I think a lot of this is just that Rolfe is well liked by this community, so we're willing to actually watch his video and see what he did and did not say.tokumaru wrote:Fortunately, nobody here is directly involved in this drama (i.e. the drama is happening elsewhere, we're just taking about it), so this is not so bad.
I think most of the "drama" comes from people who are responding to some fragmentary, polarized idea of what his video said, gleaned entirely from reactionary tweets. The nature of twitter is that you rarely see original ideas; you see an opinion on the idea first, and often that's all you see.
I think I'd actually like his video if it were reframed, not as an attack on a movie he hasn't seen, but just as a lament about the Ghostbusters 3 we never got. Development hell, the death of Harold Ramis, etc. This is a topic that could be interesting if he'd put some effort into research and writing, like he often does, but that's not what this video was. This video was just a poorly written, off the cuff rant about a movie he hasn't seen. Even if he'd just waited for the film to come out so he could criticize its actual content, it wouldn't have come across as so thoughtless as it does.
Rolfe's video hardly looks like the picture being painted of it. Not even Patton Oswalt's response was twisting its meaning, he was criticizing it for what it was (i.e. drivel). It quickly becomes a game of hater-telephone from there, though.
Ironically, the Gameboy Advance had the best Sonic games of the time period.
The only reason, and I mean the only possible reason, that Ghostbusters fans don't want to see this film is because in those Ghostbusters suits they prefer seeing dicks to chicks. As the AVGN explained his priorities in his movie, "nerds before birds". He was referring to the female romantic interest, and look how that turned out. 
