James Rolfe has NO TIME to Write AVGN Scripts! - BTS 2023

[@jhenson6706]

Mike records the gameplay then makes notes and forwards it to James. Then James reorganizes his words and adds poop jokes.

[@Apjooz]

Each masterpiece takes 3 months to make.

[@fenixfelixx]

Wait till Sly becomes aware of all this

[@99splashing77]

lmao

[@Majuular]

The visuals you use to show Mike whenever he's mentioned are very helpful. You capture his essence beautifully.

[@Gatorade69]

Oh hey man. Found your channel just recently. Good stuff.

[@FilmTrekk]

Thank you g! 😄 and I always remember to pay respects to the great Matei

[@ScottP89]

"Mike will drop in from TIME to TIME" got me GOOD

[@tubeofpoo2421]

that "TIME!" zoom in thing is the best Cazzy trope imo

[@almightyone1181]

Mike heavy baggy under eyes though

[@SofaPop.]

Okay but jokes aside, “I’ll be right back” did make me laugh, until Bimmy over explained the joke for a minute straight

[@br2134]

I’m glad he explained it because it’s such an obscure reference that a lot of the people probably won’t get it

[@struttux5156]

@@br2134 I actually knew what movie he was referencing. Me and my lil sis had a crappy recording of it on the early 90's. The basic idea wasn't that bad with the terminator thing but James Cameron (Director) didn't really know how to use it all. He could've probably been pretty big name if things went a little different and went on to do more stuff. I know he had ideas about doing something about Titanic for example. It was only released on Laser Disc as much as i know. It proves Bames deep knowledge about film that he would be aware this weird little sci-fi anomaly exists. Hopefully it got a little attention from this.

[@MrHostile12]

Also like the third video where he mentions the joke

[@chrislevack405]

Bames* Cameron

[@gettinsilly]

"You have to suffer through it." But James, I DON'T want you to suffer!

[@GSpareBurner]

That “HUEHH” sound always gets me 😂

[@nkw1985]

"Wipe Ass" on the notes lmao.

[@stevep9177]

My favorite recurring character is Well No Shit Guy

[@FilmTrekk]

Yeah he looks pretty cool 😏

[@stevenpina1983]

I see why it’s popular

[@samleembardo6202]

Kieran turned Bimmy into the Lonely Writer Nerd

[@redroninx289]

Thank you for suffering through all this content for these edits. As a natural fact of life, I have less time now than I did in my 20s to watch new videos

[@vanguard6498]

I love how your keeping the tradition of putting the echo effect over the word time, makes me laugh everytime

[@Mother2IsTheBestGame]

>makes me laugh everyTIME

[@juanchooh9965]

In the Old days i actually found useful some of the tips he shared (when you dont have a lot of budget mostly) but after a few years and more practice i do see why People say he overcomplicates things for himself, and its true maybe thats where all of his time goes.

[@sikkableeat5614]

3:08 When James walks in on April's "personal time" with the bull

[@zachary_attackery]

5:40 is cleanup time

[@FilmTrekk]

ffs 🤣🤣

[@ash2dvst]

The more complex episodes to make are the ones where Bames has to hold the onion in his mouth

[@SiigmaGunnerOfficial]

There goes the onion

[@Uutbusters]

It's 5:40 somewhere

[@FilmTrekk]

You know it fam 🙌

[@cirno9976]

10:17 my focus wasn't there so the random car driving noise caught me off guard xd

[@Captain_Neckbeard]

Thank God I now know the difference between a lets play and a reeeview.

[@FilmTrekk]

It was so confusing before he explained it!

[@SOTE_513]

@@FilmTrekk He's a dad to little kids. What do you expect? He's like the friendly uncle/brother of video game KZbin world. You're just looking for a reason to dislike him as a person because you are upset that his work declined in quality. So, you know... that's on you.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

2:48 I think the other guys set up the PC for him but can't get him to learn to use something other than a Mac, so he has to copy everything over. The "PC" could also be an NAS or something.

[@FilmTrekk]

Yeah that would make more sense. Plus some people just cant handle the switch of OS

[@SpiritBuddy]

3:27 Adult Timmy Turner Roast the crap out of James Rolfe lol

[@FilmTrekk]

LOL 😂

[@GamePlayMetal]

The irony is that Bimmy says "time" so many... TIMES that you missed one at 8:56

[@FilmTrekk]

Oh my gooodd I did! I even double checked 😭😭

[@stevenpina1983]

@Sneed Chucky apologize for what, being an apologist?

