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.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,813 63.5%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%

  • Board James

    Votes: 443 15.5%

  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%
  • Total voters
    2,855
Etched said:
I think the making of the movie was actually very stressful and truamatic for James while actually doing it, even if he's probably tried to convince himself otherwise after the fact. We've all heard the rumor (I forget where from) of him shutting down on set multiple times to the point where his friend Kevin Finn had to step in as a director.
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Based on his memoirs, he seems to tard out anytime he’s faced with anything challenging
demicolon said:
James wanted the AVGN movie to be a thing that paves the way for independent filmmakers IIRC.
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I mean the man did invent independent filmmaking
 
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It's really so surreal seeing James and Noah even being mentioned together in a thread. You can't get more of opposites in the 'funny guy on the internet' outcomes. James had a long run and is a true success by any means, way beyond what his intellect or ability would be seemingly possible. Noah lol, lost everything, everyone hates him, lost his car to repo while at a doctor visit.

Yeah James has gone off the rails pretty much, but if he gets even close to spoony level it'll be a fall unlike any since 1945.
 
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mlanguishi said:
It's really so surreal seeing James and Noah even being mentioned together in a thread. You can't get more of opposites in the 'funny guy on the internet' outcomes. James had a long run and is a true success by any means, way beyond what his intellect or ability would be seemingly possible. Noah lol, lost everything, everyone hates him, lost his car to repo while at a doctor visit.

Yeah James has gone off the rails pretty much, but if he gets even close to spoony level it'll be a fall unlike any since 1945.
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Spoony needed a tard rangler as good as James' wife. I think Scarlett probably was to some extent but as he got older he just had Skyrim rape fetishist April sitting in the next room painting dolls.

Even at his most cringe, I'll always have tons of respect for James for being such a sperg but having a wife, house, and not abandoning his kids to troon out or do insane lefty shit.
 
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Bogs said:
I mean the man did invent independent filmmaking
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I was talking about the timestamped bit below:
He wanted that to be the *first* mainstream movie of his, then shot it in Hollywood without doing any research about the place and proved to himself to be an absolute wet blanket when it came to bossing people around the set. The movie sucked because there was no sincerity to it, just copypasting of blockbuster tropes. He aped the notes, but not the music.

Re: Spoony
That guy is IMO mentally ill and not of the self-diagnosed autism variety. If he hadn't had a supporting family he'd be barking at the moon at midnight on Skid Row. I'm still curious what exactly Spoony has to do with AVGN.
 
mlanguishi said:
Damn, 8 years ago and James was already really going bald and Spoony had dug in deep with the long-hair crazy look. What happened to that beard guy? Wasn't that alphaomegasin or something? I remember him going apeshit about the adpocalypse and then never saw of him again.
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Indeed it's Alphaomega, and a much skinnier Ryan at the back, one of the beefier guys with the buzzcut almost looked like Irate Gamer for a while, wich would be pure Matrix.
 
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mlanguishi said:
Damn, 8 years ago and James was already really going bald and Spoony had dug in deep with the long-hair crazy look. What happened to that beard guy? Wasn't that alphaomegasin or something? I remember him going apeshit about the adpocalypse and then never saw of him again.
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Alphaomegasin. He would do rants in front of his game shelves. YouTube demonetized a his videos all at once around 2017-18 for the prolific amounts of swearing. He basically abandoned his channel and only puts out a video every 2 years. Looking at his channel now, he's only uploaded 10 videos since 2017. He used to post that much in a week

He's very active on Twitter, usually posting jokes and reaction to news. Not really a bad guy, you could definitely tell he was passionate. The incessant cursing in his videos was like something a teenager would do though.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I like the idea of doing a video game version of Clerks where it's set prominently at a Gamestop.
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Didn’t Brad Jones do that with his movie Game Boys? He even did the animated series thing to continue the clerks homage
 
LiquidKid said:
Didn’t Brad Jones do that with his movie Game Boys? He even did the animated series thing to continue the clerks homage
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Wouldn't surprise me. Brad is extremely passionate with what he does. Look at the whole Jesus Bro thing.
 
