Opinions on Armond White?

Opinions on Armond White?

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Go to bed Armond

not very white is he

Black on the outside, white on the inside.

Contrarian reviewer, loves bad movies and hates good movies. Sometimes, though, he ends up making decent points, as in what in a good movie is lacking and what in a bad movie is actually good. But he tries too hard.

Only interesting critic left

Pretty based to be honest.

According to the 2012 Sight and Sound poll these are his top 10 movies of all time:

>Avventura, L'
>Intolerance
>Jules et Jim
>Lawrence of Arabia
>Lola
>Magnificent Ambersons, The
>Nashville
>Nouvelle Vague
>Passion of Joan of Arc
>Sansho Dayu

I don't get it. These are mostly famous and well respected films. He should hate them because he's a contrarian, right? Where's Jack and Jill and the Resident Evil movies?

A god amongst men.

Gay nigger

The armond white contrarian meme needs to die

Pretentious fanboy nigger who feeds trolls on Sup Forums

If I ever meet him irl, I'll buy him a beer

one of the most based niggers on this planet

If I ever meet him irl, I'll give him a blowjob

>getting pozd by armond the gay nigger
He's a good reviewer but steady on, fella.

1. contrarian for the epic luls
2. Sup Forums loves him because he's contrarian, and since he's contrarian that means that he loves DC flicks, and because of that, Sup Forums loves him more.
3. fat denzel washington

>he doesn't like the shitty movies I like so he's a contrarian

Armond is this picture personified.

I genuinely think he's a good writer and enjoy what he has to say. He's the only critic I consistently keep up with (besides RLM), and one of the few things I look forward to when a new movie with a lot of hype comes out.

actually he's a faggot nigger

He's a professional film critic, and therefore irrelevant.

this. I hate his conservative politics, but i'll be damned if he can't write a compelling review

i think he's obsessed with finding meaning where there is none

He's a contrarian that just happens to be a great writer so he can trick wannabe patricians into thinking he has worthwhile criticism

He's like those trolls that write essay on why bad movies are good. Like the BvS and MOS trolls.
It takes some skill to look at a trashcan and wrote a political essay about it.

there is always subtext even if even the creator doesn't know it.

He's just about eloquent enough to fool Sup Forums autists into believing that he's an intellectual.

Too good for this world.

I think he started out doing a meta joke on film criticism and consensus and at some point lost the joke and started believing it for real.

But he's not even that great of a writer, he has a great thesaurus and a knack for sitting through garbage and calling it great.

"Wannabe patricians" is accurate though. God forbid these kids read anything constructive or educational, they go straight to the most flagrantly anti-establishment critic and assume being the minority opinion means he's right.

He agrees with the Tomatometer over 50% of the time.

People are just mad he doesn't like the same shit they do.

He liked:

>Grown Ups
>Jonah Hex
>G.I. Joe
>G.I. Joe 2
>Battle: Los Angeles
>The Green Hornet
>Clash of the Titans
>Indiana Jones 4
>Transformers 2
>Death Race
>Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer
>I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
>Takers
>Taken
>Transporter 3
>Resident Evil: Afterlife
>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

He disliked:
>The Tree of Life
>There Will Be Blood
>Black Swan
>The Social Network
>Tangled
>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
>The Road
>The King's Speech
>Synecdoche, New York
>Transformers
>Toy Story 3
>Eastern Promises
>Stardust
>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
>Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
>Tales from the Golden Age
>Let Me In
>All Marvel movies
>The Dark Knight
>Mother
>The Hurt Locker
>Blue Valentine
>Up
>Hellboy 2

He also compared Hannah to Kick-Ass because they both have a young female character, thinks I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is a modern classic, thinks Live Free or Die Hard is the best Die Hard, compared The Road to Resident Evil, thinks Clash of the Titans is better than the LOTR Trilogy, prefers Transformers 2 to Transformers, and thinks CJ7 is deeper and more profound than There Will Be Blood.

Hes not contrarian, he just shares the truth

Actually he liked the Hurt Locker
nypress.com/the-hurt-locker/
He didn't like Zero Dark Thirty though

>dislike Stardust
Opinions on anything instantly disregarded tbqh.

>Likes Taken
>Dislikes The Dark Knight

Egregious critical skills there.

The whole "ignore context over content" style of film analysis is my least favorite type of criticism, and he's the worst of it.

Chuck and Larry can only be seen as a trenchant satire on modern sexuality and homophobia and whatever if you completely ignore every other aspect of it. Saying a movie is good because it vaguely touches on a theme you like while dismissing all the flaws of character, plot, and filmmaking is something I can never agree with

Stardust was fucking awful mate.

He dislikes movies that are copies of actually good films, themes already explored in a much better way, by much better directors.

But Fantastic Four 2, that was a winner

Precisely this.

marvel shill detected

he'd be kicked out of the establishment already if he were white

He was kicked out of the NY Film Critics Society years ago for heckling at their awards every year. Naturally he tried to paint himself as the victim afterwords

>t. 12 Years of Torture Porn fanboy

patrician as fuck, he likes The Iron Giant and hated Up

>invited to a formal event presenting awards to artists
>awards chosen by democratic voting process
>think it's ok to yell out and insult the award recipients
Only an Armond dickrider would think thats appropriate

Based. Honorary white. Haters are anti-art reddit video game shitters.

How can a negro be so based? Well, Sup Forums?

>using "contrarian" unironically

greetings, plebbit.

>He should hate them because he's a contrarian, right?

You didn't fell for the Mouse shilling, right? You were fishing for (you)s I guess

>only black when they act like them rappers on TV

But those disliked movies are mostly generic Oscar shit and babby's first art movies, all of which is painfully mediocre.

