I liked parts of it.

Find me a more boring movie about spies with a pointless subplot about said spy's weird looking kid.

Why do people keeping paying attention to the attention whore?

CravenMorehead: Why do people keeping paying attention to the attention whore?

Because he insists upon himself, despite being shallow and pedantic.

sickb0y: I liked parts of it.

Find me a more boring movie about spies with a pointless subplot about said spy's weird looking kid.

Good grief, this.

It is baffling to me that a critic could praise "Transformers 2" but not "Synecdoche, NY." Or "Death Race" but not "There Will be Blood." I am forced to conclude that White is, as charged, a troll. A smart and knowing one, but a troll. (new window)

sickb0y: I liked parts of it.

Find me a more boring movie about spies with a pointless subplot about said spy's weird looking kid.

The pacing sucked ass but the story and performances were solid. I would have preferred that they stuck with the core (pseudo) historical plot and tossed the subplot(s). Not that I don't enjoy Angelina Jolie getting plowed in the grass as much as the next man...

CravenMorehead: Why do people keeping paying attention to the attention whore?

Because they've moved from reporting to metareporting - they don't report about the movie industry, they report about the remoras clinging to the side of the movie industry shark. That's why we get documentaries about teenage paparazzi, homages to award ceremony trolls, and other such stupidity.

CravenMorehead: Why do people keeping paying attention to the attention whore?

We can't help ourselves. Successful troll is successful.

My reaction to TFA:

LOL, Whut?

Who?

23FPB23: Who?

Apparently he was a respected film critic at one time. Nowadays, he's a circus clown.

gunga galunga: 23FPB23: Who?

Apparently he was a respected film critic at one time. Nowadays, he's a circus clown.

Oh. Thanks. Dude seems like he talks like a Don King parody, or that dude Wayans used to play on ILC.

His mom tried to name him "Almond" but spelled it wrong

After much reflection I've decided that I love Armond White. He essentially writes bizzarre social criticism, bordering on solipism, as forced through the lens of whatever movie he was most recently paid to review. He veiws the world on some kind of esoteric meta-level which he can only describe in 600 word blurbs tethered to the film industry, but really, he's trying to critique every single facet of existence.

If you read his reviews he's actually a damn smart guy. I don't think he's trolling, I think he really believes what he writes. It's just that he's not really writing movie reviews, he's writing whatever he god damned after having watched a movie.

error 303: After much reflection I've decided that I love Armond White. He essentially writes bizzarre social criticism, bordering on solipism, as forced through the lens of whatever movie he was most recently paid to review. He veiws the world on some kind of esoteric meta-level which he can only describe in 600 word blurbs tethered to the film industry, but really, he's trying to critique every single facet of existence.

Which would be all well and good if he didn't then use his role to do things like this.

Paragon playthroughs are for suckers. Also, Female Shepard is best Shepard.
/that IS what we're talking about, right?

SharkTrager: error 303: After much reflection I've decided that I love Armond White. He essentially writes bizzarre social criticism, bordering on solipism, as forced through the lens of whatever movie he was most recently paid to review. He veiws the world on some kind of esoteric meta-level which he can only describe in 600 word blurbs tethered to the film industry, but really, he's trying to critique every single facet of existence.

Which would be all well and good if he didn't then use his role to do things like this.

Which is why I can not take him seriously and regard him as nothing more than a circus clown.

Darth_Lukecash: I liked the Good Shepard.

So did I.

Complaints are that it was slow. This didn't bother me so much since it seemed to be more legit as a spy movie that way: the guy was an analyst, not an operative. That analyst nature pervaded his personal life as well, so much so that he was cold and ruthlessly rational even when it meant he was ruining his marriage and relationship with his son. Somehow, Matt Damon's character still seemed to remain sympathetic through it all.

Anyways, great character movie. Great acting.

I have great tolerance for more ... uh ... reserved pacing in movies. I couldn't make it through Good Shepard. Just terribly boring.

Fish in a Barrel: CravenMorehead: Why do people keeping paying attention to the attention whore?

Because he insists upon himself, despite being shallow and pedantic.

Why does fark keep paying attention to him? I swear, this site is the only place I've ever seen his name and OH THE OUTRAGE!

The point was that it wasn't really his son (biologically). He just stepped up and blindly did the "right thing" or what "was expected of him" without any consideration, just like his recruitment to the OSS and later CIA, and every other damn thing he did.

The pacing made sense [generally], given the type of work he was doing: analysis, counter-intel, and so-forth. The acting and story were excellent.

Speaking of non-action-centred spy genre productions, I highly recommend the British television series, The Sandbaggers. It is very intelligent, dramatic, and procedural.

That probably would've been a funny article if the author had decided not to write like a pretentious snob. Obscure vocabulary is not a sign of intelligence or wit, but of a good thesaurus.

That said, Armond White is amazing. I could only wish to learn the ways of the troll from such a master of the art.

Drakenul: That probably would've been a funny article if the author had decided not to write like a pretentious snob. Obscure vocabulary is not a sign of intelligence or wit, but of a good thesaurus.

That said, Armond White is amazing. I could only wish to learn the ways of the troll from such a master of the art.

You've not read anything by Armond White, have you - dude has a tendency to overuse the flowery prose. I am assuming that the author decided to ape Armond's style.

gunga galunga: 23FPB23: Who?

Apparently he was a respected film critic at one time. Nowadays, he's a circus clown.

No, he's always been a circus clown.

FTA: ...he's still frequently going to be the only guy willing to call a guy who's probably a jackass a jackass.

I don't think that's even slightly true. Also, Armond White is a jackass.

Oh, so he's Skip Bayless.

Not Available: It is baffling to me that a critic could praise "Transformers 2" but not "Synecdoche, NY." Or "Death Race" but not "There Will be Blood." I am forced to conclude that White is, as charged, a troll. A smart and knowing one, but a troll. (new window)

To be fair, only one of those movies was any good (TWBB), and it wasn't so good that disliking it is unimaginable.

//Synecdoche, NY had nothing but oscar bait. Literally nothing whatsoever, no substance to speak of. It may have had a lot of hipster dog-whistles, sure, that's great, but upon actual examination of the movie it makes Transformers 2 look like Citizen Kane.

galactus5000: Drakenul: That probably would've been a funny article if the author had decided not to write like a pretentious snob. Obscure vocabulary is not a sign of intelligence or wit, but of a good thesaurus.

That said, Armond White is amazing. I could only wish to learn the ways of the troll from such a master of the art.

You've not read anything by Armond White, have you - dude has a tendency to overuse the flowery prose. I am assuming that the author decided to ape Armond's style.

No, those are actual quotes from Armond White's "Best of 2011" list.

Okay, this article has convinced me. Armond White is hilarious.

Fish in a Barrel: CravenMorehead: Why do people keeping paying attention to the attention whore?

Because he insists upon himself, despite being shallow and pedantic.

Sounds like every other TFer.

Armond White is proof that an impressive vocabulary does not equal intelligence. So much of what he writes is just meaningless. And I'm not dismissing his incredible trolling skills, I just mean he's a master at using big impressive words to say nothing.

TheShavingofOccam123: I refer to that movie as the "all-zombie cast" film. I honestly think there are maybe 60 seconds of emotional outbursts in that movie. And for that film, emotional outburst means a deep breath or lifting your head off your chest.

They're zombies. Quiet, boring zombies.

That sounds like Ryan Gosling in "Drive", although, at the time, i just assumed he was autistic.