I agree with Oma. I def think the movie he chose didn’t do him any favors. I get the feeling most the time that TCM merely tolerates newer movies, the “modern classics”, and that they mainly show them on occasion for ratings purposes. Could be wrong on that, but at the very least it’s clear they aren’t real huge on em and really, really old films are the definite bread and butter and focus of the network. He shoulda went with a classic universal monster movie review instead.

I think a major reason James didn’t win though is the movie he chose to review. Although they do show em occasionally, def think TMC likes to shy away from “modern classics” to an extent and they DEFINITELY are gonna be FAR more interested in someone reviewing something from the 1940s for example. James shoulda submitted one of his inciteful and passionate classic universal monster movie reviews if he wanted to have a shot.

Of course, that should have been “thinks”, not “things” and “reasons” (plural). An edit comment functionality could come in handy here…

I agree that the noise was annoying, but I guess it was on purpose, to sound like a very old movie though maybe she went a little overboard with that, and also agree that her video wasn’t that great, but still, it shouldn’t matter WHO is doing the video (as you said). If James had won, it shouldn’t have been just because of who he is, but because of the quality of his entry. Also, I think he’s not THAT well known to have attracted so many viewers to a classic movie show, which is an entirely different viewer demographic than that of the AVGN (though of course, there might be some overlap). I guess one of the reason he didn’t make it is because TCM probably things Ghostbusters is not “classic” enough.