Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
| Movie | |
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| German title | Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie |
| Original title | Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 115 minutes |
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| Director |
James Rolfe , Kevin Finn |
| script | James Rolfe, Kevin Finn |
| production | James Rolfe, Kevin Finn Sean Keegan |
| music |
Bear McCreary Kyle Justin |
| camera | Jason Brewer |
| cut | James Rolfe Michael Licisyn |
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Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie or AVGN: The Movie is an American comedy based on the Angry Video Game Nerd web series of the same name . James Rolfe is next to Kevin Finn the director and screenwriter of the film and plays the leading role in the title. The film premiered on July 21, 2014 at Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood . On September 2, 2014 the film was released online via video-on-demand . It was released on Blu-ray in December 2014. The film was funded by crowdfunding . The crowdfunding budget was around US $ 325,000, of which, according to speculation, around US $ 25,000 was deducted through PayPal , IndieGoGo fees and income tax, among other things .
action
The film begins with a kind of report about the Atari video game Burial and the worst video game of all time : ET The Extra Terrestrial (called "Eee Tee" in the film) for the Atari 2600 . The game company Cockburn Industries, Inc. announced the release of "Eee Tee 2", which, according to its own statements, should be even worse. However, due to the popularity of the original, largely thanks to the nerd who works in a video game store, this game is set to become a best seller.
When the nerd sees the poster for Eee Tee 2 in the video game store, he gets a shock, but is encouraged by customers to rate this and the original game in one of its episodes. He storms out of the store, distraught, and experiences a nightmare at night. He then decides to go to Alamogordo, New Mexico with his friend Cooper Folly (Jeremy Suarez) and Mandi, a Cockburn employee, to put an end to the myth of the Eee Tee game.
Once there, they film for the nerd's blog. However, they are stopped by General Dark Onward (Stephen Mendel) and Sergeant McButter (Helena Barrett) because they are mistakenly mistaken for alien researchers. The trio escapes them in a car chase in which General Dark Onward's entire right arm is torn to pieces by a grenade.
The nerd, Cooper and Mandi decide to find the game's developer, Howard Scott Warshaw, to get answers about the Atari video game Burial. However, you stumble into Dr. Zandor (Time Winters), who tells them that the Eee Tee level design is an exact replica of Area 51 . He offers them to spend the night with him. During the night, Mandi gets a call from her boss, who has now made his own way to Alamogordo. Mandi tries to warn him, but fails. So she sets out on foot to stop her boss, but is caught by Sergeant McButter. When the nerd and Cooper realize the next morning that Mandi is no longer there, they think she is an agent working against them.
Nevertheless, the nerd and Cooper decide to go back to Alamogordo, but there they meet a horde of fans of the new Eee Tea game that Cockburn has lured there and advertises the new game. The nerd takes a megaphone and tries to explain to the crowd that the whole myth is fictitious. At that moment, however, Howard Scott Warshaw arrives and refutes the nerd's explanation. Disguised as an alien, the nerd sneaks into Area 51. Successfully, until he is discovered by General Dark Onward, who has since learned who the nerd really is. He tries to force him to play the ET game, but fails. Out of anger, he fires a rocket at Mount Fuji , which is an interpretation of the Atari logo. Death Mwauthzyx, who was trapped in the mountain up to this point, redeems this. Meanwhile, Mandi tries to keep Sergeant McButter away from the nerd, which eventually leads to a confrontation between McButter and Mandi on the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas.
When General Onward nastily leaves the room where he forced the nerd to play the game, his left arm is severed by two doors. Cooper tries to save the nerd by using the ET game to try to control the alien that frees the nerd from the room. However, Cooper is captured by Death Mwauthzyx and taken to Las Vegas. Mandi kills McButter by pushing her off the Eiffel Tower. However, she is also caught by Death Mwauthzyx. In a Top-Gun-like scene, the nerd and the alien fly back to Alamogordo, where the buried ET modules form into a spaceship in the air. In it, the alien and the nerd fly to Las Vegas to defeat Death Mwauthzyx. General Onward dies trying to stop them.
In Las Vegas, Cooper and Mandi are saved by the nerd and the alien and defeat Death Mwauthzyx. You fly back to Alamogordo and meet Dr. Zandor and the fans. Cooper and Mandi kiss while the nerd finally decides to "review" ET. The nerd realizes that ET isn't the worst game he's ever played. He describes it as challenging and addicting. Nonetheless, it's still a bad game.
development
James Rolfe has always had the ambition to make a big movie, and finally saw in the character of the Angry Video Game Nerd a possibility to make this dream come true. Together with Kevin Finn, he wrote the script and prepared the production in 2008. In an article written for GamesTM magazine , Howard Scott Warshaw reported that he had received the script and would like to participate in the project. Due to the production of the AVGN web series, production of the film has been put on hold for a few years.
Via the crowdfunding portal Indiegogo , Rolfe managed to raise $ 325,000 for the realization of the film Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie . On November 10, 2012, after several months of filming, a first trailer was published on Rolfes' homepage.
criticism
“Proudly crowdfunded by fans worldwide, the film gleefully showcases B-movie excess and ineptitude, from the intentionally amateurish acting to the impressively DIY special effects. Rolfe, a bona fide Internet celebrity with over 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube, comes across as more of an on-camera provocateur than a polished performer, although his exaggerated style suits the material, with the rest of the cast pretty much following suit. "
“Proudly funded by fans all over the world, the film lively shows a silly B-movie excess, from the deliberately amateurish acting performance to the impressive DIY special effects. Rolfe, a down-to-earth internet celebrity with more than 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube, provokes more in front of the camera than trying to achieve a perfect performance. But that fits the rest of the film - the other actors follow his example. "
Web links
- Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)