>The decline of criticism is the big news this year. As the Mainstream Media (MSM) befouls itself, fewer and fewer serious film critics are being supported and the public just doesn’t seem to care. The MSM is taken over by cronyism and consumerism. There is no more diversity among cinephiles. Here’s the news that MSM doesn’t report: popular cinema and TV are a wasteland. This era should be a new golden age for art movies. Téchiné, Makhmalbaf, Davies and Solondz are leading the way; Zack Snyder is the only maker of ‘popular’ films who has a vision and sensibility that stirs great feeling and profound thought. The festival circuit and MSM ‘criticism’ promote film culture’s decline. God help us all. source: bfi.org.uk/best-films-2016?utm_content=buffer8205e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#tonierdmann
The King of Sup Forums has spoken.
Brandon Powell
absolute patrician taste
Ryan Cox
Patrician as fuck
Armond is a bad motherfucker
Nathan Brooks
>BvS
DROPPED
Connor Walker
I couldn't sit through Wiener Dog, it was absolute shit even if the song was great.
Bentley Myers
His review of BvS is better written and shows better understanding of the film than the entire collective mob consisting of the MSM critics.
Josiah Young
Just buy Sup Forums from Hiro and be done with it, you fucking /ourguy/
Colton Smith
Literally the only critic worth reading anymore
Connor Jackson
>liking Eisenbergs performance
That douche single-handedly ruined that movie
William Flores
>The President Anyone found a good torrent?
Kayden Stewart
Cuz he wasn't like muh comics?
Ian Rodriguez
I dont even read comics. He was genuinely cringeworthy.
John Jenkins
>this piece of art incited a negative reaction out of me so it's bad Keep walking pleb, this is a patrician thread
Levi Thomas
>watches capeshit >calls others pleb
lmao @ ur lyfe
Lucas Morales
Im guessing Almond White has studied more films than you've ever heard of
Go back to watching anime
Lincoln Hernandez
>Wiener-Dog Todd Solondz Complete and utter pleb
Austin Williams
My negative reaction is because of his bad acting. Why do you take it so personal?
Lucas Kelly
Oh yeah, I remember the symbolic stymphalian metallic demons from Batman's nightmares
That are just Parademons
Charles Powell
>this triggers the DCucks lel
Luis Rogers
Why do plebs pretend to like armond white now? Not even a year ago you children of videogames called him a pretentious hipster
Brody Carter
Because they found out he likes Batman v Superman.
Zachary Cruz
>liking this idiot meme critic
Jesus i need to take a break from this place the irony and post irony here is so fucking exhausting
James Watson
Movie people didn't like? White calls it genius! Movie people enjoyed? It is mediocre. Move praised by critics? It is terrible!
He praised Jack and Jill. What a joke.
Brayden Edwards
His review of BvS is better written and shows better understanding than BvS.
Jackson Wood
>Dumbing everything down like that
Sounds like you aren't his target audience!
Austin Martin
It's not dumbed down when it's the true.
Aiden Thomas
It's not true when it's false
Jack Morgan
Why can't MCUcks ever argue a point further than "it's bad and I don't like it"?
Lincoln Reed
Feel free to provide an example that proves it false. Until then, keep sucking that nigger cock.
Leo Fisher
>argue a point further than "it's bad and I don't like it"? As opposed to such genius arguments as >Almond White has studied more films than you've ever heard of >Go back to watching anime >You didn't get it >MCUck lol right?
Alexander Wilson
>he called me a DCuck >he must be an MCUck
Not everyone here likes capeshit you manchild
Levi Moore
Hacksaw Ridge
Brandon Wright
it's on Netflix. as is Sunset Song. looking forward to watching both. can't wrap my head around anyone other than kids and comic book readers rating Batman v Superman so highly. i think Armond put it on his best of for controversy's sake. it is a rather juvenile tactic but, hell, it's the new norm given Trump will be president of the USA soon.
Aiden Howard
Realest nigga alive tbfh
Grayson Sanders
Well you could read his BvS review and find out why
Carson Nguyen
>Almond White has studied more films than you've ever heard of
How is this point invalid?
Jackson Hernandez
Because you have to read the comics to be a true student of the kino game
Gavin Jenkins
Critics gave it low 7s.