[@stevenpina1983]

I misread your name as GamePlayMATEI

[@shipped_my_pants_3000]

​@@stevenpina1983Our daddy taught us not to be ashamed...

[@mikecoolgreen]

bimmy pretty much can make anything that is simple sound really difficult since he doesnt have enough time and needs to go back to the bedroom to clean up after the bulls

[@craigusselman546]

Bimmys combover is taking on a life of its own..

[@ohmygahdbilly]

It was the combover IT WAS THE FUCKING COMBOVER

[@ProgSnob14]

Hahaha finally a RLM Cinemassacre cross over!

[@hermit9909]

13 minutes of Cazzy and going again!!

[@holdingpattern245]

I didn't watch the original thing because he already made his "Making of an AVGN Episode", and it doesn't seem like he stepped up his game since then, but maybe I should watch it ironically.

[@FilmTrekk]

If you have over 40 minutes to spare lol

[@struttux5156]

It feels he went backwards actually.

[@JRL1985]

This video saved muh lyfe.

[@mattd6755]

Awesome edit, muh man! Keep 'em coming!

[@edyoutube1287]

Love the fact that he said he has final say on everything always has. So that means he read over and approved the plagiarized script. But in his apology video he said he had nothing to do with it. he's just a hired voice actor you uses a face cam

[@Schell3092]

Perhaps he read the script, and get this, didn't realize it was plagiarized. Waht a concept.

[@kaleidoscopicvoid]

@@Schell3092 yeah lol

[@zachary_attackery]

wait a minute....comedians actually write their act out? I thought they just went on stage and made everything up off the cuff!

[@FilmTrekk]

Blew my mind when he said that!!

[@holdingpattern245]

In the original 2011 how to do AVGN video, he mentions that AVGN episodes are not off the cuff, and he had to say that because some of his fans at the time were little kids who legitimately didn't know, I have no idea why he repeats it here though.

[@casedistorted]

I am honestly curious if recording onto DVD would still be a good way to do things considering how much space gaming footage can take up over time. And you don’t have to worry about an HDD drive going back if you just have DVD’s burned as backups stashed somewhere.. Maybe it’s just physical media making a comeback lately tho or I’m old fashioned and behind the times. And not rich like James who can afford a 1,000TB NAS drive. The only things I really cared about in his interviews were how he edited what software what his recording setup is like all that technical stuff, I could care less about his writing style cuz everyone is different. But James really likes to talk about how he writes. I was curious about his time doing voice acting and what he learned from his years doing production stuff for that.. but he mentioned it once and how he learned so much from it.. and then never brought it up again. So I didn’t learn anything from him lol

[@DoubleBeast]

3:44 Bimmy does his best impression of makemebad35

[@jkadoodle]

Him explaining that comedians don’t improvise their act is insulting. Does he really believe his audience would be so stupid to be surprised by this?

[@FilmTrekk]

Just the fact he thinks the "everyday" person wouldn't know how much work Comedians put into their standup, legit annoys me.

[@A2Z83]

he has reason to believe this since people got so upset finding out that things he said might have been scripted by other people and say that his videos dont have genuine reactions anymore. theres clearly a portion of the audience, basementdwellers, that cant distinguish fantasy from reality. even Nostalgia Critic had to explain this to his viewers.

[@iansrife5107]

@@FilmTrekk I would get annoyed, but I just don't have time.

[@holdingpattern245]

He also feels the need to explain in the 2011 video that his videos are scripted, I think he did have a lot of really young fans back then who tried to make videos like he did, but didn't seem to get that he was using a script and editing software, which might explain why he made that video. I don't know why he said it here though, if I was being charitable I'd say that he is trying to illustrate how using a script can make you funnier?

[@unoriginalcontent1961]

Didn’t Mike do that Last Ninja gameplay? I was watching him play that and get stuck at the boat. There is no way AVGN would be able to do that. I watched Mike spend over an hour on that boat.

[@NeptuneNoire]

“I record on a PC, but still copy onto my Mac. “ Ok but- why? You’re doing double the work of having to move it over. Just edit it on the PC if it’s already THERE.

