http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428730/star-wars-demystified
>TV-show runner J. J. Abrams brings his game-changing banality to the Star Wars franchise. He follows the template as originated by Lucas and appeals to adolescent thralldom, keeping the brand recognizable. The Force Awakens is paced better than Star Wars’ other dismal episodes, yet it’s even more impersonal. There’s no visual or spiritual excitement, as there was even in a cynical sci-fi product like Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Abrams is making product to salute the cultural and economic status quo. With Star Wars, product has not only taken the place of art; it has replaced myth.
STARFAGS BTFO, JJ ON SUICIDE WATCH
>Everyone knows the Star Wars series peaked with that confrontation in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) between Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and the villain, Darth Vader (played on screen by David Prowse, but voiced by James Earl Jones).
>The “Luke, I am your father” revelation resonated because it expressed how George Lucas, like his movie-brat peers (Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Spielberg, De Palma) struggled with Sixties generational ambivalence. A father–son antagonism resounds through all their films as a reflection of Vietnam-era student protests and the privilege of those draft-dodging filmmaker progeny. Even Lucas, in his escapist outer-space mode, iterated the era’s unease, culminating in Luke’s fear and symbolic castration.
>It’s seldom realized that the movie brats’ films are essentially conservative, politically speaking. Yet, in the new millennium, filmgoers’ superficial political awareness makes them nostalgic for Star Wars to maintain the gullibility of their youth. Longing for innocence is all that the insipidness of the latest sequel, The Force Awakens, signifies. When director J. J. Abrams re-stages that primal moment, he does it for brand recognition, but so unimaginatively that it feels hackneyed. Even though it’s meant to be painful for rabid Star Wars fanatics, it lacks mythological significance. Star Wars fans are not required to think metaphorically, so any Oedipal meaning is lost (although there is something of millennial ingratitude in the new filial confrontation), just as the original scene’s impact was ignored in subsequent sequels.
THE KING
>The new characters in The Force Awakens are banal. John Boyega’s black superhero, Finn, updates and restyles Han Solo’s jockish heroism — a cultural evolution that evokes Obama (“I was taken from a family I’ll never know”) for global commercialism. Boyega is appealing-enough to surpass the series’ previous racial tokens, Billy Dee Williams and Samuel L. Jackson, but he is subordinate to the new gallantry of Daisy Ridley’s Rey, who embodies the female empowerment denied to Princess (now General) Leia. Rey “leans in” when she grips the Skywalker light saber, so that feminists can rejoice at the Disney Corporation’s calculated political correctness (although Rey’s competence with weaponry contradicts liberals’ convenient attitudes toward gun control.)
>By now we all should know that there’s nothing of adult interest in Star Wars. Even when it premiered back in 1977, the sci-fi premise and comic-book characters were eclipsed artistically by the visionary spirituality of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Yet the continued prominence of Star Wars signifies something that is politically serious, if not dreadful: The great renaissance of American filmmaking during the 1970s and its regeneration of film culture (when movies were seen as a vital means of approaching and understanding contemporary experience) were doomed by Star Wars’ pseudo-imaginative, non-campy rehash of escapist junk. Now, the rebooted, politically empty The Force Awakens suggests a boot stuck in the rear of film culture’s flabby remains.
fucking finally, now I will post this in every SW thread
BASED
BASED
BASED
THE KING HAS SPOKEN
SPREAD THE WORD
HONORARY WHITE MAN
This review reads like so many of his others, you could call it a glib facsimile
He's completely right.
>>63777395
this man read way too far into the motivations and inspirations for various elements of a blockbuster about space magic tbqh
he gave too much credit to the OT
>Rey “leans in” when she grips the Skywalker light saber, so that feminists can rejoice at the Disney Corporation’s calculated political correctness (although Rey’s competence with weaponry contradicts liberals’ convenient attitudes toward gun control.)
Literally who
>The Force Awakens is a bread-and-circuses carnival (disguised as “The Rapture,” a young videomaker told me) that is intended to keep millennial audiences docile. Maybe that explains the film’s unavoidable sell and both the media’s and the public’s desperate genuflection. Love of Star Wars is not love of cinema, just consumerist habit. The Star Wars Generation — that unfortunate rabble primed to see these films at the precise moment they were becoming culturally responsive — are not necessarily the audience the movie brats deserved; they’re spawn of Baby Boomer affluence and narcissism. Star Wars turned their natural curiosity and wonder into self-satisfaction, artificially dependent on media and merchandising (a tragedy also evident in Apple and Pixar evangelism).
