Are "fanboys" too dangerous?

[larryfilmmaker]

Sports fans that get too into it.

Awesome point. I get a lot of **** for telling my friends that a guy dressed as a bulldog at a football game is taking it too far just as much as a guy dressed like an elf at a movie theatre is.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I guess the difference is that fanboys are looked down on. At least more than sports fans.

 

[moraldeficiency]

so you're saying that before the internet every superhero movie was badand after they were good?

i present to you the fantastic four films, elektra, X3, spider-man 3, blade: trinity, all made after the internet, all were viewd by the vast amount of people as being bad.

so to put it a better way:
star wars movies before the internet > star wars movies after the internet

find flaw in that...

Well let's be fair with those:

No FF fan liked the original or second one, and it wasn't like they used what anyone thought was the best of the FF in those.

Nobody really wanted an elektra movie and no one ever wanted ben afleck as daredevil.

X3 failed because it lost the serious quality of the first two with people and characters over plot and development.

SM3? Yeah, sony insisted venom be put in over the objections of everyone. And who the hell wanted a dancing peter parker? No one here.

Blade: Trinity lost everything to hokey qualities the movie makers love and we all hate.

^I would say you gave a great list of examples of filmmakers disregarding the wants of the fans because they know better (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen anyone?) and thinking that they'd get us anyway because we're fans.

While I don't think every fan knows best, I'd take a standard fan of any mediums opinion on what makes the art great over that of a team of hollywood aholes trying to hit as many target audiences as possible (Transformers) while not even liking or understanding the medium they're trying to use.

I think the idea the internet changed things is both right and wrong. It wasn't like the internet invented this whole new thing, fans had been *****ing about how badly their favorite mediums were being raped by hollywood for years, what the internet did is make those *****ing voices louder and got to more people. It became harder to ignore fans because you've just got to make this a PG-13 movie and somehow involve a young boy a love interest and a talking puppy cause that's what would hit the most people.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Fanboys...Dangerous!?!

 

[moraldeficiency]

Awesome point. I get a lot of **** for telling my friends that a guy dressed as a bulldog at a football game is taking it too far just as much as a guy dressed like an elf at a movie theatre is.

Actually I'd say with the exception of halloween, guys selling tacos, serial killers, bank robbers and clowns anyone wearing costumes should be shot. I see some people dressed up and I'm embarrassed as hell to have things in common with them (especially as most have no buisness in spandex).

 

[Ronny Shade]

what's wrong with selling tacos?

 

[moraldeficiency]

what's wrong with selling tacos?

Nothing at all, nor is wearing a taco suit, that's why taco sellers get an exception from the face shootings.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Hmmm...Tacos. Oye chico!

 

[Ronny Shade]

oh, I get it. With the exception of...covers that. Sorry. Read it wrong.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Alot of fans are like this. Fans in general. Not just films or comic books. But have you seen sports fans? Woah. Calm down. Its just a GAME. But really, we wouldn't be fans of we didn't complain, nitpick, and praise. t:

 

[Majic Walrus]

Awesome point. I get a lot of **** for telling my friends that a guy dressed as a bulldog at a football game is taking it too far just as much as a guy dressed like an elf at a movie theatre is.

Excactly!!

People all the time will call out someone for dressing up as a Klingon for a convention but no one bats an eye when they see a 240 lbs. bald headed Raiders fan with a giant "D" painted on his chest.

 

[BlackLantern]

...but I think the cynicism is at an all-time high....have you seen the AICN boards? god forbid someone says they like something over there....you'll get called a 'plant' and be accused of sucking Paramounts ****.....

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Ha i read this and thought you meant robbing a liquor store dressed as the green lantern or holding Jessica alba hostage and making her dress up as the invisible girl "dangerous", not over the internet "dangerous".... not that i would ever make some chick dress up as the invisible girl and spread whip creme all over.... ummm nevermind carry on.

 

[Captain Planet!]

how dare you betray us.


kill him.