[@ChaosAngel9151]

He's kinda a boomer when it comes to technology

[@holdingpattern245]

Some guy at Screenwave takes care of James' recording setup, and then copies it to his Mac, but James says that "he" did it because he has the final say.

[@TheSultan1470]

To be fair, he's always been more comfortable on a Mac

[@NintendoDude888]

​@@TheSultan1470 Hipster

[@zersch.]

These videos are hilarious, and that intro choice was perfect. Thanks for making entertaining AVGN videos.

[@FilmTrekk]

Ey and thank you for watching ☺

[@TheCandiRose]

take a wild guess

[@gronndar]

Still sharing these masterpieces to us. Good work.

[@WolfThorneLives]

1:19 The noise... HIYAH

[@miked9594]

You are the the king of time. Seriously don’t stop.

[@FilmTrekk]

Ey thanks a ton! :) Definitely won't

[@homerhat420]

Bames is a highly regarded filmaker.

[@Machtimus]

Your editing skills are so on point. Fantastic The Bimster really is a re.......special

[@zachary_attackery]

its really intellectually wridden

[@marcelo16]

movies are easier to review, but I couldn't be bothered to write the short monster madness ones of a series that was always about my take on those horror films

[@Chaingun]

to think he actually expected us to watch the whole version and not your abridged version. what a slog!!

[@struttux5156]

I watched it all and it is beyond boring. James is as static as his camera work. I wasn't sure even Filmtrek could make this into something funny but his brilliant mind pulled it off 😂😂

[@BF_Brix]

@@struttux5156 Having rewatched "The Making of an AVGN Episode" from the early 2010's compared to "Writing Angry Video Game Nerd Scripts" 10+ years later is kind of sad. I actually really like a lot of the advice James gave for scriptwriting, editing, shooting, etc. in his old video. The new video just seems like a man or filmmaker losing his way in his best craft, like he forgot how to maintain a convenient and intuitive creative process.

[@uwu-ei6oc]

thanks for having time to make james watchable

[@MrGenyaAvacado]

7:15 Sorry I have not been doing my job. Please dont fire me.

[@gunsrtheanswer]

LOL good one.

[@johntiter2825]

Why does Mike look like Gul Dukat here?

[@cableroyson9992]

I refuse to watch the actual video. But what I gather from this is that Bimmy doesn’t even know what he actually does. He put more effort in this video describing what he thinks he should be doing with his persona, than what he actually does when he half asses his videos

[@ryancox4689]

Where’s Newt when we need him?

[@FilmTrekk]

the real hero we needed

[@fifoffjfufs]

the rlm clips were perfect

[@datamouth]

"for James, is a chore." lol

[@Mattos77]

Big ryan cameo fan

[@frankf684]

You haven’t lived til you watch movies in reverse.

[@gunsrtheanswer]

I guesss Ill stay undead

[@chrisdryer]

I am glad you noticed he says "Wolf" funny... I did a video of him saying Dracula over and over on my other channel and noticed Woofman might be next...

[@holdingpattern245]

I think even Mike talked about it once.

[@fishrenfroeboyd7954]

What video does the clip of James falling asleep come from? I always see it referenced in videos but hadn’t been able to find the video it actually came from?

[@struttux5156]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpDddKqmgb1ppck 20:50

[@jeff3229]

TIME

[@fredsambo]

There is only one way to watch this film, from beginning to end. That's a nickel's worth of free advise from The Man himself! Honestly, James doesn't deserve such treatment, your skills are spot on and getting better all the time. Thanks, man.

[@struttux5156]

You can also watch a film out of order or backwards or just a bit of it.

[@fredsambo]

@@struttux5156 and on mute with the subtitles on!

[@struttux5156]

@@fredsambo And on fast forward 😂😂

[@squick1842]

Im suprised you didnt put more of the plagarism in there. As Bames basically dont do anything anymore.

[@FilmTrekk]

I alluded to it, but yeah I definitely should have included a picture of Newt or something 🤣🤣

[@Sinceyouwentaway]

According to your channel name, I assume you're a big Star Trek fan btw.

