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

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.

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

― jed_, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:30 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

looks like he's lost a lot of weight

lol, armond you are a treat

haha what is wrong w/this guy

basically an irl troll?

haha what is wrong w/this guy

To start, he liked The Fighter.

he seems genuinely pathological

Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky actually started things last night, when he told White from the stage, "You give us all another reason not to read New York Press."

Appropriate, since Aronofsky gives me another reason to hesitate to set foot in a cinema.

You know, Armond's favorite movie of 2010 was Scott Pilgrim.

And his favorite of all time A.I. so he is cool.

aronofsky is a better director than white is a critic (or person)

actually AW cited his two favorites of '10 as Wild Grass and Vincere.

Aronofsky's first two films were good, still waiting.

lol dude

hmm, so I got trolled?

see this list from
http://www.indiewire.com/critic/armond_white/#

1) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2) Vincere
3) Wild Grass
4) Mother and Child
5) Life During Wartime
6) Another Year
7) Inspector Bellamy
8) The Girl on the Train
9) Takers
10) From Paris With Love

vs this one from Sight and Sound
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/films-of-2010-full.php#white

Wild Grass (Les herbes folles)
Vincere
Mother and Child
Life During Wartime
Another Year

Now I want to watch Wild Grass.

perhaps S&S doesn't recognize Canadian films

scott pilgrim is better than wild grass

haven't caught up with 'takers' tho

can't wait for his "chris brown > rihanna" slam when battleship comes out

I think bringing up Battleship should draw the Armondism "I pity you"

White is almost always wrong, but he's right about Darren Aronofsky. Pi was awesome, Requiem for a Dream seemed sort of okay on first viewing but gets worse and worse every time I think about it, and The Fountain and The Wrestler are pretty much unredeemable piles of shit. I haven't seen Black Swan because three failures out of four attempts = you get no more of my time or money.

Requiem for a Dream was the worst experience I ever had in a movie theater. I did like Pi, but it had the sheen of "promising first-time filmmaker"

I think bringing up Battleship should draw the Armondism "I pity you"

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:05 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

Oh come on, he's gonna fucking LOVE Battleship.

either that, or hell use the review to praise GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra or a similarly awful action movie.

i was going to say, battleship will be "better than" whichever critically acclaimed film mildly questions american foreign policy.

http://www.nypress.com/article-22053-indecent-exposure.html

<3 u Armond

racist pseuds

Bening is all smiley in that photo with him, though.

Watched "Scott Pilgrim" again the other night, and really really enjoyed it. Still haven't seen Black Swan but will probably do so today...

"For years now, Hoberman hasn't been able to stand the heat of the New York Press' competition. "

This is like an epic diss track.

Yes, racism motivates Schwarzbaum and Hoberman. They pretend to be hip and ladylike...

J. Hoberman pretends to be ladylike?

Their fit of public indecency brings pettiness, sour grapes—and their privilege—into the open when normally it never affects public perception of the critical ranks.

I notice he doesn't mention his Greenberg dis at all.

uh this basically seems like ppl are castigating AW because he didn't simperingly kiss butt but presented kind of honestly?

yeah, i dunno. to me it reads like an arrogant asshole sucking his own dick (note mixed metaphor). failing to take a joke, getting petty and bitchy about it, and lavishing praise on the only person with the "wisdom" to acknowledge his own incredible importance. horrible, horrible piece of writing.

uh this basically seems like ppl are castigating AW because he didn't simperingly kiss butt but presented kind of honestly?

― zvookster, Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:55 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

commencing eye-roll sequence