Who is Fanboy?

[Prognosticator]

I'm surprised more people didn't read this article?? It's like reading satire its so stupid!

Guaranteed angry laughs! t:

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The funny thing is, the studios do know who the fanboys are and what they like, but they continue to ignore them. The biggest thing that shows this to me is movies running times, the studios are so concerned with getting another showing or two a day that they force the director to cut out important parts of the movie. I'm almost positive Daredevil could've made another $25-30 million if the director's cut was the movie that made it to theaters because the fanboys would've been praising the movie much more, giving it more positive buzz, thus more box office cash.

 

[hammy]

"A fanboy doesn't ask me for a picture or for a date," Alba says. "He wants to know what it's like to meet Victor Von Doom. It's a little strange, but cute."

Lol. That's what makes them so lovable.

 

[Immortalfire]

"A fanboy doesn't ask me for a picture or for a date," Alba says. "He wants to know what it's like to meet Victor Von Doom. It's a little strange, but cute."

JAL would do both.

 

[C.F. Kane]

But that still doesn't do much to help studio execs find out exactly who these people are and why they'll turn a critically panned franchise such as Fantastic Four into box office gold or the critical darling Grindhouse into ground chuck.

That's a good point. Why did Grindhouse fail? I mean, I didn't see it just because it was spring and I had midterms to get through. Oh... that may have been it.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

That's a good point. Why did Grindhouse fail? I mean, I didn't see it just because it was spring and I had midterms to get through. Oh... that may have been it.

Maybe because there wasn't a demand for a crappy exploitation flick let alone two.

 

[Prognosticator]

^ It really is a mystery, but timing could have been the real killer. I mean, torture porn's almost on the way out the door, and you wanna release a 3 hour, 15 minute gore-fest on April 4th???

I guarantee if they'd opened the GH floodgates on October 1, it would have pulled in $70 million.

But they didn't. Spring is just a stupid time to sell horror IMO. The only thing worse is Christmas weekend.

But blame Rodriguez/Tarantino for that. It was supposed to be two 45-minute movies, and QT pulled another Kill Bill by extending it DURING THE SHOOT to a full-length movie. And because of delays like that they put the movie out in April, instead of 6 months earlier.

I think that's another reason too. Poor planning killed the eventfulness due to the constant delays. I mean, Wizard wrote up a special on the movie last August/September...whOOps!