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As a fan of the series I have been looking forward to see this movie. Unlike other fans, I have not contributed any money to make this movie and neither have I paid to see it because my expectations of the movie gradually lowered over time. The way James Rofle talked about the movie while he was making it gave me a bad feeling and reminded me when he had a deal with the Nostalgia Critic (Dough Walker) to review a bad movie while the Nostalgia Critic would review a bad video game. Nostalgia Critic reviewed Bebe's Kids and as always he had put effort into it. The AVGN had barely put any effort into the review, as if being the "AVGN" should be enough for us. That's how I expected the AVGN movie to be and I was unfortunately completely right. In addition, the movie turned out to be worse than what I expected.
The first problem is that the movie is not set in the same universe as the series. The series are all about the AVGN reviewing bad video games. The movie is about the AVGN not reviewing a video game while being celebrated for reviewing video games. Yes, in this new AVGN universe the AVGN is a celebrity and apparently reviewing bad video games is crucial for the proper functioning of the universe. The focus is no longer on the video games and the AVGN is no longer in his room to review them. Instead we are introduced to a fictional universe that is not only alien to the fans but a contradiction to the universe of the AVGN series, which is based on making fun of what's in the real world. The AVGN now has friends (who we have never seen before and never cared to see), a job and almost a "holy" mission to save the world by reviewing video games but that's exactly what he is NOT doing in the movie - unlike in the series - while that is being presented as being the goal of the movie. So there is not really a story to begin with but what is being presented as the story doesn't make any sense whatsoever. It's like a group of mental patients have been given the assignment to compile a list of movie characters that they have enjoyed as toddlers (zombies, Godzilla, etc). Take whatever they come up with and combine that with James Rofle glorifying himself for being the AVGN for almost 2 hours in a row. That's the AVGN movie. It's that bad.
The AVGN character in the movie is barely the AVGN character from the series. What do fans like about the series? The AVGN ripping bad games apart. That's all. That's what the "anger", "video game" and "nerd" in "AVGN" are all about. The focus should be on that, not on how "great" the AVGN is for being the AVGN. That makes the "anger" and the "nerd" in "AVGN" no longer work and unsurprisingly, James Rofle doesn't attempt much to make it work in the movie. When he does, such as by making over-the-top facial expressions that work in the series, it looks forced, fake and worrisome, as if the AVGN suffers from some mental condition, while in turn making the acting spectacularly bad. The AVGN CANNOT be a celebrity in his own universe. What kind of mentally sane grown-up man gets angry over bad video games from decades ago and treats them like to be the very worst of humanity? None, which is one of the reasons why the AVGN is funny in the series. In the movie, however, that is considered to not only be sane behavior, it also makes the AVGN a messianic figure to others (who are portrayed as his fans). How much messianic and important? So much that fans are even willing to buy a video game when the AVGN spits on it - yes, complete with the spit and yes that's in the movie. That's how the movie, which was funded by the donations of fans, treats its fans.
Yet, despite all the self-glorification, the movie fails to further build the character of the AVGN. There is no need and time for that, it's all about James Rofle drowning in his own arrogance and pride, victimizing everybody else in the process, especially the fans of the series. Fans who have donated money should demand a refund and this movie should be held as a prime example of bad movie making and what happens when a talentless nobody manages to create a good show that becomes popular and misinterprets the fame for being a messiah. James Rofle has been trying his whole life to become a movie director (to no avail). The AVGN show came about by accident and it worked. The AVGN movie is an attempt to realize his goal of becoming a director (he is saying that openly), it's not an attempt to make a movie about the AVGN. A good example of a critic who made a movie about his show is the Nostalgia Critic (who has a cameo in the AVGN movie). Kickassia (2010) by the Nostalgia Critic is also a low budget movie like the AVGN movie and while it's silly, it's enjoyable. It's not made for the purpose of making Dough Walker a movie director. It's made with respect for the Nostalgia Critic (and other associated characters), his fans and what the Nostalgia Critic is all about. That's how a critic should make a movie. As a critic you have in particular the responsibility to do that right which you are criticizing others about. This movie is an insult not only to the fans but also to critics everywhere. James Rofle has abused and misused his job as a critic, only taking it seriously to achieve something else (which he isn't good at anyways).
The AVGN movie is in short an absolute disaster. Avoid it at all costs.
The first problem is that the movie is not set in the same universe as the series. The series are all about the AVGN reviewing bad video games. The movie is about the AVGN not reviewing a video game while being celebrated for reviewing video games. Yes, in this new AVGN universe the AVGN is a celebrity and apparently reviewing bad video games is crucial for the proper functioning of the universe. The focus is no longer on the video games and the AVGN is no longer in his room to review them. Instead we are introduced to a fictional universe that is not only alien to the fans but a contradiction to the universe of the AVGN series, which is based on making fun of what's in the real world. The AVGN now has friends (who we have never seen before and never cared to see), a job and almost a "holy" mission to save the world by reviewing video games but that's exactly what he is NOT doing in the movie - unlike in the series - while that is being presented as being the goal of the movie. So there is not really a story to begin with but what is being presented as the story doesn't make any sense whatsoever. It's like a group of mental patients have been given the assignment to compile a list of movie characters that they have enjoyed as toddlers (zombies, Godzilla, etc). Take whatever they come up with and combine that with James Rofle glorifying himself for being the AVGN for almost 2 hours in a row. That's the AVGN movie. It's that bad.
