It's Dylan's Trump album, a brilliant warning to cancel culture. https://t.co/F7WI73CMqu @bobdylan @realDonaldTrump #RoughandRowdyWays #MurderMostFoul @billboard— armond white (@3xchair) July 24, 2020
“Murder Most Foul” offers a cultural and moral history lesson that Black Lives/Antifa don’t know, a lesson that the movement’s enablers — those desperate, still agnostic Sixties liberals — conveniently disregard. That’s why even Dylan’s devout followers are in denial about the obvious contemporary allusion in “Murder Most Foul.” It is clearly a Trump song, an epic poem that summarizes the self-annihilating resentment amassed in the anger of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Consider how Dylan’s “Key West (Philosopher Pirate)” song references pirate radio stations — the alternative media we all long for in the wake of Silicon Valley’s shadow-banning conservative speech.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
I ... don't know who to root for in this round.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Uh, wasn't "Murder Most Foul" pulled from the vaults? Was it even recorded after Trump started running? I thought he cut most of this record in 2013.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 26 July 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
“Murder Most Foul” is significant to me. Dylan’s troubadour sorrow is in touch with our own, it feels like a song for this moment
but “the self-annihilating resentment amassed in the anger of Trump Derangement Syndrome”, “the alternative media we all long for in the wake of Silicon Valley’s shadow-banning conservative speech”...fuck off
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 July 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
I said the soul of a nation has been torn awayAnd it's beginning to go into a slow decayAnd it's 36 hours past Judgment Day
― Dan S, Monday, 27 July 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Play Ben ShapiroPlay Bari Weiss
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 27 July 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
from Pitchfork review....
“The size of your cock will get you nowhere,” he grumbles to a sworn enemy, who might be death itself, in “Black Rider.”
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 July 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
How Taylor Swift's Folklore album leads the BLM/Antifa Folklore Wars. https://t.co/eYNyPtueDM @taylorswift13 #Folklore pic.twitter.com/HqSuEGljM2— armond white (@3xchair) July 29, 2020
A Bob Dole conservative might be surprised that anodyne romanticism can be so threatening, but conservatives today had better beware of the dangers presented by the Folklore War and its deceptive consensus. Consider Folklore the 1619 Project of pop music.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
even by his low worst standards that's lazy stuff
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
this is funny? i guess? also sad, and dumb.https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/antifa-films-25-movies-that-turned-generation-into-nihilistic-anarchists/
― ian, Friday, 7 August 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
Gus Van Sant’s homoerotic version of academic class war between Boston Southies and Cambridge preppies turned a Horatio Alger story into a Howard Zinn movie.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 August 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
Vertigo - "Hitchcock’s most obsessive love story became a how-to manual for “people who are not sure who they are but who are busy reconstructing themselves and each other to fit a kind of social ideal.”"
come on
― Dan S, Friday, 7 August 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
vertigo undoubtedly a huge influence on the antifa generation
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 7 August 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
The Harry Potter films (2001–2011): The dullest, most inept franchise in Hollywood history was not harmless; it served to subvert C. S. Lewis and Christian Sunday School parables
i'm shocked this is the worst he can think to say about harry potter - seems like a line is missing. was he in such a rush that he seriously couldn't squeeze an obama dig in there? something about "teaching kids to worship a charismatic magician-huckster"? jfc do i have to write this guys stuff for him?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 7 August 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
He remains 100% correct re: The Dark Knight, but you know, a broken clock.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
he's more like a thermometer that insists he's a clock
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 August 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
Gladiator (2000): Another comic-book movie for those who never read Gibbon, Virgil, Horace, Socrates, Plato, Ovid, or Steve Reeves.
"those who never read...steve reeves."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
“A Steve Well-Reeved: A Memoir”
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 7 August 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
staggering number of bad takes in one place i think.
― ian, Friday, 7 August 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
New board description?
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 7 August 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
Movies were never his first love.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
Comments are surprisingly good. This guy gets it.
