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.

[Raging Capybara]

RLM worshipped The Force Awakens. That's the only thing you need to know about them.

They are famous because they only give safe opinions about pop shit. If a film is considered bad they'll say it's awful, but if something is considered great they'll say it's fine. They love to mock nerd culture, but they watch all of these films on day one to do their stupid reviews, and they are going to give the same boring and safe opinion every time.

James was way better than RLM when he was still alive. When he refused to review that garbage Ghostbusters remake, he nailed it. Obviously bad films shouldn't be watched, if you know it's going to suck, why bother? In my opinion, some of the best videos James has ever made. The amount of butthurt that ensued was hilarious. You can tell it hit a nerve on the "film reviews" community.

 

[Clark_Ashton]

It was announced on this week episode of Who Are These Podcasts? that the next podcast they will be "reviewing" (more like roasting, for those who are not familiar with the format) on their show is going to be the Cinemassacre podcast.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Oh, I would say 100% for sure it's Screen Wave.

Yep, James is just dead inside while Screen Wave probably is aping RLM just so they could be famous too but aren't organic enough to do it on their own.

 

[seri0us]

So with how often he's like "I don't have time for this... I need to take care of my kids" it would be kinda funny if it turned out he was neglecting a/o abusing them.

 

[kozas]

Best rex viper song?

That's easy. Whichever of them that is shortest.

 

[José Mourinho]

Best rex viper song?

First one ("Mighty Wings and Hadoukens") isn't too bad so that would be the best one. Funnily enough, for each song it goes downhill.

 

[ICameToBooli]

I am curious as to why anyone likes RLM? I tried watching the episode posted earlier and nothing they said was interesting or funny.

It's comfy shit ideal to play in the background when you're chilling at home, but I certainly don't devote my full attention in watching their videos.

 

[seri0us]

It's comfy shit ideal to play in the background when you're chilling at home, but I certainly don't devote my full attention in watching their videos.

Me when the video author says something like "well, i hope this is entertaining as background or whatever" but I've been paying full attention the whole time

 

[The Valeyard]

James collaborated with Matt McMuscles for a What Happened? about Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

 

[69ing Ur Mom]

It was announced on this week episode of Who Are These Podcasts? that the next podcast they will be "reviewing" (more like roasting, for those who are not familiar with the format) on their show is going to be the Cinemassacre podcast.

I tried listening to Who Are These Podcasts? and it was worse than RLM. It's a bunch of unfunny hacks trying to recreate the unfunny hack "shock DJs" that were on the radio 30 years ago.

How the fuck can you listen to something where the hosts are fake laughing at each others unfunny jokes. Listening to 5 minutes of it made me reconsider my choices in life. I'd be much better off if I blatantly started grifting like the fucks on that podcast. You'd have to lack critical thinking skills to like that shit.

 

[Least Concern]

I tried listening to Who Are These Podcasts? and it was worse than RLM. It's a bunch of unfunny hacks trying to recreate the unfunny hack "shock DJs" that were on the radio 30 years ago.

How the fuck can you listen to something where the hosts are fake laughing at each others unfunny jokes. Listening to 5 minutes of it made me reconsider my choices in life. I'd be much better if I blatantly started grifting like the fucks on that podcast. You'd have to lack critical thinking skills to like that shit.

IIRC, the people who do that podcast are buddy-buddy with the Dick Show crew, so they probably modeled their schtick at least a little bit off of how Dick does his show.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

There's something honestly sad about how poorly James monetized his channel and marketed himself. Everything about him looks solidly middle class, but he was one of the biggest hits of Youtube for years. The poster who said he could've made over a million bucks with simple shit like Patreon and referral links is spot on. It reminds me of all the brilliant artists over the years who end making bad financial decisions and losing out on millions.

I can't even bring myself to hate or laugh at the state of Cinemassacre nowadays (except maybe the plagiarism thing). It gives me the exact same emotions some band that made a few great albums and then sold out and put out bland, dull trash. It's just kind of sad to see because there's usually the spark of something decent but it feels utterly dead inside and gives you no emotion but making you also feel utterly dead inside.

I'm just glad he occasionally puts out some good episodes (even if subpar by classic standards) like both of the Commodore 64 ones. Thankfully, the skit was short and mostly pointless instead of being a long mess that goes nowhere like a lot of Screenwave skits are. It's too bad too, I would've loved to see another Freddy dream sequence like back 15 years ago (James looks so fucking young there, my god).

 

[BrunoMattei]

James collaborated with Matt McMuscles for a What Happened? about Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

I'm watching this. It really doesn't go over anything new that hasn't been surmised on a wiki page or the IMDB page. James finally appears in the video 10 minutes in exactly. Something something not enough time to do this. James brings some new trivia that I haven't heard of before like Tarantino being interested in Halloween 6. It sounds like Tarantino's idea was the template for how From Dusk Till Dawn begins. The Scott Spiegel pitch sounds insane. John Carpenter apparently wanted to bring Myers to space (??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????) keep in mind that this is the first I've heard of any of this.

