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I know I'm really late on this, but Armond White is back
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I know I'm really late on this, but Armond White is back on RottenTomatoes and that can only mean great things.

Remember the shitstorm he and Chris Chan's brother caused over Toy Story 3 not getting the perfect 100%?

Can't wait for his incredibly retarded but fascinating review on Civil War, which will most certainly be a great read on 5 different levels of irony.

Armond White thread.
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>>69024037
How hard is he going to tear Civil War a new asshole?
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>>69024082
can't wait
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I love his reviews because literally every single one (even when his opinion lines with the majority) has this undertone of "Everyone is a libcuck retard except me". And then I read about how abrasive he acts IRL and seriously wonder if he has a personality disorder or something. What a fascinating man.
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>Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

Based gay nigger, he's the hero we needed.
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>His review of Superman V Batman
I love this man
My favorite is when he reviews a very well received movie and actually gives it a glowing review, but the majority of the review text is him shitting on other well received movies.
You never know what to get from him
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A brilliant man that is basically a professional troll and a master baiter. His rants are the best.
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>MFW he got banished for 5 years
Fucking RottenCucks, at least he's back.
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Took 5 years but the savior is back
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>His "Me Him Her" review
He's the best
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He is the Donald Trump of film critics. The only unfiltered one that the establishment can't handle.

Make Critics Great Again!
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>blacks are usually uneducated
>Armond is Ivy League educated
>blacks are usually homophobic
>Armond is openly gay
>blacks are usually Democrat
>Armond is a Republican
>Armond's last name is White
>but Armond is black
His entire life is contrarian
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433246/batman-v-superman-culture-war-gets-mythic

Fanboys do not own the franchises of Batman and Superman movies, so director Zack Snyder went against the mob and dared to raise the genre to a level of adult sophistication in 2013’s Man of Steel, the most emotionally powerful superhero movie ever made. (Fanboys hated it.) Snyder’s sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice adds politics, bringing to the fantasy some contemporary, real-world concerns. This is not conventional comic-book allegory; rather, Snyder uses the figures of Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) walloping each other to give visible substance to social and moral issues, much as Greek tragedy does. He takes the wildest, Bizarro World fiction — of two superheroes turned super foes — and uses the premise to explicate our current dilemmas concerning power, principles, and divinity.

It helps that Snyder is also visionary, inclined to extravagant spectacle and gifted with a signature erotic touch. An early montage equates violence, wealth, loss, and grief through symbolic images of bullets, pearls, blood, and tears. It is witnessed by the young Bruce Wayne, a paranoid orphaned millionaire who misconstrues Superman’s involvement in the previous film’s battle that devastated Metropolis (and traumatized nearby Gotham City), and so he vows a vigilante’s revenge. With its legal-brief title, Batman v Superman reflects the confusion that pits secularists against believers, and the partisanship that inhibits national alliance. This tension is so visually amped up that the opposition of Batman to Superman feels revelatory: Man versus the god in Man.
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>>69024773
God bless the Gay Nigger King of /tv/
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Snyder’s opening sequences interweave the origin stories of these mythic heroes and their alter egos. What has become overly familiar through years of repetition acquires new dynamism — and new understanding — that particularizes and personalizes each wounded man’s suffering. Not only are these time-shifts audacious (movie marquees announce the 1940 The Mark of Zorro and the 1981 Excalibur — implying the evolution of history), but so is Snyder’s proposition about the nature of heroism and vengeance: Both stem from the way individuals react to and comprehend their experiences. Snyder’s thrillingly intelligent use of interior conflict and political antagonism vastly outclasses Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises — all noxious — which were bellwethers of our culture’s decline.

Fanboys prefer the Nolan films for their “darkness,” which emphasized the sophomoric, pseudo-tragic elements of the Batman graphic novels. But Snyder’s more adult treatment finds the material’s emotional core. This displeases the fanboy/hipster whose adolescent embarrassment about feelings was exploited through Nolan’s emotionless violence and post–9/11 nihilism. Snyder counters that cultural crisis and (through the script by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer) visualizes the millennial moral struggle as pop myth. His essential subject is mankind’s struggle to discover compassion as well as common obligation — or dare I use the non-political term: brotherhood?
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>>69024625
>He is the Donald Trump of film critics.

