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When the Nerd Announced the Movie, What Did You Think It Would Be About?

posted 9 years ago by DnDgames
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I personally saw something similar to the AVGN Game where hes pulled into a Video game world and would have to fight his way out. I thought the scenes where he was in the dream game looked great and they could have used those to transition into the game world like he walks out of the darkness and hes in a real life video game world. It should have been a little like Suburban Knights where they have a certain power and go in search of something and meet these weird characters along the way.

I also thought Mike and Justin should have been the sidekicks, Critic, Pat NES Punk, Board James should have been villains he defeats along the way similar to Scott Pilgram in epic fashion.

I get it was the movie James has always wanted to make.. i think... at least a nice nod to those movies he grew up with but if he gets another shot I think he'll stick to the source material.

Anyone know how the Indiegogo ended? There are a ton of people who say they never received anything, some donating 50 plus.

[–] avortac 9 years ago

What I thought the AVGN movie would be .. well, after Rolfe said this:

-- Rolfe-Transcript Begins --
"'ll tell you one thing; it's not a two-hour game review.

And then of course some people are going to say : "Aaw, there's no game review in it?"

..but I will say this much: Yes, there is a game review in it.

But you see, it's a movie about game reviewing, very much in the way that Rocky is a movie about boxing. But the whole movie is not a boxing match, it's about the character.

I'd also compare it to Wayne's World. Wayne's World was a show, or a sketch, on Saturday Night Live, or whatever.

Basically it was a show about two guys who do a show from their basement. And then, when the movie "Wayne's World" came out, it sort of opened up this whole environment, they, like, step out the show and everything, and there's actually a world outside.

SO THAT'S VERY MUCH THE WAY THIS IS."
-- Rolfe-Transcript Ends --

.. I fully expected it to be something like the AVGN making at least a few reviews (not just ONE), and then something happening BASED on those reviews, and the plot revolving around the games, the reviews, the corporations and their endless greed, and so on.

I envisioned trips to LJN, or at least the programmers that made all the trash he has shown us throughout the years, and at least, because or Rolfe mentions how movies are controlled by big corporations, and he's going to pave the way for 'independent filmmakers', I actually dared dream there might be IMAGINATION used somewhere in the production/creation of the movie.

I thought of all kinds of possibilities; from actually making a mockumentary-style meeting of the ACTUAL PROGRAMMERS of all the bad LJN games, or at least actors playing those programmers, after the real programmers have been interviewed (even by email), and the mysteries of WHY they made such awful crap and HOW it all happened would be thoroughly revealed.

I imagined that it could be fun to see AVGN's "daily life", which would of course consist of all kinds of wacky happenings, playing games with Shítpickle and his clones, and living in the kind of futuristically odd-looking world of "Street Fighter 2010" that we were shown a glimpse of. All in all, I imagined the world to be the kind where "Paperboy" does deliver mail exactly as shown in the "Atari 5200" episode, and where he spends much of his time trying to get these systems to work, and then playing the games made for those systems - some of which would be good, and some of which would enrage him - and that rage would seamlessly transform to an onscreen game review.

Something like that was my thinking..

After realizing the truth, however, my hopes started to sink, but it took some time for me to fully realize how much the movie was going to suck. The trailer nailed it for me - my worst fears about the movie came true, and my best hopes for the movie were forever crushed. I stopped caring about the whole thing, expecting it to be horribly awful crap that shouldn't have seen the light of day, instead of the promising and interesting movie that it COULD have been.

But the movie was way worse than I ever envisioned or imagined, even after seeing the trailer. It was way worse than the trailer would make me think.

I don't know how that's possible, but that's certainly one movie that I can't see myself ever watching again.

However, I can see myself watching the classic episodes more in the future.. The Terminator, Street Fighter 2010, Atari 5200, the Zelda videos, the Castlevania videos, the Jaguar, CD-i, etc. system reviews, and so on. I can see myself watching those (and others) multiple times in the future.

But the movie.. wow. It was worse than the worst disappointment. I don't think it COULD have been any worse, even if it had been specifically designed to be worse by a group of super-geniuses from the planet "Guggelbaum".

[–] avortac 8 years ago

Bj, you must hate Wayne's World, Clerks, 'A Day in the Life' type movies and other mockumentaries and such.

Basically, if it HAD been like Wayne's World, but AVGN instead of Wayne, and the world we were only shown glimpses of, fully featured and expanded, like Rolfe PROMISED (so it wouldn't have been just 'my version'), it would've been a GREAT movie, and I bet a lot of people would have thoroughly loved it.

As it would've contained at least a few reviews also, but we would've been introduced and eased into them in an organic, natural way.. I can't see what's to hate about it. Expanding the AVGN world was an exciting concept, but it never happened in the movie.

Besides, pretty much ANYTHING would've been better than what we were shown.

I am sure that if it had been 'my version', you wouldn't have hated it, but loved it and praised it, unless you just decide to hate everything for the wrong reasons.

The idea had so much potential; seeing LJN offices and programmers would've been really cool, seeing AVGN's daily life with Shítpickles and through-glass-crapping bulls, plus through-glass flying sprites from games, would've been pretty amazing! Especially if the outside of AVGN's house really looks like we were showin in the 'Street Fighter 2010' episode..

