riotinmyskull

just wait till the new star trek comes out.

Larry C.

I really wanna watch this one. Please release it!!!

Gizmo

Looks like its coming out Friday (!) in select theaters. Gonna try to go to the Woodland Hills Theater this weekend and finally check this one out.

OldBoy

Palisades Center here i come!

edit...actually, based on the reviews so far, maybe not so much.

My Other Self

Really? You'd see a movie like Fanboys based off of reviews? What, are you expecting some epic comedy?

If you like Star Wars and you get the in jokes, you'd see it. Otherwise there doesn't seem like much of a point.

Rypro 525

damn no baltimore date

OldBoy

i'm saying based on reviews and the fact that this was in stasis for what...years? i'm not going to go 40 miles to see this.

My Other Self

I wouldn't either. Why would you drive 40 miles for any movie.

It kept getting held back because of the studio.. not necessarily it's because a bad movie. With a movie like Fanboys, you're obviously there because you're a Star Wars fan.

OldBoy

it is actually my home town and i work there anyway, but not on sat when i would most likely see it.

SPiRAL

My brother saw it today at the Mann's Chinese theater. He said it was hilarious. I'll be seeing it this week, in Long Beach on a day off.

Giantrobo

I didn't know anything about this until I saw a previews trailer on some dvd I rented, and I guess I somehow ignored this thread. Either way I think I might check it out.


5. AMC Rolling Hills 20 Torrance

Lateralus

Any movie that has a lot of Rush references I will wish the best.

LickTheABCs

4 REGAL Warrington Crossing 22 Warrington

Already worked it out with the GF. I'm going to sit through "The Uninvited" with her and she's going to have to sit through this with me. Ah, fuck it. The picture in post 8 is worth it.

RocShemp

Same here. Trailer made it look like fun. I'll be checking it out.

ManWithNoName

Roger Ebert's review



Fanboys

February 4, 2009

by Roger Ebert

A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies.

Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad-lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to.

But enough about my opinions; what about "Fanboys"? Its primary flaw is that it's not critical. It is a celebration of an idiotic lifestyle, and I don't think it knows it. If you want to get in a car and drive to California, fine. So do I. So did Jack Kerouac. But if your first stop involves a rumble at a "Star Trek" convention in Iowa, dude, beam your ass down to Route 66.

The movie, set in 1999, involves four "Star Wars" fanatics and, eventually, their gal pal, who have the notion of driving to Marin County, breaking into the Skywalker Ranch, and stealing a copy of a print of "Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace" so they can see it before anyone else. This is about as plausible as breaking into the U.S. Mint and stealing some money so you can spend it before anyone else.

"Fanboys" follows in the footsteps of "Sex Drive" by allowing one of its heroes to plan a rendezvous with an Internet sex goddess. To avoid revealing any plot secrets in this film, I will recycle my earlier warning: In a chat room, don't be too hasty to believe Ms. Tasty.

This plot is given gravitas because one of the friends, Linus (Christopher Marquette), is dying of cancer. His buddy Eric (Sam Huntington) is in favor of the trip because, I dunno, it will give Linus something to live for, I guess. The other fanboys are Hutch (Dan Fogler), who lives in his mother's garage coach house, and Windows (Jay Baruchel), who changed his name from MacOS. Just kidding. Windows, Hutch and Linus work in a comic bookstore, where their favorite customer is Zoe (Kristen Bell). She's sexy and a "Star Wars" fan. How cool is that? She's almost better than the date who turns into a pizza and a six-pack when the deed is done.

The question of Linus' cancer became the subject of a celebrated Internet flame war last summer, with supporters of "Fanboys" director Kyle Newman running Anti-Harvey Web sites opposing Harvey Weinstein's alleged scheme to cut the subplot out of the movie. The subplot survived, but it's one of those movie diseases that is mentioned occasionally so everyone can look solemn and then dropped when the ailing Linus dons a matching black camouflage outfit and scales the Skywalker Ranch walls with a grappling hook.

"Fanboys" is an amiable but disjointed movie that identifies too closely with its heroes. Poking a little more fun at them would have been a great idea. They are tragically hurtling into a cultural dead end, mastering knowledge which has no purpose other than being mastered, and too smart to be wasting their time. When a movie's opening day finally comes, and fanboys leave their sidewalk tents for a mad dash into the theater, I wonder who retrieves their tents, sleeping bags, portable heaters and iPod speakers. Warning: Mom isn't always going to be there to clean up after you.

RocShemp

So, um, who is Kristen Bell? I mean, I saw the Leia pic in the eighth post (nice) but I've never heard of her.

mdc3000

^TV's Veronica Mars and big screen's Sarah Marshall.

RocShemp

Ah, thanks. I watch neither so that explains why I've never heard of her.

Dr Mabuse

I just saw Jeffrey Lyons give this movie a terrible review, and he's a two bit hack who loves everything to keep favour in Hollywood.

His female co-host also said it was terrible.

Richard Roeper said it sucked.

It's at 28% on RT.

I'll be skipping this one.

Matthew Chmiel

Because when I read movie reviews, my top trusted critics are Jeffrey "Son of a Cocksucking Douche" Lyons, Richard Roeper and a woman.

mdc3000

^Zing! Hopefully this opens a bit wider (or at least the Canadian company distributing this decides to get it out there)... I saw a poster for it in the coming soon section of a shit theatre around here - so I think in Canada it'll probably play on a few screens soon if they sprung for posters. And this is a movie that due to it's history, most critics will probably be planning to pan it before they've even seen it.

Rypro 525

N Fanboys Wein. $164,000 - 44 - $3,727 $164,000 - 1
which i'll be honest. for a movie with little to no marketing just thrown out there in 44 random theaters, that isn't that terrible.

My Other Self

I really liked it. If you like Star Wars, you'll enjoy the humor in the movie. Some really good cameos, too.

I thought it was great.

Dr Mabuse

I see 'Fanboys' has a fanboy already.

I'm sure that 28% on RT is an anomaly.

jjcool

Almost as bad as that fucktard that works for Rolling Stone.