Donald Trump is popular.
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The pain of post–9/11 as reflected in Nolan’s Batman films was a paradigm shift. But fantasy cannot conscientiously be enjoyed Nolan’s way, without any sense of social, historical, or moral consequence. Snyder manipulates this new paradigm so that mankind’s sense of mortality is embodied by Batman, Superman, and their arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor. (All three characterization performances are, well, perfect.) When Superman’s motives are questioned, the skepticism and vilification create an antagonism between him and Batman that Snyder lays out as an ideological conflict and that Luthor exacerbates. Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and thus personifies the craven millennium) cynically whines about “The oldest lie in America: that power can be innocent.” He even threatens a senator (Holly Hunter) who heads an investigation into Superman’s guilt. Luthor’s obsession with Superman (“He answers to no one. Not even, I think, to God”) reveals envy that is unmistakably demonic; a development that coheres with Snyder’s spiritual-social vision of post–9/11 grief and desire for salvation. He creates the year’s first great movie image by examining Superman’s “divinity” when he is surrounded by Day of the Dead multitudes. The image echoes our current desperation regarding “populism” — and that’s truly audacious.
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>>69024891
TRIGGERED
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Among today’s outstanding American filmmakers, Snyder has an eccentric interest in the spiritual expression of his characters’ conflicts. From the erotic antiquity saga 300 to the anthropomorphic fable Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Snyder demonstrates a caricaturist’s knack for elaborating Good vs. Evil. It takes just such dreamlike moral clarity to reprove the Nolan trilogy’s chaos. Look at Snyder’s second high point: Batman’s nightmare of battling Superman plus his own enigmatic demons imagined as Stymphalian wasps. The scene spins agonizingly slowly (though not in slow motion), becoming ever more hallucinatory. It fuses comic-book imagery to the oldest Western myths.

In this age of petty Marvels, most comic-book movies merely perpetrate fantasies of power, but Snyder, enacting his personal aesthetic, braves a film that examines those fantasies. He boldly challenges popular culture’s current decay. Man of Steel was a magnificent, hugely satisfying response to what’s often missing in pop culture, and Batman v Superman raises more ideas without (yet) resolving them. An attempt to invoke other superheroes from the DC Comics stable, starting with Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, accompanied by tribal drums that recall Snyder’s overawed feminist fantasia, Sucker Punch), ultimately goes unfulfilled. And Snyder, obliged to placate the Marvel hordes, lets a couple of fight scenes devolve into Avengers-trite turmoil.

Still, the equation of moral myth and contemporary political catastrophe marks an important advance. Snyder intends to resolve the conflict between commerce and art, power and morality. “Knowledge with no power is paradoxical,” one character says. “Man made a world where standing together is impossible,” frets another. With Batman v Superman, the battle for the soul of American culture is on.
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>>69024140
At the very least he's an arrogant asshole, but he's also well educated in film. A perfect mix for bizarrely fascinating reviews.
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In an interview, Snyder described Batman’s hatred for Superman as “finding reinforcement of those feelings in the media.” So Snyder employed a supporting cast of political pundits who expand Batman v Superman into a kind of meta-media commentary: Anderson Cooper, Charlie Rose, and Nancy Grace are among those crossing the line from TV news to Hollywood fantasy. They frequently, brazenly blur the distinction between fact and fiction, objectivity and venality, mendacity and truth. This has been going on at least since the 1990s, and it still is a problem for both journalism and Hollywood (Nancy Grace, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Dr. Drew Pinsky popped up last week in Midnight Special). Soledad O’Brien and Neil deGrasse Tyson also appear in Batman v Superman, along with Andrew Sullivan, seen shouting, “Every act is a political act!” That may be so (Snyder’s a sly dog), but pundits who don’t stick to their day-jobs lose credibility.
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>>69024773
>Armond is openly gay
He's also said he's a believer and routinely defends Christian institutions like the Catholic church. He's a living contradiction.
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>“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).”
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>You're an embarrassing doorman and garbage man.
>Fuck You
>I'm not drunk
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BIG
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He writes entertaining reviews, but nine times out of ten his opinion is retarded
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>My point isn’t to measure Paul W. S. Anderson against Martin Scorsese; that’s too easy–an almost unfair contrast of innovative imagination to uninspired convention.
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Nice, no movie will get a 100% ever again now.
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>>69025134
You have to go back
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>9/11 was over 15 years ago
>Armond mentions 9/11 4 times in a review of a comic book movie

pls never change
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>>69025039
BASED ARMOND
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B A S E D

F A G

http://www.out.com/armond-white/2016/3/24/sexiest-batman-and-superman-imaginable
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Literally contrarianism fusioned with fedora
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>>69025426
>The men of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice may not please eunuchy fanboys
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>>69024037
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>>69025196
No, Jack.

