tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426828157722447087.post6640274382639333475..comments2024-03-06T23:17:27.304+11:00Comments on Mahan's Media: Why I Hate Armond WhiteMahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13373686825047159476noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426828157722447087.post-73784319558380308252018-01-25T07:43:08.180+11:002018-01-25T07:43:08.180+11:00He's a pontificating, contrarian hack. I'...He's a pontificating, contrarian hack. I've read several of his reviews just to get a sense of why he rates movies a certain way and I have found his actual reviews to be lazy and uninformed. He slams movies, but then in his critique of said movie, either completely misses critical details of the plot he’s arguing about or just completely fabricates aspects of his perception of the films plot to fit a negative narrative. Sometimes I think he must do this because some of the arguments he makes about extraordinarily popular and well rated films are so preposterous, the only way to frame an argument is to misrepresent it in the first place. It's shameful. He makes a mockery of film criticism just because he can and it has made him more famous (or infamous) than he deserves. He basks in the publicity he gets from crapping on a best picture Oscar contender and then praises garbage, trying to call it art like he thinks that the subjective nature of art criticism itself will shield him from the obviousness of what he’s doing. And the sad thing is, that for his uninformed and non-cinephile viewers, it works. The one thing I wish would happen is that his critiques would be removed from rotten tomatoes. He’s ruined countless perfect scores on that site, likely just so he can capitalize on the traffic of puzzled viewers clicking on the National Review link to see why he was the only critic in 280 that felt a negative review was necessary. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426828157722447087.post-42317170465894219772017-03-14T20:26:37.339+11:002017-03-14T20:26:37.339+11:00I wouldn't quite go THAT far; honestly, my opi...I wouldn't quite go THAT far; honestly, my opinions on him have softened at least a little since I wrote this op-ed. That said, he's still a colossal tool. I'll settle for "Armond White can stop acting like he's king shit in the world of criticism".Mahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13373686825047159476noreply@blogger.com