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Vulture: Armond White: Precious Worse Than Norbit
In Contention: Insight within madness
Film Junk: Armond White At It Again: Hates on Multiple Award Winner Precious
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Posted without comment/endorsement: http://www.nypress.com/article-20554-pride-precious.html 13 hours ago |
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Gotta love Armond White. Every review is a brawl. http://www.nypress.com/article-20554-pride-precious.html 27 hours ago |
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hmmm...black critic hates "Precious." How much?http://www.nypress.com/article-20554-pride-precious.html 2 days ago |
Armond White: Precious Worse Than Norbit
Vulture —
... Day Air, Cadillac Records, Meet Dave, Norbit, Little Man, Akeelah and the Bee, First Sunday, The Ladykillers, Marci X, Palindromes, Mr. 3000, even back to the great Beloved (also produced by Oprah)—have been ignored by the mainstream media and serious film culture while this carnival of black degradation gets celebrated.
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Insight within madness
In Contention —
Further to yesterday’s discussion of the film’s critical reception, Armond White’s furious pan of “Precious” is already gaining notoriety for its more attention-seeking flourishes.
It’s hard to find much justification for his claim that “Norbit” and “Marci X” are “excellent” films about the black experience, and his suggestion that the film is being principally championed by “patronizing white folk” is a cheap provocation.
But look ...
Armond White At It Again: Hates on Multiple Award Winner Precious
Film Junk —
... mainstream media and serious film culture while this carnival of black degradation gets celebrated. It’s a strange combination of liberal guilt and condescension.” Did you catch that? He actually calls Meet Dave , Norbit and Little Man“excellent recent film with black themes”. It also goes without saying that he thinks they are better films than Precious. Well, I have yet to see Precious, but I am now entirely convinced that this man is insane. Read his full review over at the New York Press , and check out a trailer for Precious after the jump.
Armond White and PRECIOUS
The Moviezzz Blog —
Everyone's favorite contrarian, Armond White of the New York Press, has a field day taking down PRECIOUS. A few of the choice comments from his review ...
In Defense of White Movie Critics (Sort of)
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide —
... Now, nobody hates white people more than me (that I know of). But in his cover-story pan of Precious this week, the New York Press's Armond White makes nameless caucasian film critics and audience members into straw men in a way that's both problematic and inaccurate. Which is a shame, because he's also spot-on about why Precious is a much worse movie than many reviewers seem willing to let on, and about the inadvertent condescension in their liberal-guilty reviews. ...
Ways to object to "Precious."
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... [image] For anyone familiar with habitual barnburner Armond White and his politics, it's zero surprise that the NY Press critic object strenuously to "Precious." His review of the film has, as usual, much food for the comment trolls, particularly in his insistence that, by attaching their names and confessing personal histories of abuse, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey are converting "their private agendas into heavily hyped social preoccupation," which I guess means... child abuse is really just another way for a couple of whiny celebrities to beg for attention? He also ...
cinemadaily | “Precious” Polarizes
indieWIRE Recent —
... populist in its potent emotional appeal…and at the same time determined to challenge its audience’s complacency as only a genuine work of art can.” Lee Daniels’ film, which has been garnering mounting buzz—and big-name endorsements from Tyler Perry and Oprah—since it took top honors at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, hits theaters today. The film already has both its passionate defenders and serious detractors. Heading up the latter group is the New York Press’ Armond White . “Not since ‘The Birth of a Nation’ has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black ...
Oscar Futures: Precious Arrives — With a Backlash?
Vulture —
... DOWN: Precious. ... are these first sounds of the long-anticipated backlash? New York's David Edelstein didn't love it and Armond White's over-the-top pan got more attention than the raves (and some even agree with him, a little). ...
Sorry For The Preemption-Afronerd Radio Returns Next Sun.....For Now A Few Observations & Oh Yeah A Centurian Buys a Camaro!
Afronerd: putting the Black Bourgeoisie back on top(of the Ghetto Masses) —
... it does remind the viewer (of color, specifically) that there is a severe dearth of diverse characterization for minorities. Can you imagine a romantic (and expensive) horror flick with a majority Black/Brown cast that wouldn't be played for laughs? Or as I once posited, A Black Harry Potter-esque film, with its own unique mythos? Perchance to dream....anyway, feel free to check out the remainder of the White article by clicking on the link below: Pride & Precious And lastly, I thought that this next clip solidly proves that age ...
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... As expected, the troll of professional movie critics Armond White has given the Film Festival award winner and Academy Award-contender PRecious a bad review: “Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious. Full of brazenly racist clichés (Precious steals and eats an entire bucket of fried chicken), it is a sociological horror show. Offering racist hysteria masquerading as social sensitivity, it’s been acclaimed on the international festival circuit that usually disdains movies about black ...
Do I need...
Mostly Movies —
... to my Netflix queue? In Armond White's review of Precious he compares Next Day Air to the plays of August Wilson. Thoughts? ...
2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove World's Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable [Disasters]
Gawker —
... Ha, oh, just joking, that's batshit Armond White from the New York Press. This guy eats the innocence of children for breakfast and snacks on labrador puppies for lunch. Also, he hated Up. But! Precious, which is a "the world sucks" movie of a different stripe, did well, too. Look: ...
2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove World's Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable
Gawker: defamer —
... Ha, oh, just joking, that's batshit Armond White from the New York Press. This guy eats the innocence of children for breakfast and snacks on labrador puppies for lunch. Also, he hated Up. But! Precious, which is a "the world sucks" movie of a different stripe, did well, too. Look: ...
2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove Worlds' Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable
Gawker: defamer —
... Ha, oh, just joking, that's batshit Armond White from the New York Press. This guy eats the innocence of children for breakfast and snacks on Labrador puppies for lunch. Also, he hated Up. But! Precious, which is a "the world sucks" movie of a different stripe, did well, too. Look: ...
2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove World's Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable [Disasters]
Gawker —
... living through the end of the world. OH COME ON. And then there's this Precious movie. The critics HATED it. Like this one: Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious. Full of brazenly racist clichés (Precious steals and eats an entire bucket of fried chicken), it is a sociological horror show. Ha, oh, just joking, that's batshit Armond White from the ...
Chorus Expands
Hollywood Elsewhere —
... the Precious takedown campaign. The writer is Washington Post Metro columnist Courtland Milloy , who has trashed Lee Daniels ' film with almost an Armond White-like vitriol . "In Precious , Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry have helped serve up a film of prurient interest that has about as much redeeming social value as a porn flick ," he ...
Thoughts on 'Precious'
Movie Mom —
... Frequent provocateur Armond White is one of the film's harshest critics. He objects to the way that after it was completed Winfrey and Perry signed on as "producers" because it fit with their own narratives of triumph over abuse and poverty. "Promoting this movie isn't just a way for Perry and Winfrey to aggrandize themselves, it helps convert their private agendas into heavily hyped social preoccupation." He calls director Lee Daniels a "pathology pimp" and says that the movie is "an orgy of prurience." He criticizes the film for "cast[ing] light-skinned actors as kind ...
