her android state (“Thank you for making me human”), it confirms Anderson’s ingenuity as a life force.

da croupier, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Is he a Paul Thomas Anderson fan? I don't know how else to explain his not announcing that this Paul Anderson is so much better than that other Paul Anderson.

da croupier, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link

"Bad Bitcharama" is such a weird headline for a piece with one line describing the lead character and the rest blowing kisses to the man who "essayed" this movie.

da croupier, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link

That's just the new name for all his columns.

Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Rizov Rages

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link

totalhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGthat resident evil review

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Life As We Know It

Pretty amazing how he manages to pry his (pretty decent though I've not seen the film) review into a further diatribe on The Social Network and its relation to the Rutgers suicide.

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 7 October 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link

We can’t pretend that anything is more important in film culture than the Internet humiliation-death of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi taking place the same week as the media hype for The Social Network.

We interrupt this Katherine Heigl romcom review to bring you this pressing commentary...

da croupier, Thursday, 7 October 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Just posting this line from the Jackass 3D review for posterity:

Steve O’s Super Cocktail Bungee routine in a feces-filled port-a-john utilizes distance and trajectory in a way that recalls the great waterslide joke in Norbit (and should help rehabilitate that wonderful film’s unfair reputation).

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 22 October 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link

hahahahahaha

some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 22 October 2010 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link

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

J0rdan S., Friday, 22 October 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Director Jeff Tremaine’s final 3D trick is a celebration with in-yourface explosions, wreckage and confetti.
It imitates the destruction of bourgeois materialism at the end of Zabriskie Point, then becomes an end-credits montage singling out each of the Jackasses alongside their nostalgic schoolboy photos. An accompanying Weezer tune, “Memories,” describes a longing for innocent carelessness. It’s an indulgence, but to understand it is to understand why the terrorists hate us and why Jackass 3D is also a political documentary.

oh i love tfg

some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 22 October 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link


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