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Film Junk: Armond White At It Again: Hates on Multiple Award Winner Precious
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@SweetLadiEKay http://www.nypress.com/article-20554-pride-precious.html smdh that fool just LOST ME.. 4 days ago |
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interesting article on the movie precious (the debate continues) --> http://www.nypress.com/article-20554-pride-precious.html 8 days ago |
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i highly suggest that if u decide to see Precious that you take a look at this review first http://bit.ly/4rG9Wk 10 days ago |
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 —
... 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 ...
Ways to object to "Precious."
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... 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 compares "Precious" to "The Birth of a Nation" and does a good job of hiding the fact that he does have a point -- any movie that features a morbidly obese black woman ...
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 ...
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/Film —
... 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? ...
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 ...
Humpin' Around
Fin de cinema —
... help me, I partially agree with Armond White," I couldn't help but share his sentiment. Despite the editorial errors (really, how does giving the wrong title for a director's previous film, Shadowboxer not Shadowboxing, get past the NY Press' editor?) and including Marci X, Little Man, Mr. 3000 and Norbit (!!) in all seriousness as "excellent recent films with black themes," White sort of nails the self-loathing that runs through all of Precious, from its ...