>TV-show runner J. J. Abrams brings his game-changing banality to the Star Wars franchise. He follows the template as originated by Lucas and appeals to adolescent thralldom, keeping the brand recognizable. The Force Awakens is paced better than Star Wars’ other dismal episodes, yet it’s even more impersonal. There’s no visual or spiritual excitement, as there was even in a cynical sci-fi product like Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Abrams is making product to salute the cultural and economic status quo. With Star Wars, product has not only taken the place of art; it has replaced myth.
EXTRA: ARMOND'S ORIGINAL REVIEW OF STAR WARS IN 1977:
>prosaic trash for illiterate, insensitive, and unintelligent . . . suckers, dummies, ass-holes, morons, perverts
WE ARE NOT WORTHY
>>63777456
>"Luke, I am your father"
CONFIRMED CASUAL
>>63777602
go back to reddit, tumblr, or whatever board you came from, you're clearly a newfag here
alternatively LURK THE FUCK MOAR
These threads are golden. The fact you fools think he's even critiquing the film just proves how dull you are.
>Even when it premiered back in 1977, the sci-fi premise and comic-book characters were eclipsed artistically by the visionary spirituality of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
>were eclipsed artistically by the visionary spirituality of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
>spirituality of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
>Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
>spirituality
>Taking this man seriously
lol
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
i used to think that lucas was a flaming liberal faggot but then i remembered he was too autistic to form a political opinion
>>63777629
cry more reddit
always delivers the good
>>63777629
When was the last time you saw CEOTTK?
Have you considered it might be an inability or deficiency on byour part that has led you to not recognise this in them?
>>63777673
Cry more? How old are you? Can you actually articulate yourself or just speak in memes?
>>63777713
0/10
I can sense the tears from your butthurt
>>63777694
Are you retarded? How does the "spirituality" of that movie have anything to do with what he's talking about? It doesn't. It's pseudo intellectual garbage.
Oh look, another Armond White review where he goes against the stream just for the sake of being different, while offering no actual criticism other than muh racism or muh consumerism. Armond is the worst.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
>mfw this is actually a great, totally on-point review
holy shit and they said he was a troll
>saying Prometheus is better than Star Wars
Based as fuck.
>>63777629
I was entertained by the movie but Armond is right. It's nothing more than an incredibly pervasive late capitalist marketing scheme. Politically inert and devoid of soul, myth and mysticality.
I would let him fuck my wife tbqh
ripped apart star wars 7 and le ebin geek culture too, with some good retrospective commentary on star wars as a whole
pretty good
>>63777395
dude I don't actually review the movie just use it's themes to make politically charged insults lmao and make statements without ever backing them up LMAO
>autists on /tv/ actually think this guy is a competent reviewer just because he goes against the grain
>>63777629
>h-he's not critiquing the film guys
>Ad Hominem: his understanding of Close Encounters differs from the majority
Hello reddit.
>>63777755
It's simply an adjective to describe a quality present in Close Encounters that is absent from SWTFA (juxtaposition). No need to get your titties in a twist senpai because his review is fine
>>63777831
in many ways prometheus+(except the first part) is also better than alien
>>63777858
Oh? What the force awakens needed was spirituality? I can totally see that. You definitely don't sound like a raging lunatic.
>>63777395
This guy's got a vocabulary in him without looking like he scoured through the thesaurus ("a glib facsimile")
I can respect that
Why does it feel as if people like him try hard to use big words all the time?
Like they go out of their way to communicate a thought in the most complex way they can come up with
nice "i hate everything and talk like a /pol/ poster" gimmick
>>63777883
>Reddit calling people reddit
lol back2reddit, reddit
>>63777848
>movies don't have any politics around or in them
Stop trying to discredit based Armond with your bullshit argument
>people really going against Armond on this one
He has spoken. Stop it.
>>63777909
I dont agree with him but if anything he uses pretty basic simple words
is english your second language?
