>It is a Black Gay movie for people who hate Black Gay movies.
>The title Moonlight sounds romantic and, yes, gay people deserve to have their passions recognized, but there’s a huge difference between validation and exoticizing. Writer-director Barry Jenkins dives so deeply into this film’s exoticizing tsunami that he also turns black males—America’s all-purpose fear-and-lust fetish—into equally useless exotica.
>And sure enough, Moonlight has become the new Precious, the vision of black pathos that adds emphasis on gay-bashing so that viewers can feel good about how politically-correct and sentimental they are, too.
>I dare say that gays and viewers of color should respond more critically.
http://www.out.com/armond-white/2016/10/21/moonlight-and-myth-pathetic-queer
>>79895513
Reminder he liked Hidden Figures, The Great Wall and Resident Evil (the latest one)
>>79895597
Because these are actually fun and didn't take themselves seriously.
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It's unfair to tar Moonlight with the same brush as Precious
Moonlight is pretty forgettable, it had it's moments and despite it's premise never came off as preachy, mainly because it didn't have much to say by the end anyway.
Precious was an insidious, poorly made and written film. It's on the same tier as Birth of a Nation.
>>79895597
And BvS and Pooicide Squad
>>79895812
BASED
>>79895513
Is he, dare I say it, /ourbud/?
>>79895513
>black gay Christian
Is Armond the Milo of film?
>>79895597
Haven't seen resident evil but hidden figures and Great Wall are legitimately good movies. I'm guessing you haven't seen them though because they aren't up on pirate streams yet.
>>79895839
he is more like
/ourgod/
>>79895842
I just found out he was gay and I was about to be like DROPPED but then I realized he's what gay people should be, not queer, just keep it to yourself. The fact that I didn't know until now after reading his reviews for years shows it.
>>79895513
Oh come on don't compare this to precious you compulsively contrarian fuck
>>79895839
No but he is now /tv/s black friend to show we aren't racist.
>>79895883
Yeah his reviews are literary kino
>>79895959
lmao, no, he's /ourbud/ end of discussion.
I honestly and unironically think that he is by far the best movie critic out there.
Does he ever go with popular opinion, or just look at whatever it is and force his opinion to be the opposite?
>>79895842
he's not a flamboyant attention whore.
>>79896024
Me too, there are some other ones I read, but they aren't on his level, and most aren't conservative in their approach so he's definitely an outlier. Who else do you read?
>>79896024
He and Kermode are pretty good
>>79895513
>gay nigger hates a movie about gay niggers
Color me surprise.
He also liked Hidden Figures which should make you idiots really think.
>>79895513
reminder that "conservative" niggers are still niggers. honestly uncle toms piss me off more than the retarded gorillas--they feign intelligence just to cozy up to white folks. even try to emulate our writing. of course his prose is still overblown nonsense.
he also liked hidden figures, a movie that perpetuates the "gifted but oppressed" nigger meme. basically WE WUZ KANGZ IN SHEIT: the movie.
>>79895513
Has this smug nig ever liked any recorded media that wasn't his own colonoscopy?
He's a cunt... aka - some amalgam of the opinions espoused by this site's basement dwelling populous.
>>79895513
Daily reminder of Armond White's fanbase.
>>79896024
Yeah but only because other critics are completely shit
>>79896137
I believe women are stupid but I dont necessarily like armond. Kys redditcuck
>>79896137
Kek is that Korinefag
>>79896058
he likes plenty of well-received movies, but he seems to near-universally pan the biggest hits.
>>79896170
i mean, they have the same average iq with a lower standard deviation.
>>79896170
>muh reddit boogeyman
>>79896187
You know I never thought of that but it might actually be him.
>>79896137
I don't see the problem.
>Armond will never respond to your comment.
>tfw he never answered my tweet
Could it be my name @Dr-Fagguette_Phd?
>>79896064
>he's not a flamboyant attention whore
that's exactly what he is. he considers himself the one TRUE critic, always decrying the fall of popular culture and making deliberately contrarian reviews. he got kicked out of some even because he wouldn't stop harassing the 12 years a slave director.
>>79895878
great wall is shit, half the film is shot like a chink tv show nothing but mids and close ups with far too much looking room. Also the lighting is grade school level that only emphasises the Chinese lust to look more fair skinned
>>79896261
>I don't see the problem.
I love this negro, he makes people assmad like no other
>>79896058
He agrees with the tomato meter most of the time. He only looks contrarian if you look at his reviews of a dozen of so supposedly big movies per year. There are at least 5 oscar baits per year, so that cover a large part. Plus capeshit (except BvS) and the occasional awful "makes you think" movie.
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Is he, dare I say it, /ourmond/?
>>79896293
McQueen deserves to be harassed desu, and I saw an interview where he gave his version of the story. Popular culture has been in a free fall as well, so he is not wrong about that.
>>79896323
stay a plebeian
How is Moonlight exoticizing and not validation? It's about a kid who becomes a drug dealer and musclehead because society won't validate the idea that he should be allowed to be himself. When he meets with a childhood friend he realizes what Juan told him when he was little was true and that nobody can tell him who he has to be, he just has to choose it for himself. He has an intimate moment of vulnerability with Kevin because all his frustrations and desires have been legitimized after years of society pushing back.
