Armond, Don’t Give it Up
Regarding the nitpicking complaints about the inaccuracies in Armond White’s reviews for Death Race, Pineapple Express and The Dark Knight, I feel like Mr. White has become some type of Sarah Palin/ Barack Obama hybrid where readers are slinging anything they can find at him because his intelligence is too tall a mountain for them to go up against.
Wake up, people! Do you really wanna be left with Stephanie Zacharek and Nathan Lee for the rest of your lives if Armond finally decides to say “screw it” and walks?
—Mark Osborn, Austin, TX
BS Merchant
Armond White would not know talent if it came in the shape of a beautiful naked woman and sat on his face. His slating of Danny Boyle’s movies suggests he has spent way too much time analyzing films that are described as classics by a film school and is merely regurgitating passages of critique from other sources; he has his head so far up his own arse he thinks he actually knows film.
As with the majority of film critics—i.e., failed wannabe filmmakers who have no imagination, so slag off other films due to their own un-creative insecurities—Mr. White should start a new career. Bullshit merchant would be perfect.
—Matthew Drinkwater
Missing Mugger
I haven’t seen Mugger’s column in a while. Does he still write for you? (Please say he does—he’s the best of the batch)
—Douglas Segal, NYC
Editor’s Note: Russ Smith wrote his Mugger column for the Press for 20 years but has recently moved on to other projects. You can check out more of what he’s doing in Baltimore, at www.splicetoday.com
Regarding the nitpicking complaints about the inaccuracies in Armond White’s reviews for Death Race, Pineapple Express and The Dark Knight, I feel like Mr. White has become some type of Sarah Palin/ Barack Obama hybrid where readers are slinging anything they can find at him because his intelligence is too tall a mountain for them to go up against.
Wake up, people! Do you really wanna be left with Stephanie Zacharek and Nathan Lee for the rest of your lives if Armond finally decides to say “screw it” and walks?
—Mark Osborn, Austin, TX
BS Merchant
Armond White would not know talent if it came in the shape of a beautiful naked woman and sat on his face. His slating of Danny Boyle’s movies suggests he has spent way too much time analyzing films that are described as classics by a film school and is merely regurgitating passages of critique from other sources; he has his head so far up his own arse he thinks he actually knows film.
As with the majority of film critics—i.e., failed wannabe filmmakers who have no imagination, so slag off other films due to their own un-creative insecurities—Mr. White should start a new career. Bullshit merchant would be perfect.
—Matthew Drinkwater
Missing Mugger
I haven’t seen Mugger’s column in a while. Does he still write for you? (Please say he does—he’s the best of the batch)
—Douglas Segal, NYC
Editor’s Note: Russ Smith wrote his Mugger column for the Press for 20 years but has recently moved on to other projects. You can check out more of what he’s doing in Baltimore, at www.splicetoday.com
