Ebert a couple of days ago.
― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
mr. 3000 or armond's review of mr. 3000?
― de jong and the restless (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Andre 3000's review of Armond.
― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know what he lists as his favorite films but he gave a very positive review to "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and he is not 10.
― he does NOT have the training (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:01 (56 minutes ago)
The problem with the positive review for transformers 2 is the negative review for transformers 1, which is better in all ways. I fucking love giant robots fighting, and transformers 1 is just definitively a better giant robot movie.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
he genuinely loves Norbit and considers it one of the high points of African American culture.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
It is. That and Arthur Lee.
― Sensational Howard (admrl), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
And Armond White
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Def. a low point for chinese-american culture.
Rasputia: What... the...? What just fell on my car? Mr. Wong: Not what - who! Who just fell on your car? Ching chong ching chong!
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also: the Japanese title for Norbit is "Mad Fat Wife"
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys' obsession w/ Armond-bashing is as tiresome as your finding Christopher Nolan's blitzkriegs the most fascinating films of our time.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
if only i could think of something else tiresome
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Threads aren't revived because of obsessions -- it's fun!
― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
you surely saw how he would review, let’s say, eight movies a week and every week liked probably six of them.
Yeah, I don't think so. Ebert will call shit for being shit, always has.
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoever you read, hold them to a standard, and don’t simply enjoy a critic because they say what you want to hear. But read as many people as you care to, but ask yourself: Are they REALLY talking about what’s on the screen? Do they know the history of this form? Do they have any political awareness? Do they have any spiritual, or moral, or religious awareness even?
This from a man who loves THE CAT IN THE HAT. Has anyone else here seen THE CAT IN THE HAT?
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ebert is an intelligent, readable hack who had admitted he dumbed himself down on TV.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
please, more critics with religious awareness
― u dad (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
That's actually one of his other coherent points.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, you guys, Mr. 3000 is much better than it needs to be and I highly recommend it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Unlike smugly cynical humanist ogres Ebert Armond White is a thoughtful, sensitive critic and the best argument for America since David Bowie's transcendent cameo in "Zoolander".
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
such as Ebert
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
d'oh
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
At least Armond has probably bothered to watch the movies he criticizes, I'll give him that.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
zing!
― San Te, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i think Armond's point about review-everything mass media middlebrow film criticism in general isn't a terrible one, though it would probably be better to direct it at, say, Peter Travers. Ebert is probably one of the least offensive examples.
― ryan, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
physician heal thyself imo
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
it's extremely difficult for physicians to actually heal themselves, the stethescope lead just gets twisted
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah excellent point. and it doesn't help that Armond's bluster often seems borne of a persecution complex for being excluded from that particular clique.
― ryan, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I really don't think 'middlebrow critics' are a clique, they just appeal to the Great Unwashed rather than hang out at the malt shop together.
Matt, pay me to see all the movies, or go fuck yourself.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the stethescope lead just gets twisted― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:04 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:04 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
no it doesn't
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
heh how did i know you'd have a second opinion on that
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno Morbs he has a point, I could be wrong, but from my experience, generally reviews written by people who were actually in the theatre at the exact time the film was scheduled to show tend to contain a greater level of accuracy then dart throwing by an internet troll.
― San Te, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ya there's just a certain ... je ne sais quoi... about having actually seen the art in question before criticizing it that elevates the writing to another level
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like they're reviewing it on a deeper level somehow.
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
And yet we can all criticize Armond White without actually reading him.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
it would be kinda interesting if someone consistently reviewed movies they hadn't seen for a major publication and then wait to see if anyone ever caught on.
― ryan, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i read armond white and then i criticize him
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
there is, his name is david denby, and yes weve noticed (xp)
― an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
really? Which movies?
― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
as Bob Dole said, "Stop lying about my record."
So do you guys think Armond was right about Vincere and Wild Grass?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
YOU KNOW, MOVIES THAT DON'T MATTER
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
everything i've criticized him for, i've read.
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
haha well obviously...
but i was mostly thinking abt his winter's bone review that characterized it as "something new in movies: a 'country-noir' thriller."
― an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't read his vincere review. i did interview marco bellochio and write a feature about the film for my paper tho. it's possible to think more than one kind of movie is worthwhile.
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean like The Girl on the Train and Despicable Me?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
not... specifically...?
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
those were the exact two types of movies i was thinking it was possible to like
― an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
like, those two, in particular
im not even sure where this is going
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Those are 2 AW favorites of this year. I'm just as irritated with his automatic-pilot rants as many of you, but he also thinks more than one kind of movie is worthwhile.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
but you ppl only get upset at his "contrarian" takes on your beloved multiplex must-see-on-the-first-weekend shit, so what else is new
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the special thing about a. white is not which movies he likes and dislikes but the offhand sweeping contempt at all the other shills and frauds who don't like and dislike what he does. a man alone!!
xp ha that's some kind of xp right there
― goole, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link