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

saw this pop up on twitter and i knew this thread would be all a-light

these sentences, my god

SARCASTIC VIOLENCE IS THE NEW MARRIAGE EQUALITY

i feel like i'm reading dayo's hong kong tshirt thread

Armond misses 2004, and the toilet.

Armond gets slack from me these days for saying that Michael Cera is a "modern Sterling Holloway."

http://www.studiosystemnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Michael-Cera.jpg http://poorwilliam.net/pix/holloway-sterling2.jpg

David Fincher’s new Horatio Alger tale glorified technocrat Mark Zuckerberg with chic, digital-era arrogance.

"Glorified." You know, the guy who ends the movie alone and debating whether or not to send a friend request to the girl who dumped him at the beginning of the movie, showing he had grown not a bit.

Armond gets slack from me these days for being the most interesting part of the NYFCC banquet.

well arguably any movie about a person is "glorification" in the sense that you're suggesting they're worthy of getting a movie about them. though the fact that he calls it a "new horatio alger tale" does undermine his thesis that these movies were unprecedented blows to our collective morality from the liberal left

that's why Armond's a perfect fit for NRO. "Glorify" is one of their favorite verbs.

i still think he's gonna get too real for them eventually

He's splitting the suicidal conservatives who won't watch Hollyporn from the ones who go, "Well, wait a minute, I can like The Dark Knight and vote for Romney" more than anything I've seen on the regular site.

yeah i assume one day he's going to piss off bruce willis or somebody and then he'll be quietly dispatched from the site

Just now on Twitter:

Glenn Kenny ‏@Glenn__Kenny 13s
Shorter Armond White: God how I hate attractive, socially adept people

oh come on jesus was clearly attractive and socially adept

ok we can debate "socially adept" considering his fate but dude obv had a pull

There you go, glorifying Jesus again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYzbB-tLcs

for all his manias and delusions, i suspect AW can still distinguish what constitutes a romantic comedy.

Michael Cera is a "modern Sterling Holloway."

omg how could I not have noticed this before

for all his manias and delusions, i suspect AW can still distinguish what constitutes a romantic comedy.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius),

whew! it saves you the trouble

c'mon man this is the armond white thread, if you're gonna troll show some teeth

"meh meh lest you forget i'm uptight about people liking judd apatow movies" armond white has declared judd apatow movies in part responsible for the fall of man try harder

Armond said liberal media disparaging the passion of the Christ was worse than 9/11. That's a pretty high bar for any troll to match.

I don't wanna derail this thread, but Jesus kinda strikes me as one of the least socially adept people ever... Like, the guy attacked the freaking temple in Jerusalem, that was quite clearly a social no-go...

accuses Variety of sedition!

Citizenfour is not about Snowden’s change of heart (if such ever occurred) and not an examination of his untroubled disloyalty. Poitras’s stylized presentation makes Snowden’s covert activities accord with the atmosphere of annoyance and resentment — the same liberal smugness that ruined Brian De Palma’s Redacted.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391061/paranoid-and-visionary-armond-white

wow...snowden checks his hair before being interviewed...that IS damning

the George Clooney anti-capitalist Ocean’s Eleven franchise films

the fun clarity of the military testimonies in Costa Gavras’s Z

alright it's been a while since i saw Z, but...

fun?

Clarity!

i'm pretty bummed he was forced to go to actual acclaimed "classics" from the past, and couldn't make negative comparisons to Son Of God or a D'Souza doc.

no "if you want to see someone truly stand up for an idea from a place of righteousness, consider God's Not Dead"

"Robert Downey Jr in The Judge, now there's a man who can navigate a moral dilemma without abandoning our national code"

The cat and mouse games of costa gravas's breezy caper 'missing'

xpost "not to mention a movie that realizes the inferences one can make from hair products"

then in the second review he goes on to say that ppl who were "fooled" by Grand Budapest will be "astounded" by Alain Resnais' swan song. Wouldn't they be too dumb for that?

Snowden says “in the history of man” a lot — to measure his alarm and his audacity; the phrase is his password to Benedict Arnold, the Rosenbergs, and Daniel Ellsberg‘s martyrdom.

wtf?

that nimble trickster Wes Anderson~~!

had no idea AW was pro-Benedict Arnold

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391061/paranoid-and-visionary-armond-white

Beautiful url.

the inferences one can make from urls

In praise of Godard, the Mekons' "derelict charm," and dissing Gyllenhaal's "bug-eyed nosferatu." The best column of his I've read in awhile.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391512/goodbye-language-godard-goes-3d-armond-white

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/banned-critic-new-york-film-761089

In this age of conformity, unanimity hides bias and truth-tellers get ostracized. Film criticism has lost its independence. Group-think not only removes honor from consensus opinion, it also promotes hostility to the practice of journalistic criticism. This was proved by the Circle's attempt to demonize my singular, intimidating position as a critic.

my upcoming book, Critic Without a Culture

the other day my subway sandwich artist asked me "who was that guy who made those documentaries? about columbine and stuff?" and i just looked at him blankly before realizing back in the car 20 minutes later oh yeah, michael moore. i'd almost suggested gus van sant.

If Sandwich Artists don't know who Michael Moore is, than Armond Has Won.

Is the better-than list for '14 up yet? I only ask because I have no real clue where I might find it anymore (National Review? Out? Somewhere else?).

'Better Thans' go live in mid-January, no?

well he's gotta wait to see how the critical consensus about a movie shapes up before he can decide if he likes it or not. That usually takes until well after the new year.