Fanboys, the movie
Well, I haven’t been posting much and I sincerely apologize. When you work for yourself, sometimes doing the actual work takes priority over personal things like, I don’t know, blogging. So what tore me away from my meal ticket, why Fanboys of course. If you are reading this you know what a fanboy is and are probably one yourself, but you may not be aware of Fanboys, the movie. I first heard about this cinematic masterpiece in 2007 when its original release date was pushed back due to the unbelieveable event of additonal funding. Director Kyle Newman was given more funding to shoot additional scenes that the original budget did not include. Which is really cool if you think about it. Most fan movies barely have enough funding to be shown on YouTube, but this one actually had George Lucas’ seal of approval and even had Kevin Smith begging for a cameo. So, learning about all this I was willing to wait until 2008 for it to be released in a theater near me, but the movie was again pushed back because the reshoots could not take place before December 2007. These reshoots were directed by Steven Brill and not by Newman, so some of the critical plot points were left out– this caused internet unrest with fans of the project. Ultimately the movie was recut and finally released in the US in February of 2009, but only in limited markets & my local theater not being one of them. This was not too surprising considering that most critics didn’t get it, and a lot of fans didn’t either. The good news? A quick release on DVD– May 19th, 2009 to be exact. Unfortunatley due to a missing Netflix rental, I did not receive a copy until more than a month later. Read more…