Sorry /tv/ I know you like this reviewer but this is literally fucking retarded. The movie is not at all about responding to politically-correct notions of oppression, it's about the catharsis that comes from accepting who you are. The last shot in the movie isn't some fucknugget gaybashers get their just dues, it's Chiron feeling like a kid again because he's getting to validate his repressed feelings.
>>79896386
>black males—America’s all-purpose fear-and-lust fetish
what the fuck did they mean by this? Fucking racist liberal writer.
>defended jack and jill
>a product placement and ad that went on for an hour
>>79896416
hahahah they killed da nazis :^))))))
10/10
die nazis die
>>79896024
With the death of Ebert, this is true.
>Dullest franchise guy
Fucking hell
His taste in movies is fucking bizarre
>>79896542
>Ebert
>anything but a glorified pleb
Lmao, he got his jaw removed so he could suck Hollywood's cock better.
>Arnold hates a critically acclaimed movie
Whoa, didn't expect that. Shocking!
>>79896024
He's usually an interesting read and is honestly not as much of a contrarian as people say he is, he likes plenty of critically acclaimed films.
>>79896124
You sound swell.
>>79895513
why is he so based bros?
>>79896323
this will never be an argument reddit
>>79896223
t. Capeshit fag
Armond White is a house negro.
>>79896416
Well he was called a faggot his whole life and bullied and then grew up and had one gay moment now all of a sudden thats who he is. If anything, black people hate gay and especially gay black people more than anything.
>>79897822
nothing wrong with that
>>79897822
better than him being a pavement monkey nigger
>>79897803
>>79897773
butthurt faggot detected
Denzel came off as cunt.
August Wilson fuckfest yet I want my award for it.
>>79897865
black people hate gay
You're 100% on the money.. Over time as this movie reaches more of the urban areas the truth will come out.. This was a black movie written for a white audience.
>>79896749
It's more like critics' standards are so low nowadays that when a real critic like Armond gives his honest opinion on something he sounds contrarian by comparison.
We live in a world where capeshit and ghostbusters (2016) are certified fresh for fuck's sake.
lol of course he would hate the gay black movie
keep on keeping on Armond
>>79898068
Arnold gives capeshit good reviews all the time, but only if it's a legitimately bad one. He gave BvS a good review and TDK a bad one.
He thinks Assasins Creed is a better movie then The Silence. And compared them praising AC's religious themes while bashing Silence's.
>>79896662
I agree, but unlike most plebs and the ones against him he can defend it
>>79896662
Because it's not actually his "taste", he just makes controversial reviews to get attention, he's literally clickbait: The critic.
>see black person
>have negative emotional reaction
>see gay person
>have negative emotional reaction
>see black gay person
>double bad emotional reaction
guys... am I bad person... am-am I shitlord..
Based
he also hated Get Out
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445206/jordan-peeles-get-out-trite-get-whitey-movie
>>79898056
Gays, mexicans, and then whites probably
>>79898621
>see Armond White
>have a positive reaction
How does he do it?
>>79895597
>>79895621
He liked Jack and Jill - and yet still feels the need to include a five-syllable word in every fucking sentence he writes. How anyone could take this pretentious twat seriously is beyond me.
>>79898000
and neither this
>>79895909
your post is so fucking retarded I don't even know where to begin.
>>79900027
You don't think flamboyant gays don't make it harder for the one's that just want to keep to themselves?
>captcha:3900 Rainbow
I'd just like to thank Moonlight for teaching me that even gay black people grow up to be lifelong criminals
Such an inclusive profession deserves to be celebrated
>>79898619
>clickbait the critic
>works for literal who tier gay webzine and the failing National Review
his schtick isn't working then.
>>79898741
You judged someone for their merits instead of their looks for once.
Or maybe it's just the beard.
>>79900187
kek. oh you
>>79900187
>>79900100
This, I'm gay but I hate gay culture.
I just happen to like dudes, but when I see those fucking rainbow parades,and that extreme flamboyant shit it just makes me cringe
The savior Hollywood needs, but doesn't deserve right now.
>>79900544
prove you're gay post a pic of your shoes
>>79900237
Yes, most clickbait critics are not very popular, and it's the only thing they can do to get even a few people to read them.
I like how his review made Get Out have a 99%
>>79895513
is he, dare I say it, /ournigga/?
>>79895513
How is he always right?
>>79896024
His criterion essays are fantastic
>>79896415
Dude seems nice
>>79898056
>black cast
>black director
>based on a play by a black guy
you sure it's for whites?
>>79896131
Lol, hes an actually gay black man pointing out the chasteness of a black gay film and he's uncomfortable with a movie that just wants you to pity people like him. Asking for nuanced representation isnt contrarian, it's supposed to be the endgame of your stupid social progressiveness
>always does the opposite
>even his last name
Really makes u think...
>So, you can how a lack of white blood cells can be dangerous to the human body.
>>79903574
Where's the white teacher?