*sharpens shotgun*

 

[bullets]

fanboys are considered a joke because the studio's know that we will flock to these films even if they are bad. that is why horror fans keep winding up with ten bad sequels
to the original film. if a director has any integrity they will turn to the fans to find out what we would like to see but it's their decision . the only thing we can do is not go see the film if their is something we don't like. there is a also a responsibility to entertain a larger audience than just the fanboys so some things have to be compromised to make the film work for newcomers to the material.

 

[SoulManX]

Ha i read this and thought you meant robbing a liquor store dressed as the green lantern or holding Jessica alba hostage and making her dress up as the invisible girl "dangerous", not over the internet "dangerous".... not that i would ever make some chick dress up as the invisible girl and spread whip creme all over.... ummm nevermind carry on.

Slave Leia...my god a thing of beauty

 

[Metamorpho1977]

My mom knew a guy in the 60s who went insane when they cancelled Star Trek the original series and beat his mom half to death with a brick.

 

[terry78]

OP is a witch...burn him at the stake.

But not until after we all have our weekly meeting to determine whether or not the new Star Trek flick will feature Spock using his right hand or his left hand to do the Vulcan death grip, and complete your personal thesis marking the reasons why you will kill every first born child in your city if Heath Ledger does not win for best actor.

 

[Captain Planet!]

OP is a witch...burn him at the stake.

But not until after we all have our weekly meeting to determine whether or not the new Star Trek flick will feature Spock using his right hand or his left hand to do the Vulcan death grip, and complete your personal thesis marking the reasons why you will kill every first born child in your city if Heath Ledger does not win for best actor.

More likely Best Supporting Actor, you n00b.

 

[terry78]

More likely Best Supporting Actor, you n00b.

A true geek knows that was a lead role, butt-munch.

 

[Captain Planet!]

A true geek knows that was a lead role, butt-munch.

Of course it was a lead role, but the Academy probably thinks otherwise, monkey feces face.

 

[Silk Spectre]

Fanboys can be overly picky, but they certainly are not dangerous. As other have brought up sports fans can be down right obsessed. There have been riots over sports both in the U.S. and abroad. People have killed over sports, I believe there was a case involving a youth hockey game in which one players parents killed another players parent.

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

Has anybody else realized that "they" (WE) don't know **** ?!?!

But that's what makes a lot of the ideas so funny. You don't type lol, lmao, or rofl every time you chuckle at some outrageous idea. You snicker and forget about it.

For example: when I go to the bat forums and see some thread about making the TDK sequel like 'Saw' and a 'reality show', I think it's hilarious. I know it will bring in some posters who will get pissed and type some funny ****.

The same for when I read ideas on how Superman can be a dark hero. It's so ridiculous there's no need to even reply.<Even though that was a statement by Robinov.>

...but I think the cynicism is at an all-time high....have you seen the AICN boards? god forbid someone says they like something over there....you'll get called a 'plant' and be accused of sucking Paramounts ****.....

So true. If you go there and say something good about Scorcese, you'll have a dozen talkbackers swear that Aviator "sucked donkey *****," and that Gangs of New York was complete ****.

SHH has nowhere near the amount of complaining. It's actually one of the better boards imo.

 

[BlackLantern]

Fanboys also will spew the most virulent of venom over various writers and stars...case in point, Shia LaBouf...aside from the silly name I am rather neutral about him....seen his sidekick roles in I,Robot and Constantine...didn't know he was a Disney kid until my sister mentioned it....but check around some boards and to read the hate...you'd swear Shia punched their mom in the face and peed on their Star Wars sheets....

 

[terry78]

Fanboys can be overly picky, but they certainly are not dangerous. As other have brought up sports fans can be down right obsessed. There have been riots over sports both in the U.S. and abroad. People have killed over sports, I believe there was a case involving a youth hockey game in which one players parents killed another players parent.

Yeah, but sports has the rep of being something "cool" in the mainstream, whereas getting all fanatical over video games/comics/movies/fictional characters of any kind is seen as dorky. A guy can be a fan of comic books and characters in general, but as soon as you start to get as crazy about it as you would say, the World Series, people start to raise an eyebrow.