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.

[TVB]

He nuked his twatter, someone snatched his handle lol
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https://twitter.com/Kieeeeern

good

hopefully the Nerd can retire peacefully

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I agree, the Channel Awesome movies suck, but they were filmed on a camcorder in like a week. I don't think Doug ever considered them works of art. They were fun just to see every contributor together, though yeah, To Boldly Flee is bloated as shit. James actually tried to make a legitimate movie, and it's ten times worse. There's pretty much nothing redeeming about it. It's the uncanny valley of bad.

To Boldly Flee was probably the only one Doug regarded as art with how it was a send-off to the Nostalgia Critic, the commentary about SOPA, and the shitloads of pretentious scenes in it like the Snob scenes as well as when Doug appears as himself.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

The only way James could redeem himself is if he finally shaved his head.

 

[Bowiotronic]

First episode of 2023, I don’t know why the Nerd hasn’t made a joke about playing so many bad games has made his hair fall out.
Edit: damnit beat me by 3 seconds Jeff!

I see he's turned into SAM THE COOKING GUY.

 

[ResignedCustodes]

It's easily one of the worst movies ever, and I'm not kidding. It makes the CA anniversary movies look like works of Hitchcock by comparison.

This makes me want to see it more, I love terrible movies.

No way I'm gonna pay for it though.

 

[Corbax]

This makes me want to see it more, I love terrible movies.

No way I'm gonna pay for it though.

It's not even so bad it's good, it's just bad.

 

[LaughJoke2.0]

Null, I hope you've seen the AVGN Movie. It's horrible, but you need to see it to appreciate how James describes making it in the book. He makes a bizarre statement that it's a film about xenophobia, which literally no one but him ever picked up on. He also moved out to California to film it in Hollywood, but was somehow surprised at how expensive that was.

The really stupid thing is he lives in Philly. Pittsburgh is a little over a 4-hour drive and the city/state has tax incentives you spend 60% of your budget in PA you get a 25% tax credit and Pittsburgh thriving film industry. Tons of movies are filmed in Pittsburgh and Western PA.

 

[Judas Connor Moon]

I've never seen the AVGN movie before admittedly. I've seen clips through Youtube and 4Chins and it makes me never want to see it. Seems like a forced, contrived mess featuring the kid from the Bernie Mac show. All the jokes don't hit with the only good parts, if I can say that are the cheesy effects, imo. However I've seen all the NC/TGWTG anniversary movies and with the exception of Too Boldly Flee, all have moments where they make you chuckle at least. Kickassia being the best and the one I've watched the most. It's strange seeing James getting as more flack than even Doug did back in the mid 10's. It's a time to be a live.

Edit: Screenwave, thank you for allowing James to become a careercow. I didn't think I'd see this day.

 

[Corbax]

The really stupid thing is he lives in Philly. Pittsburgh is a little over a 4-hour drive and the city/state has tax incentives you spend 60% of your budget in PA you get a 25% tax credit and Pittsburgh thriving film industry. Tons of movies are filmed in Pittsburgh and Western PA.

His cope was that the East Coast has unpredictable weather, and therefore the logical conclusion was to film in Hollywood. Ironically, it rained on one of his key filming days and ruined weeks worth of the schedule.

Anyway, we all know he just wanted to feel like a big shot Hollywood director. He spent $300k to LARP.

 

[Town Drunk]

This makes me want to see it more, I love terrible movies.

No way I'm gonna pay for it though.

I actually paid money to watch it online when it first came out as I was a fan of James. Years later I still want my 5 dollars back. Ashen's movie was better FFS and he released it for free.

It is bad in so many bizarre ways that others have mentioned. It's not funny bad, its confusing bad. As in why did they do that? WTF is going on? So, that happened.....

I only watched it once and I remember a lot about it, so I guess it has that going for it. I'd imagine you'd remember every moment of a tragedy that happened to you too though, so maybe not a positive point.

 

[LaughJoke2.0]

His cope was that the East Coast has unpredictable weather, and therefore the logical conclusion was to film in Hollywood. Ironically, it rained on one of his key filming days and ruined weeks worth of the schedule.