>Fincher
>Nolan
>PTA
>Bigelow

If you think these are legit great movies, well, you are a pleb or you're in your first 6 months of "being into movies."

There are a lot of good reasons these movies aren't on top-100 lists outside fedorafests like IMDB.

lol memes xD

Good taste.

>babby's first

Buzzword. Stopped reading there. Try again.

>it's an armond white says "post 9-11" again episode

Who?

You are a coward.

>not knowing The Master is the best movie of the decade so far
>not knowing Fincher is pure plebkino with literally no bad movies in his career

>>not knowing The Master is the best movie of the decade so far
You shouldn't be watching "movies" at all.

tries too hard when I just want an opinion on a film. it's like he needs to rub in our face that he's got an extensive vocabulary and he's black. several times he has said his critics are just racists.

You fools couldn't come up with any praise for movies like TWWB and Synechdoche except that they have some artistic aspirations with long takes, sparse dialogue, etc., which is enough for a teenager to think they are remarkable.

To even point out that he shits on TDK, Fincher, and Hurt Locker just shows you can't discern generic Oscar shit and a pale imitation of a Michael Mann movie for teens and manchildren from good films.

White is right here.

How dare he be black with an extensive vocabulary. You're racist.

The King of Sup Forums

>White is right

isn't it always?

These.

>haters are anti-art
>""""""based armond""""" liked Resident Evil series that are LITERALLY videogame movies.
>IN HIS WORDS: "W.S Anderson’s taste for the kinetic excitement that gaming has in common with cinema inspires him to turn gaming conventions into idealized pop myths"
>Where's the quote from?
moviefancentral.com/servo/blogs/armond-white:-paul-ws-anderson-is-better-than-paul-thomas-anderson

That's right. Resident Evil Afterlife is better than The Master because he thinks The Master is too cynical about religion.

Why? Because he's a gigantic devotedly christian nigger faggot that hates art which contradicts his beliefs.

A Meme Man.

He's at his best when tearing apart "black" Hollywood movies that white reviewers are too scared to criticize, e.g. 12 Years A Slave, Precious, Straight Outta Compton

The older you get the more you realize that the entire mainstream film culture is just a meme fueled sham and Armond is in fact correct about most things.

This post proves that Armond's cocksuckers don't know anything about film or film criticism.

I still go back to his Norbit review every time I get sad.

>Actually he liked the Hurt Locker
Even when he agrees with the consensus his opinion is terrible.

But Norbit is great.

>Auteur director elevates degenerate source material to the status of kino through incredible cinematic technique.

>Box ticking hack cynically emulates old hollywood studio epic in order to garner acclaim from unsophisticated audiences.

If you haven't grown out of PTA yet then you should not be here. He is the post-nolantino stepping stone. Sad part is that most of this board is so cowardly that they will cling to him for the rest of their pathetic lives.

He uses movies to cloud-gaze, rather than constructing actual critiques.

He is an excellent writer who tends to spew tangential shit.

Intentional or not, he is usually a contrarian voice, and it's the only reason he has any recognition at all around here.

This is pure troll. He is just making fun of PTA for touching on religion for a second time and failing miserably again.

>reading his john carter review
>says if a new star wars was made it would pander to fanboys and just be references to the other movies
>fast forward to present day
>it happens
ALWAYS RIGHT

He's a great filmmaker.

Keep crying though.

What "old hollywood studio epic" does The Master steal from?

>He's a great filmmaker.
Thank you 16-24 year old

t. someone who hasn't watched Resident Evil Afterlife.

I guess having blatant continuity breaks in editing is "kino" eh?

>grow out of
>unsophisticated
>nolantino
>cowardly
>pathetic

Well baited. Didn't go too far with the buzzwords, but Armond is a little to divisive to have believable supporters.

Not an arguement. Still a great filmmaker.

Cry. More.

>everyone who disagrees with me is just trolling
This is a legitimate sign of autism. I'm not just using that as a buzzword.

If you're serious, your taste is legit garbage.

>He's a great filmmaker
Not an argument.

Can't refute it? I'm not surprised.

>there are people in this thread who are too pleb to see the merit of purposeful contrarianism

Prove he's a great filmmaker first. :^)

>le PTA isn't the best popular director alive meme

Stick to baneposting friends, this is never going to take off

contrarianism = shit taste

no if, ands, or buts about it.

Now go buy your $35 Jupiter Acending Blu-Ray.

Intelligent while being genuinely unpretentious.
He seems to have what so many "critics" lack these days: A real love of film.

>I guess having blatant continuity breaks in editing is "kino" eh?
There is cinematic technique beyond the memetic formalism employed by PTA and his ilk. Kino is cinema with soul. Adhearence to the continuity meme (obsessed over by neckbeards and manchildren by the way) is hardly in the deciding factor in that department.

t. Too retarded to get the point

PTA is the video games/baneposting of critically acclaimed mainstream directors.

>Le classic greentext what someone didn't write to assert their point for them.
youtube.com/watch?v=caKcJ9Jllfc&t=16m49s

Hilarious. I tried to play a drinking game to it once and almost got drunk off the first 15 minutes.

Then it was a boring slog for the next hour and a half. Terrible movie even to laugh at.

Does Sup Forums just pretend to like this guy? I know Sup Forums is mostly hipsters but even they can't agree with most of this.

>ad-hominem

>dismissing all the flaws of character, plot, and filmmaking is something I can never agree with

that's because you're a pleb

I don't agree with his positive reviews but his negative reviews are all spot on.