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.

[I Love Beef]

The death of Saturday Morning Cartoons is a long story, but the TLDR version is that there was this raging bitch named Peggy Charren who today we would call a Mega-Karen. She had an obsessive hatred of Saturday Morning Cartoons and made a living out of it by starting her own non-profit activist group.

Over the decades they got more and more restrictive laws passed that made it harder and harder on the animation producers to get anything made. And these Karen-approved cartoons were fucking awful and kids didn't even want to watch them.

The Simpsons did an episode parodying this with Marge in the Peggy Charren role.

To be really fair, Peggy Charren was a somewhat well intentioned if misguided mega-karen. A lot of the reason why 1980s cartoons were "30 minute toy commercials" was because in the 1970s morality squads targeted animation than anything live action because it was the low hanging fruit. This was what lead to Hannah Barbera being limited to creating shows like wacky adventure sell outs spin offs of Happy Days or adaptations of games like Space Ace.

Peggy had a point in that cartoons shouldn't be marketing shill garbage and she also disliked said morality squads like Morality In Media and For the Family, but she missed the forest for the trees, like how censorship breeds creative malaise and dearth and that not all the shows that sold toys were that awful. Also, Saturday Morning Cartoons admittedly died out or were dying by the time of the early to mid 1990s. Cable and Satellite were the big new things, and Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network proved anytime was great for watching cartoons, which even local stations followed. Plus, when I was little, I enjoyed staying up late and waking up late whenever school managed to get lost for the week. Cartoons then were the last thing on my mind when I could just catch up on any weeknight or weekend afternoon.

 

[Travoltron]

Also, Saturday Morning Cartoons admittedly died out or were dying by the time of the early to mid 1990s. Cable and Satellite were the big new things,

This was also partially her fault, though. She had little to no control over cable content. She couldn't weaponize the politicians and the FCC against cable channels like she could against the broadcast television networks. So the cable cartoons thrived while the broadcast network ones suffered.

What's sad is that there actually are degenerate cartoons now that are harmful to children and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. Those watchdog groups either don't exist anymore, or have lost all their credibility and influence due to their decades of abuse of power.

 

[Tsunade-sama]

Looks like there's gonna be a Monster Madness after all.

 

[Pringles Can]

I am not disagreeing here, I too think Avatar was a boring, forgettable mess with spectacular visuals and all. But guys, just don't try and say all this on the /tv/ boards.

The only reason the movie was popular was due to 2 things IMO. One was how well it looked. Which To give it credit, avatar looks amazing even to this day. I will admit that the visuals in the movie still hold up even now. The second reason was the 3D craze that was really going strong from around 2009-2012. Nearly every movie was trying to push how crazy their movie looked with 3D. We even had crappy re-releases of the first two Toy Story movies in 3D just to jump on the trend. It might not have started the 3D trend from 09-2012, but from what I remember it was the best movie in 3D and you could really only experience that in theaters unless you wanted to spend a few thousand dollars on a shitty 3DHD TV that you would only use once then never touch again.

Asides from that avatar had absolutely nothing going for it, and is a boring film that without those 2 things would have been a major flop.

 

[Doomer_Incarnate]

I haven't tuned into Cinemassacre in-depth since like 2014, and I think the last video I watched from them up until somewhat recently was the Doom Eternal review.
Seeing the "new" Ryan made my skin jump, when the hell did that transition take place?

 

[Pringles Can]

I haven't tuned into Cinemassacre in-depth since like 2014, and I think the last video I watched from them up until somewhat recently was the Doom Eternal review.
Seeing the "new" Ryan made my skin jump, when the hell did that transition take place?

Funny enough you stopped turning in right when Screenwave came in. Although them making a huge presence was not until around 2018. After that they got really big into the videos until late 2021-early 2022 when a bunch of fucking reddit users bullied them off the channel and made them go back to being in the background more.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I haven't tuned into Cinemassacre in-depth since like 2014, and I think the last video I watched from them up until somewhat recently was the Doom Eternal review.
Seeing the "new" Ryan made my skin jump, when the hell did that transition take place?

I assume you don't mean that blob trooned out, right...?

 

[BrunoMattei]

I assume you don't mean that blob trooned out, right...?

Ryan trooned out.

 

[Lupin The Turd]

I saw a reshowing of Avatar last weekend. Gotta say the visuals are still breathtakingly gorgeous, but as many have said, the story and characters felt pretty by the numbers. I'm looking forward to the sequel at least.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Ryan trooned out.

