Armond White Film Review Quotes

[Starbreaker]

From controversial New York Press film "critic":

The Last Song (2010)

"Cyrus' acting ability makes Veronica's emotional make-over work."

Clash of the Titans (2010)

"Leterrier certainly shows a better sense of meaningful, economic narrative than the mess that Peter Jackson made of the interminable, incoherent Lord of the Rings trilogy."

Grown Ups (2010)

"Cheerful and surprisingly heartfelt."

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009)

" G.I. Joe must be understood as an authentic measurement of our cultural values. Its appeal to the pop-commercial synapses also demonstrates livelier filmmaking than such utter banality as Iron Man and Star Trek and Harry Potter's Half-Blooded Chintz."

Dance Flick (2009)

" It isn't highbrow -- or encumbered by scruples -- but the Wayanses retain their vulgar, adolescent derision of sex, class and race. In this bow down to Hollywood millennium, their irreverence is almost subversive."

Next Day Air (2009)

" Filmgoers who think outside the artmovie box will discover that the artful and enjoyable Next Day Air offers an episode of 21st-century black American life that August Wilson never got to."

Transporter 3 (2008)

" Forget the Oscar bait, Transporter 3 is the only movie you need to see this season.

Anybody else have any favorites?

 

[Aragorn]

I don't read him, but I do know that he praised the hell out of The Hurt Locker, then when everyone else started loving it, he called it overrated while "reviewing" another movie.

He also gave Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen a positive review.

 

[Zaku]

Bad and good movie according to White
http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/armond-white-movie-chart.jpg

And a little update: for him Jonah hex is a better movie than "toy Story 3" ("Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.")

 

[cardinal biggles]

I think Roger Ebert nailed it when after seeing a list similar to the one above, he took back an earlier defense of Armond White and instead declared him to be "a troll; a smart and knowing one, but a troll."

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

From his review of Resident Evil: Afterlife

If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

 

[Trekker4747]

Armond White is the very definition of a contrarian. He reviews against the "norm" simply because he can and to stir up trouble.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

Apparently, he is also a little bit of a jerk. He heckled Steve McQueen when the director was accepting an award recently.

 

[Beagleman]

He is just a troll, everyone should just put him on their ignore-list.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

He also just got himself kicked out of the New York Film Critics Circle:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/13/armond-white-kicked-out-of-ny-critics/

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Good riddance. What a jerkass.

 

[auntiehill]

Seriously. What a moronic, attention-seeking troll.

 

[Amaris]

You know, the writer of that article could have said "He was being a dick in public, like he was in his reviews," and it would have saved a ton of reading.

 

[Starbreaker]

Now somebody just needs to run over him.

 

[Harvey]

Now somebody just needs to run over him.

The man's a public asshole, and he's often a deliberate contrarian in his reviews, but there's really no need to say things like this.