James' segment is entertaining. Just skip to the 10 minute mark and enjoy. And I agree with him. Fuck the producer's cut. Fuck the Thorn Cult sub-plot. At least the theatrical cut delivered with the gore. It has a head explosion and Mikey pushes a guy through a fucking cell door.

 

[Clark_Ashton]

How the fuck can you listen to something where the hosts are fake laughing at each others unfunny jokes.

Well, I also enjoy watching RLM's Best of the Worst, so I guess we just have different tastes. But I would like to add: us Europoors have our own special way to enjoy some of american medias. Not exactly "ironically", but not entirely sincerely either. Ex-american radio fans misunderstanding and raging at modern american internet culture is funny and also somewhat exotic to me. I'm pretty sure that if I was north american, I couldn't listen to it. Same thing with RLM.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Damn....

And hey, a new episode of cringe podcast highlights:

 

[Mongo0o]

I am curious as to why anyone likes RLM? I tried watching the episode posted earlier and nothing they said was interesting or funny.

You watched Best of the Worst where they talk about completely trash films that are randomly sent to the studio by fans. Watch Half in the Bad and you'll see why people enjoy them. Mike and Jay have an extensive knowledge of the film industry and they talk about movies in ways most other people wouldn't think to, while still having entertaining humor. That's why their channel has superseded most other boring arm-chair critics.

James is the same way but only when it's something he's invested in like classic horror.

Nikes_JustDoIt said:
I know I am late on this but is it the slobs or James that want to be the next RLM?

It's obvious one of the fatties was a huge HITB fan. That's why Rental Reviews came to be. The big problem with that show was the fact that none of them had any chemistry. The only opinion anyone wanted to hear was James.

James was way better than RLM when he was still alive. When he refused to review that garbage Ghostbusters remake, he nailed it. Obviously bad films shouldn't be watched, if you know it's going to suck, why bother? In my opinion, some of the best videos James has ever made. The amount of butthurt that ensued was hilarious. You can tell it hit a nerve on the "film reviews" community.

Ghostbusters was always one of his favorite movies. That "I refuse" video will go down as one of his all time best. I remember when it came out idiotic celebrities like Patton Oswalt attacked him with no basis on Twitter. Some random /tv/ anon then replied a picture of Slimer with his recently dead wife's face on it.

 

[Wraith]

Ghostbusters was always one of his favorite movies. That "I refuse" video will go down as one of his all time best. I remember when it came out idiotic celebrities like Patton Oswalt attacked him with no basis on Twitter. Some random /tv/ anon then replied a picture of Slimer with his recently dead wife's face on it.

The best one was with lindsey ellis thought she could take a shot at rolfe. She made a comment about making judgments about things before seeing them, and someone countered that she murdered her baby before seeing it too. Good times.
That was a time I was really proud of james.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

I’m going to a convention this weekend where Justin Silverman, Kieran and Tony from Shit the Shitties and his crew are guesting as.

I’ve already acknowledged Justin Silverman for kicking Chris out of TooManyGames to his face. I hope I don’t get out of line and embarrass myself.

 

[69ing Ur Mom]

You watched Best of the Worst where they talk about completely trash films that are randomly sent to the studio by fans. Watch Half in the Bad and you'll see why people enjoy them. Mike and Jay have an extensive knowledge of the film industry and they talk about movies in ways most other people wouldn't think to, while still having entertaining humor. That's why their channel has superseded most other boring arm-chair critics.

I listened to a couple Half in the Bag episodes and they were better. The guys were interested in the movies/topics they were discussing which eliminated the basis for my hate of the Best of the Worst video that was previously posted.

If I can tell that the people making the video, be it James or RLM, have no interest, I'm not going to watch it. RLM shouldn't have put out that Best of the Worst episode. For that same reason, James shouldn't have put out most of what has appeared on the Cinemassacre channel over the past 2 years.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

RLM is a bit over-the-hill too--they were funnier and more passionate in the older BotW eps--but they're still fairly watchable and definitely better than the stuff cinemassacre churns out these days. And they stay away from politics/culture war garbage, even if they seem a bit soy-adjacent (buddies with Patton Oswalt, they didn't instantly bash TFA as soon as it came out, etc).

"Better than cinemassacre" isn't the highest praise in the world though. James' film content has always been flat-out bad, his movie reviews are just third grade book report plot synopses. "and then jason came back to life, and then he goes around killing people, and then the girl points a gun at the sheriff, and then there's some comedy, and then... and then... THE END"
Yes, he genuinely loves movies, but can't talk or think about them analytically. That's not his talent, which is why he got big with avgn.