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

of all of the statements Morbius has made about movies, "Pixarfans, get a life" strikes me as easily being the least controversial

also I still find AW, even since he's lost his mind, a more reliable barometer than Shakey Mo

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I didn't think our tastes in movies is THAT far apart, Apatow aside

I definitely have no love for Pixar for ex.

I'm hearin' voices in my head think I'm schizophrenic
I swear they sayin' "stan for 'transformers 2'" from another planet

"Transformers 2 already explored the same plot to greater thrill and opulence."

Armond is now my hero. He's like..an artist. Wielding ridiculous challops like nunchakus.

Plenty to chew on:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/07/hating-the-player-losing-the-game-the-armond-white-meta-review/

By my count there are about three declarative statements in this entire piece that are not categorically inaccurate. The rest is a seething tissue of factual errors, self-negating examples, glaring elisions, logical inconsistencies, specious industrial analysis, mystifying rhetorical constructions and basic grammatical errors.

nice. and that's the thing -- white's opinions aren't the problem, because who cares, it's a free country. it's the quality of his criticism and the general lack of anything that feels like insight.

good stuff in that article

Man cannot live on challops alone.

On There Will Be Blood:
"Plainview is the most remarkable movie performance since Eddie Murphy’s Norbit trifecta."

Oh Armond, you rebel.

pretty decent article above

Really ought to give Norbit a try, given I even liked Murphy's fat schtick in the second Nutty Prof.

I love his fat schtick but Nutty Professor looks like Lubitsch next to Norbit.

(Lubitsch means nothing to you, of course)

Means not as funny as There Will Be Blood.

Fat schtick is the worst, you guys.

Raging Bull is the worst kind of sports film, an insult to true art like Mighty Ducks 3.

It's been a while since I saw it, but I think that Armond White is right and that columnist wrong about the scene from Metropolitan. I mean, Eigeman's character says the lines the columnist says he says, but the point is that the toys ARE the protagonist's childhood toys abandoned by his father. Great movie, but far from the best scene in it.

The older article linked w/in that one is also amazing, w/ AW's 'top ten' quotes.

He was totally OTM re Chameleon Street, which I saw him introduce at AMMI in Astoria.

I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism. Because of the wide and far reach of television, he became an example of what a film critic does for too many people. And what he did simply was not criticism. It was simply blather. And it was a kind of purposefully dishonest enthusiasm for product, not real criticism at all…I think he does NOT have the training. I think he simply had the position. I think he does NOT have the training. I’VE got the training. And frankly, I don’t care how that sounds, but the fact is, I’ve got the training. I’m a pedigreed film critic. I’ve studied it. I know it. And I know many other people who’ve studied it as well, studied it seriously. Ebert just simply happened to have the job. And he’s had the job for a long time. He does not have the foundation. He simply got the job. And if you’ve ever seen any of his shows, and ever watched his shows on at least a two-week basis, then you surely saw how he would review, let’s say, eight movies a week and every week liked probably six of them. And that is just simply inherently dishonest. That’s what’s called being a shill. And it’s a tragic thing that that became the example of what a film critic does for too many people. Often he wasn’t practicing criticism at all. Often he would point out gaffes or mistakes in continuity. That’s not criticism. That’s really a pea-brained kind of fan gibberish.

Armond discusses the state of film criticism on the slashfilmcast

complete bullshit, as per ush.

david effing bordwell did the preface for ebert's most recent collection. willing to bet he's more 'pedigreed' than armond white.

the internet has stolen the impact and prestige and effect that traditional professional film criticism used to have.

ha gimme a fuckin break. "traditional professional" yeah sorry, that never existed.

someone broke Armondbot

He's like the Spencer Pratt of film crit.

lol armond is a trained and pedigreed film critic. congratufuckinglations.

bet he had a small stroke Richard Roeper took over from Siskel.

Taking his argument at face value: Does he really think that there are no "pedigreed" film critics in the US other than himself? There are plenty of other film professors in the world, and many of them write about film in some way or another, and many of them are over 30! But he can't even name one of them to pay lip service to? Terrible.

oh man I wish they'd replaced Siskel with Armond...

polyphonic, you are missing the point, which is that Armond White is a raging egomaniac with terrible taste

i like the conclusion of that article, "he's not a troll, just an attention whore"

"i've got the training" lol

he trained for years, eating popcorn, sitting on his ass, making shit up...

polyphonic, you are missing the point, which is that Armond White is a raging egomaniac with terrible taste

I don't really agree that he has terrible taste. I just think his tastes are too narrow. His favorite films are all good films, in my experience.

Definitely a raging egomaniac, though.

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.

I guarantee you that he will never watch that movie a second time.

http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/white.html

I take back the "terrible taste" comment; the good far outweighs the terrible on these lists.

still gonna be "lol he liked the Transformers sequel" though

Armond BlackandWhite.

08. Out of Sight (Steven Spielberg)

lol

i think that's the website's type, and not armond's. hope so anyway.

those lists don't capture the sheer joy he gets out of big-upping terrible movies just because everyone else is panning them.

typO

xp

He also hadn't yet wrapped his vagina around Pismol Beach in 1998.

Pismo

01. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)

my man

09. Mr. 3000 (Charles Stone III)

god i hope i can find the review of this

It's actually really good imo.

Ebert a couple of days ago.

mr. 3000 or armond's review of mr. 3000?

Andre 3000's review of Armond.