But really, I do think he's a contrarian. I think he gets off on aggravating people and going against the pack. The man lauds some completely dogshit movies (though he does disparage many are, in my opinion, unjustly well-received). He paints himself as this vanguard who is singularly capable of penetrating hidden-kino like "Jack and Jill", but maybe there's a reason every one of his peers called that movie out for being the total garbage it is. He views every film through a political lens, which is boring and dismissive and anti-art to me.

So yeah, fun and at the same time annoying to read.
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>>69025039
You can't make this shit up.
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>>69025426
>Grindr might match them, yet they’re initially mismatched which means that when they finally meet—and fight—it’s equivalent to a hate fuck.

>Their confrontations disprove the delusion that men cannot make love face-to-face, the same way men fight.

>Ignore all that Internet nonsense against Affleck’s casting; he’s a warmer presence than Christian Bale’s stoic Batman who, at best, seemed a selfish lover.

>And smoldering Cavill wears the Superman uniform like a second skin. Costumer Michael Wilkinson’s brocade Superman suit is successful fetish gear—textured fabric with sequin octagonals invite you to touch that thin line between drag queen and stud. Male intimacy in this film gives new meaning to the old phrase “iron fist in a velvet glove.”

>It is the most surreal dominance-submission dream in Hollywood history. But Batman v Superman is also a political allegory, using masculine sex appeal to examine America’s current political confusion. Zack Snyder’s comic book avatars are not for children.

Is Batman v Superman truly the first of the gay porn kino era?
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Armond White is great because he is a legitimately intelligent, well read and articulate man with an impeccable knowledge on the history of cinema who also happens to be the biggest snob and contrarian in the world.

He's the kind of guy that could write an article on how the sky is green and the grass is blue and still outsmart and out-maneuver anyone who disagrees with him with ease.

Looking forward to his insane rants on Civil War's review. I hope he shits on Civil War a lot by comparing it with Batman V Superman
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>>69025525
What's the relevance of the last frame ("succ")? Or does my low irony level warrant you not telling me?
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Reminder he gave Jack and Jill a good review. He's the fucking best.
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>>69024037
>>69024359

Why was he banned?
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>>69025989

fanboys got mad
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>>69025989
People got booty blasted that he gave toy story a bad review.

His avatar review or his boyhood review was my favorite
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>>69026159

Wasn't Toy Story 3 a complete shameless rehash of Toy Story 2 with cheap nostalgia thrown in? Never watched it but that's what I heard frome people.
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>>69026282
It's actually a pretty good and touching movie

But Armond White complete btfo'd it anyways with his crazy rants and tangents. You have never seen people as triggered as those faggots were when their precious 100% score went down.
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>>69025707
If you have to ask, you will never understand or reach the upper echelons of irony.
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>>69026282
Yep. But don't say that in public otherwise you'll end up hurting their feelings.

Not a terrible movie at all, but very much a rehash masked by emotional and nostalgic manipulation.

Hm... wait a sec...
>sequel
>rehashes a lot of plot points from previous entry(s)
>masks it through fan pandering and nostalgic manipulation
>critics praise it as "fantastic"
>normies eat it up
>produced by Disney

Gee... I feel like I've seen this trend recently with another film...
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>>69026409
>>69026159

If this is the reason, it really opens pandora's box doesn't it?
Who decided his review was "unfair" and how do you decide such a thing?

