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.

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Anyway, the movie couldn't not suck because it was centered on AVGN while trying to make it "realistic". It was so cringe. If it was something like Gamestop Clerks where James plays an unlikable antisocial weirdo fixated on NES games during 2005 and Mike plays the hoodie guy that shat on Dante, it would have a chance at being good. They could even shoot it in B&W, which is a style James is a master at. Bootsy and Kyle could be Jay & Silent Bob. AVGN could lament I wasn't even supposed to review this shitty game today! Mike could answer gay porn when asked what he's watching on TV.

Then, 5 minutes before closing down the business, AVGN gets robbed at gunpoint and shot by Ryan Schott. The end.

I think Cinema Snob basically made that movie in 2004.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Bruh

Nintendo is sending a ninja squad to your approximate location. Please stand by.

Anyway, the movie couldn't not suck because it was centered on AVGN while trying to make it "realistic". It was so cringe. If it was something like Gamestop Clerks where James plays an unlikable antisocial weirdo fixated on NES games during 2005 and Mike plays the hoodie guy that shat on Dante, it would have a chance at being good. They could even shoot it in B&W, which is a style James is a master at. Bootsy and Kyle could be Jay & Silent Bob. AVGN could lament I wasn't even supposed to review this shitty game today! Mike could answer gay porn when asked what he's watching on TV.

Then, 5 minutes before closing down the business, AVGN gets robbed at gunpoint and shot by Ryan Schott. The end.

I would prefer if it was like the other ViewAskiewverse movie Vulgar:

It opens with James struggling to find an audience making shit films. He goes up to Mike Mattei, has a few drinks, and has the idea of doing the AVGN at parties only to be raped by multiple men. Then it becomes a rape and revenge. A male rape and revenge movie.

 

[demicolon]

My pet theory is that the AVGN movie budged never exceeded the requested 75 grand.

 

[deeman]

My pet theory is that the AVGN movie budged never exceeded the requested 75 grand.

There is a part of the book about Blimmy going full mental breakdown 'cuz of taxation from the movie-budget, how does that work? If you get money donated to fully fund a movie does it involve your whole income? I haven't heard this problem from other crowdfundings...
Would be juicy if it turns out he did spend alot on his new house before calculating taxes. But i don't know U.S Tax-laws.

 

[demicolon]

From what I managed to gather, Indiegogo would shave 5% off those ~$330 000, then Uncle Sam would shave ~25% off the rest. Indiegogo would report the money as income with 1099-K.

You have to factor in state tax laws, deductions, whenever they had time to hire an accountant and the fact I'm not familiar with USA tax laws either.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Big question to me is could they have skirted around reporting the Indiegogo money as income? I'm not a tax guy or a lawyer but I've seen other Kickstarter projects that were held close to the end of the year and never heard of them giving up a 3rd of their take because of taxes.

One of two things: he fucked up because of autism or he's lying. And the funny thing is that both are equally likely.

Then he decided to film in California for no reason other than autism and misplaced sense of this is what a big time Hollywood director does. There is no doubt in my mind he paid through the fucking nose to film in California. The fuck even spent money on a tank. A god damn tank. And it's there just to say "Hey! We have an actual tank in our movie!" That's it! IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PLOT BUT THERE'S A FUCKING TANK IN THE MOVIE! PRODUCTION VALUE!

Then you have paying union actors, locations, permits, insurance, housing for himself and his wife, plus the Grauman's Chinese Theater premier which can cost about $50K alone and up, then the roadshow tour of the movie and he easily spent about half a million. Half a million is a safe bet.

All of it could have been avoided had he listened to other people to help him. Basic. Common sense. Bullshit. That's all this retard needed to do. Don't film in California, film in Jersey. Take an actual look at the script and see what it is absolutely positively necessary to further the story: he could have easily cut out the zombie scene and saved thousands of dollars right there. Cut out the Mario dungeon bit. Cut out the goddamn tank. Cut out the pointless Kaiju rampage. Do you need to actually film in a real water treatment plant when your scene calls for just "A" plant with a lot of buttons and shit everywhere? No! You don't. Cut it.

It's just astonishing how much money this man burned on camera.

 

[Psyduck]

Couldve gone with a short film and do it Jackass style. "Same shit as before - with a movie budget!"

Just film a 30 min long ET review, intertwined with an overarching plot

Basically, just do this:

 

[deeman]

Sorry for cluttering the thread but once again i couldn't help but finding something weird (it's like your childhood friend coming out and it all makes sense.).
In this J&MM-video (time coded) It gets weird when James without any reasoning just fucking leaves for a big part of the video just to have Mike and Boots go "Eh, whatever!" and ignore the absence of the owner of the channel... Wonder if Mike would willingly shed some light on why. He looked really bummed out when James leaves.

https://youtu.be/OWxfoIhWnk4?list=PL88clHxlfzAbi3cEvFuAwf5_QbTU2oa7G&t=608

(Ofc. it's "muh kids" or straight up April but it's interesting if it turns out to be a sudden yelling from the house about James fucking better stop playing around and betacuck his ass over to babysit. Or if it was something scheduled that was more important than work)

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Couldve gone with a short film and do it Jackass style. "Same shit as before - with a movie budget!"

