https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXSsseXKpzs
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I really want to see Resident Evil Afterlife now, just to spot the deceptively dark homage to Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Also: "This Resident Evil is superior to Avatar and Inception on every level"
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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I doubt I'll agree with Armond on Inception, but Avatar....
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
When Alice is resurrected from her android state (“Thank you for making me human”), it confirms Anderson’s ingenuity as a life force.
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Is he a Paul Thomas Anderson fan? I don't know how else to explain his not announcing that this Paul Anderson is so much better than that other Paul Anderson.
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"Bad Bitcharama" is such a weird headline for a piece with one line describing the lead character and the rest blowing kisses to the man who "essayed" this movie.
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
That's just the new name for all his columns.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Rizov Rages
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
totalhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGthat resident evil review
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Life As We Know It
Pretty amazing how he manages to pry his (pretty decent though I've not seen the film) review into a further diatribe on The Social Network and its relation to the Rutgers suicide.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 7 October 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
We can’t pretend that anything is more important in film culture than the Internet humiliation-death of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi taking place the same week as the media hype for The Social Network.
We interrupt this Katherine Heigl romcom review to bring you this pressing commentary...
― da croupier, Thursday, 7 October 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Just posting this line from the Jackass 3D review for posterity:
Steve O’s Super Cocktail Bungee routine in a feces-filled port-a-john utilizes distance and trajectory in a way that recalls the great waterslide joke in Norbit (and should help rehabilitate that wonderful film’s unfair reputation).
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 22 October 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahahaha
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 22 October 2010 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/GetOnMyComp_gm.jpg
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 October 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 22 October 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
armond has a richard branson esque compound up his own ass
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 October 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
are u renting yours out?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 October 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 22 October 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the terrorists hate our catapult porta-potty efforts
― Mordy, Friday, 22 October 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
AW trying to rehab his ILX cred this week: he hates Stephin Merritt AND Sasha Frere-Jones!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
loool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing as ever.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought you had mistakenly posted in the NRO thread.
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
how long til armond pens a piece for them i wonder
― omar little, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that review sounds less like armond than a certain cohort of ilm posters passing through an armond filter
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 October 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 October 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Experience Music Project panel in Seattle—a bizarrely unintelligible seminar
heavens!
― richard move (buzza), Friday, 29 October 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 October 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure if this was the same year but reminded me of thisfinal lolution
― richard move (buzza), Friday, 29 October 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The fact that his contempt for hip-hop—the most inclusive music genre there ever was—
bwhwhahahahahahahahaha
stay golden armond
― klacktoveedesteen (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 October 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
cmon Shakey, if we count MC Paul Barman it even includes obnoxious Jewish guys who are not the Beastie Boys
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 October 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
if only Stephen Merritt RAPPED how much more honest and inclusive his music would be
― klacktoveedesteen (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 October 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hip-hop, a welcoming musical community of white homsexuals
― klacktoveedesteen (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 October 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Gukbe, Friday, 3 December 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Armond otm
(cept i am probably watching I Am Love tonight)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I dug I Am Love but I fail to see the comparison other than the word "Love" in the title.
― Gukbe, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the "hipster sophistication of I Am Love, eh. He might as well have said "Mussolini chic."
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I have to admit, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry" was way funnier than I expected
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think he's using a very liberal ie wtf understanding of 'hipster'
possibly preferable to minute analysis of the same term
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
one important thing to remember is that armond white literally hates everyone else on the planet
― omar little, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I just wanna know whether Philip Morris addresses, unpacks, makes mockery of or simply cashes in on gays' self-loathing.
― Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I expect Armond is digging in a little bit at diva worship among the demographic in question.
― Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
but to answer your question, it unfudgepacks gay self-worship.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
holy lol
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
as Jeff Zuckereisenberg might ask, "Which part?"
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"unfudgepacks"
you have an amazing gift for disdainful wordplay, it makes me incredibly envious
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link