that's why Armond's a perfect fit for NRO. "Glorify" is one of their favorite verbs.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
i still think he's gonna get too real for them eventually
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Just now on Twitter:
Glenn Kenny @Glenn__Kenny 13sShorter Armond White: God how I hate attractive, socially adept people
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
oh come on jesus was clearly attractive and socially adept
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
ok we can debate "socially adept" considering his fate but dude obv had a pull
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
There you go, glorifying Jesus again.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYzbB-tLcs
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
for all his manias and delusions, i suspect AW can still distinguish what constitutes a romantic comedy.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Michael Cera is a "modern Sterling Holloway."
omg how could I not have noticed this before
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius),
whew! it saves you the trouble
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
c'mon man this is the armond white thread, if you're gonna troll show some teeth
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
"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
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
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
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
wow...snowden checks his hair before being interviewed...that IS damning
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
the George Clooney anti-capitalist Ocean’s Eleven franchise films
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
the fun clarity of the military testimonies in Costa Gavras’s Z
alright it's been a while since i saw Z, but...
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
fun?
Clarity!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
no "if you want to see someone truly stand up for an idea from a place of righteousness, consider God's Not Dead"
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
"Robert Downey Jr in The Judge, now there's a man who can navigate a moral dilemma without abandoning our national code"
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
The cat and mouse games of costa gravas's breezy caper 'missing'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
xpost "not to mention a movie that realizes the inferences one can make from hair products"
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
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?
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
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?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
that nimble trickster Wes Anderson~~!
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
had no idea AW was pro-Benedict Arnold
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Beautiful url.
― Eric H., Friday, 24 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
the inferences one can make from urls
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
my upcoming book, Critic Without a Culture
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:07 (nine years ago) link
If Sandwich Artists don't know who Michael Moore is, than Armond Has Won.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:11 (nine years ago) link
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?).
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link
'Better Thans' go live in mid-January, no?
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 05:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link
Crossing fingers for "Penguins of Madagascar > Birdman"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 07:23 (nine years ago) link
Did Paul W.S. Anderson release a movie this year? 'Cause that's always an easy one.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:08 (nine years ago) link
Pompeii (referred to in marketing as Pompeii in 3D) is a 2014 German-Canadian historical disaster film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
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― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm feeling it.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Well he has a point about conformity and consensus and that's the reason I've argued he's important and that I hope he inspires other critics to follow him. And then write better than him. But it's increasingly hard to believe someone will stand out and get the same platform as film critics get fewer and consensus aggregates rule the day.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
PWSA has plenty of supporters tho
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Trying to anticipate AW's take on Selma. I somehow think it will turn on the scene with the Kings and the FBI sex tape.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
so weird that he chose the year in which they give the top prize to "goodbye to language" to pen a screed about how the NYFCC is a shill for the studios. and by "weird" i guess i mean "typical." this megalomaniacal asshole cannot go away faster.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
i mean, they gave the prize to a film that barely even got distributed! what more does armond white want?