>>63777909
>being this btfo that you samefag the thread
>>63777928
/pol/yps aren't event remotely as learned and well read/spoken as Armond.
>>63777909
>big wordsFor you
>>63777493
fucking BASED
>Armond White, a film critic who writes about movies for National Review Online.
a literal fucking nobody.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
>>63777604
>posts literally "if I use big words to prove my point I'll look right!" the reviewer
>\tv\ is braindead enough to think this is right
So does this finally answer the question that \tv\ is by far the most autistic fedora-tipping on 4chan?saying something along the lines of "hello reddit" only proves how bad and cancerous this board truly is
Armond must love bathing in the tears of fanboys.
I like how he regaled in the irony of sjws clapping on Rey holding a lightsaber when they themselves are probably one of those parties behind anti-gun laws.
>/tv/cucks appreciate the opinion of a nigger
ayy lmao
>>63777395
Based Armond
>>63778001
>>63778008
>>63778018
hello reddit
>a New York City-based film and music critic known for his provocative and idiosyncratic film criticism, which some have characterized as contrarian.
of course you fucking faggot had to use this guy's review.
tip: everybody else loves it.
>>63778018
this
irony at its best, considering how they love to trash Boyega
Why did the cucks at RT ban him from the tomatometer? Even no-name vlogger schmucks like Chris Stuckman get in, why not him?
What's up with all the fanboys on here. Star Wars hasn't had a good movie since you've been alive.
>>63778018
you ain't any better than us /pol/
honorary whites are real
>>63778052
>so out of the loop you actually had to google his name
just fuck clear off to wherever you came from
>>63778018
>cares about other peoples opinion.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
Is this man ever wrong? I don't think so.
>>63777886
It's not that it 'needed' it but its attempts at the esoteric or mystical (The Force) have collapsed into a cartoonish satire of itself. Lazily represented to reap money from manchildren who grew up fascinating over Star Wars.
Though I suppose you wouldn't understand (or even try) since you're already bent at throwing insults because your beloved franchise has holes in it. Time to grow up.
Fuck him. I lost all respect for him after he praised American Sniper. Total buffoon.
>>63778052
>everybody else loves it.
Not really. Even on leddit I've seen numerous critical posts saying it's way too safe and too much like ANH.
>not agreeing with armond reviews
>pretending the internet is your movie hugbox where everything is fun and not liking it is heresy
>in 2015
I wish reddit would leave
>>63778064
he gave a bad review to Gravity or 12 Years a Slav, I think
WE WANT THE BBC
BIG
BLACK
CRITIC
>The “Luke, I am your father” revelation
That's not even the fucking line. Armond get's basic details wrong in the second fucking paragraph. Are you serious? Why the fuck do you cucks worship this fucktard?
>>63778064
How do they get away with literally banning him just because fanboys don't agree with his opinions?
>>63778099
>cares about anyone
We can meme all day son, but when are we gonna fuck?
>>63777956
What he meant to say is his prose is overly self-righteous and comes as incredibly pretentious.
>In 2009, following an eruption of controversy on the Rotten Tomatoes website over White's negative pre-general release review of District 9 (which ruined its 100% rating up to that point).
see, this guy just writes stupid shit in order to gain clicks. He's an old irrelevant and bitter guy.
>>63778047
hey 4chan!
>>63778148
its paraphrasing
Sometimes I think there are mostly new people on /tv/.
>>63778008
you are so hilariously buttblasted
did you actually think the movie would be good? or hell, even have a shred of originality
>>63778222
90% of the people here right now have never been here before this movie came out.
>>63778222
Most people on /tv/ right now have no idea who Armond White is.
>HURR IM A FUCKING STORMFAG RACIST WHO HATES THE NEW STAR WARS FOR POLITICAL AND RACIST REASONS HOW CAN I LEGITIMIZE MY CRITICISM TO LE BLUEPILLED SHEEPLE I KNOW ILL LATCH ON TO THE FIRST NO-NAME ATTENTION-WHORING HACK WHO WRITES A MILDLY CRITICAL VIEW OF THE MOVIE TO JUSTIFY MY INSANE RACIST, ANTI-SEMITIC, SEXIST BELIEFS TO ANONYMOUS STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET
FUCK YOU PIECES OF SHIT!
