"Was William Shatner involved with this shit?"***
Last night I took a break from my sanity to visit a world of insanity: I watched the film Fanboys.
In case you have not heard, this flick is about a bunch of Star Wars fans who decide -- or have been planning to for a while -- to break into creator George Lucas' production village "Skywalker Ranch" in order to watch Star Wars - The Phantom Menace before it actually hits the theatres. (My guess is they could not wait.)
The movie Fanboys comes up short, as far as I'm concerned. The idea was a good one, that of showing how far gone a lot of these people are in their love for what is just a series of movies, but the execution was lacking. The script was the main culprit... Tends to be that way, huh?
There was no need for the picture to be a road movie. It was a cheap device used by the filmmakers simply because they could not figure out what to do with the characters. When in doubt, put your protagonists on some sort of journey.
The cameos are fun: William Shatner, Carrie Fisher, Kevin Smith, and an actor playing Harry Knowles. (Knowles is a veritable Jabba the Hutt, in real life, and could hardly locomote the way 'he' does in Fanboys.)
Distribution was very, very limited for this one. After watching it, I was not surprised.
2 comments:
You must have seen the shortened version-- one of the fanboys is dying of cancer, so they want to get him to see the movie before he leaves this world-- that's the reason for their journey. In order to make the film more accessible, they released a version with all references to the boy's illness removed.
Yes, that is the constructed reason for the journey, but it didn't ring for me.
It is in the version I saw.
There is quite the history behind that film: Reshoots, editorial changes (as you noted), unhappy people involved with the production.
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