Matthew Powell
I'm pretty sure the critics who bashed BvS have collectively studied more films than Armond White has even heard of, by your logic, they have a higher authority than White, which means BvS is shit.
Aaron Ramirez
>still trying to pretend that the ebil liberal post modernists are dominating the film industry when the crown jewel of feminist diverse film making, Ghostbusters, bombed hard.
Why didn't he like Ghostbusters again? He loved Pixels. Could it be he actually doesn't care about the movies he just cares about muh movie industry politics.
Wyatt Torres
Because so many other critics that completely say the opposite of him have also studied more films than you've ever heard of.
Dude's a con artist living off clickbait. You guys are getting duped.
Christian Morris
Very true
Sebastian Cox
The critics who bashed BvS were in 99% of cases just random bloggers and freelancers. Bloggers that are very easily influenced.
Jackson Wood
i thought his performance was legit good. especially the rooftop scene and the part where turns serious when the senator blocked his shipment. though, i think they played the eccentric aspect of it too much. like the party scene, he goes on for way too long and i expected the scene to cut to something else but it still went on. that was frustrating. but for the most part, i think he was good. i want to see what they have in store for him in justice league, though i don't think it will be a major role.
Joseph Morris
>Zack Snyder is the only maker of ‘popular’ films who has a vision and sensibility that stirs great feeling and profound thought
BASED
Michael Bell
Read the review and find out
Jeremiah Long
Professional critics, not Sup Forums posts.
Dylan Cruz
> This guy is called "Based" and "The King of Sup Forums"
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAH
Julian Wright
>collectively
That's not a part of my logic, that's completely irrational. A the opinion of a thousand idiots is always going to be less worthy than that of a genius.
Oliver Young
Hell or High Water
Connor Scott
I'm honestly convinced that this board's enthusiasm for BvS comes from like three extremely loud and obnoxious posters
Henry Wright
>he thinks Rotten Tomatoes are "professional" critics
9/10 times they're just fanboys running a fansite.
Adam Murphy
i have. it's posted on this thread and i disagree with a great load of it. i do not understand why he's obsessed with fanboys, either. he's using negative criticism of the previous Superman film to propel his contrarian take. that's rather petty and juvenile. his assertions that Batman v Superman fight is revelatory is just this side of being a really, really bad joke. and when he posits that Snyder's take on Batman is a more mature version than Nolan's I lost all hope. Armond is a giant troll. we've known this for years.
Juan Rogers
Congrats. You found one.
Got some more?
Liam Bennett
If you genuinely don't understand why appeal to authority is a shitty argument then I really don't know what to tell you.
Andrew Lee
>listing off what he liked and disliked with no context at all
Daniel Brown
Nolan trash is not mature in any way
Oliver Richardson
Jesus christ
With that shit taste he really is Sup Forumss guy
Nolan Williams
Suicide Squad
Juan Rodriguez
Rotten Tomatoes has zero critics working for them, because RT is an aggregate site.
Kevin Flores
Snyder's take on Batman is definitely more mature than Nolan's. Nolan ruined his Batman with TDKR.
Grayson Hill
You could explain why it's a shitty argument.
You don't know, though, do you?
Because it's not. You just heard that on Sup Forums and stored it away somewhere to wheel out on the many occasions when you become buttflustered.
Wyatt Brown
There's no context that justifies liking any of that trash
Andrew Jenkins
He rated it way higher than the critics did.
Joseph Nelson
Obama is a higher authority in general than you. Obama likes Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones is therefore a great show. You really don't understand why this logic is flawed?
Thomas Rivera
Not even him but appeal to authority is the shittiest argument ever. Think for yourself.
Benjamin Jackson
sorry user you need an IQ of AT LEAST 150 to parse the sublime nature of armonds consciouness
Joseph Russell
>Critics didn't like Suicide Squad >Based Armond didn't like Suicide Squad
Did you forget what we were talking about?
Alexander Miller
>in general
But I'm not saying that Armond is in general a higher authority. I'm saying when it comes to the specific case of analysis and judgement of film Armond is a higher authority than you are, and thus his opinion in this particular case of judging the quality of the film Batman v. Superman his opinion is more valuable than yours. This isn't like one of these cases where physicists speak out on politics, this is a specific case of a qualified professional film critic providing a critique on a film in a professional setting.