Is it because he gave a bad review to one of Pixar's baby's? Because Pixarfags are absolute trash.
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>>69026566
I think the supposed reason why he got banished was some technicality that I forget. But we all know the actual reason. Rotten Tomatoes was just trying to avoid the thousands of enraged people saying that their site is a joke with Armond in it.
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>>69026566
Any time someone has an honest opinion, it's a fair review. It sometimes seems like Armond is really just trolling - he'll choose a massively popular or unpopular movie and say the opposite of everyone else.

That said, while those reviews might not be fair they make you think, and quite frankly no movie deserves 100% anywhere.
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>>69024800

>Man of Steel, the most emotionally powerful superhero film ever made

That is some tasty bait bro
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>>69024037
He states things clearly and rationally why he gives the scores he does.

People just hate him for not just following how the mob votes.
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>>69024140
drop some juicy greentext on armond IRL
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Does he get off to being contrarian? He has some weird reviews
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He's not a troll or an edgelord, he just appreciates movies in a different way to most people

People should be thankful that we have critics who think differently and don't follow a consensus
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>>69027143
>Does he get off to being contrarian?
That's his thing, yeah
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Regardless of whether or not he's doing it to be contrarian, he significantly raised my movie knowledge
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>>69027143
>>69026710
>>69025614
>>69025559
>>69025451
>>69024773
He's literally not a contrarian if he agrees with the consensus more than he disagrees with it

He just champions and denigrates unexpected films because he approaches film criticism from a completely different perspective to the majority of critics
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>>69027534
He's a contrarian on most films that matter.
Even when he reviews popular movies well, he makes the body of his review be about shitting on other popular movies, or talking about liberals
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>post-9/11
>nihilism
>hipster solipsism

What am I missing?
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>>69024279
His BvS was 10/10. Fucking shat on Marvel for the garbage it is and acknowledged the true brilliance of Snyder. He's going to destroy Civil War, I can already see his contempt for Black Panther as a character and Spiderman's memeing.
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>>69027600
>He's a contrarian on most films that matter.
News flash, your taste is dogshit
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Is he actually gay? I've never found proof, just heard people say it.

I half suspect the emphasis on homoeroticism in his reviews is just another way of being provocative.
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>>69025148
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>>69027753
Obama
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>>69027951
He writes for Out magazine and is open about it.
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>>69027951
http://www.out.com/armond-white

>Zac Efron has about twelve costume changes in Dirty Grandpa (Schwinging might have lost my count of a couple) and each one brings back the fun of playing with paper dolls. Best is his birthday suit which is memorably exhibited when Zac’s character, Jason Kelly, escorts his horny, recently widowed grandfather (Robert DeNiro) to a spring break party in Daytona Beach. Delaying his upcoming wedding, Jason smokes some crack, gets lose and shows off his tanned, gym-sculpted frame. Zac does the Macarena and shows off that rump, cleaved like a smile.
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>>69027183
I'm not sure if he truly believes what he says, but it.s true that there's a need for critic that think differently.

You should use a few critic's opinion, that you turned out to agree with more often than not in the past, if you want to use that to judge if you should see a movie.
Looking at a consensus like RT only gets you so far, you're bound to miss films you would have enjoyed otherwise.
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>>69026514
IT WAS A "GREAT" FILM ANON AND ALL MY FRIENDS AGREE WITH ME YOU'RE JUST A BASEMENT DWELLER
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>>69028206
I'm not even gay, but this kind of writing is gold, it should be encouraged more if only for its comedic effect.
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Is Armond the most entertaining man on the internet? He has never been anything short of fascinating to me.
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armond white is the fucking man. only film critic i bother reading anymore.
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What happens if he gives civil war a good review?
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>>69028468
Then he's a contrarian
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>>69028468
The fact that you'd even ask that question proves your a retard who knows nothing about Armond. He's consistently disliked every Marvel film he's seen.
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>>69028468
I actually hope he does, because if he does, that means he's gonna go on a really long tirade about how the movie is giving a clever takedown on liberals or some shit like that. He'll also make mention of all the other Marvel movies that are terrible and awful.
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>>69028582
But what if he wants to be contrarian against himself?
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All cape hatred is good cape hatred.
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Has 9/11 ever not featured in one of his reviews?
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>>69025989
shit taste
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>>69028676
He's not a contrarian, he form his own opinions based on his experience and knowledge of films. People who use labels like "contrarian" out themselves as moronic plebs who base their opinions on what the average person believes. They're the same bandwagoning mouthbreathers who think films need to be "fun" or "enjoyable" to be good.
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>>69028884
he's a retard with no taste
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If fanboys don’t cream to Batman’s dream sequence (“It took me to the lie, a beautiful lie” Wayne says), grown-up gay men surely will. In his dream, Batman wears a leathery mask, hiding his identity, while he is taunted by wasplike creatures and forced to acknowledge Superman’s equivalent virility. This goes beyond Guy Ritchie’s boy-boy teasing in last year’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (which co-starred Cavill). It is the most surreal dominance-submission dream in Hollywood history. But Batman v Superman is also a political allegory, using masculine sex appeal to examine America’s current political confusion. Zack Snyder’s comic book avatars are not for children.