Brian Silenus6 days ago (Edited)Antifa syllabus?! LOL. This reads like every incel, 8chan, right wing edgelord’s favorite movie list.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
hilarious list and commentary
― solo scampito (mh), Friday, 7 August 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
Javier Bardem as the “hero” in No Country For Old Men is a pretty out there take
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Friday, 7 August 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Picked up the New York Press anthology and it's a really good reminder, for those who only know of National Review-era Arm0nd, why he was worth following in the first place. But ... has his bio always included books that, so far as I can tell, don't exist? He's credited with Make Spielberg Great Again, which sign me up, but doesn't look to be on sale or even connected to a publisher at all. A previous bio promised a full retrospective anthology of his own writings too, at one time.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 September 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
an essential book to buy right now. MZS and Godfrey's work is equally indispensable.
the Steve Reeves line has me reeling, that comes really close to Norbit "transcending racial categorization"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 September 2020 06:51 (three years ago) link
Aaaaaand a reminder of what's become of him now: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-political-decoy/
From the album’s opening party vibe, Gaye offers a masterful blend of harmoniousness, the thing that the angry Left forbids. The album’s lack of harshness, its soft rhetoric and tenderly voiced petitions, do not match today’s tantrums — they contradict the violence and stubborn unwillingness to compromise or express empathy and compassion. What’s Going On is non-militant whereas the Black Lives Antifa movement has proven destructive. It is necessary to call out this BLA alliance in order to clarify the usurpation of black American social and spiritual aspiration by the plainly political, even satanic aims of social domination. This is key to understanding how Gaye’s entreaty opposes today’s inflammatory, anarchic rhetoric.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
uh
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
what's going on
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
I love this guy:
Nominate Van Morrison not Dr. Fauci for Entertainer of the Year. https://t.co/oUjjulrvlg— armond white (@3xchair) December 3, 2020
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Needs a pointless out-of-nowhere comparison to really "pop" as an Armond tweet imo. Something like "Van Morrison shows us bravery, and how the left's blind worship of Fleetwood Mac is anything but"
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
damn wait i just looked at the original tweet not the retweet, looks like armonds got me covered LOL
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
I will say this for Armond, he’s one of the few film critics my kids can name becz his reviews get trolled so much on social media.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
My kids have actually asked me, “What’s the deal with Armond White,” which is one of those parenting questions you’re never really ready for.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
you haven't had the talk yet?
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
the goat. still one of the greatest living film critics
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 December 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
All I read are the links that get posted in this thread, meaning I only read him at his worst. With that in mind, he barely strikes me as a critic right now--he's got an axe to grind, and with many films his response is a thousand percent predictable, never good.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 December 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Fincher makes a god out of a Hollywood super-hack in the same way that the media praise Steve McQueen, Jordan Peele, J. J. Abrams, Alfonso Cuarón, Megan Rapinoe, Kylie Jenner, Colin Kaepernick, Taylor Swift, John Legend, and Shaun King. Millennials can’t tell the difference between artists, athletes, intellects, and influencers. So Mank inflates a story about the obscure co-screenwriter of a film that has no impact on the culture, turning it into a Netflix pseudo-event.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/review-mank-david-fincher-facile-fascism/
― jaymc, Friday, 11 December 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
(Poll?)
Saying that Citizen Kane had no impact on the culture is the most insane thing he's said yet.
― Ape Hole Road (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 11 December 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
It's allegedly Trump's favorite movie (but we know it's really Bloodsport)!
― Ape Hole Road (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 11 December 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
i feel lightheaded after reading that... like im floating
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 11 December 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
not sure i can handle the increasing intensity as Armond approaches the singularity of Pure Challop
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 11 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Citizen Kane not having impact on the culture is...I know, roll your eyes and move on. The logical construct, I suppose, is that it had a tremendous impact on the course of film history, therefore film has had no impact on the culture.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
the full review goes hard on the idea of Mank being a film made by and for millenials
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 11 December 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
Quoting witticisms already well known to every film buff is the same as name-dropping, a sign of Millennial triteness where nothing is sacred except one’s own ego.
lol, God forbid you use an actual quote in a biopic.
― jmm, Friday, 11 December 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
those people who quote people - is nothing sacred for them?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 11 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
Doesn't mention Mindhunter when summarizing Fincher's career (House of Cards, yes).
I think what I hate most is what seems to be his starting point so often: a film can't just be okay--if it's not good or great, it has to be The Worst Thing Ever (fascistic, bogus, confused, ignorant, etc.) Even Kael, who has come to define hyperbole for many people, wrote middling reviews of films she neither embraced or dismissed--half her reviews were like that, picking out a few good things in otherwise marginal films.
(He does say "Citizen Kane was a game-changer — it’s what birthed film noir among other innovations" a little farther down from the "no impact" line, so--putting aside the crime of using "game-changer"--I guess that was meant as a sarcastic jab at Fincher.)
― clemenza, Friday, 11 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
I won't click on Armond's reviews anymore out of fear that hits might equal even a fraction of a cent making its way into his pocket, but that passage quoted by jaymc is some kind of masterpiece of whatever it is that Armond does.
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 December 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
("trolling" is probably the word I was looking for, but like "reviewing," Armond seems to be only doing this on his own crazed, inscrutable level)
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 December 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link