>In this sense, La La Land continues in the inauthentic mode that Millennials inherited after the indie film movement sank under the wright of its own narcissism. This is often the hidden subject of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films — specifically his quasi-musical Punch Drunk Love. But La La Land also imitates the snarky genre pastiche of Quentin Tarantino’s neo-noirs. But Chazelle’s overture to road rage is unconvincing because it lacks profanity, violence, and aggression — the realistic urban-trash texture that, as filtered through junk movies, inspired the undeniably proficient Tarantino, the first film-buff director to idiotically repeat film history. Chazelle is false to his own premise; he lacks both Tarantino’s idiosyncrasy and Demy’s Franco-American sophistication. (La La Land’s attempts at matching color schemes offend the memory of Demy’s visually harmonized emotions and his high aestheticism in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. This junk is more like the now-forgotten silent atrocity The Artist.) Plus, the charmless Stone and Gosling and the smug John Legend sing and dance without grace. How awful is all this? La La Land makes one long for a Quentin Tarantino musical.
How will nu-Sup Forums ever recover?
Easton Gray
>In this sense, La La Land continues in the inauthentic Stopped reading there.
Blake Rivera
It's insane just how right he is
Whiplash was a shit, and it's embarrassing seeing the director have such success
Daniel Green
>I use big words but don't really say anything
I haven't even seen La La Land
Jace Robinson
Jesus christ how many buzzwords can he fit into a paragraphy
Zachary Williams
>After the troubled Jonah Hex project which Neveldine-Taylor wrote without directing, their gallows humor finds the basic Faust element in Ghost Rider. When John Blaze reneges on his deal with the devil, Neveldine-Taylor trace his madness to our sped-up, digital-age culture. Tarantino exploits vengeance but Neveldine-Taylor explore the ramifications of the “Lust to punish” in today’s berserk world–a criminals-and-monks allegory for how media mavens and private citizens act vengefully without humility or compassion. Neveldine-Taylor’s moral clarity seems paradoxical given their hyperbolic, deliberately trashy-looking style but there’s old-fashioned satisfaction to the way they connect modern nihilism to a classic theme. Concerned with the preservation of human values, they express them when an angel Moreau (Idris Elba) enlists Blaze to protect Danny (Fergus Riordan) from the satanic clutches of Roarke (Ciaran Hinds). They work through contemporary decadence the same way medieval artists did. Like the Crank movies, Gamer and Jonah Hex, Spirit of Vengeance satirizes purgatory.
tl;Dr he thinks Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance is a cinematic masterpiece.
He's either trolling you or legit insane
Kayden Reyes
Fucking goslingstonefags btfo, when a musical is too gay for a gay man u know its bad
Asher Bailey
>But La La Land also imitates the snarky genre pastiche of Quentin Tarantino’s neo-noirs. But Chazelle’s overture to road rage is unconvincing because it lacks profanity, violence, and aggression
>2 sentences in a row starting with But
>this guy probably has a english degree
Noah Jones
Millennial genocide when?
Julian Allen
I haven't seen Spirit of Vengeance, but Neveldine and Taylor are flick-geniuses. Crank movies and even lesser films like Gamer were always great social and philosophical commetaries on top of being insane over-the-top trashy action movies
Henry Baker
>I lack basic reading comprehension
Carson Brown
b-but reddit
Adrian Evans
He didn't say anything of substance, he doesn't discuss films on merit at all. All he does is rant about politics and resort to buzzwords. I guess that's why Sup Forums likes him so much, since they too are incapable of intellectual discussion about film
Leo Brooks
>armond hates it Confirmed for being a good movie
Evan Rodriguez
Musicals are a form of mental illness
Juan Russell
He writes like he's stringing words together and hoping the reader understands what he means instead of making a cohesive argument.
Owen Robinson
This nigger also said green lantern and jack&jill are intellectual masterpieces. Do you believe those to be great movies, because if so you're a pleb
Aiden Long
desu he's panned a lot of "instant modern classics" that people forget about in months. He's right about The Artist, no one gives a shit about that shit anymore. Wouldn't be surprised if people forget about this. Armond White's truly ahead of our times.
Jason Nguyen
Back to r*eddit yall
Armond is literally the modern-day Pauline Kael
Hunter Cook
Read his post again. Slowly.
Colton Myers
Literally Sup Forums contrarian: the critic
Shits on good movies and heaps praise on bad ones in a misguided bid to get a little infamy from normies
Austin Lee
>La La Land makes one long for a Quentin Tarantino musical.
fugg
Julian Long
>Armond White >White Nigger is just jealous he isn't in pure white La La Land.
Brandon Sanchez
Pretty much.
His schtick is that, plus being "Contrarian: the Reviewer."
He'd actually be a breath of fresh air with his reviews if 1) he could write clearly and without trying to obscure his points and 2) he didn't always go off the deep-end, giving favorable reviews only to old movies and to critically-panned contemporary movies.
As is, it's not surprise he is/was liked by Sup Forums and is all but ignored by anyone with an ounce of sense.
Kevin Howard
>yall >Pauline Kael
Takes one to know one
Jacob Evans
I don't think he's real. It's written like computer generated text.
Henry Gonzalez
The redundancy is bad, but you can start a sentence with but.
t. English major.
He's not contrarian, he's just an unapologetic politically partisan reviewer.
Brandon Baker
I love Armond, but Pauline Kael was a much better writer. I can't defend .
He's not a contrarian. It's just a sad fact that the popular opinion on modern movies is mostly wrong.
>heaps praise on bad ones
Yes, that's why he praises The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in that paragraph. For further reference on how contrarian he is, check out his top 10 films of all time list he submitted to the Sight & Sound poll:
>Avventura, L' >Intolerance >Jules et Jim >Lawrence of Arabia >Lola >Magnificent Ambersons, The >Nashville >Nouvelle Vague >Passion of Joan of Arc >Sansho Dayu
These fucking flops everyone hates.
Logan Reed
>when dat confirmation bias hits
William Cruz
>a english degree
Juan Smith
>Tarantino, the first film-buff director to idiotically reshoot film history, thinking he makes films >more like the now-forgotten silent Holocaust The Artist Goddamn this is printed massacre