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I donated and I am disappointed

posted 9 years ago by nash-stanton
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I'm a huge AVGN fan. At nearly age 30, I'm not afraid to admit that either.

In a one sentence review, I would say that this movie feels like a Michael Bay movie but with more practical effects.

Meaning that there was nothing at all exciting or involving in the movie. The plot failed to capture or pull me in the slightest bit. I honestly cannot agree that there's a climax in the film, either. Lots of jokes fell flat. Some jokes were OK. The mythology part was pretty cool. When Cooper was discussing his view of the earth (how it's flat) was probably the other time I laughed. But seriously folks, 90% of this film is filled with complete boredom.

As a fan-film, it's bad. If it's not a fan film, then it's still bad. I've watched this movie twice to give it a full assessment and to reseat my expectations appropriately and I'm sorry to say that this movie is extremely forgettable.

If it helps even more, I watched this with 4 other AVGN fans. One of them thought it was the worst movie he'd ever seen (not from a technical level, but from the extremely boring nature of the movie). The other two thought it was "fair". Only one of them, who happens to be 17 years old, thought it was "awesome" and I'm not sure what he was smoking.

I applaud James for doing what he set out to do. It's a huge achievement and he gets massive respect from me. But when it comes down to the actual product that was produced, this is simply not good.

[–] Philip_90 9 years ago

If William Shakespear was still alive he'd say "Fúck it".

[–] JJ_Rambo 9 years ago

I Donated and was completely happy and entertained. If you expected to get anything out of it other than an overblown avgn episode and expected a hollywood blockbuser, you approached it wrong and had your mind made up before you even watched it. No way the movie could lve up to your own hype.

[–] randyhndrsn 9 years ago

All I wanted was an overblown AVGN episode, what I got was a movie that cost 400k that hardly had as much humor as a single episode of AVGN and was actually rather PC for James Standards.

This is one of the worst things he's done, he's super talented and makes a lot of great stuff.I'm not sure what happened here, but the plot is good and yet the script needs so much punch up, the dialogue is too basic and the satire is off.

Game cops is one of the only really funny bits that feels AVGN, the girl, sidekick and general all dragged on way too long and it all got so boring by the end, James lost the heart and humor to the nerd.

Even the review at the end was better than most of the movies, because it felt right, the movie was off, kinda like the Aqua Teen movie, it's like James couldn't keep things up over 2 hours.