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 https://cinemassacre.com/28-days-later-uk-2002-episode-1/

The first Monster Madness video has been released.  As above.  I reviewed it before I read about these plagiarism allegations.  I’ll post my review at the end.

Apparently, the video copies some stuff from a print review of 28 Days Later.  When I first saw the allegation I thought, “Well, this does look like pretty obvious plagiarism.  But who gives a fuck?”

The friends of Dorothy over on Reddit then spammed that gay Cinemassacre Truth board with hundreds if not thousands of comments on this.  They started dozens of new threads about this, all repeating the same shit.  They’re contacting the original author of the work.  They’re making disgusting comments about Newt’s health problems.  They’re trying to get him fired over this petty shit.  Because they’re all fucking gay.  They have a giant boner for that autistic scat-obsessed freak James Rolfe and they think that the Screenwave crew are taking their homoerotic hero away from them.  

Hey…gay men….we’re talking about a shitty Youtube video.  

Fucking Erin rips off Wikipedia in nearly every game review that she does.  She was particularly egregious in this video:

https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-short-story-of-sega-visions.html  

In that article, I note the many times when Erin was clearly ripping off the Wikipedia article.  But I left it there.  I didn’t then contact Youtube and try to get her channel taken down.  I didn’t start a campaign to get Erin “cancelled”.  I didn’t make a bunch of vile personal attacks.  Why not?  Because I’m not some fucking lunatic like these faggots on Reddit who have nothing going on in their lives.

And speaking of plagiarism, every fucking comment there is a “meme” that’s been repeated hundreds of times by the other gay men on there.  “Here’s a meme template, guys!” and then everybody proceeds to make the exact same “meme”.  “Here’s a picture of James Rolfe’s foot” and then everybody else proceeds to make the exact same picture.  Those people don’t have an original idea in their empty fucking heads.  

And it’s these people with their faux outrage over intellectual property.  They’re trying to get somebody fired because they’re not physically attracted to the Screenwave guys.  This is some of the most pathetic shit I’ve ever seen in my life.  

We don’t even know that it was Newt who wrote this.  Justin Silverman said that the script for this five minute video has been around for 10 years.  Newt wasn’t writing this shit 10 years ago.  And who gives a shit anyway?  It’s a shit Youtube video.  

So here’s my article:

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A horror movie that I’ve actually seen.  This doesn’t happen often.  What a way to kick off everybody’s favourite: Monster Madness.

Jimmy uses a lot of words and phrases that…I don’t think that a man who spent seven and a half years in special education would use.  Tone down the big-brained vocabulary, Newt.  It sounds awkward coming from Jimmy.

2:45 – “How do you even get footage of London abandoned?”

Really?  You need to ask this, Mr “I Made 500 Films”?  

You close the street, you dumbass.  I’ve seen this many times, not just in London.  This happens in any major city.  There will be a sign that says, “Street closed for filming” or whatever.  So you have to go around it.  Not complicated stuff.

3:45 – Shout out to coronavirus.

It’s okay, Jimmy.  You can come out of your house now.  It was all a big overreaction.  Somebody made a lot of money out of this.  

4:00 – “Also, very haunting to say the least, the movie began shooting on September 1, 2001 and we all know what happened shortly after.”

Shout out to 9/11.  He includes some iconic pictures of firemen.  

What the fuck is this?  That’s haunting?  The fact that they started filming ten days before a terrorist attack?  What’s the relevance?  

4:45 – Jimmy says that they shot these scenes of an empty London by doing it in the early morning.  That’s an option.  But so is closing the streets.

5:00 – Shout out to the Canon XL1.  Who gives the slightest of fucks about this?  

That’s the video.  But yeah, he gets into some weird philosophical shit about 9/11 and Iraq and…where did any of this come from?  The mind of Newt Wallen but it just doesn’t sound right coming from Rainman.  

The only things I remember about the movie is that it was surprisingly good, I liked the realistic nature of it, and in the end they reach a community of survivors.  But watching the clips, I don’t remember any of these people.  I don’t remember the characters at all or anything about the movie.  

And what was with that 9/11 stuff?  

I remember being in college and somebody said, “There’s white powder on my desk”.  So you know what happened?  The entire university was evacuated and a team of guys in hazmat suits came in and sprayed the entire building down with some kind of disinfectant.  

This was around the time when somebody was sending anthrax to colleges.  Remember that?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

It started one week after 9/11.  People were whipped into a frenzy.  

So who did this?  According to Wikipedia, it was some guy who died in 2008, after learning that charges would be filed against him.  He died from a Tylenol overdose.  Really?  People bought that?

Why did he only mail five letters out?  And what was the motive?  And why did it take so long to find out who did it?  This guy was just a fucking scientist, according to Wikipedia.  It’s nothing to do with Islamic terrorism.  This was a white guy and Catholic.

Apparently, prominent people are calling for a review of this case because it all smells like bullshit.  

I didn’t even know about this until I looked it up.  Was this in the news?  I must have missed it.

What any of this has to do with 28 Days Later, I have no idea.

People talk about how much they love Monster Madness but it’s never been my thing.  Horror films are idiotic, especially the gore-filled shit that James and the gang rave about, so that’s a big part of the problem for me.  

And then he just shits out these five minute videos.  And there was that one year where he didn’t even have time for that so they did Rental Reviews instead.  Wasn’t there another year where he had even less time so they skipped Monster Madness altogether?  Or they did like one a week or something.  I can’t remember.  I don’t give a shit about this.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDumOYP0ZA0

Thirty minutes?  Well, the boys on Reddit say that it’s good.  They also said “no time”.  Hehe.  Like that thing that James says!  That NEVER gets old.

