This has been a thing since Hollywood took off. It happened with TV, Youtubers, Twitch Streamers, and now TikTokers. People here have already mentioned how it's more about connections and rubbing shoulders with other people in your field. If your goal is to climb the social ladder and gain connections for bigger deals, then there's a good chance you're moving to LA. Filmmakers move to LA because Hollywood and because the weather is better suited for it.
I personally enjoy it when I can see a variety of content from all over the country that allows people to see different perspectives that aren't LA. Some Youtubers I enjoyed watching like James Rolfe or CoreyKenshin ended up staying in their cities and are doing just fine. They also don't have any grand plans to become huge multimedia giants and that's usually what happens when people move out there when they're already successful. They want to be even bigger.
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.
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.
Yeah, while his refusal to see the 2016 Ghostbusters was incredibly childish and dumb (though on brand for a man who's brand is that he's a big manchild), the media response to it was completely blown out of proportion
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.
It said what it needed to, to the kind of people who do the hiring in Hollywood.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a bigoted misogynist man-child whose career-killing move was bravely endorsing the chud narrative about Ghostbusters.
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.
Nah it's more like he made his big movie and it sucked and even fans hated it because he tried to make it mainstream (he cast a young actress to be his love interest and gave himself an even younger black friend). He spent a fortune to film in socal too.
This has been a thing since Hollywood took off. It happened with TV, Youtubers, Twitch Streamers, and now TikTokers. People here have already mentioned how it's more about connections and rubbing shoulders with other people in your field. If your goal is to climb the social ladder and gain connections for bigger deals, then there's a good chance you're moving to LA. Filmmakers move to LA because Hollywood and because the weather is better suited for it.
I personally enjoy it when I can see a variety of content from all over the country that allows people to see different perspectives that aren't LA. Some Youtubers I enjoyed watching like James Rolfe or CoreyKenshin ended up staying in their cities and are doing just fine. They also don't have any grand plans to become huge multimedia giants and that's usually what happens when people move out there when they're already successful. They want to be even bigger.
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.
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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.
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Yeah, while his refusal to see the 2016 Ghostbusters was incredibly childish and dumb (though on brand for a man who's brand is that he's a big manchild), the media response to it was completely blown out of proportion
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
It said what it needed to, to the kind of people who do the hiring in Hollywood.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a bigoted misogynist man-child whose career-killing move was bravely endorsing the chud narrative about Ghostbusters.
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Is there really anyone who still cares at all about Ghostbusters (2016), let alone a video some guy made about it?
This is a weird hill to die on but okay buddy
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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.
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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.
Nah it's more like he made his big movie and it sucked and even fans hated it because he tried to make it mainstream (he cast a young actress to be his love interest and gave himself an even younger black friend). He spent a fortune to film in socal too.
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