Armond is on point when it comes to black movies. His Precious and Straight Outta Compton reviews are GOAT
Would anyone else get turned on if Armond was in the room when you were fucking your gf. He could review the lovemaking.
>>63777883
Hello Reddit!
Seriously, only newfriends trying to fit in say that shit. Stop it. Reddit faggots are too busy shitting up Reddit to come shit on top of your pile of shit. You little shit.
Who would win in a fight?
Mark or Armond?
>>63778300
This
>>63777493
>although Rey’s competence with weaponry contradicts liberals’ convenient attitudes toward gun control.
BASED ARMOND DOES IT AGAIN
>>63778300
You've overstayed your welcome reddit
>>63778369
Armond would kick his shit in
man, I totally missed that Armond had to go full right wing nutjob after he lost his jobs at reputable publications
>>63778076
>implying sane person in this world would want to be a member of the cuck race
delusional
>>63778300
I don't really like Armond generally but his review is fucking spot on.
>>63778300
hi tumblr
>>63778400
I agree no one wants to be a nigger
>based critic placing swfaggots into gas chambers
Kek
>>63778222
theree are right now. this place is curerently full of tourists just here for star wars
>>63778452
Who are you quoting?
>>63778052
>needing to look up Armond
please go home, leave this board, there are so many of you force awakens newfags that the quality of posting is significantly diving.
>>63778300
>>63777395
wew lad
>>63777886
it needed some kind of esotericism, yes, thats a crucial aspect of the context of the force and the magic of the original trilogy.
Face it, you're quicker to criticise the review than actually engage rationally.
>>63778300
just trigger my impotent rage up
>>63777493
>>63777456
>>63777395
FUCKING SAVAGE, Jesus Christ. I was sold when he was tearing J.J. apart for shitting out products rather than art, but then he just kept going the absolute madman.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
Armond is pretentious criticism personified, but he has a really strong argument here. Particularly how he rails against he populist inertia of recent times. You've all seen it. It's what you're yelling about when you complain that something is "reddit". When something is for the sake of being recognizable rather than for any meaningful reason.
Fuck you, Armond.
>"Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control."
- Simon Pegg
>"A sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times? I said, 'do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?' He burst into tears. I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities"
- Alec Guinness
>"I don't think they are making [comic book movies] an elevated art form, I think it's still just Batman running around in a stupid cape.. It's for kids, it's adolescent in its core. "
- David Cronenberg
>"I don't want to see or make films about super heroes that fly around in spandex and a cape solving the problems of the world. I think it's fine for children, children of all ages by the way, but it's not for me."
- William Friedkin
>“They have been poison, this cultural genocide, Because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and shit that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.”
- Alejandro Iñárritu
>"Superman makes me vomit, Batman and all of that. That whole empire... this religion... It is so important that superheroes suffer... I don't give a damn, I shit on the United States."
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
>"To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence"
- Alan Moore
>"It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!"
- Hayao Miyazaki
>"The movies are for children but they don't want to admit that... There is a small group of fans that do not like comic sidekicks. They want the films to be tough like The Terminator, and they get very upset and opinionated about anything that has anything to do with being childlike."
- George Lucas
>>63777395
He didn't even review the film. Here's the short version:
Fuck YOU librulz.
I imagine you can write that to any movie you want.
>>63778175
>there was an eruption of controversy over someone having an opinion about a movie
what the fuck LMAO
>>63778525
>Armond is pretentious criticism personified
Why bring this up if it has nothing to do with what you're actually going to say?
>>63778064
Because he gave a negative review to Toy Story 3. I'm pretty sure that was the one that got him kicked off RT.
PASTA HAS BEEN MADE. SHARE THIS DELICIOUS PASTA.
>>63777604
>EXTRA: ARMOND'S ORIGINAL REVIEW OF STAR WARS IN 1977:
>prosaic trash for illiterate, insensitive, and unintelligent . . . suckers, dummies, ass-holes, morons, perverts
HOW CAN ANYONE ONE MAN BE SO BASED????
WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE ARE BLESSED WITH
>prosaic trash for
>illiterate,
>insensitive,
>and unintelligent . . .
