https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3kGjo_qtwQ
I watched two minutes of this just for “fun” and had to turn it off. This is unbelievably bad. It’s some musician who I’ve never heard of, his mind is completely fried from decades of drug abuse, and he just fucking sits there and says things like “rad” like it’s 1985.
And it’s all done over Skype, of course. This is just so bad. James is so petrified of covid that he never leaves the house and nobody is allowed in. What the fuck is wrong with him?
How the fuck am I supposed to get through 25 minutes of this? I’ve never seen the movie and I don’t give a fuck about it. And I certainly don’t give a fuck about this aged rocker or Jimmy Rolfe.
Maybe I should just skip it. I don’t have to review it. But the video is noteworthy for how shockingly bad it is. I have an obligation to alert the internet about it.
And the edits. Holy shit. All transitions are edited out. Like after this guy says something, they edit out what James replied with. And the reason is obvious if you’ve seen any of his non-scripted stuff. They’re editing out James awkwardly saying “yeah” to everything. James NEVER replies with something germane to what anyone is saying. It’s always just “yeah”. He lacks the mental acumen to be able to have an organic conversation. Listen to what somebody is saying and formulate a response based on what that person just said. He can’t do it. So he just says “yeah”.
This is all edited out to try to make Rainman appear less like an autistic weirdo.
So after this guy says something, it’s immediately back to James, reading from his notes so that he can get his next talking point in.
It’s just fucking horrendous. Two minutes. I lasted two fucking minutes with this. He expects us to watch 25 minutes of this?
I’m going to watch and I’m going to try to write as little as possible. Just to get through it. And then I’ll sum up my thoughts. I’ll try to only point out the really egregious shit.
0:15 – “Today I will be joined by Corey Tylor. That’s right. The singer from Slipknot and Stone Sour.”
Oh of course. That Corey Taylor. The guy from Slipknot and…what? Stone Sour? Did I even hear that right? Let me DuckDuckGo this shit.
Yeah, that was right. But no, I never heard of this shit. I looked up a couple of their songs too and no. I never heard it.
But Slipknot. I’m familiar with the name. Don’t they wear masks, though? Yeah. Let me check their biggest hits. Duality? It’s not really ringing any bells. Yeah, released in 2004. I wasn’t listening to music then. I was fucking doing things with my life.
So yeah. I don’t know this guy. I don’t know any of Slipknot’s songs. And I never even fucking heard of Stone Sour. So…THAT Corey Taylor? Holy shit. What a score this is for old Rainman and Cinemassacre!
0:15 –
James: Hey, man. How you doing?
Guy: I’m good, dude!
RADICAL! A couple of hep cats.
God. James is so fucking awkward and this guy is a giant douche. I already forgot his name so I’m just going to keep referring to him as “that guy” and the like.
1:00 – This guy says, “That’s the beautiful thing about this book is that it’s such a mindfuck, really.”
Oh, that is beautiful. When I think of beauty, I think of “mindfucks”.
Fucking stupid scumbag.
Then James awkwardly shows the cover the DVD for some bizarre reason. Really awkward. He nods to the camera as he does it like he’s some cool dude. Radical.
1:15 – “He was so eloquent, he was poignant, and yet he was just batshit. You know, which was rad, you know.”
This is a real meeting of the minds here. I feel like I’m watching Firing Line. Hey guys! Remember Firing Line?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OnHZWLHxVU]
2:00 – “I wish I took notes.”
Way to prepare, Rainman. This is your big chance here. You’re doing a show with none other than…that music guy. And you couldn’t even be bothered to take notes.
From 3:00 to 4:00, it’s just James and this guy laughing about something but I don’t know what. I don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re describing a scene from the movie, I guess. But I don’t know what it is or why it’s funny.
This is like in fourth grade lunch where we would talk about movies that we saw. “And then Rambo shoots a flaming arrow! Did you see that? It was awesome!”
God, there’s so much editing. They’re even editing this guy’s footage. I’d like to see the raw footage. Not for “entertainment” value, certainly, but just to see how incapable of conversation both of these clowns are.
