James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,812 63.5%
  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%
  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%
  • Board James

    Votes: 441 15.5%
  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%
  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%

  • Total voters
    2,852
Kieran replied to a 4chan thread and used to sperg the fuck out on the truth subreddit so I'd be more shocked if he didn't read any comments.
Yeah. In the episode I listed he talks about how he used to really let the comments bother him, and he implies he just ignores them now (or he's grown past caring). I think he's full of it.
It seems like he's been reading comments and getting slightly upset. Because the moment he gets a little drunk? It's basically all he can talk about.
I'd bet that something like half of his talking points/diversions this week involved online hate, accusations that he derails the show, etc.
 
I took the liberty of reading through the entire thread to catch up. I had no idea about the plagiarism fiasco, and things seem to be even worse than I thought they were.

All I'm saying is that I'm gonna throttle the bastard who sent me that Rex Viper live video


In the latest podcast episode they claimed they killed it at the Rex Viper show.
 
If you're showing Freddy and Jason in human forms early on (not the old episodes, the scenes where there's fire background obviously), why reappear as plastic figurines based on the NES games?
If I know my Bimmys there was probably a Chucky-like backstory that got cut, when they're in hell they have their human forms but if they want to come back to Earth their souls get into the closest things that resemble their human bodies.
 
So much wisdom into James' fall here lately. You guys are great. It's sad honestly to see him like this.
If someone hasn't said it before, he is under a group of guys who are the LJN of production companies. I hate this time period concerning him. It's soulless.
It's because the forum is a platform for discussion instead of the constant complaints and memes perpetrated on the reddit daily.
 
So much wisdom into James' fall here lately. You guys are great. It's sad honestly to see him like this.
If someone hasn't said it before, he is under a group of guys who are the LJN of production companies. I hate this time period concerning him. It's soulless.
I mean, is it really their fault? Matt McKnuckles is doing fine, I don't know about any other Screenwave protegé but I think it's Jimmy that gave up completely.

Sad to see him like this, but at least the latest episodes were ok, hopefully now that he realised his musical dreams he'll start giving a shit about AVGN again.
 
Screenwave seems to do a hands-off approach with the other Youtubers they are affiliated with, and let them do their own thing, only asking them to show up at their conventions and related events.

With James they are directly controlling his channel and content.

Just watched the new episode. The review itself was actually fine, the Jason Vorhees Had a Farm bit actually managed to get a chuckle out of me. Then the ending sketch came and holy shit you were right about it going Irate Gamer levels of bad. For god’s sake James, have some dignity…
He used to try with his skits on his older videos, a lot of people love to shit on episodes like Crazy Castle, but the effort put into that one makes it look like a masterpiece compared to how he does skits nowadays.
 
At this point it feels like anyone aping AVGN like the Irate Gamer would write a better AVGN episode than the Slobwave human slugs.

I liked the episode until James started reviewing the Friday the 13th game. It's like whoever wrote this watched one of the older episodes with skits, the ones that would have a character maybe say one or two lines between shots of James playing the games and thought "yes, that's what this video needs" without realizing that cramming a bunch of unfunny jokes that maybe have something to do with the review is not in fact "exactly what the video needs". The old MacDonald bit goes on for way too long and it's not even that funny. And what's with the constant music? It sucks.

4/10 wouldn't even have it as background audio for painting miniatures. It's bad, Nostalgia Critic surrounded by black man and woman skits tier bad.
 
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The latest episode seemed to of been better geared towards just doing horror C64 games, opposed to the Freddy and Jason angle. Why even bother with that angle, considering that once James starting losing steam after the old McDonald bit. He should of just made it into a normal Halloween episode and just made it themed towards the C64. He probably could of done a more creative skit with the C64 like in the Polybus video. Though, James is clearly getting derailed by ScreenWave by them totally screwing with the formula.

This just feels like a too many Chefs in the kitchen type of scenerio opposed to an organic James is just fucking it up type of deal. Especially considering the plagerism controversy and this Rex Viper Chernobyl effect that is going on with his channel currently. The lost revenue seems to be something that as others have speculated, is an incredibly assine thing for James to do, considering what has been going on with his page in the last couple of years. James last couple of videos have been a massive improvement after the lemons this year, but he has to just go back to writing his own shit. If he is going to do skits, he needs to really rethink the formula in how to do them, because the ScreenWave era skits are fucking embarassing.

A good example of a skit done right in a Halloween episode was the Festers Quest episode. It was distinct and added a flare to the video that matched the content well. Watching James old videos compared to now is just upsetting. For Halloween episodes, this was better than the last couple of years, but still is not in the best ranking. He needs to get the Rex Viper shit out of his mind if he really thinks the channel is going to survive the next couple of years. Considering the negative reaction that even in the likes of this thread that Cinemassacre has picked up over the last several months. Never is good sign when there is a lot of chatter in a thread like this when fans are becoming pretty disgruntled with the Chris Bores level of bullshit.
 
The podcast quality is so abysmal that I can't watch even the highlights made by that one truther.


I know some people here like these videos but I can't get past the one-minute mark. It's way too boring, the lack of chemistry among the participants is astonishing. It's maybe funny for people who like cringe comedy but I can't stand that, it's too depressing for me.

EDIT - Also lol at these numbers.

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