Fanboys

TeeJay · 04 Sep 08 :: 19:40

Yay. Not. Not the best of release dates. It's cool that it will finally come to theaters and all, but after all we've been through with this movie, it feels like an anticlimax to see it disappear among all the other Thanksgiving releases and Twilight just a few days previously. Can't say I'm very happy about this date. I hope they at least do proper promotion. We heard that a new trailer and new poster have been put together, but that both are mediocre. Hmpf. Wonder when they'll surface.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Sep 08 :: 19:41

So far, TWC still has that same old poster they've been using for about a year or so. If there was any excitement, the new material would be out there. Can you guys say, "dump"? Yeah, I knew you could.

TeeJay · 04 Sep 08 :: 22:45

I hadn't seen this article before: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index. … ie-awards/ There's pic of Kyle and Kevin Spacey from Comic Con there too. I haven't read the whole thing yet, though. Will do tomorrow when I have a little more time.

-TeeJay

magicalturkey · 04 Sep 08 :: 22:58

Sansweet: Do you know when the movie is going to open?
Newman: September 19th. I've said it's coming out a couple of times, but this is the real deal.

Can we get excited now?

TeeJay · 04 Sep 08 :: 23:04

What do you mean, Laura? Release date isn't Sep 19 but Nov 26 as posted by Deb and others today in this very thread. Or were you trying to make a joke and I didn't get it? (me = not very bright today)

And, uh, Kyle? Not the real deal. Sorry.

-TeeJay

magicalturkey · 04 Sep 08 :: 23:06

Yeah, it's been a long day here too. I didn't realize until after I posted that that article is from July and the release date jumped back. Sorry :embarrassed:

TeeJay · 04 Sep 08 :: 23:34

That's okay, Laura. The November release date news only came out today.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Sep 08 :: 01:37

And you gotta remember that interview would've been from like July, right, if it was at Comic-Con? We really did think 9/19 was the date back then. Well, some of us did.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Sep 08 :: 18:07

Here's Fantastic Fest's write-up about Fanboys...

http://fantasticfest.bside.com/2008/fil … icfest2008

I think the trailer they have is longer and has more stuff in it than the one we've been watching for the last couple of years too.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Sep 08 :: 22:22

I'm talking to a very nice guy named David in IMDb PM right now, who played a biker in the movie. He also live in New Mexico. Schweet!

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 06 Sep 08 :: 06:20

That's awesome, Deb. It's hard to find nice people on IMDB. He sounds really cool.

Simon · 19 Sep 08 :: 17:34

I never know which Fanboys thread to go in, but theres a new review out.

I've heard many stories about the behind the scenes problems which pushed the release of Fanboys back again and agin, but having just left a screening of the finished version, a director's cut by Kyle Newman, I can assure you that the problems have been greatly exaggerated. You have a very marketable cast, and a film which seems like an extremely easy sell to the target demographic. I think the problem is that The Weinsteins were hoping for an American Pie type film with mainstream appeal, but they instead have a movie aimed at a very targeted niche. But lets not forget, George Lucas has been able to make tons of money off this targeted group of fans.
After high school, Eric (Sam Huntington) ditched his Star Wars fanboy friends for a job as a car salesman, and now finds himself ready to take over his father's franchise of car dealerships. When he learns that one of his former best friends Linus (Chris Marquette) has been diagnosed with Cancer and only has months to live, he convinces his former friends (Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel) to go on a road trip to break into George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, so that Linus could watch Star Wars: Episode I before he dies.
The film is your typical teen road trip film, laced with so many Star Wars references you'll probably want to see it twice to take them all in. There are conversations about how Boba Fett is like Michael Bay, style but no substance, and arguments about if Luke really had a thing for his sister. The series of adventures include a stop in Riverside Iowa (the future birthplace of Captain Kirk) to fuck with Trekkies. Kristen Bell plays Zoe, a girl with feisty Princess Leia-like attitude who works at a comic book store, and is well versed in everything from Star Wars to video games. Basically, she's a fanboys wet dream.
Seth Rogen has triple duty, playing a trekkie (who seems perfectly modeled after Gabriel Köerner from Trekkies), a Star Wars tattooed pimp, and a Star Trek alien who they run into while in Las Vegas. At one point in the film, one version of Seth Rogen fights another version of Seth Rogen on the big screen. Epic! Ethan Suplee plays Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles, and there is a bevy of other cameos which include Billy Dee Williams, Danny Trejo, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Craig Robinson, Lou Taylor Pucci, Carrie Fisher, Danny McBride, and William Shatner playing himself. Ray Park (Darth Maul) even has a cameo as a THX security guard.
The film is not perfect, nor is it even on par with the best the teen comedy genre has to offer. Some of the problems include a kid dying of cancer who shows very little (if any) signs of sickness, a poorly developed romantic subplot, and a scene in a gay biker bar which should have been completely exorcised from the completed film. Oh, and Dan Fogler is painfully annoying. If only they had cast Jonah Hill or Tyler Labine instead. But the target audience of Star Wars fanboys and comic book geeks will surely eat it up. In it's best moments it is a love letter to fandom and friendship.
/Film Rating: 7 out of 10

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/09/18/fan … w-fanboys/

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 Sep 08 :: 17:48

That's cool, but I wish people would stop calling it a "teen" movie. The characters are 25 freakin' years old! Except for Zoe. She's 28 for cripes sake. The movie takes place 6 years after high school. Where's the teen?

magicalturkey · 19 Sep 08 :: 18:13

It probably just means it's more geared toward teens.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 Sep 08 :: 18:17

I don't think so. I just think it's people being stupid and lazy and not paying attention.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Sep 08 :: 15:49

Nice review from Massawyrm at AICN...
(except there's that damned "teen movie" reference again)

