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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Still relish this short & sweet takedown every once in awhile: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/10/on-armond-whites-discourteous-discourse/
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
I forgot this great article: http://nypress.com/our-soul-man/
― s.clover, Saturday, 5 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha holy shit at that lede
― captain keefheart (some dude), Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
why? that's fucking Bam in a nutshell.
A shame his gorgeous Titanic takedown doesn't appear to be online.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 January 2013 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
(Her gotcha climax quotes Silence of the Lambs.)
I got there first!
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 January 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
When we look over the history of this board I imagine some small part will be Morbs turning into Armond.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 6 January 2013 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
wait til you read my 2Pac bio
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:00 (eleven years ago) link
Armond is at least consistent in his hatred of Michael Moore: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/moore_raises_holy_hell_JHzuJm2N6pPC2i8xOcP18K
― Solange and thanks for all the fish (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
He was there to present the film and not present a personal political diatribe.”
um...
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
haha. otm.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
armond needs to get into wrestler management
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
[White] is a reactionary conservative [bleep]hole.
OTM.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
xpost OTM!!
with the wwe making so many straight-to-dvd movies he could be this critic baiting their work ringside
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
"cena is a now-overrated piece of trash!"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
AW's politics are too incoherent to be labeled conservative.
Moore is a hypocritical Bam-votin' liberal asshole, tho.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Meanwhile: http://cityarts.info/2013/01/09/better-than-list-2012/
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
In the "nobody does it better" category this year:
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Taken 2 > Zero Dark ThirtyLes Miserables > Once Upon a Time in AnatoliaDark Horse > The Turin HorseA Thousand Words > Argo
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
He's so vile.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Hopper and cast preserved the power of pop opera, while Nuri Bilge Ceylan cynically, tediously observed man’s inhumanity to audiences.
Just lazy.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
conservative politics are too incoherent to be labeled 'conservative'! anyway aw's animating principle is resentment, so hes certainly coming from the same place as most us convervatives
― max, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
But White and a friend(!) shouted
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
The Deep Blue Sea > The Loneliest Planet
Terence Davies’ gay sensitivity to sex roles (and memorable performances by Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale) bested Julia Loktev’s juvenile view of female infidelity and male weakness.
^^ most otm thing he's written this year
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
That's not difficult.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
'conservative politics' erupt over a documentary in large part about a bond trader who never gave a shit about activism until he got AIDS
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Taken 2 > Zero Dark Thirty
tbf i couldn't finish zdt and barely finished spirit of vengeance
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
anyway good job having a MM-AW hateoff at the dinner, QT-Spike would've had everyone nodding off in their soup.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, this:
Movies weren’t just entertainment but were used to justify escapist(possibly even anti-social) points of view.
is (inadvertently) the most OTM thing he's written this year.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
it amazes me that he only allows himself to outright do ">" binaries once a year
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
lmao at that one
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
xp
every review he writes has one of those imo
wtf kind of fevered brian created a Les Miz-Anatolia binary?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
*brain too
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:21 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's what i mean, it's all he ever does but the rest of the year the > sign is only implied
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
if u told me there's an operatic autopsy in Les Miz i'd believe it
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ declaring two movies specifically better than ZDT, lol @ hating on Amour for "celebrating the end of life" because apparently that is pessimistic and apparently pessimism is automatic grounds for dismissal
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Thursday, 10 January 2013 06:59 (eleven years ago) link
i think he means celebrating in the sense of enjoying the hell out of making the audience suffer
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
like armond doesn't do that too?
― some dude, Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
found a Morrissey review in Spin from the early nineties in which White's misanthropy and Moz's un-charm were a volatile combination.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Patty Smyth > Morrissey
― da croupier, Thursday, 10 January 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
somedude, armond doesn't make films (yet)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://cityarts.info/2013/02/01/number-one-with-a-bullet/
[Bullet to the Head] really does feel like the best American movie for past couple of years
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Also, LOL.
http://elusivelucidity.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-bulleit-so-rare.html
I am also curious if anyone can establish for us that Gregory Solman is not, in fact, a long-standing pen name & alter ego for Armond White. Perhaps the two are critic-friends who've developed similar tastes over time - that's certainly a possibility. But given that they share a personal canon of great cinema, as well as similar styles of argumentation & critical reference, and they write for a lot of the same venues, and that White is known & seen around public screenings but Solman is seemingly even less photographed than Manohla Dargis, and is referred to almost exclusively by White (and rarely by other critics) ... well, you can see how suspicions arise in an idle mind. Maybe a bit like the possibility of Ray Carney writing some of his own fan mail - there are too many flattering imitations, too many phrases like the ones we see Solman put forth in this interview: "You convinced me!" or "As I know you know..."
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
AW: This movie has the best dialogue in years.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
AW: I enjoyed Bullet for its visual richness and moral detail. We’ve forgotten that movies could accomplish this.
GS: I’m glad that Walter hasn’t.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
reminds me of that exchange in an Ashbery poem:
I said it but I can hide it. But I choose not to. Thank you. You are a very pleasant person. Thank you. You are too.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
Armond is introducing Lady Sings the Blues at BAM next Monday night.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
gregory solman recently curated a clint eastwood festival here in l.a.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120831-eastwood-hmed-8a.photoblog600.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link