The AVGN character in the movie is barely the AVGN character from the series. What do fans like about the series? The AVGN ripping bad games apart. That's all. That's what the "anger", "video game" and "nerd" in "AVGN" are all about. The focus should be on that, not on how "great" the AVGN is for being the AVGN. That makes the "anger" and the "nerd" in "AVGN" no longer work and unsurprisingly, James Rofle doesn't attempt much to make it work in the movie. When he does, such as by making over-the-top facial expressions that work in the series, it looks forced, fake and worrisome, as if the AVGN suffers from some mental condition, while in turn making the acting spectacularly bad. The AVGN CANNOT be a celebrity in his own universe. What kind of mentally sane grown-up man gets angry over bad video games from decades ago and treats them like to be the very worst of humanity? None, which is one of the reasons why the AVGN is funny in the series. In the movie, however, that is considered to not only be sane behavior, it also makes the AVGN a messianic figure to others (who are portrayed as his fans). How much messianic and important? So much that fans are even willing to buy a video game when the AVGN spits on it - yes, complete with the spit and yes that's in the movie. That's how the movie, which was funded by the donations of fans, treats its fans.
Yet, despite all the self-glorification, the movie fails to further build the character of the AVGN. There is no need and time for that, it's all about James Rofle drowning in his own arrogance and pride, victimizing everybody else in the process, especially the fans of the series. Fans who have donated money should demand a refund and this movie should be held as a prime example of bad movie making and what happens when a talentless nobody manages to create a good show that becomes popular and misinterprets the fame for being a messiah. James Rofle has been trying his whole life to become a movie director (to no avail). The AVGN show came about by accident and it worked. The AVGN movie is an attempt to realize his goal of becoming a director (he is saying that openly), it's not an attempt to make a movie about the AVGN. A good example of a critic who made a movie about his show is the Nostalgia Critic (who has a cameo in the AVGN movie). Kickassia (2010) by the Nostalgia Critic is also a low budget movie like the AVGN movie and while it's silly, it's enjoyable. It's not made for the purpose of making Dough Walker a movie director. It's made with respect for the Nostalgia Critic (and other associated characters), his fans and what the Nostalgia Critic is all about. That's how a critic should make a movie. As a critic you have in particular the responsibility to do that right which you are criticizing others about. This movie is an insult not only to the fans but also to critics everywhere. James Rofle has abused and misused his job as a critic, only taking it seriously to achieve something else (which he isn't good at anyways).
The AVGN movie is in short an absolute disaster. Avoid it at all costs.
After a few minutes I wanted to stop watching the movie. I hate blood and gore. In addition, I hate sex in movies. This movie has both of it unfortunately, but if you can look past that, you will find Maniac to be a disturbing masterpiece. Almost the entire movie is shot in the POV of Frank, the serial killer, which lets the viewer see the world through Frank's eyes. It's very effective and makes it even more disturbing. I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare the two. However, I haven't seen a movie before which allows you to see the story from the serial killer's POV.
Most serial killers are white men (who are not feminine) who were raised by a promiscuous single mother and they kill women, especially promiscuous women. Since the Sexual Revolution - launched by women - women have finally managed to make promiscuity accepted by society. Not surprisingly, it's next to impossible to find even a 21 year old woman today who doesn't have more sexual experience than her grandma. Divorce rates have gone up to 70% in the West (Belgium to be specific) since then and 70% of all divorces in the USA are initiated by women. At the same time, less people are getting married than ever before. Today, out of wedlock births account in the West up to 45% of all births. Not surprisingly, Maniac doesn't bother much with the character development of Frank because we are living in times when whoredom has reached epidemic levels. We can understand Frank without much help of the movie and that especially counts for modern "beta" men, who were prior to the Sexual Revolution alpha men by the standards of those times, which is also evidenced by rampant "jungle fever" among white women. Not surprisingly, not many black men (or white women) are serial killers, the "maniacs". The majority of people who commit suicide today are ("beta") men, unsurprisingly. The unfortunate realism of the movie makes it exceptionally disturbing.
Elijah Wood is excellent as Frank. In addition to being a highly talented actor, he doesn't look feminine like Justin Bieber (whose fan base consists unsurprisingly mainly of women) and neither does he look like a Third World man. He looks like a typical modern "beta" guy. So he was a perfect choice to play the serial killer.
If you can bear the excessive gore and sexual scenes in this movie, then I would absolutely recommend this movie. The soundtrack is also very good.
