What's his fucking problem?
>>70678517
He's pleb filter incarnate.
Armond White is the only worthwhile critic writing today. The one voice of reason in a sea of frauds, cowards and plebs.
His piece on The Sopranos was genuinely terrible, but I have no other problem with him.
Armond cares less about the movie itself than what it's existence means in the grand scheme of things. What it tells us about the state of cinema nowadays, and thus what it tells us about the present world.
He's less movie critic than historian, sociologist, philosopher.
>>70678622
doesn't he think the transformers franchise is some how "art"?
>>70678652
And there is nothing wrong with this. Of course it upsets the children who want the products they identify with to have the highest number possible on the rotten tomatoes plebscore meter.
>>70678579
> Armond White
> voice of reason/only worthwhile critic writing today
Which one, anon?
>>70678671
>doesn't he think the transformers franchise is some how "art"?
>This poster probably eats up the shit of frauds like Villeneuve, PTA and Inarritu
You have been well trained by your meme masters.
He wasn't bought by Disney, that's his problem
>>70678696
>Torpedoed his career because he would not bend his ideals and support the fraudulent masturbation of shit like Selma and 12 Years a Slave
How is there anybody who does not respect this man?
>Armond White
>is black
How contrarian can you get?
>>70678579
>sold out and wrote a gay pandering puff piece for bvs
Hes a hack and a confirmed fraud now.
>>70678791
>I was too souless and infantilized for BvS so that means everybody who was qualified to appreciate it is inauthentic.
>>70678720
way2meme
>Chris Pratt haunts fanboy wet dreams in Spielberg’s dino franchise
>How many youngsters will see Chris Pratt in Jurassic World and deposit his image in their spank bank? One of pop culture’s dividends is the additional pleasures contained within innocuous merchandizing (ask Andy Warhol). Jurassic World is neither good or bad enough to be camp — its predictable action scenes are limp enough to call “damp” — but Pratt’s He-Man image as dinosaur roustabout Owen is the kind that firms-up any man’s resolve.
>Pratt’s Owen wears a leather utility vest over a denim shirt cuffed at his elbow to expose his sinewy forearms. His torso is cinched into dark pants that puff slightly at the hips, roomy enough to contain his strong haunches. And at the appropriate moment, Owen/Pratt strides forth carrying a rifle for his fight against a gargantuan dino-hybrid, the Indomitable Rex. It completes the virile image.
>The Jurassic World script doesn’t allow Pratt the personal charm — the wink — that Harrison Ford brought off as Indy, hero of many adolescent boys’ dreams. Pratt’s eyes are gentle, yet his stout-thewed crouch and voluptuous trapazoids overwhelm this formulaic movie — and Bryce Dallas Howard’s shrill, vapid Park supervisor. She’s unappealing as Owen’s love interest. Maybe a lesbian critic could try justifying her cold acting but who can say what hetero guys who see Jurassic World put into their spank banks? I bet it’s Owen.
http://www.out.com/armond-white/2015/6/10/jurassic-dreams-chris-pratt-haunts-fanboy-wet-dreams-spielbergs-dino
>>70678768
> He praises Jack and Jill
> Dismissive towards The Dark Knight
Why should we respect this man?
>>70678878
You support capeshit now? Thats not what we taught you, iqlet
>>70678948
The Dark Knight is culturally cancerous while Jack and Jill is not.
>>70678788
>Armond White
>He's not an oval edible nut-like seed (kernel), growing in a woody shell, widely used as food
>>70678982
>Armond White
>he's not sold in hardware stores and applied to walls
he's a gay republican who think he is white
>>70678977
The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises are easily Nolan's worst. I see no problem with bashing them
>>70678977
>>70679144
How is TDK bad? Are you just being contrarian?
He says the opposite of what everybody else says so he can get attention. He's too contrarian for /tv/ and it is a relatively popular meme to agree with his asinine opinions.
>>70679187
I didn't say it was bad, I said it was Nolan's worst.
>Hugely overrated
>Scenes without the Joker are insanely overshadowed by scenes with the Joker, making the movie very inconsistent
>Ho-hum action scenes
>Deadpan artistic direction
>Muh exposition
>Cheap political parallels when the Patriot Act was a big deal, veiling it as deep and thought-provoking
It does some things well, but overall an inferior movie to Batman Begins, which is aite
>>70679315
>He says the opposite of what everybody else says so he can get attention
And it's just a coincidence that 95% of the time what "everybody else" says is wrong and Armond is on point?
"everybody else" considers fucking marvel capeshit to be a fun time at the movies.
>>70679144
you ignored jack and jill
are you willing to admit that in your opinion anyone that likes Jack and Jill and hates TDK has good taste?
>>70679422
Jack and Jill hasn't harmed cinema at all, if Armond wants to laugh at it then all the power to him. TDK on the otherhand as done measurable damage to the medium and society at large.
>>70679381
>95%
That's a stretch. You can't say he's a good critic just because he hates (the popular) superhero movies. The guy is a fucking hack who unironically likes Zach Snyder and Adam Sandler.
>>70679506
Your job as a critic isn't to rate the influence of a movie
It's to determine whether its good or not
If you think Jack and Jill are good then you are an idiot or contrarian
I can see how you think Dark Knight is mediocre but to say it's bad, you are also being a contrarian
>>70679548
Keep in mind hes rating this as they came out, not 3 years later
>if Armond wants to laugh at it then all the power to him
So just admit he's a pleb that says anything to get clickbait
>>70678926
If you don't appreciate and actively seek out homoerotic content in cinema then you are a disgusting pleb who doesn't belong here.
>>70679548
>Your job as a critic isn't to rate the influence of a movie
Don't tell Armond what his job is. He has always focused primarily on the social/political implications of cinema.
>>70679570
No Armond is the most patrician man writing about cinema today. Finding Adam Sandler funny doesn't take away from that. If he picks up pleb points for liking Sandler then the rest of the critical community gets far more pleb points for supporting shit like The Revenant, 12 Years a Slave and Gravity and still Armond comes out on top.
>>70679634
>No Armond is the most patrician man writing about cinema today. Finding Adam Sandler funny doesn't take away from that.
>finding a shitty movie good makes you a good critic
>just ignore him liking shitty movie, its just his opinion bro
k Armond
>>70679634
>Armond is the most patrician man writing about cinema today
He isn't you pleb >>70678956
>>70679667
Let's be real here. Sandler is only shitty in your eyes because you have been programmed to think so by your meme masters. In reality Jack and Jill isn't actually any worse than Spotlight or 12 Years a Slave. Armond cuts right through the memes, and with a modern generation raised exclusively by memes obviously people are going to get upset.
>>70678517
He's /tv/ irl. A try hard contrarian asshole who no one likes.
>>70679790
You and Armond seem to know a lot about memes