[@FilmTrekk]

I friggin love me some Star Trek 😍

[@Schell3092]

We have similar user names 🧐

[@XxXNOSCOPEURASSXxX]

Movies are easier to review when you turn off the sound and read the subtitles

[@nolancampbell4451]

Time time time time

[@jesselopes5196]

'Sopho-culls' was Steve Martin level

[@cattusfattus6369]

Been waiting for this one Edit: this was so fucking funny my chest hurts

[@FilmTrekk]

haha, thank you Cat! 😄

[@ohmygahdbilly]

I genuinely have no idea what the fuck James the 5th of the Rocky Mountains will do now that he’s lost 3 great guys

[@PowertipBrushhead]

Thank you Bimmy Obvious

[@sleepytreeguy]

Hey man, what was Jay (from RLM) referring to in the opening clip?

[@FilmTrekk]

He was referring to Neil Breen's filmmaking retrospective. Here is the link! Sorry thought I had it in the description. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poK2kJWOaNiLbtU

[@sleepytreeguy]

@@FilmTrekk oh you might have! I honestly didn't look. I just thought it was such a perfect clip for the video you made. Well done! Thank you!

[@gunsrtheanswer]

No, it was Obama talking about the world economic forum

[@thweetiebird]

I like your videos

[@NeptuneNoire]

What's that RLM clip from in the beginning?

[@DrMatta]

Also want to know

[@FilmTrekk]

From their Rawhead Rex/ Neil Breen 5 Film Retrospective review! kzbin.info/www/bejne/poK2kJWOaNiLbtU I was also gonna sprinkle in some neil breen in this 😂

[@troywright359]

I understand why James over explains, this is the way he thinks and the only way he can express his thoughts, via breaking it all down, rather than very very clever short soundbites

[@deadshotninja4852]

Lets take a moment of silence and appreciate taking away time from his daily living tio upload content for us

[@Mornings]

How long does it really take to write an AVGN script? I could do it in under an hour 💀 bro must be an NPC

[@opaljk4835]

Honestly, I’ve watched nerd episodes over the years…so many of his jokes are so bad and cringe. I never thought he was very funny, but sometimes amusing. The happy birthday thing especially made my whole body hurt.

[@lilbrojoe2]

8:01 what's with the underwater Mario? An inside joke I'm unaware of, I presume.

[@FilmTrekk]

lol nah its just from the podcast clip where James was talking about Atlantis

[@struttux5156]

James uses a greenscreen-shelf because Mike owned all the games and movies and took them with him when he left. My wild guess.

[@holdingpattern245]

Mike owned all the games early on, but bought a bunch later specifically for the show, which would have been very cheap at that time, and James also had many games donated to him by fans, although it is possible that James sold a bunch of those games when the prices started going way up.

[@bobtom1495]

Wait, he stands in front of a green screen shelf? Which one?....

[@struttux5156]

@@bobtom1495 3:27

[@Frederik-xk8og]

not usually my kind of production I like but this was pretty great lol

[@FilmTrekk]

ey thanks a ton for the comment! :)

[@TacoManSlays]

I dont get it. Why can't he just be honest and say Mike played and wrote most of the classic episodes? Everyone already knows and nobody would even care. This just makes him look even more petty.

[@JoeyXSmith]

It would make more sense why his reviews are just garbage now.

[@sirmilesthecat8849]

As soon as I saw RLM, I knew I was in for a treat. Great job as always!

[@jameshill3403]

No time to post anything new other than a top ten of previous videos I made 14 years ago.

[@FilmTrekk]

I don't even bother to click on those

[@struttux5156]

My hope went past 5:40 when i saw the new video was dated back to 2009 😂😂

[@timjamesfit]

time for a commment

[@mikecoolgreen]

do you think april write down notes for james so he knows exactly what to do when the bulls arrive but shes taking a shower?

[@Gatorade69]

He lets them in and cooks them dinner.

[@mikecoolgreen]

@@Gatorade69 pretty sure bimmy has enough respect to let them use his clothes as tissues and the kitchen floor as the kitchen sink.

[@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700]

@@Gatorade69 bimmy can't cook, that takes TIME.

[@Gatorade69]

@@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700 So his cool Kamikoto knives are just for show !?

[@Mother2IsTheBestGame]

​@@Gatorade69And Bpril's bulls feed Bames his dinner out of Bpril's bottom hole.

[@karlimo4034]

His set up is unnecesarily complicated. Why would you use a PC to capture gameplay to then edit everything in a Mac? I capture gameplay with a crappy USB capture card or I just record an emulator window. Nes, Genesis Snes, Turbografx, etc emulators are very good in a Mac already if you are so set in using a Mac. You can capture from a console and everdrive but what's the point of capturing from console when you already got rid of your CRT TVs? The input lag is a lot worse on a new TV than in an emulator. So I just don't understand his ways.