So glad gay niggaz from outer space is back!!!!
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>>69028884
>People who use labels like "contrarian" out themselves as moronic plebs who base their opinions on what the average person believes. They're the same bandwagoning mouthbreathers who think films need to be "fun" or "enjoyable" to be good.
HE
GAVE
TRANSFORMERS
A
FRESH
REVIEW
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>>69029265
>Fresh review

slit your throat
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He didn't like Tree of Life. He's now my favorite movie critic.
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>>69024082
Considering how contrarian he is, he may unironically like it just because everyone expects him to dislike it.
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>>69027843
I bet GI Joe 2 and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen are goat anon.
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>>69029265
>>69025451
>>69025559
What's your point, to be honest? You're a dipshit and so are the people who accuse Armond White of contrarianism. If you read enough of his reviews, you'll see he is consistent with himself. He doesn't bash a movie because it's popular, and he doesn't praise a movie because it's unpopular. He dislikes in movies populism, shallow sentimentality and liberalism, the smarmy sort of shit Twitter, Plebbit and Tumblr eat up -- the kind of shit Disney are producing. He likes movies that fly in the face of that, which Transformers and Jack & Jill, in an unusual way, do, because they don't pander to -that- crowd, and instead please the common man, which is demonstrated in the box office. It's deeper and more complex than that, obviously, but this sets up a conflict that makes it look like he's deliberately out to bait the nu man and feminist Internet intelligensia when he isn't. Actually, they're just naturally opposed because they're disingenuous, snide and ugly, and Armond White is beautiful, majestic and honest. He relishes the tension, and often blows the liberals the fuck out. Armond is GOAT. Fuck off back to Plebbit.
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>>69030310
But i'm already here.
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>>69029767
Nope, that has never happened. Armond's contrarianism has hardened into consistency. There's nothing about Civil War that different from the other MCU movies - and if there is, he'll hate it more.
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>>69030310
But why praise Transformers 2 and hate Transformers 1 and 3?
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>>69030310
>He likes movies that fly in the face of that, which Transformers and Jack & Jill, in an unusual way, do, because they don't pander to -that- crowd, and instead please the common man, which is demonstrated in the box office.
So The Avengers and the Iron Man flicks are good?
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>>69030310
>If you read enough of his reviews, you'll see he is consistent with himself
He really isn't. He said Batman v. Superman was a good movie because of all the excellent and insightful play with the hero fantasy and the classic super hero concepts while also shitting all over Birdman.
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>>69029767
>>69030617
People expect him to hate Civil War, so it's possible he wants to subvert the expectations.
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>>69030691
But Birdman wasn't fantasy and wasn't even about superheroes. Totally different in genre and themes to BvS.
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>>69030685
What you've done there is you've taken one sentence out of the context of what I've said. Iron Man and Avengers are precisely the kind of smarmy liberal dross Armond White loathes, and it's why he excoriates Marvel at any opportunity. They're bringing that smarmy liberalism to wider audiences. The people in this thread who think he might up and subvert expectation by giving Captain America: Civil War a positive review must be mentally handicapped, quite frankly.

>>69030671
I haven't read his Transformers 1 or 3 reviews, and I can't find them. I'd appreciate a link. I remember it was a big thing when his Transformers 2 review hit, but actually, it's far more ambivalent than it appears. He praises the technical accomplishment above all else, as well as Michael Bay's sense of pop culture and self awareness. He does the same in Transformers 4, but that's an even more ambivalent review. People really just don't understand what Armond writes.

