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.

[Travoltron]

I wonder if he will touch on this new career path he chose in his yet-to-be-published autobiograhpy.

The first book to be published in the "I could have, but" tense.

 

[Tism the Return]

No you guys don't understand James doesn't have time to write his book either, he's a family man with kids working a full time streamer "content creator" job.

 

[Pickle Dick]

James did bring up he went to Las Vegas last year to plan for a future AVGN episode, so it's good to see him finally making it. That being said, I know nothing about Hack the Movies, is it a good show?

 

[PeriodicTrouble]

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James did bring up he went to Las Vegas last year to plan for a future AVGN episode, so it's good to see him finally making it. That being said, I know nothing about Hack the Movies, is it a good show?

Hack The Movies is basically Tony trying to be like RLM, but ending up like Allison Pregler's show Movie Nights.

 

[Tism the Return]

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James did bring up he went to Las Vegas last year to plan for a future AVGN episode, so it's good to see him finally making it. That being said, I know nothing about Hack the Movies, is it a good show?

The only good thing Tony has done on his own is the jokerfan279 videos, everything else comes off as him trying to make unfunny shit he says into "memes". It's very old Nostalgia Critic-esque.

 

[Pickle Dick]

more vid of james playing his kid's levels

 

[TopCat]

 

[Cubanodun]

Lol, I'm just leaving this shit here:

James is retired and he doesn't give a shit. He even refused to star in a major horror movie which would grant him a lot of connections in Hollywood and possibly even a producer for his next short film. He obviously gave up on life right now.

His lack of ambition is astounding and sad.

Yeah because touching Hollywood doesnt ruin people, lets be real if he get near them 8 out of 10 he is going to be forced to be political and he will burn what he had or could have

i prefer him sperging on YouTube

 

[Stab You in the Back]

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The only frustrating part of these videos is James' ignorance of game mechanics. He doesn't spin jump once on the Super Mario World level.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

Hack the Movies is just Rental Reviews minus James and Mike. Tony even uses the same set.

He often has Justin Silverman, the highly regarded professional to round the Rental Reviews nostalgia.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Darkman was a good episode, so he can still put out a good one.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Yeah because touching Hollywood doesnt ruin people, lets be real if he get near them 8 out of 10 he is going to be forced to be political and he will burn what he had or could have

i prefer him sperging on YouTube

But he doesn't sperg on youtube either. He just reads from a script written by someone else.

 

[Exbein]

You guys need to understand; the fucker is 40 and looks the way he does. There's no Hollywood future for him and he's not delusional enough to think there would be. I'm sure a cameo somewhere would be neat but lets not sit here and think he's pissing away golden opportunity "over nothing". Dude is smack dab into middle age with responsibility now. If he wasn't gonna parlay his YouTube fame into something substantial in 2011 or 2012, it ain't happening now.

that's the problem with Hollywood hopefuls. its all or nothing. strike big or broken dreams. no one wants to be the 2nd string guy even though its a respectable job.
he can mooch off that King Kong guy to make him land some small 2nd line director or stuff like that. And he can work at it to make it a steady job. but no, I think James is a dream big guy and wouldn't settle for anything less than the top spot.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

that's the problem with Hollywood hopefuls. its all or nothing. strike big or broken dreams. no one wants to be the 2nd string guy even though its a respectable job.
he can mooch off that King Kong guy to make him land some small 2nd line director or stuff like that. And he can work at it to make it a steady job. but no, I think James is a dream big guy and wouldn't settle for anything less than the top spot.

At some point reality has to set in too, though.

 

[Radical Cadre]

I still like [JAMES].

 

[BullDogsLipBrandClamjuice]

You guys need to understand; the fucker is 40 and looks the way he does. There's no Hollywood future for him and he's not delusional enough to think there would be. .... If he wasn't gonna parlay his YouTube fame into something substantial in 2011 or 2012, it ain't happening now.

