Better pundit than filmmaker
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 01:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 June 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
fuck yeah!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
I, like most Americans, refuse to participate in La La Land.— armond white (@3xchair) June 4, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
Here's to the dreamers.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
* Armond runs to pay phone to call ICE *
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (2222 of them)
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
how many non-complilation books has he authored? just the Tupac?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
god Armond "ruining" the 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for Get Out is still so fucking funny to me, such a classic Armond move
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
That seems to be the only one, yes.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
alas my two friends who thought Get Out sucked are not critics.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Ned, still taking it in?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
he had me through The Landlord, at the v minimum
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
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.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
the personal and ingenious movies of Griffith, they transcend racial categorizatoin.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
24: Redemption
― nomar, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Eddie Murphy has recent films?
― jmm, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
I've moved towards taking it on board.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_(2015_film)
57 positive reviews?!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
I'm more sick of Rotten Tomatoes than I am of Armond.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
xpost Perhaps that should have been called Julian's Complicated Situation.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
I've never used it.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
I prefer meat critic.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
reactions towards against the RT score
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
wither on the vine
I see what you did
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
lol damn that was unintentional
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
i saw Pirates at a drive in a few weeks ago and had a blast, fuck the tomatoes
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
i read that as meaning the Polanski film w/ Matthau
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
All I have left to look forward to is Armond's Detroit review.— NOT RECONCILED (@NickPinkerton) July 30, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
hell yea
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
Here you go:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450145/kathyrn-bigelow-detroit-romanticizes-riots-equates-detroit-riots-ferguson
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 4 August 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
By his standards, this is actually a somewhat tempered take.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 4 August 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
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"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
wow
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450637/nea-resignations-good-riddance
Refute the Obama revolution that “transformed” America into an elitist state of empowered celebrities. It had filled the government with uncompromising progressives — wealthy ones at that — who would rather see the system collapse than compromise their egotism. Let freeloader grant applicants squirm, or let Hollywood, Broadway and the mainstream media — our new czars — get off the government tit and totally fund themselves.
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Saturday, 19 August 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
On the fall of Armond
http://hazlitt.net/feature/critical-failure
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
Good read, thanks
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Sunday, 20 August 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
Level headed in every way. The diametric opposite to Armond today.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Q&A with James Toback smartest, most honest director in America. https://t.co/f9GWEiPVSE— armond white (@3xchair) October 23, 2017
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 October 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
armond white is what happens when you're a creep to those around you and subsequently rejected and forgotten, i.e. the perfect mark for the alt-right.
― nomar, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
excellent point.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
well times, Armond https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/22/james-toback-sexual-harassment-writer-director-accused
― Estella, Damm (stevie), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
well that's why he revived a 17-year-old interview.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
There might be a perceptive, level-headed critic out there who can cogently make the argument that a filmmaker can be a great artist AND still be a sexual predator. But Armond isn't that critic, and Toback isn't that filmmaker.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:37 (six years ago) link
I think Armond could, but Toback no fucking way
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Armond's timing and wording dare you not to assume that being a great filmmaker and being a sexual predator go hand-in-hand.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Armond White can't, because his entire POV is untrustworthy, it's a reaction to the people who rejected him for being a creep. sorry you can't call female film critics cunts anymore, Armond!
he follows 17 twitter accounts, and he's probably the only guy on Twitter who follows Saint Etienne, Bryan Ferry, Curt Schilling, Mike Cernovich, *and* Scott Adams.
― nomar, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link