0:00 – “VPNs are important, so that’s why I wanted to take a moment to talk about today’s sponsor.”

I don’t follow.  Is this just a public service announcement or is he getting paid for this?  He’s getting paid, right?  So why did he start with a blatant lie?  VPNs aren’t important.  

I used to use proxies back in the day.  It’s the same thing, right?  There was a chat room that I’d go to, just for local people to talk, it was a homemade site, and they’d always try to ban me.  Probably justifiably, I was kind of insulting sometimes.  Still, people liked me going there.  I brought something interesting to the table.  And I wasn’t overly insulting.  It was all in good fun.

But yeah, they’d sometimes try to ban me.  So I’d have my proxy list open in one window and the chat in the other.  The bans only kicked in after you typed something and pressed “send” or whatever.  So as long as you changed your proxy after every message, they couldn’t ban you.  And the chat let you use HTML so I’d make it look like other people were saying stupid shit and I’d make it look like I got banned and things like this.  

Then I went away to graduate school for a year and didn’t use the internet much.  Then when I went back to this chatroom, it was largely deserted.  It’s a shame.  This was like 20 years ago.  It’s crazy to think that some of those people are probably dead now.  

But yeah, the internet was more fun back then.  Personal homepages and Napster and chat rooms and whatnot.  Now it’s all homogenised.  Social media and whatnot.  I never used any of that shit.  

So anyway, Jimmy again tells you that you should use this VPN to watch shit on Netflix that’s not available in your country.  Is that really what VPNs are for?  I don’t think so.  Because first of all, as I’ve said many times before, I’m pretty sure that this is against Netflix’s terms and conditions.  

VPNs are for people who are concerned about governments and agencies harvesting your data.  Isn’t that what Jimmy says?  Something like that.  I know that they’re popular in China to get around the government firewall.  They block a lot of sites.  So great for China but…I don’t live in China.

1:45 – Jimmy hits himself in the head with a phone.  Can anyone explain this?  It just came out of nowhere.  

Oh.  I wasn’t really listening.  I’ve already zoned out.  Jimmy said that “PS4” stands for “piss on the floor”.  I don’t know why.  Why would it stand for that?  But then he says that he’s too late for that “joke” because the PS5 is out.  That’s when he hits himself with the phone.  It still doesn’t make sense but…whatever.

2:00 – He says that it’s episode 198.  Hello, autism.

4:00 – He sticks an all-metal butter knife into the disc drive of this thing.  Put this on the list of stupidly dangerous things that Jimmy Rolfe has done.  

4:45 – He shows like a piano keyboard that you overlay on the computer keyboard.  That’s actually cool.  I’m surprised that this didn’t take off.  It would be an economical way to learn to play the piano.  And you’d be able to do shit on the computer with it.  Write music and whatnot.  

9:30 – Jimmy references the fact that this is the 198th episode again.  We get it.  Autism.  You’re obsessed with numbers.  Move on.

He’s just showing a bunch of licensed games.  Who gives a fuck?  Maybe show some good games.  Or bad games.  But don’t limit this to licensed games.  

I mean, were people doing this?  Were people specifically looking for licensed games?  I didn’t have any.  I mean for my PC.  I didn’t have a Commodore 64.  Those were shit compared to a PC at the time.  But yeah, I knew that licensed games were bad.  I wasn’t fucking retarded.

19:30 – Now, after spending more than half the video on licensed games, he looks at some non-licensed games that he doesn’t seem to care much for.

22:00 – Street Hassle.  He doesn’t even mention that this game is better known as Bad Street Brawler.  Or that it was also on the NES.

Oh.  I looked it up.  It was called Street Hassle in Europe.  Of course, Kieran didn’t know any of this.  This is all way before his time.  Even Jimmy didn’t know this.  It’s before his time.

I knew one person who had a Commodore 64.  Nobody was impressed.  It was grossly outdated by the time I was a kid.

He seems to be “reviewing” a lot of British games and doesn’t even mention this.  But it would explain the British terms and concepts found in these games.

28:45 – Finally, a bodily fluid reference.  I was starting to think that Kieran and/or Jimmy could go an entire episode without this shit.  No.  They couldn’t.  They’re showing a video game character using the toilet.

Then he says that there’s going to be a part 2 about horror games.  Oh great.  

Kieran only got editing credit for this one.  So I guess that it was written entirely by Justin.  

So…I appreciate that there was only the one toilet “joke”.  However, this episode wasn’t funny in the slightest.  But AVGN hasn’t been funny in many, many years.  And even back in the day, I was hardly busting a gut to this shit.

In terms of being interesting…maybe a 3 out of 10.  I mean, he just went over some games.  Briefly.  There was nothing particularly interesting.

I mean, this was a better episode than Screenwave usually produces but only because of the lack of excrement references.  

Let’s check to see what the boys on Reddit have to say again.

– “The fucking “jokes” are horrendous. I guess it’s “le random” zoomer humor? Is it funny because PS4 sort of sounds like “piss floor”? Why did he hit himself with the phone?”

Yeah.  I had the same complaint.  It didn’t make sense.

He also references a couple of other “jokes” that I didn’t like: building a house of cards out of floppy discs and that yelling sound that he made with the printer paper.  That paper one was really annoying.

So yeah.  It wasn’t good but there was a general absence of bad.  That’s probably as much as we can hope for at this point.