[@shizamikaze]

i like the effect that plays each time he says time

[@trentm9547]

Imagine being next to a woof!

[@vanguze]

You can't make this shit up.

[@davidokelly1140]

👏 👏 👏 And Mike responded with FU****! They put that there to be co**s. 😅

[@TheJack2459]

Bimmy.

[@stevenpina1983]

Perfect RLM clip at the beginning

[@kaleidoscopicvoid]

where is the redletter clip from?

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

Does RLM have it in for just Hack the Movies, or all of them?

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I know on that video game show Rich Evans and AIDS Moby used to do (PreRec, I think it was called) that they once played the AVGN game and turned it off after only playing it for a minute or two.

[@FilmTrekk]

The video I took from is them talking about Neil Breen's 5 Film Retrospective, Just a lot of things they mention about Neil, really mirror with James 😂

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

@@FilmTrekk I watch RLM from time to time, and I thought it looked familiar.

[@deiradinn]

The ego stroking, he better bust hard!

[@KamikazeChinaman]

James traded his time with the devil in exchange for success.

[@ThomasKirby-ub4vy]

“You see when you go “like like like” ummm like” … it’s not scripted it comes off unorganized. That’s not how people talk in real life. To fix this.. you need to organize words in order to be a sentence . That’s called a script.”

[@RetroBacon1]

That ending song slaps yo 🔥

[@FilmTrekk]

Ey thanks fam 😄 More on my music channel as well! www.youtube.com/@yungcazzy

[@rangoononline]

Really enjoying the cuttaways to your facial reactions. You have the skills of a young Tucker Carlson.

[@FilmTrekk]

Wtf. How does that relate to Tucker Carlson at all?? 😂😂

[@rangoononline]

@@FilmTrekk Tucker Carlson's gimmick was split screening an interview with someone his audience didn't agree with and making a confused look the whole time. The boomers in his audience used him as a stand in for themselves to feel superior to someone with opposing views. It was a really good grift

[@FilmTrekk]

@@rangoononline Politics are boring anyways

[@Skellotronix]

​@@rangoononline LOL the pseudo intellectual ego stroking losers are fucking everywhere. How does it feel to be perpetually immature and narcissistic, non human scum?

[@jaodasilva7993]

I know how shitposts work, but were the redletter media guys talking about james? Just curiosity , i haven't seem content from them from ages

[@hansjuker8296]

Hack fraud

[@Xarxes81]

One thing I always wondered watching avgn content was: Holy cow how can't this man color key properly.

[@03bgood]

Do you want him to suffer?

[@NekroBroly]

Muh time

[@RADRAWEEL]

Real talk I also loved “Ill be right back “ Thanks for the vids dude

[@FilmTrekk]

It is funny, but not when the simple joke is explained for over 5 minutes 🤣

[@Davidweedlove]

@@FilmTrekk actually a lot of us like deconstructing and analyzing comedy man

[@FilmTrekk]

@@Davidweedlove Yeah but dude, that joke did not need explaining what so ever lol

[@holdingpattern245]

@@Davidweedlove jokes are like frogs, when you dissect them, they die

[@SOTE_513]

One note about James sharing things that seemingly everyone should already know... (like "a video focusing on one game is different than a video focusing on many games.")… He's a dad to young kids. Of course he's going to explain everything, even simple things. Plus, say what you want about him, but he comes off as VERY nice guy. I think that part of the reason so many people make fun of him now. Yes, they're disappointed by his content, but they feel they have the liberty to make fun of him because he's a very nice guy. In fact, he is "a nerd", and most of his former audience bullies him. It's kind of wild. Meanwhile, he's super nice and he talks like he's trying to gently instruct us, making sure not to talk over our heads. He's a dad. He's a nice guy. Give him a break. PS: I'm not saying don't critique his work. I'm saying making fun of his style of communicating as JAMES himself, NOT THE CHARACTER, but making fun of James himself for how he speaks or how he is - YOU KNOW, THINGS HE CAN'T REALLY CHANGE, THEY'RE INHERENTLY A PART OF HIM - is just very sad. Jesus is Lord.