Why would you EVER think that?TheDudeAbides wrote:Its like Armond specifically reacts in opposition to everyone else just to get a rise out of people
the fact that he singles out the ONE thing everyone could agree was great - Fassbender's performance - in order to inexplicably declare the guy exemplificaterizes "crap cinema" is proof positive that he deliberately trolls in each and every review he writes. He of course knows that David is the shining light of the film, that Fassbender's performance was incredibly nuanced and yet another brilliant showing by him - so he has to shit on it to maintain his anti-everything good cred (and also deliberately insert A.I. into the "not a real boy" reference even though it is clearly only a Pinocchio reference - but of course everything bad in cinema is a blasphemous insult to Spielberg's canon).TheDudeAbides wrote:Ugh you're totally right I did just pull an "Armond" in my dissing of Armond White. I shouldn't have been trolling those actors... and I'm actually someone who appreciates a good nic cage performance; like his performance in Wild at Heart, Raizing Arizona, Matchstick Men, Adaptation, Lord of War, The Weather Man and Bad Lieutenant POCNO. I guess its just my own perception of Cage's lack of 'choosiness' when picking movies to be (for example Season of the Witch, Bangkok Dangerous, Ghost Rider, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Next, Knowing, National Treasure, and The Wicker Man) in that led me to single him out in my troll diss.knives wrote:Cage and Reeves are good actors though (and in the case of Reeves seems like a very nice person). No need to do an Armond to diss White.
But back to Armond. What I meant to illustrate was that Armond seems to appreciate things that are bad (like Ghost Rider, and Neveldine and Taylor) while putting down and trolling the things that are great (like Michael Fassbender and his performance as David in Prometheus). Its like Armond specifically reacts in opposition to everyone else just to get a rise out of people
He also walked out on Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding, but despite his claims that he wouldn't "review" it, he still gets his digs in here (And how obnoxious is his Your Sister's Sister abbreviation?)Why should we be watching commercials director Rupert Sanders’ film Snow White and the Huntsman when Romain Gavras’ No Church in the Wild music video for Kanye West begs our attention?
Everything I've heard about YSS (Seriously, that's even easier to fucking type) is that it's sensitively directed with surprising subtlety and depth. Never mind that Mad Men is one of the most visually arresting dramas in TV history, whose attention to detail will never be matched. I just don't understand why he insists on doing this week after week. what does he gain from trolling every good movie that comes out? (I'll give him Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, however...a few friends saw and said it was not good. not good at all.)As videographed by Benjamin Kasulke, YS(2)’s is the most visually unappealing movie since the days when indie pioneer Gary Winick lost his light meter. Scene after scene is murkily underlit and uninterestingly composed–no surprise, Shelton has also “directed” an episode of the visually dismal Mad Men TV series. Digital-photography has improved amazingly (as in Josh Trank’s remarkable Chronicle), yet YS(2) is literally unwatchable.
And he says it of the movie he didn't walk out on.Gregory wrote:"literally unwatchable"? Just when one thinks a bad habit of language has been ridiculed out of existence, at least in writing that's supposedly been edited ...
(Not to blame this on the editors, though -- see my earlier comments on that.)
domino harvey wrote:
I find these mysteries literally unsolvable
I tried to read it all, but I couldn't get past "in his continuing series of unexpectedly challenging human comedies"bamwc2 wrote:The Sandler Memo. As the ghost of Andrew Breitbart says, You'll want to read it all.
Every Armond White review wrote:It's good because it's bad.
How is this man regarded within the industry? Is he just a pet project for this forum, or is he widely syndicated and 'respected' by his peers?bamwc2 wrote:The Sandler Memo. As the ghost of Andrew Breitbart says, You'll want to read it all.
I love the all the detail and research on the stripper. So Armond likes the naughty bits (Er, I mean, sex sketches), eh? I bet he's a Mr. Skin member, between all the nudity and sex, and the shockingly meticulous cataloging of it, something tells me he'd be right at home on that site.Except for the bodacious sex sketches (Champale, the middle-aged black pole-dancer with the XL pasties played by Luenell Campell contrasts the naughty Waspy grandmother played by Peggy Stewart), the best scenes in That’s My Boy show Donny and Todd’s growing warmth.