Originally Posted by Indiana Jones There was no hype really. If anything, this movie allowed more people to take notice of how the Weinsteins really don't know what they're doing when it comes to handling movies. Fanboys was just one of many movies the Weinsteins decide to make, then after it gets made they decide they're not sure what to do with it, then they decide to let it sit on the shelf for years, often resulting in getting ditched into a few theaters without any fanfare to fulfill contractual obligations (see Outlander, Killshot). And like Killshot, they spent extra money on Fanboys to redo a lot of the movie, only to unceremoniously dump the movie. So they spend money on a movie they don't want to try and make money with, then they pour more money into it before not trying to make money with it. Hell, there's a John Cusack, Ken Watanabe, Chow Yun Fat movie they've been sitting on that supposedly is coming out this year.

You forget that they shot additional footage that dumped the whole cancer subplot and made the entire trip a bit "Huh". Thankfully this is the ORIGINAL version on the Weinstein garbage.

Originally Posted by mywhitenoise I heard this movie was pretty awful, and didn't live up to it's hype.

Well....it's pretty awful at least.

Originally Posted by mywhitenoise I heard this movie was pretty awful, and didn't live up to it's hype.

I think what he meant here may have been the actual fanboy buzz going around the convention circuit and the like as the movie was in limbo for a couple years, and not actual mainstream hype. I'm only a moderate SW fan(like many, grew up on the originals, disappointed in the new stuff), but going to different shows like WizardWorld cons and Comic-Con, it definately generated a certain amount of buzz amongst the audience it was really made for. With that said, I netflixed it after hearing from word of mouth and various reviews that it wasn't that great, and was mildly entertained with it. Maybe not at this price point, but sub-$10 sure, go for it. Blu could be overkill though, I think regular DVD is fine for a movie like this unless you have a super TV exposing all kinds of defects where it's distracting to watch.

I don't like Star Wars at all and I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. The cameos were great.

I'll wait to see some of the reviews of the blu-ray to see how this fares against the Canadian import, but odds are good I'll just buy this one.
(edit) July 27th... just after comic-con. Nice.

will be interested to see if this has extras as the Canadian version i have does not.
EDIT: or if they will just toss on the dvd extras and leave them in 480

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Originally Posted by GizmoGC You forget that they shot additional footage that dumped the whole cancer subplot and made the entire trip a bit "Huh". Thankfully this is the ORIGINAL version on the Weinstein garbage.

1. They didn't want to release the movie as is and were willing to eat a lot of money.

2. They decided to spend more money to bring in a new director to reshoot a chunk of it because they took a chunk out.

3. They decided to keep the original cut.

4. They dumped the movie into theaters with no fanfare and ate the money they spent as originally planned. Only now they ate even more money because of the reshoots they never used.

Better?

The Weinsteins suck.