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

omg the watch-out-skis

i still don't get why only half the sentences in any given armond review are even grammatical. isn't he a Real Critic? don't his employers care?

this is ILX, every post is read

About half the review is missing. When does he actually review the film?

Six stupid–as in unintelligent, unsophisticated–plotlines are meant to converge as a vision of spiritual connection throughout the ages.

I'm glad he clarified what he meant by stupid, otherwise I might have thought he meant stupid as in stupid fresh.

Life of Pi is a movie for those people—and there are many—who don’t appreciate the style of visionaries such as Bernardo Bertolucci, John Boorman, Brian DePalma, Leos Carax, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Paul W.S. Anderson, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, John Moore, Olivier Megaton, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg and Wong Kar Wai.

lol

surprised his semi-pan of Lincoln was overlooked

He puts most of the blame on Kushner. Easily discarded.

To wit: "For a lesser filmmaker, the prevarications in Lincoln would be disastrous."

thought you woulda picked out the Obama punchline

Easily discarded.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago)

why no bolding of paul ws anderson btw

He's otm on Sally Field though.

PWSA is such a given by this point that it didn't seem worth noting.

lmao at his editors letting him leave in a list that long

He IS the editor, bwahahaha

I have a certain affection for Armond because of this. He comes out with a lot of absurd reviews that bring the lolz, but I like (at least, on a conceptual basis) this notion of reshaping (or, rather, finding new perspectives on) the meaning of films. He makes intriguing arguments from time to time, when he's not being all the things this thread is saying. All those problems get in the way, of course, but it would be great if he would focus in and open up a debate about some of the films he champions that nobody else does.

― Gukbe, Friday, January 21, 2011 1:46 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

i agree with this

Not to rank Tarantino with Ford or Mark Twain but his diabolical Uncle Tom descends from their precursors, specifically to the way Twain refashioned American social codes into a narrative that to this day gratifies some people’s entrenched racial prejudices. That’s why Huckleberry Finn is canonized while Twain’s Puddinhead Wilson is not.

http://cityarts.info/2012/12/28/still-not-a-brother/

It's back!

A bigger budget and a more definite subject improves on the muddled “war is a drug” pathology of Bigelow’s now-overrated The Hurt Locker.

http://cityarts.info/2012/12/28/zero-for-conduct/

Doubling down!

For good measure, a rave for Les Mis, which "contravene(s) the bogus sophistication and vain smugness that have overtaken the pop arts for at least the past two decades and soured millennial film culture": http://cityarts.info/2012/12/26/working-class-heroism/

He's obsessed with hipsters.

posts which effortlessly summarize etc.

i love that hes still calling it 'now-overrated'

i'd actually really want to read him on lincoln. it's so seldom he writes about movies i'm seriously interested in hearing his opinion on. i mean zero dark and django were of course going to be pans.

More on this in my forthcoming book Say What?

oh man

Leaving aside his opinions, his writing is getting worse on a basic syntactical level. Or maybe that's just the lack of editing. So clumsy.

Still relish this short & sweet takedown every once in awhile: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/10/on-armond-whites-discourteous-discourse/

I forgot this great article: http://nypress.com/our-soul-man/

hahaha holy shit at that lede

why? that's fucking Bam in a nutshell.

A shame his gorgeous Titanic takedown doesn't appear to be online.

(Her gotcha climax quotes Silence of the Lambs.)

I got there first!

When we look over the history of this board I imagine some small part will be Morbs turning into Armond.

wait til you read my 2Pac bio

Armond is at least consistent in his hatred of Michael Moore: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/moore_raises_holy_hell_JHzuJm2N6pPC2i8xOcP18K

He was there to present the film and not present a personal political diatribe.”

um...

haha. otm.

armond needs to get into wrestler management

[White] is a reactionary conservative [bleep]hole.

OTM.

xpost OTM!!

with the wwe making so many straight-to-dvd movies he could be this critic baiting their work ringside

"cena is a now-overrated piece of trash!"

AW's politics are too incoherent to be labeled conservative.

Moore is a hypocritical Bam-votin' liberal asshole, tho.

Meanwhile: http://cityarts.info/2013/01/09/better-than-list-2012/

In the "nobody does it better" category this year:

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Taken 2 > Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables > Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Dark Horse > The Turin Horse
A Thousand Words > Argo

He's so vile.

Tom Hopper and cast preserved the power of pop opera, while Nuri Bilge Ceylan cynically, tediously observed man’s inhumanity to audiences.

Just lazy.

conservative politics are too incoherent to be labeled 'conservative'! anyway aw's animating principle is resentment, so hes certainly coming from the same place as most us convervatives

But White and a friend(!) shouted