>Taylor Swift’s invasion of the movie-box-office charts is another step in the banalization of moviegoing. Her three-hour concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is not a cultural advance like Richard Lester’s 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night, which gave aesthetic validation to Beatlemania. It’s the opposite: a demonstration of our era’s lost aesthetic standards and submission to mob madness, analogous to what’s occurred with politicized regime media. Fans’ artistic immaturity is being exploited as surely as illegal border-crossers are labeled “asylum seekers.” Swifties seek asylum from their emotional insecurities in her hideously samey, self-absorbed songs.
> British director Sam Wrench a rock-video pro, having done concert films for Billie Eilish, Luke Bryan, Lizzo, and The Weeknd — transcribes the 20-city Eras tour. But he’s no Leni Riefenstahl able to turn the event into an impressive aesthetic spectacle (even though he collapses favorite angles from three shows at the Los Angeles SoFi Arena). The Eras Tour is not even as impressive as U2 3D, a superior follow-up to the group’s Rattle and Hum, Laurie Anderson’s Home of the Brave, or Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense. Even racist Spike Lee called the latter “the greatest concert movie ever made,” meaning better than Richard Pryor Live in Concert and Prince’s Sign o’ the Times. That’s how easily Millennial hype forces consensus.
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> It’s tragic that the media perpetuate Swift’s insensitivity and tastelessness. Parents should be concerned about Swift grooming their kids into cynicism and selfishness. The teens in TikTok clips who pitifully bounce and sing along with the film’s pre-recorded concert are the flip side of those nerds and sociopaths who lined up for The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo. Boomer parents may want to let them have their fun — same as toying with matches and playing in the traffic. But here’s a frightening fact of the Swifties pheenom: These kids seem ready for a leader, anxious for totalitarianism. It will take a counterrevolution to repair Swift’s moral, aesthetic, and political damage.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/taylor-swifts-asylum-seekers/
>It will take a counterrevolution to repair Swift’s moral, aesthetic, and political damage
What exactly is he referring to here
Armond White will lead the white supremacist taking back of the country.
Swift 2028 is coming and it is real.
>boomer parents
Is he saying kids today have boomer parents?
I don't think he realises that Swifites likely have millennial parents.
Swifties are millenials and zoomers who have boomers and gen x as parents, respectively
Ah, maybe I'm the one who's out of touch.
He ain't the king of Cinemaphile for nothin'.
I think it's sad that's he's the only critic who's not afraid of speaking his mind even if he sounded like a contrarian
He only sounds like a contrarian because every film reviewer is a literal fricking moron that constantly praises the absolute worthless shit that has been passed of as film for the last 15 years or more.
No, i think this is revisionism.
He definitely had some absolutely ridiculous and nearly indefensible opinions back in the day. From my understanding, he's become more of a wildcard over the years.
I'm willing to concede on certain points, but I stand by my claim that most film reviewers are morons and that film is far shitter than it used to be
youre definitely right about that, but it's all relative and if everything sucks, somethings suck worse.
>I stand by my claim that most film reviewers are morons and that film is far shitter than it used to be
And you're correct. As pretentious and basic Armond can be sometimes, he looks comparatively better because film criticism is in absolute shambles. That guy who used to review in NYT, AO Scott, bailed because capeshit and Marveldrones were driving him mad
>film [criticism] is in absolute shambles
people will make this into some political thing, but really it's mostly streaming's fault.
Yeah. Film reviewers do mostly lean left, but they used to back in the day too.
He sounds like a contrarian because he's one step shy of it and sounds like he ate a thesaurus. His reviews are a series of fairly basic opinions and arguments when boiled down. Basic arguments half obscured by historical references and older (better) films
dumb Black person is a snydergay and that's more than enough for me to ignore everything he says
i love this gay Black person like you wouldn't believe
i kneel, my king
Remember when Cinemaphile hated Armond White and dismissed all his reviews because he gave The Dark Knight a bad score?
nope. Because Cinemaphile isn't, wasn't, and never will be one person.
So his main complaint is that people who engage in this particular flavor of escapism are engaging in escapism? Which he finds banal because reasons, unlike the other flavors of escapism, which he's fond of, that are actually good.
Well said. So called Swifties deserve the rope.
I have yet to meet a Swiftie who doesn't wanna "suck dick for Taytay"
Let’s hear Tay-Tay’s response to shit. Get a tripcode on girl, give us your thoughts
You think she's still here lurking Cinemaphile of all boards?
..Does he know?
Anon, once you’re here, you’re here forever
idk if there is that much to it. it is just a $10 experience of a $100 concert. just a DVD release sooner and with fake community of swifties
Gotta disagree with Armond here and it's evident his black is seeping through his veneer of Whiteness. Tay Tay is an Aryan goddess