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

l-r: Goldblum, people who think Armond can possibly be represented by Goldblum

I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings

You're not going to go around poking at this thread and threatening to leave it again, are you?

dinosaurs are awesome, what kind of miserable life-hating person doesn't like dinosaurs

TBQH i'm not sure what morbius likes, other than a few old films and steven spielberg.

and ILX, though he'd never admit it

btw i'm kind of waiting for some GOP candidate to attack "jurassic world" b/c evolution

nothing in the reviews makes it sound like this franchise has evolved

chris pratt has bigger biceps than jeff goldblum

well, there are members of the audience who don't believe in evolution so it's appropriate.

The hero of the movie says, in reference to 65 million years of evolution, "maybe progress should lose for once."

*cough* gay marriage *cough*

dr morbius is...

tenacious

saluting Armond for recognizing George O'Brien as the reigning himbo of the late silents.

https://feminema.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/sunrise2.jpg

Gaaaaahhhhhhh.

http://silenthollywood.com/sitebuilder/images/George_O_Brien_by_Hal_Phyfe_13-293x375.jpg

hi there!

george o'brien was stunning. and he had a great, goofy smile.

http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/static-assets/images/articles/background/2014/09/2-wkquzx.jpg

(and he grew into a great character actor, too, which i imagine those who knew his work in the 1920s would never have guessed he would.)

So, is name-checking Matthew Rush in his reviews Armond's new thing?

http://www.out.com/armond-white/2015/7/15/trainwrecks-homophobia-puts-john-cena-headlock

I'm on board.

Armond you crazy dick-sucker you.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425696/bridge-spies-review

Spielberg has lost the native all-American exuberance that made the atomic-bomb/refrigerator exploit in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so wondrous. Here, he mocks “duck-and-cover” Cold War training films, the public-school Pledge of Allegiance, and even Donovan’s “Big American breakfast” as part of obsolete cultural foolishness that deserves noir cynicism. This is pop art at its most disingenuous.

And armond knows disingenuous

Funnier still is how Armond, who frequently decries Tarantino's sadism, delights in watching (coded) Occupy-ers being mutilated and eaten.

Missed that gem.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426663/movie-review-Brooklyn-Spotlight?target=author&tid=1152026

should I?

Spotlight’s crusading journalists and activists are played by a cast of actors you can no longer trust: Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, and Stanley Tucci carry disingenuousness in their make-up kits, each one dragging the shadows of so many earlier untenable movies.

(No wonder critics derided McCarthy’s Adam Sandler film, The Cobbler; its vision of multi-ethnic connection was as wondrous and unillusioned as Brooklyn.)

His criticisms of movies about crusading journalists - and the way movies turn victims into a faceless mass, unless one of them has a cute kid - are valid.

not really. name some.

Absence of Malice? and that crappy remake set in DC w/ Russell Crowe

forget the first one, Paul Newman is the oppressed victim in that

State of Play?

right

Armond on the 12 best gay flicks of 2015

I've seen Eastern Boys and Girlhood. Have Tangerine on hold at the library. Anyone care to endorse or warn me away from any of the others?

Love at First Fight is pretty good, but funny to see it on this list. Adele Hanael is very good in it, but I thought a big problem was that she wasn't allowed to be 'queer' enough. It became more gender-stereotypical as it went along for me.
The New Girlfriend is pretty good Ozon, much better than Young & Beautiful, but not the campy awesomeness of Potiche.
Tangerine is the best American film of the year.
Duke of Burgundy I like less than most people, apparently, but I don't think it's as weird as it should be, not as good as Berberian Sound Studio, and while I think Sidste Babett Knudsen's accent is meant to signify continental decadent coolness, it sounds too familiarly Danish to me. But that's my problem.

Appropriate Behavior is very funny. Gerontophilia mostly isn't. I don't remember anything gay about the Techine film, but it's a weak one.

Love at First Fight and Appropriate Behaviour both added to my watchlist. Thanks, guys!

Appropriate Behaviour will be on my list of the year's best.

do not spell britishly

i need to go to the brix & mortar store and rent Duke of Burgundy

anyway, Armond was on target recently about Creed and Carol.

this is his most decent list since whenever

I didn't care much for Duke of Burgundy: a movie with butterflies, cabinets, and scrub brushes should have put them to more creative use.

Anyone care to endorse or warn me away from any of the others?

― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko),

fully endorse The New Girlfriend – about time a gender comedy had a funny bone.

On the watchlist it goes! I was hesitant after Young and Beautiful did nothing for me, but your endorsement sounds promising.

Think you really do have to have some kind of sympathy or taste for Rollin, Franco etc to get the most out of Duke of Burgundy, but I found it to be a much funnier film than The New Girlfriend, which for me sat rather uneasily between being a comedy of manners and something a little darker (ie like Almodovar's superior The Skin I Live In).

you've been waiting...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429435/movies-2015-best-and-worst

The Green Inferno and Knock Knock > Mad Max: Fury Road Eli Roth’s two-fer made him the year’s wittiest political filmmaker, reviving low-grade genres as social satire — the opposite of George Miller’s craven, violent, utterly mindless spectacular.

sure, guy

lol @ implying that eli roth is not craven or violent

What a tragedy it is that Armond has lost Spielberg.