Jeremiah Diaz
>I haven't read any of his reviews on the listed movies
Ok
Jackson Watson
If you're desperate go ahead and make that your argument. But 90% of the time he's a direct contradiction of the critics.
Dude's clickbait and cares more about non-existent political agendas then he does about the actual film.
Angel King
I did, I developed my opinion on BvS before Armond published his review. But simply stating my opinion doesn't carry any substantial weight, very likely our opinions are stemming from a very simlar level of knowledge or ignorance. A tiebreaker is required.
Gabriel James
I feel that sometimes too. Like the people who praised Shins Godzilla for MOTY.
Mason Barnes
Move those goalposts!
Samuel Brooks
Well thank God you don't have to think for yourself because you have Armond White telling you what to think. And you said "Bloggers [...] are very easily influenced." Lmao.
Owen Green
I like BvS too but saying the movie is good because Armond White says so is idiocy.
Nathan Hill
>And you said "Bloggers [...] are very easily influenced."
Actually I'm a different person. Honestly, though, was my post too long for you to read?
That's not what I'm saying, though. I haven't gone anywhere near why it's a good movie. My whole point is that Armond's opinion of the movie is more valuable than that of Random 4channarian.
Isaiah Hall
>tiebreaker required The fuck? So you're literally it's only good/bad if Armond says it?
Thanks for confirming that.
John Jackson
Not an argument.
Luke Jones
I love OUT magazine, and Armond White is my favorite critic.
Elijah Perez
>pretending capeshit is somehow more refined than anime it's about 50/50
Christopher Gomez
I already won the argument!
Asher Long
That's not what that statement means. If Armond had said it was bad I'd still consider it a good film.
Jonathan Powell
He has the shittiest taste in movies I've ever seen. He's clearly just trying to piss off the majority, while gaining a cult following from the pseudo-intellectual contrarian minority in the process See The only reason you dumb fucks call him "based" is because he loved BvS.
Kevin Torres
>very likely our opinions are stemming from a very simlar level of knowledge or ignorance. A tiebreaker is required. Okay, so your argument is you're right because Armond says so.
Can I say I'm right because other (actually esteemed) critics say so?
Carson Myers
>Can I say I'm right because other (actually esteemed) critics say so?
Sure, you can say it. I mean, given the extent to which most critics have shown themselves to be in Disney's pocket I'd still consider you to be wrong, but you can say it,
Isaiah Powell
So you're admitting you're just another pleb who wants a big green thumbs-up or a big red thumbs-down for your reviews?
Matthew Harris
>he thinks Based Armond only became a thing after BvS
You have to go back!
Jordan Watson
Based Armond does it again
Christian Mitchell
>every critic who didn't like BvS is a disney shill Awesome. You know RT is owned by Time Warners, right?
Elijah Sanchez
He agrees with most critics like 50% of the time.
I mean he has loved all films from David o Rusell for example.
Blake Taylor
What's one other movie his name is associated with on this board other than BvS?
Landon Howard
You didn't listen to him
You have to go back!
Brayden Lee
Man of Steel
Ayden Nguyen
>>he thinks Based Armond only became a thing after BvS
>You have to go back!
Fucking this. Reddit newfags dont know armond has been the king of Sup Forums for many years.
He was one of the only critics to call avatar a piece of shit when it came up.
Liam Murphy
Most recently? Last Tango in Paris
But many of his reviews have had threads here before and after BvS, which you would know if you weren't stuck in your Reddit capeshit blackhole
Chase Scott
>nigger >likes BVS >praised by Sup Forums My sides are in orbit like Matt Damon in the Maritan
Holeeee fuck Sup Forums do you have shit tier taste
Robert Fisher
>The only reason you dumb fucks call him "based" is because he loved BvS. You're correct for the ones doing it now(plebs who use to cry about him being a contrarian/hipster), but before it was for showing the true colors of plebs praising hogwash like TDK, inception, flavor of the month "prestigious" flick, etc
Hunter Sullivan
Armond is hack conman perfect for Sup Forums because they're both pseudo-intellectual contrarians.
This triggers the neckbeard, but they know it is true.
Matthew Garcia
This Tourists believe shitposts He's wrong, if we are talking about superhero flicks sure