Meta Month: Catch-Up Part 4: Angry Video Game Nerd, Bennett The Sage and Linkara (2017)

Well, this month hasn’t gone quite as I expected. In lieu of a lengthy pity party for one (you know, the kind of shit I tend to write on here too much as it is), I’ll just leave it how, by both design and unfortunate accident, this month isn’t nearly as in-depth as last year’s. Just to be clear, the videos I’ve highlighted so far are just the ones I happened to watch over the last year; this is by no means definitive. Still, these are people I feel are worth lauding over, so let’s get this all wrapped up with the final part of this year’s Meta Month catch-up.

The Angry Video Game Nerd Movie (2014) - Movie Review

After a show has been running for long enough, whether it’s from the fans or from the creators themselves, the idea of turning it into a movie will always crop up eventually. Take, for instance, the Simpsons Movie which had had been the development/rumour-driven stage for over a decade before it saw the light of release to a wide opinion of “Eh, it was alright.” There are plenty of approaches that can be taken translating from small to big screen. You could make it just an extended version of a standard episode, only with a bigger budget. This can work well in translating from one medium in another by keeping the series content intact, like with the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 movie, or it can bore audiences to death because it utilises a plot that has to be stretched to all hell to make it feature-length, like with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This film, on the other hand… well, the show itself doesn’t have that much of an overarching plot to build on so it can’t really go with the straight translation route. I don’t even think there is a specific name for the route that this film took with its writing and, if I’m being honest, it’s a film I’m still trying to figure out even after having seen it. Why? Well, let’s get started and I’ll show you.

Top 20 Angry Video Game Nerd Episodes

Even though the history of film criticism as a whole crosses so many continents and ideals and theories that it would take far too long to sum it all up in a single post, how exists within the realms of YouTube is, surprisingly, really easy to pin down. I say this because it basically all comes back to the one I’m talking about today: The man who decided to craft a several-year-long joke about just how seriously a person can take it when a video game is… less than pristine, let’s say. Even amongst his contemporaries, you can see the influence of this vitriolic foul-mouthed guy with a Jersey accent in their work. So, since this is my dedication to my critical influences, it’d be ridiculous if I didn’t highlight the grandfather of the modern video review. These are my picks for the Top 20 episodes of the Angry Video Game Nerd.