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James Rolfe did have plans to get bigger. He wanted to be a filmmaker. But that dream went down the toilet the day he posted his misogynist non-review of Ghostbusters. He didn’t even see the movie! Now for every job he applies for for the rest of his life, the first search result will by the NY Times article calling him out for his bigotry. Goodbye Hollywood career! Hope it was worth it to trash a movie just because the stars were all women.
I assume his film career not panning out the way he intended had way, way more to do with the AVGN movie sucking than his dumb Ghostbusters video
Lots of successful people’s first films sucked. However, going in front of the whole world to tell us that you feel victimized by strong female leads is indeed a career-killer in Hollywood. There will never be a second film.
Most successful people in Hollywood were well connected before their successive failures. AVGN got his one shot from crowdfunding from his fans which he can’t do again after all of those fans are burnt on the first bad movie. No doubt that review would be a career killer except that his career was already dead.
When the NY Times calls your work borderline bigoted, yes that means he’s a bigot. It’s a loud, clear dog whistle to anyone who would ever hire him. Or defend him.
Why are people jumping out of the woodwork to take the side of this misogynist? WTF? Had to glance at the top banner of this site to check whether or not I was on :reddit-logo: for a moment.
Mostly because it seems you didn’t even read the article you keep using as a cudgel, which doesn’t even say what you think it says
Sort of. He had plans to be a filmmaker and made a movie in LA. He then realized the difficulties of making a film in Hollywood and stayed in Philly to focus on his web series.
I guess the NY Times article pointing out he’s a misogynist had nothing to do with it. That video he made was a career-ending train wreck. He did the same thing to his career as Michael Richards. Even Richards standing next to Seinfeld and humbling himself with profuse apologies wasn’t enough. Rolfe hasn’t apologized one bit. Because he’s not sorry he trashed a movie because his fragile sense of male supremacy was threatened.
I don’t think it was tbh. I remember a lot of people giving him the benefit of the doubt during that time. He didn’t really engage with any of the criticism and came out unscathed from it. His current downfall has more to do with him having two daughters and handing over production to a private group. You can tell he really isn’t in it anymore and would rather be doing anything else. I’m more impressed that a gaming Youtube channel didn’t jump on the right-wing train and make videos about how he “beat cancel culture” or some shit like that.