FANBOYS
I first met Ernie Cline ten years ago on the stage of the old Electric Lounge, each of us competing in the local poetry slam. For those of you who have never experienced a slam, it isn't at all what you might be thinking. This isn't a bunch of dudes in berets sipping espresso, snapping their fingers and reading verse about their feelings. Oh sure, it's kind of like that…but on ten cups of coffee. It's more of a RANT slam than anything else. You get up on stage and for three minute you let out this inner beast of rage or anger or heartache (that has become rage and anger), and you just…to cop Ginsberg…Howl. Needless to say, Ernie blew me way the fuck off stage that night. He's a world class slam poet whose stuff you can now find littered all over youtube in fan made montages set to recordings of his various works (I would recommend Dance, Monkey, Dance.) That night he did this piece about a job interview that ten years later I have never forgotten. That night I was testing out a new piece about my misgivings with George Lucas's retooling of the classics with the special editions titled Pulp Fiction: Special Edition, in which Quentin Tarantino re-edited the film the way it was originally intended: digitally replacing Marcellus Wallace with Jabba the Hutt.
Needless to say, it was the wrong audience. There was only one person laughing that night, sitting in the back, occasionally clapping at a reference about dead wookie storage or Luke's father asking Ben to hold something for him until he was of age. That man was Ernie Cline. And that's how we met.
So when I heard from Harry that Ernie had written a touching little road movie about a couple of Star Wars fans trying to steal a print of Episode One before release, it didn't surprise me in the slightest. What surprised me was watching the long, tortured road this film took before it finally found its way to the Alamo Drafthouse. There was a cut of this thing two years ago that we were sure HAD to play BNAT. But it wasn't ready. No, much like Episode One itself, this film was a long time coming and being able to see it on the big screen after all that waiting was something to behold.
And it didn't disappoint. Make no mistake, Fanboys is almost just as much of a niche film as Repo: The Genetic Opera is. It was not made for my mom, dad or sister. Rather, it is the movie they'll watch and talk about how much these characters remind them of me. And they'll call me to tell me about it. It is sweet, adorable and at times funny as all get out. But at its heart, the soul of this film has little to do with being a comedy. It is a love letter. Not just a love letter to Star wars, but a love letter to fandom in general. It is a film all about loving something so much that you ultimately use that love to relate to everything else in your life. Needless to say, if you read AICN with any regularity then you are one of US. And as one of US, you know exactly what I'm talking about here. Whether it be the Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or the Whedonverse, odds are you have that world that guides you and makes you feel complete when around those that get it on the same level as you. And this movie was made for YOU.
As a film it certainly isn't perfect. Not all of the jokes fire – and you can feel the various attempts at meddling in the film by the various forces that have come along and tried to make it a bit more mainstream. Most of the time, a swift and much needed Star Wars reference finds its way in to save the day – but there are a few scenes where they don't. And my biggest beef is that as a road movie, this movie follows the formula painfully close. For those that have read my recent Sex Drive review, you'll remember that I laid out the RULES OF THE ROADMOVIE. Well, this plays by them all. The breakdown, jail, the sexual misunderstanding, the big turnaround-and-go-home discussion. They're all present and accounted for here as much as in any other film of its type, and just having broken in down recently in print it was even more painfully obvious.
And let me tell you this: there are few experiences weirder in life than watching someone else play one of your close friends on the big screen. There is something completely unnatural about it. Wait a second. Harry wouldn't kick anyone's ass. And what the hell is he doing asking someone about expanded universe? He fucking hates the expanded universe. And when did he stop talking like a diplomatic elf and suddenly get bass in his voice? When did his balls drop? This is all just too fucking weird for me.
That said, I loved the hell out of this film. The story of the dying friend takes this from the level of your typical teen/dork comedy and elevates to a heartwarming, endearing warm blanket of a movie that really captures the very best (and occasionally worst) aspects of fandom. It is exactly what it needed to be – a film of its type for US. The FANS. The folks who know how to love something so much that our lives become occasionally inseparable from it. And it is a film I will keep close to my heart for a long time.
You know, having been blown off stage and humiliated all those years ago, this night, with this film, I was glad it was by Ernie Cline.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 29 Sep 08 :: 21:16

We can't say how or where or when, but word came down today, TeeJay, Anne & I are gonna get to see Fanboys this week!!! :dancing:

TeeJay · 29 Sep 08 :: 21:40

Yay!!!! Can't wait! :dancing: :applause: :grovel:

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 29 Sep 08 :: 22:03

Sisterdebmac wrote:

get to see Fanboys this week!!! :dancing:

After all that time of waiting, "this week" sounds so surreal! But I am happy, of course!

TeeJay · 29 Sep 08 :: 22:05

I know, Anne! I was like, "Whoa, this week???" It's so unreal.

-TeeJay

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 30 Sep 08 :: 05:41

That's soo unfair. Have an awesome time watching sessy Chris on screen! ; )

Chnyst · 30 Sep 08 :: 07:18

Very cool guys! Have fun!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 30 Sep 08 :: 23:19

OK Mel, and we'll try not to rub it in that we're having lunch with Chris (and maybe Sean M.) on the 6th.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 Oct 08 :: 19:26

Kyle & Jaime were at the Scream Awards this year. Kyle says that the new Fanboys trailer will start running in front of Kevin's Smith's new movie, Zack & Miri Make A Porno on 10/31. Looks like the 11/26/08 release date is really gonna stick. Yay!

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co … &Itemid=99

There's a nice handful of pics on IESB if you scroll down, but here's a cute one...

domesticelefant · 19 Oct 08 :: 20:10

Sisterdebmac wrote:

Looks like the 11/26/08 release date is really gonna stick. Yay!

That sounds good, thanks for sharing.

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