Anyway, we all know he just wanted to feel like a big shot Hollywood director. He spent $300k to LARP.

I swear the more I hear about Channel Awesome alumni and their film making they are Tommy Wiseau level of ineptitude.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

Edit: Screenwave, thank you for allowing James to become a careercow. I didn't think I'd see this day.

Even though Screenwave certainly did not help by writing shit episodes, I feel that James would've ended up as a careercow eventually because he is begrudgingly continuing to do the AVGN due to burnout and being a retard who has always needed pushing behind the scenes, does things in the worst way possible like how he stores his videos, has to babysit everything and uses outdated editing programs, and has always been shit at time management and how to actually be "an adult".

The autobiography with too many details is probably the worst thing James has ever done to tarnish his own reputation. He is a nice guy but he is a moron. He is still able to put out great content but until he stops being a lazy ass about everything, then he'll continue to "lose" to go-getters like Scott the Woz who has already put out 200+ quality episodes

 

[Metaverse Knight]

About James wanting to film in Hollywood, wasn't it because he wanted to film at some rocks that were in some other movie or something? I swear I remember him going on about something like that before.

According to his LinkedIn page, Kieran Fallon has left Screenwave Media and, therefore, Cinemassacre. I wonder who James will get to write and edit AVGN now?

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I wonder if James will pull a J&MM and just soft quit it with a promise it'll be back soon, and then never mention it again. He's still got those movie videos to milk, and he still cares about Rex Viper more than AVGN for some fucking reason.

 

[TV's Adam West]

This makes me want to see it more, I love terrible movies.

No way I'm gonna pay for it though.

Suggest it in the Kiwi Farms movie night thread.
We need to do more lolcow movies anyway.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

I wonder if James will pull a J&MM and just soft quit it with a promise it'll be back soon, and then never mention it again. He's still got those movie videos to milk, and he still cares about Rex Viper more than AVGN for some fucking reason.

If you're talking about quitting AVGN then I highly doubt that he'll ever fully quit it. New AVGN's, as bad as they, are still the primary cashcow. Otherwise, his other videos get around the same numbers as current Nostalgia Critic videos

 

[CyrusHowler]

I still wouldn’t say James is a CareerCow compared to most other CareerCows.

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

If you're talking about quitting AVGN then I highly doubt that he'll ever fully quit it. New AVGN's, as bad as they, are still the primary cashcow. Otherwise, his other videos get around the same numbers as current Nostalgia Critic videos
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This is why it honestly wouldn't be bad for James to do Patreon - he could release things he's passionate about early there that he knows won't get traction on YouTube and probably earn more money from it, plus the change from YouTube views at a later date. Release behind the scenes and maybe some streams as exclusive content et voila! But he's probably too terminally lazy / unwilling to learn to actually do it.

 

[Duveeelll]

Edit: Screenwave, thank you for allowing James to become a careercow. I didn't think I'd see this day.

James already spent most of 2021 in the lolcow section, but the thread got eventually moved back to multimedia. Welcome back, James

 

[BlueSpark]

Some amusing and interesting posts and comments from /r/cinemassacretruth regarding Kieran quitting:

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Reddit - Dive into anything

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r/TheCinemassacreTruth - If Kieran worked for Screenwave then why did he leave the channel when James could’ve payed him instead? That’s the suspicious thing about his departure from AVGN.

8 votes and 24 comments so far on Reddit

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r/TheCinemassacreTruth - What's with James and not paying his help properly?

24 votes and 28 comments so far on Reddit

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r/TheCinemassacreTruth - Anybody have a rough idea of Screenwave financials?

14 votes and 24 comments so far on Reddit

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[Captain Gomez]

I want to feel bad for Kieran but it's hard to. He and the others fed the trolls from day 1, why go out of your way to interact with and aknowledge a very small community that just wants to fuck with you?

Also, he could't buy a computer in 5 years? either he is retarded with his money or Ryan(na) is running an audiovisual sweatshop.