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Sooo... no one cares about "Fanboys"?

Gaith

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Didn't it come out a week ago? I thought we had some SW fans around here...

Just watched the trailer on Apple and it looked pretty dumb: pratfall humor, female objectification and a promised happy ending in getting to see Episode 1 (and not even the Phantom Editor's somewhat improved version)? Please.

However, the trailer was worth watching for the big Star Trek cameo, whose scene I'd gladly watch on YouTube sometime.
 
It's been edited and re-edited so many times that I don't have much faith in the end result. The lukewarm to poor reviews don't do much to alter my expectations. I'll rent it on DVD while I wait and wait for Free Enterprise 2 to be made.
 
According to Box Office Mojo it's only playing in 44 theaters with a current box office gross of just over $200,000. Not that many people have actually seen it, making it difficult for us to talk about it.
 
It's showing here in Austin, and I saw it. It wasn't bad, the audience seemed to enjoy it. Definitely worth a rent.
 
it's a film that glorifies the Phantom Menace. What did you expect?

it's like....there's this entire generation, Generation X, who grew up with Star Wars in theaters...I'm younger than that. and I LOVED Star Wars, but for these people it was a complete religion.

***the plot of the movie is that they plan to break into Skywalker Ranch to see the rough cut of Phantom Menace before it hits theaters in 1999.

Logically, it had to be set in 1999 to be about seeing the first Prequel. HOWEVER, you couldn't POSSIBLY run such a movie NOW, 10 years later. Hard to believe its been a DECADE of Star Wars being UTTERLY milked for all its worth.

I remember Harry Knowles on AICN utterly falling apart over how they had the balls to put the Clone Wars 3D cartoons series pilot in theaters last summer. How he even held onto Star Wars a little during all the prequels, but that this was the straw breaking the camels back, where he simply stopped caring.

Everyone just stopped caring after a decade of merchandizing; we were indoctrinated as kids to like the film series, but 10 years finally "deprogrammed" us.

The spirit died.
 
No.

This is the movie that's been "coming out" for years now. For this long, I've kept reading "news items" on sci-fi websites, which are basically interviews with the creators who keep repeating the same thing - how awesome their movie is, how it's great for fans, and how much they love George Lucas for deigning to let them use some "Star Wars" sound effects in their movie.

When they keep saying the same stuff, over and over, and keep hyping it like that - and not ACTUALLY RELEASING IT - it just makes the whole thing seem like it's probably not worth it.

Maybe I'm wrong - but I'm not going to risk my money to find out.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
"I care!" :(

...I'm so proud I said that. :lol:
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Our whole lives, we "played be the rules": we line up hours in advance for Prequel movies we know stink, we buy hundreds of dollars of merchandise we don't need in the vain hope it will give us the dopamine rush associated with acquiring things we like, that we had when we bought our first Millenium Falcon, but we *know* in our heart that we have no inate love for the Prequels...but we did it all anyway. We bought all of the stuff we were supposed to buy, we ate all of the tie-in Dominos/Pizza Hut/KFC, we bought the movie tickets. We "played by the rules" -- and for WHAT?! To be treated like animals?! Sheep led to the slaughter who do whatever you tell them. We are *not* animals!
 
Haytil said:
No.

This is the movie that's been "coming out" for years now. For this long, I've kept reading "news items" on sci-fi websites, which are basically interviews with the creators who keep repeating the same thing - how awesome their movie is, how it's great for fans, and how much they love George Lucas for deigning to let them use some "Star Wars" sound effects in their movie.

When they keep saying the same stuff, over and over, and keep hyping it like that - and not ACTUALLY RELEASING IT - it just makes the whole thing seem like it's probably not worth it.

Maybe I'm wrong - but I'm not going to risk my money to find out.
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YES, that's what was worst of all! --> I've been hearing news about this movie for something like FIVE years! Not just in hard-to-find news blogs where you're digging for rumors; I'm talking MAINSTREAM news websites, AICN, etc. They hyped it up so much!

and the problem is, even without the Prequel hate, it's simply an at-best average movie. And on top of that, the release is so limited, I don't think anyone knows where to see it!
 
The movie, regardless of whether the final product is good or bad, is typical of Weinstein tampering. They sit on movies, they release movies to cheap theaters with no marketing just to fulfill contractual obligations, they pump more money into a movie they sat on to completely change it and then sit on it some more...
 
Me and my friend are big SW fans. She never heard of it, but teted her the basic premise, and she said that is something that she will do. So, if it is playing locally around here this weekend we will go
 
I was interested in the original premise. Now, not so much.

If it's just going to be a two hour long insult to Star Wars fans when it was supposed to be positive then I'm glad nobody's going to see it.
 
I want to see it and I expect to enjoy it. It appears more "slapstick" and over the top than Free Enterprise, though. FE "kept it real", pretty much, in it's protrayal of geeks and geek culture. What little of "Fanboys" we've seen, not so much. Doesn't mean it won't be good, though.
 
I've actually wanted to watch Fanboy's exactly for its cheap laughs.

Sometimes letting go and watching something completely silly is a good way to wind down.
 
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