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Fiery Angel
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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1326 Post by Fiery Angel » Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:49 pm

dx23 wrote:I never understood the line of thinking of people like Armond and right wing conspiracy theorists like him. So Deep State is smart enough to do these "fake massacres" but dumb enough to recast the same actors over and over in all of them? Of course, I shouldn't expect these assholes to have any common sense and dignity.
Of course, the Deep State was also smart and nefarious enough to conspire against Trump during the election but dumb enough to lose said election anyway.

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#1327 Post by Big Ben » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:41 pm

Semi-related but if you see a name or pronoun placed in a set of three parentheses like this: (((TEST))). It's a way that far right groups signal out those of either Jewish faith or of Jewish descent. Armond White tolerates this shit and it's infuriating.

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#1328 Post by zedz » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:28 pm

Big Ben wrote:Semi-related but if you see a name or pronoun placed in a set of three parentheses like this: (((TEST))). It's a way that far right groups signal out those of either Jewish faith or of Jewish descent. Armond White tolerates this shit and it's infuriating.
I have lost all respect for Sunn O))).

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#1330 Post by domino harvey » Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:09 am

That pullquote has to be an all-time great for White

EDIT: Wait, this review is unexpectedly coherent and occasionally well-argued, what's happening

SECOND EDIT: But also contains a shout out to Dolly Parton's new children's album for no reason, so it's still classic Armond White

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1331 Post by Big Ben » Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:53 am

A broken clock is right twice a day domino which would account for occasional coherent thought. The phrase "black enslavement program" is a doozy.

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1332 Post by matrixschmatrix » Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:17 pm

Haha, yes, very insightful Armond
There’s a real element of misandry here, with Pine’s affectless dad, Michael Peña playing a demonic male, and Zach Galifianakis as the effeminate Happy Medium wearing a man bun.

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#1333 Post by whaleallright » Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:19 pm

Cinema visionaries Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Tati, Karel Zeman, John Boorman, Wes Anderson, and Zack Snyder
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#1335 Post by domino harvey » Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:58 pm

Desplechin himself admitted to Royal Tenenbaums influencing A Christmas Tale

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#1336 Post by Shrew » Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:04 pm

This anti-sentimental ruse contrasts with Zack Snyder’s Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole, where avian creatures had deep, mirror-like eyes, luxurious wings, and sensuous talons...
Apparently Armond is thirsty for some owls.


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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1338 Post by Big Ben » Thu May 24, 2018 6:50 pm

He talks about loneliness as "hipster nihilism" and refuses to acknowledge the growing uptick in both major depression among millennials. Really insightful there Armond. Believing that people despair because you think they want to do so.

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#1339 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu May 24, 2018 7:01 pm

Well, he called Nolan's Dark Knight films totemic examples of hipster nihilism, and those are movies that affirm values so often they make slogans of them ('It's not what I am, but what I do that defines me.', 'The hero Gotham needs, not the one it deserves', ect.). That term of Armond's has no meaning. It's a catch all for whatever Armond wants it to mean in the moment, usually as a way to vaguely criticize movies that contain certain negative emotions or moods like despair, unhappiness, hopelessness, whatever, or have a dark visual palette. He's picked it because both 'hipster' and 'nihilism' sound bad. He otherwise has no idea what either of those words mean.

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#1340 Post by Gregory » Thu May 24, 2018 7:06 pm

The hipster nihilists really are to blame for their own depression, though, when they do things like cut off Aimee Mann's toe and then get all petulant when it turns out there was never any ransom money.

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1341 Post by domino harvey » Thu May 24, 2018 8:31 pm

I still think Tara Reid was robbed of an Oscar for Magnolia

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1342 Post by Gregory » Thu May 24, 2018 8:37 pm

Off-topic but huh?

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#1343 Post by DarkImbecile » Thu May 24, 2018 8:45 pm

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#1344 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu May 24, 2018 8:46 pm

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1346 Post by MongooseCmr » Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:05 pm

It took all of two minutes to prove wrong that Do the Right Thing is Lee’s only successful film, really bodes well for the name dropping he does in every piece he writes. And I was going to say that I’d love to hear the “correct” interpretation of Birth of a Nation but I really don’t

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1347 Post by Brian C » Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:34 pm

I was willing to give Armond a fair shot with this review, because I'd definitely be interested in a counter-argument. But this is just a jumbled, incoherent mess.

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1348 Post by Fiery Angel » Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:30 pm

Brian C wrote:
Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:34 pm
this is just a jumbled, incoherent mess.
in other words, it's an Armond White review

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1349 Post by Brian C » Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:33 pm

Not always. Sometimes he has actual points to make. Whether it's a broken-clock thing or a case of him occasionally putting forth actual effort, who can say.

Point is, I feel like I approached it in good faith and came away empty.

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Re: The Armond White Thread

#1350 Post by DeprongMori » Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:47 pm

“misinterpreting D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation”????

Wow! I’d love to hear what Armond White’s “correct interpretation” of BoaN is. Griffith really couldn’t be clearer.

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