I never liked the guy but fuck, that's awful.

 

[TopCat]

From r/thecinemassacretruth

Look at what four years with Bimmy has done to this poor hat

 

[Lupin The Turd]

Are these tards really trying to take away something from a hat getting worn out? I appreciate TCT for being a critical voice towards Cinemassacre but they're too caught up in huffing their own farts.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Are these tards really trying to take away something from a hat getting worn out? I appreciate TCT for being a critical voice towards Cinemassacre but they're too caught up in huffing their own farts.

Don't you get it? He leaves his hat in a south-facing window because he has no time to put it anywhere else!

E: thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

 

[Grog]

Are these tards really trying to take away something from a hat getting worn out? I appreciate TCT for being a critical voice towards Cinemassacre but they're too caught up in huffing their own farts.

They will talk about a hat for months but ignore the big trooning elephant in the room.
While KF was down I was wondering if there were news about Big Ryanette that I couldn't see on the cuckreddit, since trannies are sacred there. But it looks like he's not going public yet.
There's also still the slim possibility that he isn't trooning and instead he just has terrible worn out clothes that look like blouses.

 

[seri0us]

Don't you get it? He leaves his hat in a south-facing window because he has no time to put it anywhere else!

E: thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

 

[DustBuns]

They will talk about a hat for months but ignore the big trooning elephant in the room.
While KF was down I was wondering if there were news about Big Ryanette that I couldn't see on the cuckreddit, since trannies are sacred there. But it looks like he's not going public yet.
There's also still the slim possibility that he isn't trooning and instead he just has terrible worn out clothes that look like blouses.

I would agree with you if it wasn't for the tacky girl necklace and the hairless arms. This is soon to be another tragic tale of a family man trooning out and destroying his family. He has kids and I hate seeing this shit happen when kids are involved.

 

[Shieldman]

I know the reddit shit is very hit or miss here, but they're doing their own Monster Madness and some details legitimately made me laugh, like James qualifying Schlinders List as a horror movie

ignore the big trooning elephant in the room. While KF was down I was wondering if there were news about Big Ryanette that I couldn't see on the cuckreddit, since trannies are sacred there. But it looks like he's not going public yet.

To my knowledge this is the only "official" statement made after they shitcanned Talking about Games.

 

[Fag Albert]

Ryan trooned out.

Ah. The Jim Sterling gambit.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Ryan trooned out.

Big Ryena fan here

30 seconds in and he's like "I guess everyone on the internet didn't like. So I'm left wondering why it's getting a sequel." Because it's the highest grossing film of all time (unadjusted for inflation). That's why. It's very simple. This video is going to be a shit show. I can tell.

Edit: getting further through his video it really sucks. James assumes this smug and contrarian opinion defending Avatar. Coming to the conclusion that people thought it was overhyped in comparison to Titanic and that people hated it because it ripped off and/or was inspired by several other movies thus comparing it to Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Hey James, maybe people hate Avatar just because it sucks?

I'm sorry but if you genuinely liked Avatar and think it's a great film then you have absolute shit taste in movies. The only pass you will get (from me anyway) is if it was part of your childhood or your got your first blowjob while watching it or something like that.


I think the man is just burnt out. It doesn't seem to matter if Screenwave is writing the scripts or it's James. It seems like unless Mike is kicking his ass to do something he just doesn't care anymore. A shame because there was still so much left. I would have loved a video during the golden age covering all of the terrible mascot platformers that came in the wake of Sanic like Gex, Aero the Acrobat, Zero: the Kamikaze Squirrel, and fuckloads of others.

i never knew people still a-log that movie

 

[BrunoMattei]

Surprise, Monster Madness is back OR IS IT? But it is back but instead it's just him reviewing whatever's recent. James insists this is to try something new but I say it's just him being lazy. This video does have shots of him in the video store room but the greenscreen shot is much better when compared to the last video.

Since he's doing recent movies only we know what the next couple are going to be: Halloween Ends, Hellraiser reboot, decent chance of Terrifier 2 and Chucky season 2 (at least the premier episode).

You can skip to 6 minutes in to actually get his thoughts on it. The opening of the video is him slurping on Rob Zombie's dick. Of course he liked the movie but had some reservations towards it. It seems like Rob Zombie fanboys just refuse to outright dislike the movie. And I grew up with The Munsters as well and this movie is awful. Only good thing about it is Daniel Roebuck's take on Grampa.