>>69030691
I haven't seen Birdman to know if you're right or wrong. It looked smarmy, snide and liberal, and if it won an Oscar, it was assuredly all of those things. BvS is none of those things. It's over ambitious, but it's undoubtedly a right wing movie. The only surprising thing, I'd say, is that Armond White really, really dislikes Christopher Nolan, but that's because he feels his movies are overly technical without artistic vision.

Nothing shows a lack of consistency, or that he's contrarian. He doesn't contradict his own right wing, anti-liberal views. You can predict pretty accurately how he'll feel about what movies.
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>>69025016
>28%
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>>69030310
>>69031673
very good posts
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>>69025090
>lie about saying that
>go on a radio show and claim the New York Film Critics Circle is racist and kicked you out because you are black
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>>69026704
He didn't have a job for a while, after the paper he was writing for either folded or he stopped working for them.
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>>69031673
>Iron Man and Avengers are precisely the kind of smarmy liberal dross Armond White loathes
IM wasn't liberal.
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What are some more essential Armond reviews?
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>>69035677
none of them, because he's a tasteless hack.
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>>69035822
He's pointing as us...
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>>69035677
Toy Story 3
Jack and Jill
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>>69035895
did he defend Jack and Jill?
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>Armond is a contrarian meme
lol, plebs always mad
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>>69035914
He makes it sound like a sophisticated satire about Jewishness and class. Maybe it is, but I have my doubts.
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>>69035991
he isn't, but his taste is still horseshit.
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>>69035999
so he writes professional fan-fiction?
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>>69035677
The Lego Movie
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>The Lego Movie > Snowpiercer
Duo Philip Lord-Chris Miller’s “Everything is Awesome” satire mocks the dystopia that Bong-Joon Ho turns into a humorless, absurdity. A cartoon for adults vs. a political allegory for children
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>>69036011
Ah yes I'm sure you are quite the cinematic intellectual yourself.
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>>69027534
So he hides his contempt for the popular movies and gives them unofficial rotten scores within his official fresh reviews?
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>>69036011
You're wronger than anyone else in this thread. Look at one of Armond's yearly breakdowns, and I'll bet you haven't even heard of most of the films he praises. He prefers movies that are artistic, accomplished and meaningful, with substance behind them. You've taken from the fact he'll say something positive about Jack & Jill to mean it's one of his favourite movies, and for that, you are literally retarded. It's your taste that is shit, and Armond points out the disingenuousness and hypocrisy of your kind.

>he said something good about jack & jill and transformers 2 but insulted avengers! how could this be so? contrarian! his taste is shit!
The kinds of movies Armond really cherishes are movies like Garçon stupide, Divine Intervention, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, etc -- movies you haven't even fucking heard of, you absolute pleb, and it's from that perspective he's judging your crudely made, emotionally barren movies parading as meaningful, and instead praising movies that at least know they're fucking garbage and do something with it.

You'll go, then, I don't doubt, from accusing him to enjoying garbage to accusing him of being pretentious, and you'll not see he occupies both simultaneously, as he can enjoy a fun romp for what it is, and he can enjoy majesty, beauty and vision, and that's what he does in his reviews. It's you who's got shit taste because you enjoy vacuous shite while thinking it's good and imagining you've got sophisticated taste.
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>>69027534
>>69027600
>>69036432
He flips a coin, heads positive review, tails negative review.
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>>69036662
he's a nigger, so no
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>his review glorifying the homoerotic undertones in Batman V Superman

I hardly ever agree with him, but he's by far my favorite critic to read.
Film critics these days always seem like they actively try to avoid having a personal voice in their writing, and Armond takes it to the fucking extreme as if to compensate for them.
It's fantastic.
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>>69036734
You're the garbage, faggot, and you came out of your mother's dumpster garbage compactor twat, you brain damaged little cretin.

