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

same as "spoiled 12year-old-boy."

here's j hoberman on the whole thing:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/03/proof_that_armo.php

maybe this will finally end with armond being fired and todd mccarthy replacing him? that would make it all very worthwhile.

I don't approve of that last sentence in the Mr. Jealousy review, but I like that review (and I like Baumbach, too).

gd armond is the man

shitty writer, shittier human being

shitty writer, shittier human being

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:57 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark

truthbomb

might suggest retroactive abortion, might suggest!

georgia brown was a mediocre film critic, but not armond white-level awful

hey :/

White's accusations of racism led to a live dustup on Leonard Lopate's radio show in the mid '90s, when Brown challenged White to substantiate his charges and White refused.

this is funny, see, because their names, are also the names of colors, that some peoples skin, is

reverse racism

sorry, donna rouge, is georgia your mom too??

GEORGIA BROWN IS EVERYBODY'S MOM

(note to self: print on t-shirt, wear outside of armond white's apartment building)

would be kind of great actually if baumbach turned out to be love child of georgia brown and armond white. would make a good movie maybe.

nah but i (used to be) armond white btw but yall were hurting my feelings so

would be kind of great actually if baumbach turned out to be love child of georgia brown and armond white. would make a good movie maybe

The Scarlet Stain

that Armond review, ignoring the shitty abortion punchline, actually highlights pretty well what i find intolerable about Baumbach.

This one's a little too insider baseball for me to care about.

it is funny when someone who designs their whole persona on being iconoclastic and fearless gets super butthurt, though.

I don't give much of a fuck about this, but AW was infuriated that the kid in Squid didn't have anyone call him on stealing a Bowie song

fury seems like a pretty appropriate reaction

it was a pink floyd song

you're right! well see, that proves nobody in Park Slope in the '80s was sure.

he also did get busted for it...

EVENTUALLY

I dunno, I bought it. People are dumb.

no one wanted to admit know abt pink floyd

armond and my dad on the same page there

beats the weird old man diatribe i was expecting re: showing a kid jerking off in the library

i'm pretty happy that armond is a 4chan icon btw

what is this thing about pink floyd? can someone break it down for me?

or bowie or whatever. i'm lost.

kid passes off song lyrics as his own original writing, nobody in class notices, end of story

huh? what does this have to do w/ armond white?

It was a scene from Squid/Whale, and White claimed that it was improbable that the lyrics wouldn't be recognized.

White:

Director-writer Noah Baumbach mimics the inverted narcissism of Capturing the Friedmans, presenting his Park Slope denizens as the brain trust of New York literary culture in all its bedraggled, half-ass, suburban-manque vanity. Real (average) moviegoers are said to stare back at the screen in numbed stupefaction, however screening rooms buzzed with the press's self-satisfied chuckles. Propaganda for ourselves. Most New York critics should have recused themselves from judging this mirror reflection. Their lack of such scruples matches Baumbach's lack of talent. The mind-boggling moment when his alter ego (Jesse Eisenberg) rips off a Pink Floyd tune at a music contest and, supposedly, no one in all bourgie Brooklyn recognizes the theft, demonstrates the downright plagiarism and nepotism of Baumbach's career.

lol @ armond insulting the intelligence of "average moviegoers"

you know how in robocop there's the secret "directive 4" that doesn't permit him to arrest an officer of OCP? and when he tries to arrest dick jones, he stops suddenly and starts jerking around strangely--and no matter how hard he tries, he can't bring himself to make the arrest?

that's sort of how it works when i try to read anything written by armond white.

Armond, you're FIRED!

don't we all wish.

(That was your cue to draw a service revolver from your artificial leg-holster and send him crashing out the window 40 stories to his demise, then I go, that's some nice shooting, son)

"what's your name?"

"baumbach."

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5654/endcredit.gif

Da da da da daaaah / Da da da duhhhh!

lol @ armond insulting the intelligence of "average moviegoers"

No cad, he's saying that they're perceptive for being unamused at what draws "self-satisfied chuckles" from critics.

I liked TS&TW myself.

i didn't like it one bit but the pink floyd thing may qualify as the WENDY KROY hiccup: and other flaws in other films

morbs that's not nec. what i get out of "numbed stupefaction" but ok

but reread! Sometimes numbed stupefaction is the only proper response, to WW2 alternate histories for example.

or one-note posters

that's not fair, max posts about things besides gettin stoned