nice
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
does he mean "genetic characteristics"? "genreic characteristics"?
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
love this guy: "Upcoming work by Kanye West, Iris DeMent, Paul W.S. Anderson and the Taviani brothers, whose Caesar Must Die premieres at the New York Film Festival, could show work that goes beyond seasonal hype."
― s.clover, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
there's nothing wrong with finding worth in trashy films but AW never really explains what kind of cinematic merit he finds in things like 'resident evil.' he sort of starts to do that in the first paragraph here but then he just goes back to his old bean-counting routine: this movie is 'unforgettable,' this other movie is 'unbearable.' no reasons, no arguments, just a bunch of contentions. it's like arguing with a 5-year-old.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
A half dozen mentions of "lazy critics" thrown in whenever it wasn't clear who he's trying to flip off.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
wanna make clear that my love of event horizon doesn't in any way hinge on a sense of overall quality or even respect for its director. it's kind of a mess and often quite silly, but despite that, i enjoy it enormously. spooky atmosphere, good gore, quick pacing and some wonderful production design. i don't ask for much...
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:59 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah. i would really love armond if he actually explained his interpretations. but that's par the course for contrarians: say something loud and surprising and just leave it there for the reader to get exasperated at.
also i'd like him if he actually paid attention to the majority of the movies he covers. his pans are like 70% misinformation on the most basic level.
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
When I die and go to hell, it's just gonna be [Rachel getting married] on a perpetual loop
― jed_, Thursday, 20 September 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
with Peggy Noonan singing "Unknown Legend."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/thighmaster/statuses/248576493662371840https://twitter.com/3xchair/statuses/248612135901462528
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
interesting! when i very briefly ran a movie critic commentary blogspot i eventually concluded that "falling asleep" must be part of his method.
― zachylon (zachlyon), Friday, 28 September 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
it was very funny
― zachylon (zachlyon), Friday, 28 September 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
adult, professional, courteous
― da croupier, Friday, 28 September 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://cityarts.info/2012/10/08/cityarts-exclusive-arts-analysis-beasts-of-the-northern-wild/
“I’m trying to make sense of the acclaim for Precious and the concurrent advent of Barack Obama.”
Weird, since I'm trying to make sense of how much self-loathing there might be in his final paragraph on The Paperboy: "A final key to the unarticulated bitterness of Daniels’ hysteria: The trio of black women singing in the dive bar where McConaughey picks up trade. Note how their angry-faced gestures betray modern drag queen hostility rather than Civil Rights era generosity and musical pleasure. That anachronistic sexual/racial rage exposes Daniels. The Paperboy ultimately is a drag-act response to the legacy of Southern bigotry Americans have forgotten and Northern ignorance they now embrace."
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen a film by Lee Daniels, but everything I've read about him suggests that White is pretty otm with this one (although it's low-hanging fruit, and his writing is incomprehensible). As long as he talks about Daniels, that is, when he begins accusing the liberal (white) elite of loving him, I'm scratching my head. Wasn't it Oprah who produced Precious? Hasn't 30 Rock been mercilessly satirizing that film? And did Paperboy really cause a 'ruckus' at this years Cannes-festival? Everything I've read about it suggested that most critics were just shaking their heads and getting on with it...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Shadowboxer is another Lee Daniels film I watched, and whoa was it weird.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
it's low-hanging fruit, and his writing is incomprehensible
Yeah, he bends over backwards to make it seem as though everyone loves The Paperboy or something, which, wtf.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
well even some critics who think The Paperboy is insane dreck say it's worth seeing for the facepalms (or maybe just McC's ass).
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
If McC indeed showers next to a Tom of Finland, I can probably stomach a small amount of Nic pee.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
@TeganMHTegan Higginbotham
Nicole Kidman has denied using fake urine in new film, Paperboy. But critics are skeptical, saying the pee looked unnatural & expressionless
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
That's how you know it's hers!
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
ebert reviewed the paperboy as if it were wild things, so i've been interested
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
FACT CHECK:
The mess of Southern-depravity cliches says as much about 53-year-old Daniels’ fuzzy recall of the Civil Rights era...
A few paragraphs later:
The way Daniels integrates an anachronistic playlist of 60s-70s r&b tunes into The Paperboy’s story (set in 1969, the year of Daniels’ birth)
Also, how are '60s songs anachronistic if the film is set in 1969?
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
These characters would still be listening to Spike Jones.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:03 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Because if he didn't, he'd only have a sucky movie to trash, not the big bad critical establishment that's so overrun with hipsters and nihilists.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
armond white is just following in the great bosley crowther tradition of writing reviews of movies you've slept through.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
also the only reasonable responses to AW are to ignore him or to make fun of him (or like glenn kenny, say you'll do the first but keep doing the second). there is absolutely no point in trying to parse any of his reviews. he has nothing of interest to say, and his writing is only symptomatic of his own complexes.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
"Won’t Back Down is a condescending version of what the excellent action movie Never Back Down..."
In case you think I made that up: http://cityarts.info/2012/09/28/the-miseducation-of-viola-davis/
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
Between this and the Paul T/WS Anderson thing, he sure loves things that sound vaguely alike!
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
It's a shame the whole Paul Anderson thing kept him from realizing he could negatively compare the actors in The Master to Dana Carvey in The Master of Disguise
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
"Dana Carvey's command of the traditions of mimicry-as-subversive-satire embarrass the hipster nihilism of Paul Thomas Anderson's morally and politically disengaged pretend-epic."
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
Again, I thought that film was about the problem of teachers unions, how on earth can it be a 'liberal' film? He really is the Antonin Scalia of film critics.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
It is anti-union propaganda, I don't know how anyone would draw the conclusion it is liberal.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
does Armond have Career Opportunities in mind
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
Never Back Down is bare-chested Sean Faris vs. bare-chested Cam Gigandet. Talk about your "drag queen hostility" and "sexual rage."
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
Not going to lie. Kinda digging malfunctioning Armond during election years.
http://cityarts.info/2012/10/12/affectless-affleck/
Affleck and Clooney are part of the elite who have never served their country and can’t fathom that kind of patriotism and so smirk at it. It’s a Joe Biden kind of movie.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not aware of Beau Biden's military bonafides but I'm pretty sure Joe didn't smirk at his son's service.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
It's all good though, because
Affleck the auteur chooses worst material than Affleck the actor.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
he's about two years from an actual mental breakdown
― omar little, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
That seems like a conservative projection.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
I was gonna say, "from" or "past"?
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
the past year has been one long "two weeks, two weeks, two weeks" total recall twitch
― omar little, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if he'll get better or worse if Romney wins.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
Affleck and Clooney are part of the elite who have never served their country and can’t fathom that kind of patriotism and so smirk at it.
this is like a sentence written by the world's most obnoxious 4th grader.
― omar little, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Jay Nordlinger?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://cityarts.info/2012/10/26/supergroupies/
See, 99% of this review reminds me why I still sometimes wanna read the guy. Then he has to throw in a dig at his fellow critics at the end, more Armond vs. the world posturing, and w/r/t a film that doesn't even have much of a critical rep (that I know of, anyway) at this point anyway.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
seems pretty lazy to me... "this film has cross-cutting... who else cross-cut... dw griffith..."
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
The stories were edited by pomposity
zing?
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
The Wachowskis–critic Gregory Solman always called them the Watch-Out-skis
owned?
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.com/ski_boy_1_watch_out_im_coming_poster-r45a31c908b324eb8ac60742844050641_k4i_400.jpg
― sug ones (omar little), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link