Most serial killers are white men (who are not feminine) who were raised by a promiscuous single mother and they kill women, especially promiscuous women. Since the Sexual Revolution - launched by women - women have finally managed to make promiscuity accepted by society. Not surprisingly, it's next to impossible to find even a 21 year old woman today who doesn't have more sexual experience than her grandma. Divorce rates have gone up to 70% in the West (Belgium to be specific) since then and 70% of all divorces in the USA are initiated by women. At the same time, less people are getting married than ever before. Today, out of wedlock births account in the West up to 45% of all births. Not surprisingly, Maniac doesn't bother much with the character development of Frank because we are living in times when whoredom has reached epidemic levels. We can understand Frank without much help of the movie and that especially counts for modern "beta" men, who were prior to the Sexual Revolution alpha men by the standards of those times, which is also evidenced by rampant "jungle fever" among white women. Not surprisingly, not many black men (or white women) are serial killers, the "maniacs". The majority of people who commit suicide today are ("beta") men, unsurprisingly. The unfortunate realism of the movie makes it exceptionally disturbing.
Elijah Wood is excellent as Frank. In addition to being a highly talented actor, he doesn't look feminine like Justin Bieber (whose fan base consists unsurprisingly mainly of women) and neither does he look like a Third World man. He looks like a typical modern "beta" guy. So he was a perfect choice to play the serial killer.
If you can bear the excessive gore and sexual scenes in this movie, then I would absolutely recommend this movie. The soundtrack is also very good.
It's definitely hard to make a movie if it has anything to do with teenagers or even those in their 20s in the 21th century. That's like having to make a happy movie about concentration camps in the Second World War. America's (and the West's) moral decline has hit rock bottom and movies like Van Wilder shamelessly capitalize on that. Anyone can write a screenplay like the one behind Van Wilder. All you need to have is the imagination of a teenager who hasn't outgrown his puberty and hasn't ever learned responsibility or anything beyond his sexual frustrations that are so out of control that sex becomes his entire universe. Unfortunately, such imagination resembles actual reality today, as is statistically evident. MTV capitalizes on that all the time, such as with 16 and Pregnant (2009), Teen Mom (2009), etc. So a movie these days that has anything to do with teenagers can't possibly be a comedy, but nothing less than a hardcore drama to say the least, unless you consider the sky high divorce rates and incredibly declining birthrates and out of wedlock birthrates of today to be funny.
Van Wilder is one of the most disgusting movies that has ever been made. College is portrayed as a post Woodstock festival (which by itself was already out of control) where all the females are shameless disgusting whores who will have sex with anyone, at any time, any place, any way and all the guys are equally sexually insane. Van Wilder almost borders with zoophilia, that's how far the sex obsession goes. There is in fact little indication that college is actually supposed to be about education and preparing for the real life. Nope, when sex is your universe/god/everything and having an orgasm is the most important thing in your life, then everything can (and is, in this movie) thrown in the trash can. That's what this movie is all about that: sex, sex and if you didn't get it the first "billion" times, it's about sex. Oh and in case I forget, it's about sex. How about the story? Sex. How about actually having a point? Sex. How about the comedy? Sex. How about entertainment? Sex. Was Ryan Reynolds good in this movie? Sex. Tara Reid? Sex. Kal Penn was in this movie as well. Oh, sex. To complete it all, think of jokes about bodily fluids, drug smoking and "tough guy" blacks and you have got yourself a movie that can only be produced by a mentally insane society.
Gore is not scary, it's not going to automatically result into a good horror movie. Likewise, grossness is not funny, it's not going to automatically result into a good comedy movie. Just because people like to have sex doesn't mean that a movie that is obsessed about sex is going to automatically result into a good movie. Having to even to write a review to point these things out (yes, it has to be done when a movie like this gets a rating above 5) shows how far down the toilet society has gone. Can it even get any worse? It wouldn't matter.
Van Wilder is one of the most disgusting movies that has ever been made. College is portrayed as a post Woodstock festival (which by itself was already out of control) where all the females are shameless disgusting whores who will have sex with anyone, at any time, any place, any way and all the guys are equally sexually insane. Van Wilder almost borders with zoophilia, that's how far the sex obsession goes. There is in fact little indication that college is actually supposed to be about education and preparing for the real life. Nope, when sex is your universe/god/everything and having an orgasm is the most important thing in your life, then everything can (and is, in this movie) thrown in the trash can. That's what this movie is all about that: sex, sex and if you didn't get it the first "billion" times, it's about sex. Oh and in case I forget, it's about sex. How about the story? Sex. How about actually having a point? Sex. How about the comedy? Sex. How about entertainment? Sex. Was Ryan Reynolds good in this movie? Sex. Tara Reid? Sex. Kal Penn was in this movie as well. Oh, sex. To complete it all, think of jokes about bodily fluids, drug smoking and "tough guy" blacks and you have got yourself a movie that can only be produced by a mentally insane society.
Gore is not scary, it's not going to automatically result into a good horror movie. Likewise, grossness is not funny, it's not going to automatically result into a good comedy movie. Just because people like to have sex doesn't mean that a movie that is obsessed about sex is going to automatically result into a good movie. Having to even to write a review to point these things out (yes, it has to be done when a movie like this gets a rating above 5) shows how far down the toilet society has gone. Can it even get any worse? It wouldn't matter.