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I said a few weeks ago when the "Behind the Scenes" video was released that James isn't necessarily a cow yet. The problem is he's becoming one. We're seeing all of the red flags we've seen before with all these other fallen YouTubers. He lacks the passion he once had, he wants out but doesn't want to give up the career, he's starting to lose it with his fans bashing him more and more. Pretty seen he's going to be sperging out regularly at his fans, demanding his fans to support him more, putting even less effort into the product.
I would say a few more videos like his behind the scenes video, and I would for sure call him a cow. Something tells me though that this is why James did not respond to criticize or any drama, as behind the friendly boomer persona he has there is a dark side or some shit that is quick to anger, and pretty much just wants asspats from everyone no matter what he does. Hell, before this the largest controversies/shitshows that I can remember were the ghost-busters 2016 review. Which that controversy handled itself when james just shut up. The AVGN movie reception which was okay at best, and shitload of fuck at worse, and the cheetahman 2 Special Edition controversy. With all 3 James was either totally silent, or let mike talk for him.
He couldn't be bothered to write the reviews for this year's Monster Madness. Even when he does review a movie, he admits to watching it on mute with the subtitles on. Screenwave can't even do a review without copying somebody else's work. It's clear why they stick with AVGN and not movie reviews.
I think this is the biggest problem, James was lazy and didn't put the effort into Monster Madness so he gave it to a bunch of randos to write scripts for the reviews. I don't know if James plagerized it himself, it was more likely a massive fuck up or an intentional thieft by the writing crew putting these scripts together. My guess is they never watched these movies so had no frame of reference of what they were writing about which is why they took so many IMDB trivia and Wikipedia summaries for the reviews. Even if James didn't plagerize the reviews himself, the fact he had to admit he gave the project to his Screenwave crew is proof that he didn't write these reviews himself and probably just brought it back for revenue.Kinda sad we went from having an actually pretty good AVGN episode which is one step forward, and then two steps backwards with this Monster Madness plagiarism issue.
I can kind of understand if there are people are making edits to the scripts, like maybe proofreading or adding some new ideas to make the quality better with some credits and some valuable discussion, but if you aren't capable of watching a movie and giving your own thoughts to it, it just feels no passion is being put into all of it. And plagiarism is the icing on top of this shitcake.
If Chris Bores is the one who is doing this, everyone would shit their pants over it. If James is doing it...
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They half-assed the whole thing and made up excuses when they got caught. Personally, and you may disagree, but I don't view lifting IMDB trivia and Wikipedia summaries as necessarily plagerism. They're public encyclopedias anyone can reference, but it is a sign of laziness. Instead of James talking about these films from his heart, he's just reading these articles about it and calling it a day. I'm actually starting to perfer the Half In The Bag style discussion videos he did for Monster Madness over this because at least those were actually his thoughts on the movie. This whole shit show probably stings more because Monster Madness was everyone's favorite Cinemassacre show, it exposed you to all these horror films you probably never heard of that James was really passionate about. Like your high school buddy telling you about the horror movie he rented and recommending it to you.
I wouldn't go so far as to say he has to something dark to him. There is a sad reality that Kiwis need to acknowledge when it comes to these fallen YouTubers or any other content creator: it can literally happen to anyone. Everyone thinks it won't happen to them and they'll be able to avoid it, but yet we see so many people fall down the same path. Including professional entertainers.
Maybe the same people who made that Three Stooges NES game.
The issue with James sorting his problems out is that he needs to remove the slobs from working with him and regaining his passion back. The issue is that is very unlikely and currently Cinemassacre is just a springboard for the Slobs to get their content across in the form of the Trojan Horse that is James.
Bozo the Clown, He owned the license at the time.
This sounded so absurd that I had to check it.
from: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-14-fi-12400-story.html
James strikes me as shy and meek by nature but talkative about things he enjoys, which is probably why AVGN started since people like Mike Matei thought it was hilarious to see James Rolfe of all people freaking out over Nintendo games. That's why he stayed away from drama because it isn't in his nature to engage in that sort of thing.
It's not plagiarism to cite Wikipedia or IMDB, but you have to cite your source as Wikipedia or IMDB. Just say, "according to IMDB" or "according to Wikipedia". Wikipedia I know demands this with their Creative Commons license in that you have to attribute them and their editors as the source.
The thing with Rex Viper as well is that it's not even his own project, he isn't doing anything but playing guitar and it's clear the lead singer of it is just wanting to use the channel to further their own career. That made it perfectly clear to me how the Cinemassacre channel is just Screenwave wanting to further their own careers.
I think it's all about how you're doing it and how much you're doing it. When the crust of the reviews are barely reworded sentences taken from these encyclopedias, I don't think we can talk about simply "referencing" them anymore. But maybe talking about plagiarism is also inaccurate. Like @BrunoMattei said, it's kind of a grey area.
Ultimately it doesn't matter how we call it. The fact remains that the person who wrote these reviews could have done so without even watching the movies.
Briefly. Anyway, I haven't seen the recent vid, but I have no doubt that the slobs decided to pick it because the director of that made Parasite. A bit disappointing if you ask me because there's some really off the wall and crazy Korean horror that's better than this one. But that would require commitment to search them out and we all know what a bad word thar is to them these days.
It's depressing to say the least that a major part of my Octobers for the past decade (and easily James's biggest creative passion in my mind) has sunk to this.
They won't ever go away. Now the entire Cinemassacre catalogue is suspect even if it's reasonable to look for plagiarism or not. Even a first rate Halloween episode is going to be filled with comments about this scandal regardless.
Passion can return to a creative person, but there needs to be a spark for it. Can James find it? Not with those cancerous growths attached to him, but removal may not be the best option for the kind of life he's leading now.
