I hope you're happy, internet... you made this happen. The Angry Video Game Nerd aka The Angry Nintendo Nerd aka James Rolfe has been entertaining folks for years with his angry rants against the impossibly difficult video games of yore, but now he has "gone Hollywood", so to speak. After turning to IndieGoGo in 2011, he raised over $300,000 to make his very own movie. Now the first trailer for said movie has hit the internet and it looks like... well, a movie based on a viral video sensation. The story finds Rolfe embarking on a quest to track down the site where over 1 million copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 were supposedly buried, so that he can bring his fans a review of the absolute worst game of all time. Along the way he runs afoul of federal authorities, who think he is trying to find out the...
- 11/30/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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