>suckers,
>dummies,
>ass-holes,
>morons,
>perverts
ALL HAIL
>>63778537
based as fuck
>>63778589
what a bad goy
>>63777456
>culminating in Luke’s fear and symbolic castration.
What?
>>63778537
I am showing you the superhero syndrome and your participation in it
--Frank Herbert
>>63777493
>a cultural evolution that evokes Obama (“I was taken from a family I’ll never know”) for global commercialism.
HEHEHEH I love White. Cheeky nigga.
>>63777551
He does look ashy doesn't he? Like an old alpha gorilla or a crack smoking nigger.
>>63777395
>so that feminists can rejoice at the Disney Corporation’s calculated political correctness
FUCKING BASED
>>63777493
Wait...What the fuck happened?
Armond quit trolling or something?
This is over the top..but at heart it's fairly accurate.
Jesus.
>>63778559
He's a gimmick contrarian who deliberately dropped negative reviews on things that were being universally praised, and likewise gave glowing reviews to turds
>>63778018
Reminder that Armond White is the only person that makes redditors go "fucking nigger"
>>63778576
>Taken with a grain of salt,
But more personal and significant.
>>63778632
His hand getting chopped off.
This is spot fucking on.
>product has not only taken the place of art; it has replaced myth
hnnnngh
>>63778683
So hands = male genitalia now?
>>63778018
He's OUR Nigger, motherfucker!
>>63778676
district 9 needed some criticism though, i mean i understand it was a fresh thing but looking back on it now with the added perspective given by blommkamp's later movies, there's a lot that can be dissected
>>63778679
This, it's amazing how quickly the left's true colors are shown when one of their supposed pets doesn't go along with the Narrative.
>>63778718
Everything is a penis in film. Except penises, those are guns.
>>63778670
it's sad and funny at the same time because it's true.
but he conveniently leaves out that Boyega nigger gorilla was cast for the VERY SAME reason.
>>63778680
Yes of course, we should always make sure to provide perspective on what we are talking about lest the children get the wrong idea. But wait, there aren't any children here.
>>63777493
This is the greatest review ever.
>>63778718
What is Only God Forgives?
>>63778141
Good. Those movies are shit.
>>63778800
It's a movie about being inside a vagina.
>>63778676
>"wahh wahhh why isn't he just writing "gud movie 10/10 i like it"
He's a critic. You don't even know what it is anymore, since 99% are just plebs and shills. Use your fucking brains and learn to think independently for once.
>I 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 was not criticism. And it was a kind of purposefully dishonest enthusiasm for product, not real criticism at all… He does NOT have the training. I think he simply had the position. 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.
>In mainstream media and the internet, most people who are writing about films are simply writing from a fan’s perspective instead of a truly critical perspective. So what used to be termed "film critics" now is almost meaningless, because you just got a free-for-all of enthusiasms rather than criticism.
>>63778679
These are the same people that will wish death upon you and your family for spoiling a children's movie.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
Holy shit atomic rekt
>>63778825
>Use your fucking brains and learn to think independently for once.
>proceed to quote verbatim from some asshole who isn't you
Very original, anon.
>>63778829
Is this legit? Screencaps for lels, please.
>>63778169
Yeah but that has nothing to do with the "bigness" of words. He's a pretentious fuck with a good vocabulary. He could probably cut that review in half if he spent the time on it, but for everything he wanted to convey it's a decent length.
Everyone's missing the end of the review
>>63777604
>Star Wars turned their natural curiosity and wonder into self-satisfaction, artificially dependent on media and merchandising (a tragedy also evident in Apple and Pixar evangelism).
ARMOND CONFIRMED FOR ANDROID, STEVE JOBS FUCKED IN THE ASS WITH RED HOT POKER
BASED
>>63778769
Stick to RLM reviews, bud. This one is out of your league.
>>63777395
It must fucking suck to be this smart. Everything in a movie has some sort of commentary, allegory, or political/cultural parallels made intentional by the director and is referencing the works of an earlier movie or director.
>>63778076
>Star of David on Ron fucking Paul
topkek, they might as well call Hitler a Jew
Also this everyone in this pic is either an asshole or degenerate, except Finkelstein.