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Wouldn't surprise me. Brad is extremely passionate with what he does. Look at the whole Jesus Bro thing.
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I checked, that’s basically what the movie was. You can’t find it here, ironically enough the first conversation is about E.T. which makes sense given its infamy
 
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demicolon said:
Re: Spoony
That guy is IMO mentally ill and not of the self-diagnosed autism variety. If he hadn't had a supporting family he'd be barking at the moon at midnight on Skid Row. I'm still curious what exactly Spoony has to do with AVGN.
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Skid Row? You think Spoony might've ended up feeding people to killer plants?

For some reason it seems AVGN discussions are doomed to always involve former Channel Awesome alumni even tho James himself was never part of CA (he just occasionally cameo'd for them). Usually just to highlight the contrasts.

Sometimes I wonder what is the better fate--Spoony was a star that shone briefly before being overcome by his personal demons, but his body of work still carries a weight and inspires people to this day. AVGN meanwhile maintained steady output but now has people declaring he's jumped the shark and should just allow it to rest.

To use a video game comparison, Spoony is like the Megaman Legends trilogy, while Rolfe is like the Mario franchise.... or would the Sonic franchise be more apt?
 
LiquidKid said:
I checked, that’s basically what the movie was. You can’t find it here, ironically enough the first conversation is about E.T. which makes sense given its infamy
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Something i never understood, and i think some higher up on Atari debunked it as well in some interview yeeeears ago, is, instead of burying the games in the middle of the desert, they could've just erased E:T and stuck some other games on it, i mean, it was at the end of the Atari and start of the game crash but still, since retarded as hell, even if you don't want to swap tha games you could take out the chips, melt down the plastic and sell it off to get atleast some nickels back. It wasn't like Atari itself went bancrupt until the mid 90's after the Jaguar fiasco (and then they sold the trademark and all).

But i guess i was proven wrong, as well as the former higher up at Atari that meant it was the silliest myth he ever heard regarding his company. I better re-read all my old LEVEL-magazines, a shame i got over a hundred issues to waddle through.
 
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Etched said:
We've all heard the rumor (I forget where from) of him shutting down on set multiple times to the point where his friend Kevin Finn had to step in as a director.
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This is true. Apparently, at a particularly stressful time on location--the weather wasn't cooperating and they'd been in the Cali heat for seven and a half hours--two of the actors took James aside. They'd said something cruel to him. They said, "We're the balls on the dick."
 
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deeman said:
Something i never understood, and i think some higher up on Atari debunked it as well in some interview yeeeears ago, is, instead of burying the games in the middle of the desert, they could've just erased E:T and stuck some other games on it, i mean, it was at the end of the Atari and start of the game crash but still, since retarded as hell, even if you don't want to swap tha games you could take out the chips, melt down the plastic and sell it off to get atleast some nickels back. It wasn't like Atari itself went bancrupt until the mid 90's after the Jaguar fiasco (and then they sold the trademark and all).

But i guess i was proven wrong, as well as the former higher up at Atari that meant it was the silliest myth he ever heard regarding his company. I better re-read all my old LEVEL-magazines, a shame i got over a hundred issues to waddle through.
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I write a TL;DR explaining it.

But i guess i was proven wrong, as well as the former higher up at Atari that meant it was the silliest myth he ever heard regarding his company. I better re-read all my old LEVEL-magazines, a shame i got over a hundred issues to waddle through.

The issue wasn’t E.T. Specific, atari in general was producing significantly more games than could have been sold for that Christmas season. Several titles were dug up at the site including Pac Man, Asteroids, and the like. People fail to remember that E.T. actually sold extremely well, but it was just over manufactured along with pac man and the like.
The reason they trashed the games was because Atari went bankrupt and had to liquidate, and no one was there to buy cartridges for the 2600 system, even if it were to flash the carts and put new software on it.

This is unlike when they repurposed cartridges to print some of the more mature games, such as Halloween which infamous just had the tape with the names handwritten on it

It was also a time when more and more consumers were moving to Mac, Commodore, and other computers for gaming, there wasn’t really a demand for game consoles when PCs of the era plugged into the TV and provided the same experience or better on top of having educational and utilitarian software. Oddly enough, a bit of a repeat is happening today with the current rise in PC gaming
 
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