7\;00 – This guy goes on a long rant. Rainmain says nothing. Then this guy continues:
Guy: “The overall reach of that book, if you really get to the antithesis of it, is the death of the idealism. It was the death of the idealisation of the hippie generation.
Rainman: Mm hmm.
(The guy continues his soliloquy)
Guy: It’s almost like an acid trip of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Rainman: Yeah.
I’m done.
This guy obviously mentioned It’s a Mad…World to try elicit some kind of response from Rainman OTHER THAN “yeah” or “mm hmm”. Rainman couldn’t do it. Rainman is a fucking idiot.
This is just trash. And I’m pretty sure that that guy misused the word “antithesis” but that’s the least of our problems.
Why does James make these videos? Does he think that they’re good? Does he think that he comes across well in them?
The man can not have a conversation. I’ve been there. Maybe we’ve all experienced this. Somebody is talking and you want to contribute but you just get lost with what they’re saying and your mind wanders and the only response you can come up with is “yeah” to try to pretend like you’re listening.
This is every single fucking conversation with James. He’s thinking about poop while the other guy is talking about some deep, philosophical, hippie shit. Occasionally, James will get startled when the other guy gives some kind cue that he expects some kind of feedback so James will say, “yeah”.
This is fucking horrendous. If you can’t talk, THAT’S FINE. NOBODY CARES! But don’t fucking release videos of you having a conversation with anyone.
James was fucking shit on Rental Reviews, he was shit on The OverAnalyzers. He is shit in EVERYTHING that isn’t scripted. And he’s even shit in the scripted stuff now. It doesn’t help that the scripts are shit too.
Either start reading some books on how to have a conversation and put the advice into practice or stop making videos where you’re talking to somebody. It’s unwatchable. You come off like a fucking autistic imbecile. It’s probably accurate but is that image that you want to portray?
The Youtube comments are all censored so let’s see what the boys on Reddit have to say.
Oh, a picture of Mike with a penis for a neck. You see all kinds of weird shit when you enter the murky world of homosexuality.
Jokes about Rex Viper.
Complaints about the webcam quality.
Questions about Slipknot.
Some guy described the video as “decent.”
A “no time” joke.
And a comment on James’ pronunciation.
Well…at least there’s the GamerGrrls blog for meaningful commentary. I can’t wait for all of the gay porn that those gentlemen are going to make out of, what’s his name, Corey something now. Maybe Corey getting buttfucked by Justin Silverman (as Jabba the Hutt) while Mike watches and masturbates. And all of Mike’s limbs are penises.
I must admit that it bothers me that you keep calling him humorously “Rain Man”, given that this fictional character is the glamorized Hollywood version of someone with severe disabilities (as acknowledged in this snippet: https://youtu.be/X6WHBO_Qc-Q). James Rolfe, on the other hand, is the real deal hence he has no “redeemable qualities” so to speak. There's probably nothing he can do about it. I suppose it's either: making these videos or no videos at all which might explain why his “handlers” (I include his wife) have no other choice than to comply.
I'm not completely clear on your objection. I know that Rainman is based on a real person and I know who it's based on. Insulting the mentally challenged is terrible but I don't think that James Rolfe is handicapped enough for this to be offensive. I think that he just barely crosses the intellectual threshold for insults to be acceptable.He has autism or something. He's not a drooling imbecile. I suspect that he knows that his conversation skills are poor. That's probably why he stopped doing Rental Reviews. And OverAnaylzers. And James & Mike Mondays for that matter. And it's probably why he refuses to stream on Twitch.These unscripted videos are awful and he should stop doing them. Nobody really suspected that something was wrong with James until Rental Reviews. The seeds were there in OverAnalyzers and there were some bad James & Mike Mondays but with Rental Reviews, it became plain as day that the man has serious mental problems.Just give him a script. He does fine with scripts and highly edited videos. He never should have been let out to do unscripted stuff. The videos are horrendous and it exposed him as being somebody who was rightly and properly in special education for seven and a half years.
I’ll be the one to say it, James is a retard. Plain and simple.