>I get my reviews from a confirmed contrarian and eat his shit up completely and unironically
You cucks are pathetic.
>>63778987
>he hasn't been to liberal arts college
It has nothing to do with intentionality of the director. The references are there regardless of the director's goal. The author is dead.
>Love of Star Wars is not love of cinema, just consumerist habit
KING OF /tv/
KING OF /tv/
KING OF /tv/
>>63778950
I tip my fedora to you homie!
>>63779017
>confirmed contrarian
that does not imply his views are not borne in him and sincerely his
>>63779017
>his opinion doesn't matter because I don't agree with it
I can't wait for you and the rest of the faggots ITT head for the hills after the ebin Star Wars buzz has finally fucked off.
>>63777395
>I CANT THINK FOR MYSELF
THATS YOU /TV/
>>63779061
best girl tbqphwymf
>>63779060
>The references aren't real
Everything is built off of everything that came before consciously or not. I think it's certainly possible that an educated man like Armond White can tell what a film director is thinking better than they can themselves.
STICKY WHEN MODS
>>63779072
>>63779078
Cool original thoughts, kids. I have an idea of what Armond's opinions are on a given topic. I have NO idea what your thoughts are on anything, since you don't have your own opinions. Just because you pick up on someone else's contrarian opinions doesn't make you original.
>>63779069
>can't counter an argument
>l-let m-me use a meme to sound cool!
Pathetic.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
>>63777604
Holy fuck, I want his dick in my butt. What a magnificent specimen of humanity.
Based Armond blowin the fuck out of plebs
>>63779099
2ritem8
>>63779198
He's gay you know. Maybe you could bond over your hatred of plebs?
>>63779184
> I have NO idea what your thoughts are on anything, since you don't have your own opinions.
Did you accidentally attend a class on how to out yourself as severely mentally handicapped individual instead of seeing the movie?
>people unironically defending the status quo and commercialism
Ah the middle class. The only people who receive the least but believe they are getting the best deal from our system. Keep buying those vastly inflated houses just like your parents. Surely this poorly built house with no insulation is worth 400k, makes perfect sense
>>63779315
Tell it like it is, brother! THE FIRE RISES!
>>63779078
you will be waiting until months after the 8th movie is done then
>>63778365
>trying to fit in
>on a anonymous picture board
heeeey reddit
>points out flaws in new movie and culture
>/tv/ rallies around based argument
>redditors come pouring out the woodwork to say shit like >>63779184 because they can't handle being this BTFO
A nigger wrote all that?
>a black guy working for nationalreview
What sorcery is this?
>yfw tumblr culture is BTFO by black man
>>63779494
hello reddit
>>63778148
He misquoted a line by innocently substituting one word with another and that somehow makes his point moot? The line is fucking irrelevant. The point obviously went over your head if that's where you got stuck. Moron.
>>63779494
>>63779550
How fucking new are you
>>63779184
Here's an opinion or two for you. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a mediocre retread and you are a fucking faggot.
>>63779592
New enough to give you puppies.
>>63777832
The old leftist speech in art. If it ain't agreeing with my point of view, it is politically despicable. If it is commercial, it can't be artistic. If it is made to sell, it can't have soul. That's such a poor, judgemental vision of cinema. Armond White, as many other critics and filmmakers, is the kind of guy that reduces everything to the dumb duality he thinks he lives in. People in /tv/ only like him because he likes disliking things, as do they.
Force Awakens was just fine.
>Armond White hates it
CONFIRMED MOTY
>>63779654
It's not our fault you have shit tastes.
>>63779654
Good art is left-wing.
I wonder how did he decide whether to like it or not.
I mean he's an edgy contrarian, and with half people liking and half people disliking the force awakens how exactly do you pick whose opinions to disagree with?that being said i agree with him
The amount of posters who are claiming to not know Armond White ironically or otherwise is solidifying my opinion that capeshit and blockbuster franchises like star wars have thoroughly shitted up /tv/.
Knowing that I share a forum with people who willingly go to a theater to watch movies released in the year 2015 is disheartening.
For a while there it was looking up. I guess all the patricians eventually leave.
Wow
>>63777395
>better than Star Wars’ other dismal episodes
>empire strikes back
>bad
IN THE FUCKING TRASH HIS OPINION GOES.
