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

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.

Jay Nordlinger?

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.

seems pretty lazy to me... "this film has cross-cutting... who else cross-cut... dw griffith..."

The stories were edited by pomposity

zing?

The Wachowskis–critic Gregory Solman always called them the Watch-Out-skis

owned?

http://rlv.zcache.com/ski_boy_1_watch_out_im_coming_poster-r45a31c908b324eb8ac60742844050641_k4i_400.jpg

yeah seems if a critic really wanted to devastate cloud atlas and by extension a supposed film culture composed of critics unfamiliar w/ anything before the first godfather and film directors unfamiliar w/ anything before the first star wars that comparing it to intolerance might be a very easy, effective way to do it (that i haven't seen anyone do this is more due to nobody taking cloud atlas seriously enough to bother more than any unfamiliarity w/ one of the four griffith movies everyone and their mother is familiar w/), this isn't actually that though, this is making a jibe and repeating it in vaguely different wording. an easy enough task, but nothing's easy when you're as lazy as armond white.

also this isn't really a critical darling

they never are

Which means he should love it, no?

NYT review mentioned Intolerance

lol, plz google "cloud atlas intolerance"

balls, why do we read your posts? is it just pity?

obama

omg the watch-out-skis

i still don't get why only half the sentences in any given armond review are even grammatical. isn't he a Real Critic? don't his employers care?

this is ILX, every post is read

About half the review is missing. When does he actually review the film?

Six stupid–as in unintelligent, unsophisticated–plotlines are meant to converge as a vision of spiritual connection throughout the ages.

I'm glad he clarified what he meant by stupid, otherwise I might have thought he meant stupid as in stupid fresh.

Life of Pi is a movie for those people—and there are many—who don’t appreciate the style of visionaries such as Bernardo Bertolucci, John Boorman, Brian DePalma, Leos Carax, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Paul W.S. Anderson, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, John Moore, Olivier Megaton, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg and Wong Kar Wai.

lol

surprised his semi-pan of Lincoln was overlooked

He puts most of the blame on Kushner. Easily discarded.

To wit: "For a lesser filmmaker, the prevarications in Lincoln would be disastrous."

thought you woulda picked out the Obama punchline

Easily discarded.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago)

why no bolding of paul ws anderson btw

He's otm on Sally Field though.

PWSA is such a given by this point that it didn't seem worth noting.

lmao at his editors letting him leave in a list that long

He IS the editor, bwahahaha

I have a certain affection for Armond because of this. He comes out with a lot of absurd reviews that bring the lolz, but I like (at least, on a conceptual basis) this notion of reshaping (or, rather, finding new perspectives on) the meaning of films. He makes intriguing arguments from time to time, when he's not being all the things this thread is saying. All those problems get in the way, of course, but it would be great if he would focus in and open up a debate about some of the films he champions that nobody else does.

― Gukbe, Friday, January 21, 2011 1:46 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

i agree with this

Not to rank Tarantino with Ford or Mark Twain but his diabolical Uncle Tom descends from their precursors, specifically to the way Twain refashioned American social codes into a narrative that to this day gratifies some people’s entrenched racial prejudices. That’s why Huckleberry Finn is canonized while Twain’s Puddinhead Wilson is not.

http://cityarts.info/2012/12/28/still-not-a-brother/

It's back!

A bigger budget and a more definite subject improves on the muddled “war is a drug” pathology of Bigelow’s now-overrated The Hurt Locker.

http://cityarts.info/2012/12/28/zero-for-conduct/

Doubling down!

For good measure, a rave for Les Mis, which "contravene(s) the bogus sophistication and vain smugness that have overtaken the pop arts for at least the past two decades and soured millennial film culture": http://cityarts.info/2012/12/26/working-class-heroism/

He's obsessed with hipsters.

posts which effortlessly summarize etc.

i love that hes still calling it 'now-overrated'

i'd actually really want to read him on lincoln. it's so seldom he writes about movies i'm seriously interested in hearing his opinion on. i mean zero dark and django were of course going to be pans.

More on this in my forthcoming book Say What?

oh man

Leaving aside his opinions, his writing is getting worse on a basic syntactical level. Or maybe that's just the lack of editing. So clumsy.

Still relish this short & sweet takedown every once in awhile: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/10/on-armond-whites-discourteous-discourse/

I forgot this great article: http://nypress.com/our-soul-man/

hahaha holy shit at that lede

why? that's fucking Bam in a nutshell.

A shame his gorgeous Titanic takedown doesn't appear to be online.

(Her gotcha climax quotes Silence of the Lambs.)

I got there first!

When we look over the history of this board I imagine some small part will be Morbs turning into Armond.

wait til you read my 2Pac bio