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Angry giant nerd
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Viewers have been treated to bizarre story-lines with budget-stretching special effects, miniatures and fight-sequences. Numerous episodes of AVGN and Board James have taken pretty radical deviations after the "reviews" have concluded. Unfortunately (and I take no pleasure in that term), Rolfe has always had desires to dream a little "bigger". Explore and expand The Nerd turn him into an actual character and, as a result,illustrate why he's deserving of a self-titled movie. So, with format tinkering needed, where to go for the movie? The obvious answer would have been a small-scale character-based comedy.

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Nevertheless, The Nerd had built up a loyal army of fan and Rolfe had a guaranteed audience for a movie irrespective of whether the format truly lent itself to one.

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Exposing the absurdities of 2003's "Big Rigs Over the Road Racing" (the subject matter of a recent episode) is a lot of fun, but it pales in comparison to The Nerd spitting bile at "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" a game which Rolfe hated as a child of the eighties and detests even more, decades later.

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This is why the most successful AVGN videos focus on the games that Rolfe has a true history with. Sure, the white shirt is a costume and the love of Rolling Rock is a vague attempt at character detail, but his main characteristic the anger for awful games - well, that normally comes from embellished truth. How could that ever work? The main problem is that The Nerd isn't really a true "character" as such, he's merely an exaggeration of James Rolfe's personality. However, when I heard about an AVGN movie, I was a little puzzled. They're informative and humorous, poking fun at the weird curiosities of video-games, board games, movies, TV shows and books.

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I've bought his DVDs (mainly to contribute to his finances - since 90% of the content is available free online) and I regularly visit his website, Cinemassacre. Firstly, let me declare an interest: I've been following Rolfe and The Angry Video Game Nerd since about 2007.














Angry giant nerd