>>63779654
>Armond White
>leftist
kek
>>63777395
>JJ ON SUICIDE WATCH
I hope his carcass is wasted on topping himself before someone gets the pleasure of doing it for him...
>>63779550
>a black guy called White
>>63777456
>The “Luke, I am your father” revelation resonated because it expressed how George Lucas, like his movie-brat peers (Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Spielberg, De Palma) struggled with Sixties generational ambivalence. A father–son antagonism resounds through all their films as a reflection of Vietnam-era student protests and the privilege of those draft-dodging filmmaker progeny. Even Lucas, in his escapist outer-space mode, iterated the era’s unease, culminating in Luke’s fear and symbolic castration.
Star Wars is a fun space soap opera, not a serious dramatic film
>>63779807
Empire Strikes Back is probably one of the most overrated movies ever made. It's the movie that the terms "meme movie" and "meme installment" were made for. I literally think that its revered status is a meme. At some point somebody made a nice case for Empire being the best Star Wars, then faggots wanting to sound smart too started saying it and then the opinion just caught on and rooted itself in the minds of the public. Prove me wrong.
And you're the affirmative so burden of proof is on you. Explain why Empire is a good movie. I don't dislike it but New Hope is GOAT.
>>63779771
/tv/ is the most popular board on 4chan.
It is full of normies.
>>63779869
>SW is stupid, like me
>>63778537
>best rapper
>2pac - nigger
>best film crtitic
>Armond - Nigge
>best actor
>Morgan Freeman - Nigger
>best president
>Obama - Nigger
>Best scientist
>Neil Degrasse - Nigger
>best athletes
>Niggers
When will whitebois admit that Niggers are the superior race?
>>63779900
Nice digits
>>63779914
Let me fix this for you:
>Rapper
Viper
>film critic
>Armond
>Actor
Ed Harris
>President
Not a freedom, I wouldn't know.
>Scientist
Science is the opiate of the neo-masses
>athletes
Opiate of the old-masses
>>63778537
Agree with all of them, but
>Simon Pegg
Fine, then stop making Star Trek movies.
>>63779914
but anon best president is trump and he's not even president yet
>>63779871
You sound like the most pretentious snob of all time. Fucking kill yourself you neckbearded faggot.
>>63779869
>don't criticize muh franchise's further descent into pleb territory
>>63778537
Also, Spielberg recently said that the superhero movie trend will end soon.
>The movies are for children but they don't want to admit that
Marvelfags BTFO
>>63779976
>pretentious snob
Eugh, I'm sick of people using this phrase. Like get a new defense people. Weak ass line.
>>63779735
No, it isn't. Good art is sophisticated, well thinked, well worked upon. It can be leftist. But it doesn't need to be. That's something all those Hollywood critiques who went to their french influenced cinema schools need to learn.
>>63777395
You can't argue with Jolee Bindo.
The dude is simply right.
>>63777456
>(although there is something of millennial ingratitude in the new filial confrontation
Fucking beautiful, the man is a wordsmith of the highest order.
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
>the face of my wife's daughter when she read Armond's review.
>>63780026
>thinked
>>63777493
>so that feminists can rejoice at the Disney Corporation’s calculated political correctness (although Rey’s competence with weaponry contradicts liberals’ convenient attitudes toward gun control.)
Feminists B T F O
>>63779976
wow nice argument you sure burned me with those hot opinions
>>63780053
>my wife's daughter
who cucked you anon
>>63778036
>armond has not introduced himself but has eaten off my plate twice without asking
Well, that does it, I'm watching BLACKED tonight.
>>63780248
I'd imagine that Armond actually wouldn't approve of that.
>>63780248
like every other night right.
>>63778036
>Critic so based, that the writer/director chosen to do the next Star Wars movie and write the third in the new trilogy too spends much of two days documenting his every move
How is this possible?
>>63777604
whoa where can i find these old ass reviews. I know he's always liked spielberg
>>63777883
>Calling people reddit while desperately and memetacularly clinging to the review of a black guy ice never heard of.
WEW.
He must have seen some fan film because it doesn't sound like he actually went to see Force Awakens.
