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

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445206/jordan-peeles-get-out-trite-get-whitey-movie

Get Out does not rank with America’s notable race comedies — Brian De Palma’s Hi, Mom!, Ossie Davis’s Gone Are the Days! (Purlie Victorious), Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope, Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback, Hal Ashby’s The Landlord, Rusty Cundieff’s Fear of a Black Hat, Skin Game or any of the genre spoofs by the Wayans family, particularly the ingenious Little Man, or the recent Eddie Murphy films (The Klumps, Norbit, Meet Dave, A Thousand Words) that are so personal and ingenious, they transcend racial categorization.

But unlike Eddie Murphy, a masterful actor with a mature sense of humor, Peele fails because has not created credible characters.

Get Out was actually awesome

arguably even more 0___0 than his endless adjectives for '00s eddie murphy

Get Out is an attenuated comedy sketch in which serious concerns are debased. Pushing buttons that alarm blacks yet charm white liberals, Peele manipulates the Trayvon Martin myth the same way Obama himself did when he pandered by saying, “Trayvon Martin could have been my son.” That disingenuous tease is extended in Peele’s casting of Daniel Kaluuya. Son of Ugandan parents, the handsome, round-faced, British-born actor triggers sympathy (he has the young, clean-cut buppie co-ed look that brothers Branford and Wynton Marsalis rocked in the ’80s).

But Kaluuya’s strongest historical associations must come from Peele’s subconscious: The actor’s dark-skin/bright-teeth image inadvertently recalls the old Sambo archetype. Kaluuya frequently goes from sleepy-eyed stress to bug-eyed fright. Surely Spike Lee would have recognized the resemblance to Stepin Fetchit, Mantan Moreland, and Willie Best, the infamous comics who made their living performing Negro caricatures during Hollywood’s era of segregation. Peele seems too caught up in exploiting modern narcissism to notice old repulsion. Sambo lives matter. Question: Will Kaluuya’s wild-eyed consternation be equated with James Baldwin’s bug-eye perspicacity in I Am Not Your Negro?

... Wow

Answer?

@NickPinkerton
Realize that the problem with Armond has nothing to do with his politics and everything to do with his calling Naruse "minor" in 2010.

Armond White, who some will remember as the 90s/00s magnificently trolly film critic of the New York Press, has gone FULL alt-right pic.twitter.com/1z2P92cHoe

— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) May 31, 2017

these hastily thrown together screenshots from various tweets with no context given certainly make this a open shut case

oh come the fuck on

tho it's not even remotely surprising that white is an alt-righter

i mean literally the first review in this thread is titled "film of the fascist liberal"

i agree w you 100%. just making fun of a tweet of a collage of screenshots of tweets. screenshot that review and post it next to some damning icons.

i thought Michael Moore was gen held in contempt around here

Better pundit than filmmaker

i never get tired of opening up this thread and stumbling on this line:

As Kevin Costner worried in JFK, we are indeed through the looking glass now.

fuck yeah!

I, like most Americans, refuse to participate in La La Land.

— armond white (@3xchair) June 4, 2017

Here's to the dreamers.

* Armond runs to pay phone to call ICE *

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Also, certain now that all the books he's tease as "coming soon" over the last decade-plus of this thread will never see the light of day.

how many non-complilation books has he authored? just the Tupac?

god Armond "ruining" the 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for Get Out is still so fucking funny to me, such a classic Armond move

That seems to be the only one, yes.

alas my two friends who thought Get Out sucked are not critics.

Ned's reaction to that review is also amazing:

White wrote of Peele’s film: “‘Get Out’ does not rank with America’s notable race comedies — Brian De Palma’s ‘Hi, Mom!’, Ossie Davis’s ‘Gone Are the Days! (Purlie Victorious)’, Robert Downey Sr.’s ‘Putney Swope,’ Melvin Van Peebles’s ‘Sweet Sweetback’, Hal Ashby’s ‘The Landlord,’ Rusty Cundieff’s ‘Fear of a Black Hat,’ or any of the genre spoofs by the Wayans family, … or the recent Eddie Murphy films that are so personal and ingenious, they transcend racial categorization.”

Still taking this in.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:51 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ned, still taking it in?

he had me through The Landlord, at the v minimum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes

The list of movies Armond hasn't "ruined" on RT is pretty long tbh.

the personal and ingenious movies of Griffith, they transcend racial categorizatoin.

24: Redemption

Eddie Murphy has recent films?

Ned, still taking it in?

I've moved towards taking it on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_(2015_film)

57 positive reviews?!

I'm more sick of Rotten Tomatoes than I am of Armond.

xpost Perhaps that should have been called Julian's Complicated Situation.

I've never used it.

I prefer meat critic.

I don't either, but it has a certain cultural ubiquity that I finally noticed last semester when some of my students were discussing some movie or another (Get Out? La La Land?) and contrasting their reactions towards the RT score.

reactions towards against the RT score

the tomato has become totally ubiquitous, shows up whenever you google a movie, listed right next to the running time. i use the Flixster app and that fuckin tomato is always right there. in a way it's cool because shit blockbusters like Baywatch and Pirates 800 or whatever wither on the vine, but their whole process of determining how to categorize middling reviews as positive or negative seems fishy.

wither on the vine

I see what you did

lol damn that was unintentional

i saw Pirates at a drive in a few weeks ago and had a blast, fuck the tomatoes

i read that as meaning the Polanski film w/ Matthau

All I have left to look forward to is Armond's Detroit review.

— ＮＯＴ ＲＥＣＯＮＣＩＬＥＤ (@NickPinkerton) July 30, 2017

hell yea

Here you go:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450145/kathyrn-bigelow-detroit-romanticizes-riots-equates-detroit-riots-ferguson

By his standards, this is actually a somewhat tempered take.

It's official. His first NRO post that isn't a review:

Now, after the mess of Charlottesville and the mainstream media’s deliberate misreading of White House statements, these czars have uncustomarily succumbed to show-business, art-world, and theater-bubble peer pressure. Peer pressure is an undeniable part of the arts-panel experience — as it is also evidence of millennial virtue-posturing.

"deliberate misreading"