Just film a 30 min long ET review, intertwined with an overarching plot

Basically, just do this:

He'd never do that, because deep down he either hates or is ashamed of the AVGN. (or both)

He wanted to make a movie, not a review, but the only way he could do it was through AVGN.

Hence, and AVGN movie that doesn't feel like AVGN and gets everything wrong.

He basically pulled a 2010-2015 Hideo Kojima.

 

[mlanguishi]

Couldve gone with a short film and do it Jackass style. "Same shit as before - with a movie budget!"

Just film a 30 min long ET review, intertwined with an overarching plot

Basically, just do this:

Spoony coulda done the same. The guys want to go either all big or do nothing. It's the ego.

 

[BrunoMattei]

He'd never do that, because deep down he either hates or is ashamed of the AVGN. (or both)

He wanted to make a movie, not a review, but the only way he could do it was through AVGN.

Hence, and AVGN movie that doesn't feel like AVGN and gets everything wrong.

He basically pulled a 2010-2015 Hideo Kojima.

He could have easily did a movie or two on the side. Red Letter Media did it. Make a smaller and controlled production and you're fine. But -once again- I think it's just autism. He thought he knew better than everyone else, literally every other filmmaker who has ever lived and that includes the likes of Ed Wood and Amir Shervan, and didn't need to learn from their lessons. He wanted to go big or go home and live the fantasy of being filmmaker. And that mistake woke him up from the dream it seems.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

He could have easily did a movie or two on the side.

I don't mean for this to be insulting, but after everything we've seen, everything revealed in this book...

...do you really believe this? Do you really believe he is anywhere close to the competency of Red Letter Media?

Keep in mind, according to him he has already made a bajillion films on the side.

 

[The Feline Solution]

edit: found his official movie list
https://web.archive.org/web/20080225160758/http://www.cinemassacre.com/Home_page/frameset.html

A few examples:

Because that is literally what it is. Also, it's listed as a 1993 film, so he would have been 12-13 at the time.


He put a song to clips of his ornery cat.


It's literally just his homework from that day





Just dig into that list for yourself. Try to find a lower effort film than just footage of his sister & her friends speaking a foreign language, and then he subtitles it. That's film #72, ladies and gentlemen, from the world's luckiest autistic filmmaker, James Duncan Rolfe.

If the book wasn't proof enough of his massive autism then this list surely hammers it in. I don't bear any ill will towards James as i had many big laughs back when i started watching his videos, his early stuff is great for the most part. I would never have thought he's this much of a sperg, though, dude is aces at masking it, at least on video. Hell, i always felt like Mike was the weird and autistic one and James only pulled him along because they were childhood friends.

That's like, less deserving of being called a film than random shitpost clips I've made, like this duology I made to mock Hogan:

"An emotional tour de force, based on a true story!"

 

[Dom Cruise]

Couldve gone with a short film and do it Jackass style. "Same shit as before - with a movie budget!"

Just film a 30 min long ET review, intertwined with an overarching plot

Basically, just do this:

This episode was really impressive at the time, all the dude had to do was a larger scale version of this and the movie could have been fine.

This shows that an AVGN movie had potential, if he had been more realistic in it's scale and approach, instead he bit off more than he could chew and the rest is history.

 

[Introvertigo]

 

[demicolon]

Big question to me is could they have skirted around reporting the Indiegogo money as income?

Related question: was the Indiegogo money registered as income of James Rolfe's LLC, or James Rolfe himself and went straight into his personal bank account?
Second option would be taxed much more heavily AFAIK.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Related question: was the Indiegogo money registered as income of James Rolfe's LLC, or James Rolfe himself and went straight into his personal bank account?
Second option would be taxed much more heavily AFAIK.

That's the thing. He made soooo many mistakes that there's a distinct possibility that he fucked up this bad.

 

[mlanguishi]

Holy crap today's video is about if The Shining is a Christmas movie. The answer is no James. There's no need to spend 20 minutes to sperg about it.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

Holy crap today's video is about if The Shining is a Christmas movie. The answer is no James. There's no need to spend 20 minutes to sperg about it.

It was either that or make more AVGN episodes.....which takes much more time, EFFORT, and despite youtube being his full-time job, he has to spend time with his kids who are now around 7-8 years old

 

[Pringles Can]

Holy crap today's video is about if The Shining is a Christmas movie. The answer is no James. There's no need to spend 20 minutes to sperg about it.

It's one of the more stupid videos I've seen. Who the fuck is debating if the shining is a Christmas movie? At least with the die-hard debate you can argue a few things to it being Christmas. With the shining other then it taking place during winter, I can't remember any Christmas related things in it.