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wattsup32 wrote:

Kellen wrote:Crystal Skull better than Raiders. Paul WS better than PT Anderson and Martin Scorsese

I stopped reading here: "The scary thing is, White is such a talented, smart writer and has such confidence in his outlandish arguments you almost want to believe them."

Should I have kept going?

That is the exact place I stopped, too. I knew the writer and I had too little in common, opinion wise, to make reading further worthwhile.

I stopped reading after "I have nothing but respect for Armond White" as at that point I realize that the author of the article and myself have nothing in common.

Even if you don’t agree with him – and most of us don’t – you’ve got to respect his guts to regularly come out with such unpopular opinions.

I feel the same way about Michelle Malkin

And guess who wrote a review of Taken 2 featuring references to Costa-Gavras and Ghost Rider 2?

The Narrator Returns wrote:And guess who wrote a review of Taken 2 featuring references to Bresson, Costa-Gavras, and Ghost Rider 2?

actually, there are no references to Bresson...when I read that review when it was posted, there were a few places where Besson was misspelled as Bresson, which was pretty funny. Those errors have been fixed, unfortunately (although a comment references the Bresson error).

tavernier wrote:

The Narrator Returns wrote:And guess who wrote a review of Taken 2 featuring references to Bresson, Costa-Gavras, and Ghost Rider 2?

actually, there are no references to Bresson...when I read that review when it was posted, there were a few places where Besson was misspelled as Bresson, which was pretty funny. Those errors have been fixed, unfortunately.

I changed the comment to match the current article. Either I can't read or Armond can't use spell-check (or a little from Column A, a little from Column B).

It's all from column B in this case.

tavernier wrote:

The Narrator Returns wrote:And guess who wrote a review of Taken 2 featuring references to Bresson, Costa-Gavras, and Ghost Rider 2?

actually, there are no references to Bresson...when I read that review when it was posted, there were a few places where Besson was misspelled as Bresson, which was pretty funny. Those errors have been fixed, unfortunately (although a comment references the Bresson error).

He also has "Liam Neesom" and "Famka Janssen" in that review (and tags as such). Did he even look at the poster? And ironically (and accents notwithstanding), he managed to correctly identify Rade Serbedzija--it's almost like it was a big joke.

Corrently? Did Armond White write that post?

AquaNarc wrote:Corrently? Did Armond White write that post?

He did. Occasionally I toss him a bone and allow him to write for me.

(Also, Firefox's ingrained spell-check spoils me for when I'm on other computers and have to use older iterations of Internet Explorer).

so Flight is a parable about Clinton's libido? interesting.

Can't WAIT to see his Lincoln review.

Lincoln is too liberal. (He calls Kushner a Communist. But it's amazing he refrains from mentioning Obama.)

Last line's a pretty clear dig, no?

of course it is, but he's never been subtle before, so I was surprised he was this time

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Ooh, Armond used the word "cant"; I bet he feels like Samuel Johnson now. Absolutely shitty reasoning to downplay Inside Job - which was a wake-up call for me certainly - in favor of this one, ugh.

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:Ooh, Armond used the word "cant"; I bet he feels like Samuel Johnson now. Absolutely shitty reasoning to downplay Inside Job - which was a wake-up call for me certainly - in favor of this one, ugh.

That might be the first time in recorded history that Samuel Johnson and Armond White appear together in the same sentence.

Hopefully not for the last time as long as it's followed by Johnson's observation, "Why, Sir, a man who talks nonsense so well, must know that he is talking nonsense."

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I wonder what it's like to dedicate your life to being predictable?

Amour sucks and Les Miz is OK

Wow, Armond's Amour review was actually...readable. Hardly even sounds like him.

AO Scott with a review of Beasts of the Southern Wild which will warm Armond's heart.