Couldnt have said it better. The cinnemassacre truth subreddit and threads on v or tv are full of people who think he could be doing great things and arnt living up to their standards.
The guy made something that blew up when he was on his early 20s fresh out of film school. Kept with it and blew his load on an allegedly shitty movie (havnt seen it thats what i hear). The dude is pushing 40 with a wife and kids so I cant blame him for coasting off his nerd character. Hell wouldnt you if it was paying the bills? I respect the dude for his early work, hell Board James is his magnum opus in my eyes. I thought it was gonna be some throw away bs but it was pretty good for what it was.
If he didnt do the nerd movie I would think he wouldve made some 1950's scifi B movie or some grind house horror flick like Texas Chainsaw...
In my opinion the guy should focus on his movie reviews, i mean his monster madness videos. I learnt a lot of film history from them, hell it got me into the old monster flicks. Could he do that for ever? Nah but it seems like its something he enjoyed, like what he wanted to do. Like you said the dude's 40 he dosnt need to be raging at old shitty games he dosnt play anymore. Its just a paycheck i get it.
You can say what you want about the guy, and plenty of people shit on him for recreation(amongst other people)
But does anyone really think at this stage he's gonna pull some magic with the nerd? Get out of here. The R.O.B. episode wouldve been a good ending to the character.
I know he made a sequal to a college film he made, the flying skull or some shit, and more people wanted to watch Justin Silverman's Gangar collection than Jame's horror flick. Which is a shame, mightve swayed him away from taking risks with his ideas and kept him marching foward with things he knows people will tune in for. Even if its to shit on him. He's got kids to worry about. Imagine a dude more concerned with pleasing fanboys online than his own flesh and blood. Fuck man god bless em

 

[Geralt of Rivia]

Regardless of any questionable decisions or general fuckery from Matei, James has remained a considerable content creator in comparison to the vast majority of everyone else on Youtube. He's generally kept politics out of his videos, I never heard him sperg about orange man bad or old man bad. The closest I've ever seen him get to anything political was his refusal to review the fucking atrocious Ghostbusters reboot. He generally focuses on making stuff one step at a time instead of rushing anything out.

So, I'm just here to ride the wave and see wherever he ends up, maybe he'll be 60 and review the PS5 and shit like that. Maybe he'll retire and focus on family, who knows. His decision to make, no one else's.

 

[Clark_Ashton]

Life doesn't end at 40, though. Mike Stoklasa is 42, and Ridley Scott was 40 when he made his first film after doing tv for years... I don't think anyone expects James Rolfe to become a successful filmmaker out of the blue, but it's kind of disappointing to see him abandon all of his creative pursuits. For the longest time he was this goofy but passionate youtuber who was trying to make it as a B-movie/genre movie director, and it was inspirational to some degree. In every interview, and until recently, he was always specifying: "people know me for the AVGN, but I'm really a movie guy and an indie director." A Movie Making Nerd, the title of his autobiography. And now he's reading bad scripts, alone in his garage in front of a green-screen. A bit depressing for his ex-fans.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Life doesn't end at 40, though. Mike Stoklasa is 42, and Ridley Scott was 40 when he made his first film after doing tv for years... I don't think anyone expects James Rolfe to become a successful filmmaker out of the blue, but it's kind of disappointing to see him abandon all of his creative pursuits. For the longest time he was this goofy but passionate youtuber who was trying to make it as a B-movie/genre movie director, and it was inspirational to some degree. In every interview, and until recently, he was always specifying: "people know me for the AVGN, but I'm really a movie guy and an indie director." A Movie Making Nerd, the title of his autobiography. And now he's reading bad scripts, alone in his garage in front of a green-screen. A bit depressing for his ex-fans.

Alejandro Jodorowsky did Fandy & Lis when he was 38 and El Topo when he was 40. Alan Rickman got his big break in Die Hard when he was 40. Charles Bukowski made it on his own as a poet at 49.

40 is not the end of the world.

50 may be.

 

[Raging Capybara]

I don't want James to be the next Spielberg, I just wanted him to do anything interesting at all!

He is not even going to write the next Monster Madness episodes, this is just inexcusable. The difference between him and Spoony right now is that the former has a family and money. Because the apathy, laziness, and disdain for their own work are the same.

And Rex Viper is a bad joke, they released only two songs and both are lame covers. They can't even write their own original songs. Sorry, but I don't consider it decent new content.