>>69036824
It must be a new and frightening experience for you who are used to imagining feral africans rough riding girls you'd never have a chance with personally -- a mad mingling of hate and power fantasy -- to see now a black person who is intellectually your superior. What will you do when you're left alone in a quiet room with nothing but your inadequacy and inferiority?
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>>69036928
So he's basically the Trump of film reviewers?
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>>69036662
>>69037015
You are too intelligent to be replying to these plebs. Go and do something more worthwhile
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>>69024037
relevant post
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>>69037826
>that Captain America: The First Avenger quote

You can call him a contrarian, but he was 100% spot on with that one.
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>>69024625
>Trump
End yourself.
Trump is a deluded narcissist beyond hope and doesn't have 10% of his eloquency.
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>>69029767
>Armond liking petty Marvels
>Right after he watching based BvS
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>>69039105
holy shit
Marvelfags really are redditors
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>>69037826
Don't know if I should hate him or love him
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>>69025081
God damn it, I wish I had half the turn of phrase which Armond has. He can make a john sound appealing.
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>>69035895
>>69036186
Where do I find his reviews? Does he have a website with links to them or something?
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>>69039306
You should spend less time here, faggot, you seem to be losing it; my post had jack shit to do with either marvel nor that other website you seem to frequent and cuck yourself with
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>>69030310
>tripfagging on /TV/
>code is CUNT

Do I need to sag more?
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>>69029767
Marvel has poisoned its well by creating a cinematic universe. No mater how good the new movie is it still exists in a world of badness.
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>>69039580
>google Toy Story 3 Review
>bunch of articles from triggered fanboys

kek, just google it dude, right now he works for the National Review and that's where I read his stuff, but I don't know where you can find his earlier work.
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>his Resident Evil : Afterlife review
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>"Giddily succinct in ways literal-minded folk will not appreciate, From Paris With Love is an object lesson in the realities of what the Obama administration once euphemized as "man-made disaster." " ‐ New York Press
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>>69039661

>literally telling people to spend more time on reddit
fuck
off
now
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>>69033089
>image.jpg
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>>69040145
Are you even able to read?
Jesus Christ just end yourself
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>>69026886
>everything I disagree with is bait
Name one that did it better.
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>>69039929
>people care this much about one of the two or three reviews that dare not love their precious Pixar flick

Pixarfags are a literal cancer.
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>>69024082
Because Armond is a real critic and film buff
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>>69024037
He is a Gay Nigger, though.
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>>69041149
Yet he's more of a man and has more balls than 95% of "male" film critics.
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>>69041202
Being contrarian requires no balls. I do enjoy his reviews, though.
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>>69025989
Refused to be bankrolled by Disney
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>>69037826
>Liked Owls of Ga'Hoole, Resident Evil, Scott Pilgrim, Jonah Hex, FANTASTIC FOUR 2, Death Race, Transformers, GI Joe

Christ
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>>69027951
He's not

Mad internet boys slandering his name
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>>69041323
>be contrarian for years
>nobody bats an eye
>dare to give negative review to one, little old Pixar film
>EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MINDS!!!
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>>69028293

But those things are true. My friends all do agree it was great, and you really are a basement dweller.
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>>69041475
Ga'Hoole, Pilgrim and arguably Death Race are good tho, whats your point
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>>69030310
>>69031673
>CUNT is back on /tv/

Hello bby how have you been??

I used to hate you for the longest time for blowing me the fuck out in countless arguments since I came here years ago. You're one of my favorite posters now. I've seen the light. Haven't posted around here as much but nice seeing your fine ass ;)
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>>69041644
that most of those movies are really bad lmao
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>>69037826
>that avatar review

how can someone hate this man?
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>>69037826
lel dat resident evil review
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>>69031673
>Contrarian means contradicting yourself
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>>69037826
>likes Jonah Hex
His opinion is literally forever invalidated here
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>>69041666
>replying to your own posts because nobody else will
wew, lassie.
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>>69041733
but they arent?
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>>69040260
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>>69041475
read why he liked the faggot
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>>69024205
Faggot
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>>69042612
Yes most of them are because "hurr durr the public are shallow hypocrites" or because he can project his own political views onto them
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>>69042827
>i didn't read them but i pretend to: the post
he knows what the movies are going for and judges them from that point. dont be gay
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>>69024122
neither can I bby
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>>69036662
Absolutely blown the fuck out.

Good to see someone who doesn't spout memes as an argument.
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>>69039206
You mean that garbage joint made 100% for trailers?
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yay 4 CUNT!
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