Armond White Super Troll?

Armond White has once again proved that he’s completely full of crap and doesn’t have a grasp on film criticism. I listened to main Slash Film podcast with everyone’s favorite critic to hate and hoped he would come across a little more believable. (Make sure to jump to the halfway mark around 45-49 min to get to Armond White's take on Inception)

And, after listening to Armond on the podcast I've grown to really hate the man. Jack Mathews from Rough Cuts (Moviefone) put it best about the guy. Mathews says ((White is a classic, unapologetic elitist and one of the few to ever work for a general interest or mainstream publication. For good reason: As White's editors are being constantly reminded, the inherent insult to readers' intelligence by White's approach is risky business. His haughty, theoretical approach is the stuff of academia and film journals. ))

White has this academic view of film criticism, yet praises films like Terminator Salvation (A deeply flawed but not bad movie) and Norbit. It makes no sense. The movies he praises are the movies that are the main problem with Hollywood system. Most of the movies he likes are the ones that the Hollywood system has interfered with.

Looking at this list that MC has provided for me from Flick Filosopher.com, there is something wrong here.

Dance Flick: Does anyone really find any artistic value in this movie? I liked Scary Movie 1, but has this team made a good movie since (Little Man? White Chicks?)

Terminator Salvation: There are so many stories about what happened behind the scenes of this movie to fill a book. At one point, there was a daring ending involving a Terminator taking over the John Connor role after the real Connor dies. The movie intended to be R-rated but the studio forced a PG-13.

Jonah Hex: This movie has a long history of rewrites and re-shoots, and re-edits.

And, list goes on.

Then, there's this elitism that seeps into every measured and bloated sentience from this guy. The guys on the Slash Film podcast were respectful, but Armond got a little mad when they made some comments about Michael Bay. He seems to regard Bay as a better director than say Nolan. I find that just amazing. The man might just be faking this whole thing just to get attention.

Armond White went after Ebert and the Internet critic community as a whole.

White says this about Ebert from Slash Film, ((That’s what’s called being a shill. And it’s a tragic thing that that became the example of what a film critic does for too many people. Often he wasn’t practicing criticism at all. Often he would point out gaffes or mistakes in continuity. That’s not criticism. That’s really a pea-brained kind of fan gibberish.))

Uh, if a musician plays an off key note, shouldn’t someone write about that? Gaffes and mistakes are part of criticism. While it shouldn't be the entire review, these things do need to be pointed out.

I'm going to reserve my final thoughts on this guy after Slash Film releases their After Dark Podcast.