Mostly, what I envisioned was 'daily life' of AVGN, which would be more interesting than Rolfe's daily life of course - together with him 'ending up playing games' (and thus reviewing them, too) in some wacky way, like his clones insisting, or maybe one of the other characters or AVGN's established friends coming over and them having nothing else to do.

Then there would be a story arc that becomes like a 'sacred mission' á la Blues Brothers (another from-skit-to-movie type of movie); AVGN would play many so shítty games that his mind is starting to snap (here he could use special effects to his heart's content), and then he would realize that the only way to bring sanity back and erase all the madness is to make some SENSE out of all of it - - and to know the core truth as to WHY or HOW these horrible games got made, would be then revealed through his 'holy quest'.

It could actually easily borrow from the Monty Python movies as well, making it into a mockumentary-'A Day in the Life'-Wayne'sWorld-BluesBrothers-HolyGrail-travel movie, where we would see interesting sceneries, when visiting those programmers, and demanding to know why and how they managed to make so much such awful crap.

I mean, anything AVGN-related that we learned from the videos could be added in, with a dash of something new and unknown, but great for the eyes (sceneries) and satisfying to the mind (to hear the programmers explain why they did it), and then even possibly forcing the LJN CEO to PLAY EVERY SINGLE HORRIBLE GAME (or some selected awful ones) THEY MADE, in the vein of 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' (or is it just 'Christmas Vacation'?), where Chevy Chase's character's cousin kidnaps the boss and brings him to see the plight of the bonusless employer..

So many things could've been possible. If he really wanted to make it like Rocky, but not one big boxing match, he could've really MADE it like that - but the final confrontation would've been with the CEO of LJN or something, instead of Apollo Creed.

Also, it could've been that AVGN's world follows the laws and physics of video games, so he could actually just throw some arc-flying axes to the CEO, and miss, and have all kinds of video-gamish difficulties in reaching him, and there could be a similar videogame-like appearance of all the programmers, which would act as level end-bosses, and every programmer would represent a different video game genre, but in real life, or something like that.

It wouldn't of course have to be -exactly- like anything I suggest, but combining all these ideas you could actually compose a pretty great, interesting and exciting, COHERENT, story and character-driven movie in your mind (unless you have no imagination), that would be better than what we were shown.

AVGN tried that 'videogamelike thing in real life' stuff in this movie, but it was so illogical at that point, and nothing made much sense, so it was just a 'random mess' and so incoherent, it didn't really come off as anything good in any level. At least they could've done it in a more consistent fashion.

I think you either didn't understand my idea, if you are so ready to say you would've HATED it, or you have trouble envisioning the greatness that I can from all this .. from his words, I imagined something great and grand, that would have more than one review, have the hallmark AVGN-style humor, quirkiness, the AVGN spirit, and energy - and still be entertaining and interesting plot-, and storywise.

Maybe you can't imagine it .. but I didn't see you suggesting anything much better. Still, I think you lie, or maybe you just don't want to take anything I say seriously, but if he had actually made a movie like this (and done it well with energy and excitement), I am pretty friggin' sure you wouldn't have hated it, UNLESS you also hate Rocky, Wayne's World, and all those other similar movies.

Basically, my suggestions would've made it like Wayne's World, but AVGN and video games instead of Wayne and guitars.

Anyone that would've hated THAT, well.. those people would've hated pretty much anything good anyway.

[–] bj_arni 8 years ago

I wasn't too fond of the movie, but I would have hated it if it was your version.

Although I agree that Mike and Justin should have had supporting roles. I don't think NC or Board James should have been characters at all. Doug Walker had a great cameo but if Nostalgia Critic had been in the movie, I would have turned it off (especially if it would've been an actual role and not a cameo).

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[–] audiopinions 8 years ago

Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish he'd blatantly ripped off Wayne's World. I would've liked to see his charming, DIY basement show get funding and distribution from a major corporation, only to be twisted into a commercially-viable, family-friendly, sanitized piece of crap rife with ridiculous product placement and sponsored reviews of horrible games he'd normally rip to shreds.

It would still require more characters and an expansion of his world/universe, but it would allow the movie to still be about the show without just being game reviews. Some of my favorite parts of Wayne's World were seeing Wayne's friends adapt to the new, more complicated production (the guy who can't figure out how to count down being an example.)

[–] Sanke 8 years ago

I think it was a huge mistake for him to liken the movie to Wayne's World in one of his pre production updates. It was absolutely nothing like Wayne's World and he gave false hope and expectation about the type of film we were going to get. A real missed opportunity.

[–] e3e34ifj (1323) 5 months ago

I remember thinking it would be awesome. Had no idea we'd wait nearly 6 years for a pretty bad movie.

Years later, I think this movie would've been far more interesting as a slice-of-life movie. I wanna see the Nerd go to work, go to college, try to live a normal life with his rage getting in the way. The action movie filmed in Los Angeles is a ridiculous idea that doesn't work for me. I think James could've accomplished a lot more for a lot less if he just stayed where he lived and made a more character-driven film instead of whatever the fuck the AVGN Movie is.