>>63780375
>fan film
It's a good description of TFA, yes.
"b-but it was fun so what's the problem" - manchildren
>>63778036
"I prefer their cave man ads."
Blown the fuck out.
>>63780559
>no foulard
Into the trash, etc.
>>63779948
>Science is the opiate of the neo-masses
I would call you out on your bullshit. But since that's pretty much what "celebrity scientists" make it look like, I can't blame you.
Fucking ridiculous that a guy can still ride the coattails of reciting first year Science facts, and people worship him like he spent 50 years meditating on Mount Everest and can control the weather.
King of /tv/
The amount of /pol/ fedora tippers in this thread is disgusting.
As usual, he brings up some interesting points but then proceeds to hit way out of his weight class by attempting to assign some grander significance to the movie in question.
Nothing in this "review" talks about the actual film, and the only evidence I have that he actually saw it is that he knows the names of the characters (which you can look up with a simple google search).
This is the same guy who loved Jack and Jill, under no circumstances should you take him seriously. Ridiculous.
>>63778052
>known for his provocative and idiosyncratic film criticism, which some have characterized as contrarian.
He's literally /tv/ in reviewer form.
>>63780803
>ass status: fractured
>>63780803
Hey, when you make a ripoff of Episode IV there's no need to talk about the movie itself.
It's pretty hilarious because /tv/ hated this guy for literal years for his shitty opinions, until one day /tv/ eventually because just a cynical and all the shit opinions started to line up with his.
Is there anyone with more disgusting critical taste and a greater contrarian fetish than this monkey with a pen and /tv/?
>>63777395
Well looks like broken clock is right twice a day
>>63780834
>completely ignore the point where he loved Hack and Jill
>JACK AND JILL
Go on, please, continue you defend him and render your opinions on anything and everything utterly irrelevant.
>>63780863
I mean the guy is a hack, that doesn't mean he can't be right some times.
How can one man be so based?
>>63780863
/tv/ has become a place for borderline sociopaths who think schadenfreude and taking a piss on everything someone else values works anywhere in the real world outside the confinment of this board
>>63780881
You realize that you are /tv/, right?
>>63780916
>Transformers 1 bad
>Transformers 2 good
Top kek
>>63780932
What does that make you?
>>63780903
>if you agree with someones opinion once, you have to always agree with his opinion
are you literally and certifiable retarded?
>>63780903
>likes a bad movie and gets paid for it
You jelly?
At least he likes Coens and Ed Wright
>>63780930
He's the king
One might call the movie glib tbqh
>>63777395
>>63777456
>>63777493
jesus
>>63777395
Completely agree with this dude.
A visually good film with no proper substance in it.
>>63780992
It's more of a facsimilie
>>63780991
>ignored by literally everyone in this business except /tv/ readers
>king
yes, that's how influence works
>>63779914
>Neil Degrasse
>scientist
No. He only popularizes science, and is only known for that.
>>63778300
Relax, sonny. There's no need to be this upset over an opinion :^)
>>63780971
a visitor
>>63780916
He's a huge contrarian and as such a perfect idol for /tv/.
>>63781034
Tarantino talked about him in What the Flick just two weeks ago, same with Aronofsky, his autistic rants get posted on AVClub and Indiewire
He's really not that obscure.
>>63780916
>Transformers 2
>Terminator: Salvation
>Transporter 3
>Tyler Perry's anything
>The Nanny Diaries
>I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
>Fantastic Four 2
>Norbit
>Norbit
>Norbit
please face it, you wouldn't tell anyone in real life you like such movies. nor would he. this is literally just a sad facade.
>>63780053
>my wife's daughter
KEK
>>63778537
>>"Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control."
>- Simon Pegg
why didn't you listen?
>>63781116
Tarantino is obsessed with being criticised, so it doesn't count. Aronofsky has gone full shit, so who cares.
Never saw him mentioned on AVClub desu. Indiewire is pleb.
Yes, big echoes there.
>>63778923
>>63777493
While he's basically a contrarian just for the sake of it and you can at least have some arguments against his points, I'm completely fucking speechless.
Watch as no one is able to argue with this and just says ''he's a pretensious contrarian, ignore him''
Filthy dumb nigger scum been smoking too much crack.
