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

Director Jeff Tremaine’s final 3D trick is a celebration with in-yourface explosions, wreckage and confetti.
It imitates the destruction of bourgeois materialism at the end of Zabriskie Point, then becomes an end-credits montage singling out each of the Jackasses alongside their nostalgic schoolboy photos. An accompanying Weezer tune, “Memories,” describes a longing for innocent carelessness. It’s an indulgence, but to understand it is to understand why the terrorists hate us and why Jackass 3D is also a political documentary.

oh i love tfg

armond has a richard branson esque compound up his own ass

are u renting yours out?

"It’s an indulgence, but to understand it is to understand why the terrorists hate us and why Jackass 3D is also a political documentary."

JACKASS 4: It's Why They Hate Us

the terrorists hate our catapult porta-potty efforts

AW trying to rehab his ILX cred this week: he hates Stephin Merritt AND Sasha Frere-Jones!

loool

amazing as ever.

typically nuts review and as always i hate the less-than-thinly-veiled implication (made by aw here and there and occasionally seen on ilx) that music that is made by a certain sort of white person and has a particularly white style is wholly irrelevant and those who are of a certain lifestyle and demographic are thoroughly unimportant and easily dismissed (or in this review's estimation, people who never leave the house!) lol, i dunno.

and it seems whenever this sort of "type" is dismissed, it feels almost like a bullying attitude or something, like the high-school weirdos who are in awkward and shy adulthood are still regarded as just not strong or masculine or extroverted enough. it's kind of strange that this sort of criticism is maybe considered valid in some quarters.

I thought you had mistakenly posted in the NRO thread.

how long til armond pens a piece for them i wonder

that review sounds less like armond than a certain cohort of ilm posters passing through an armond filter

well, exactly. Gooble gobble, one of us!

For those of you who haven't favorited Armond's page:

http://nypress.com/article-21788-magnetic-personality.html

Experience Music Project panel in Seattle—a bizarrely unintelligible seminar

heavens!

a dozen or so of you ppl were there in the Zip-a-Dee year, no? and once you've been called bizarrely unintelligible by Armond...

not sure if this was the same year but reminded me of this
final lolution

The fact that his contempt for hip-hop—the most inclusive music genre there ever was—

bwhwhahahahahahahahaha

stay golden armond

cmon Shakey, if we count MC Paul Barman it even includes obnoxious Jewish guys who are not the Beastie Boys

if only Stephen Merritt RAPPED how much more honest and inclusive his music would be

hip-hop, a welcoming musical community of white homsexuals

The straightforward title bests the recent Italian art flick I Am Love. Without hiding a political agenda behind hipster sophistication like that chi-chi Tilda Swinton vehicle, this very American satire (produced with uncanny pop instincts by the redoubtable Luc Besson!) proves convincingly romantic: Carrey and McGregor display absolute ardor in their characters’ respective risks and bravery, patience and devotion. These virtues become enlightening in a comedyof-manners context that defies the sanctimony that made Brokeback Mountain so patronizing.

I Love You, Phillip Morris

Armond otm

(cept i am probably watching I Am Love tonight)

I dug I Am Love but I fail to see the comparison other than the word "Love" in the title.

the "hipster sophistication of I Am Love, eh. He might as well have said "Mussolini chic."

I liked IAL a lot but it's really a very hot bowl of stromboli. Look at it as an early Visconti film in color.

I have to admit, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry" was way funnier than I expected

yeah i think he's using a very liberal ie wtf understanding of 'hipster'

possibly preferable to minute analysis of the same term

one important thing to remember is that armond white literally hates everyone else on the planet

I just wanna know whether Philip Morris addresses, unpacks, makes mockery of or simply cashes in on gays' self-loathing.

I dug I Am Love but I fail to see the comparison other than the word "Love" in the title.

I expect Armond is digging in a little bit at diva worship among the demographic in question.

it's not "self-loathing" when you realize you don't have anything else in common w/ these cocksuckers, Eric.

anyway, you all missed the relevant passage:

I admit this movie might not have seemed half as true if I hadn’t seen episodes of the LOGO reality-TV show The A-List, in which a clique of white, bourgie gay Manhattanites demonstrate totally loathsome habits and behavior. Steven is a Southern variant of their kind—a mad materialistic peacock—who unexpectedly finds his soul when he finds a soul mate.

but to answer your question, it unfudgepacks gay self-worship.

holy lol

as Jeff Zuckereisenberg might ask, "Which part?"

"unfudgepacks"

you have an amazing gift for disdainful wordplay, it makes me incredibly envious

Keep working at it, Morbs. You are that close to joining Armond among the ranks of the intractable.

hey, he bashes bourgie gays w/ "The A List," I do it with Out magazine.

what's your stake in this since you turned asexual?

I value living vicariously through others' sex lives. (With the obvious exceptions, of course.)

I wish there was video of this, it sounds hilarious.

http://gawker.com/5730615/worlds-crankiest-film-critic-made-annette-bening-cry-at-awards-show

woops, didn't see your text was a link, my bad

at least more entertaining than the films that won

maybe they'll let you take over when he dies

that's what he looks like? in that case every photo i have seen of him until now has been ridiculously flattering.

I'm glad ppl who are still naive enough to be registered Gawker commenters also revere Roger Ebert

i found this pretty funny in a cuntish way tbh.

michelle williams seems to have done pretty well in her response though. did she win for blue valentine or was she presenting?

Yeah, I was going to say Michelle Williams handled it with class.

everybody knows what AW is like, being chairman is obv a job no one else wants.

btw the actual quote from AW in that piece is pretty mild.