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FANBOY/FANGIRL: A passionate fan of various elements of geek culture (e.g. sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, cartoons, anime, video games, anime, hobbits, Magic: the Gathering, etc.) who lets his/her passion override social graces....


For example...If you have a tattoo of a Transformer, superhero, , Star Trek, Star Wars, ect...yeah, you might be a FANBOY!


Monday, January 2, 2012

Fanboy Films 2011 My Year in Review!

2011 is over and done with and  it has been a banner ****ing year for Fanboy movies. I  am certain that the theaters are still mopping up Fanboy drool (among other Fanboy bodily  fluids).  We have seen everything from the (supposed) final installment  for The TRANSFORMERS and  Rock'em Sock'em Robots to Green garbed, ring wearing intergalactic police.....
and DAMN DIRTY APES!

Battle Los Angeles ($83 million)













Aaron Eckhart / Ramon Rodriguez / Ne-Yo / Michelle Rodriguez

Independence Day meets Saving Private Ryan....
This movie doesnt  really  know weather it wants to  be a Sci-Fi action movie or a gripping military drama, and is kinda stuck in the middle.  It has the same special effect team as did the movie SKYLINE (DO NOT  SEE SKYLINE, DON'T  DO IT!! GO TO THE DENTIST AND  GET A ROOT CANAL INSTED!) I  saw Battle Los Angeles twice, fell asleep the first  time, got throught it the second time. It  wasnt a total turdfest, but It  just  didnt keep  me rivited to  my  seat. Again, compared to  SKYLINE Battle Los Angeles was Citizen Kane!
I give this film a Fanboy rating C--..

again I  cannot  stress how much you  should NOT  see SKYLINE, watch TWILIGHT  instead.........ya know what, I  take that  back, if those are you  two choices, just  go  read a book, a graphic novel,
X-Men GOD LOVES MAN KILLS is one of my  favs!









REAL STEEL ($83 million)
Hugh Jackman /Evangeline Lilly

Like I  stated in a previous blog, "ROCKY meets Rock'em-Sock'em robots!"
I  am sorry, I  didn't see this film, and I  keep  hearing it was a "tear-jerker" that  will  really  tug at your heart strings. And I  think we all  know what Hugh Jackman was doing in this film....trying to get  Fanboys to go to the movies while we wait  for the next  WOLVERINE movie.... even though I  did not see this fine film, i  am afraid  I  am still  going to  have to  give it a SOLID D-- (none the less, still a D)

GREEN LANTERN ($116 million) 



 








Ryan Reynolds / Blake Lively


In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps ...In Blackest Day In Darkest  Night... I  almost  wished this movie escaped my  sight.  It just  wasn't.....hittin'. Once again I  think instead of going with an actor better  suited for the role (Nathan Fillion would have been spot on perfect) Instead Hollwood  picked the HOT actor of that  particular minute.  Now I  like Ryan Reynolds, I  could have seen him more as Daredevil that whats-his-face (yeah, still  a little salty about that) and maybe he would have been a better Kyle Ranier Green lantern, but  not a Hal Jordon., a little too much  poetic license with the origin (read the graphic novel Emerald Dawn fer Cybertron's sake!)


I  am afraid I  will  have to  give this one a D++ mainly because I  don't think they  will  be able to recover from this and will keep making crappier sequels.

CAPTAIN AMERICA The First  Avenger ($176 million)

 Chris Evans / Hugo Weaving /Tommy Lee Jones

My brother/fellow Prince of the Universe BR@ND X is not a fan of the Star Spangled Aveneger, even though this movie was indeed quite good. It  told a good story. Yes they  got a little happy-go-lucky  with the dramatic license with the origin/relationship between Steve and Bucky! ( I  still don't understand why they  do  crap like that.) but  all and all this was a very good movie. I  have to  give it a B-.

THOR
Chris Hemsworth / Natalie Portman / Sir Anthony Hopkins

THOR is another character  my  brother and I  don't agree on.  Again, this movie tells a store, yes you  don't fully  see THOR in action but in the beginning and end of the film, but unlike SMALLVILLE, you  actually  get  to  see him in the G**DAMNED SUIT!  ( a topic for another rant, most  disappointing Fanboy events maybe??) I  like the story, the cameo by  HAWEYE, and they  picked the perfect actor to  play the role! A;; and all, I  have to give this movie a B.

And all the racists out there who were bitching about Idris Elba playing the role of Heimdal, get over it! If Jake Gyllyanhal can be the Prince of Persia.......so you  goosestepping bastards can go **** yourselves!

X-MEN FIRST CLASS ($146 million)

X-Men First Class.....ummm since the begining of the comic book series, who was the first  X-man?...................SCOTT "Slim" SUMMERS!! So now,according to this movie, Alex Summers, (Scott's younger brother) is now one of the first  X-Men????  So i guess I  can make  movie about BUFFY the VAMPIRE SLAYER and make Willow the Vampire slayer I guess.  Fanboys wait, and wait, and wait for  our  fav characters to  come to  life on the big  screen....and then we are cheated.  Was this a bad movie, no, I  think it was a great  movie....but a very bad X-MEN movie.  I  hear the argument about the 30+ year of X-MEN history to  deal with.  But this was supposed to be THE FIRST CLASS, CYCLOPS, BEAST, ANGEL, ICEMAN and JEAN GREY!
I am torn because it was a good movie, just  NOT  an X-MEN movie.  So it gets 2 grades, a B+ for the actual movie, but a D-- for being an X-MEN movie/

By the way, if you  dont have the rights to the character, don't do the G**DAMNED movie, remember the fitst FF movie?....no, no, I mean the REAL first  FF movie. They  were going to  lose the right to the characters which  is why they  came out  with that  terribly bad movie...

TRANSFORMERS:  Dark of the MooN ($352 million)
 Hands down, Beyformers was easily the top grossing Fanboy film of 2011. We got to  see one of our Old favorites from the original series. (Shockwave)
as well and the Usual suspects; Optimus Prime, Bumblebee. And a new character in Sentinel Prime (aka Alpha Trion, any  good Transformers Fanboy should know that!) Great movie, great  action, good story, ( a few holes in it but still  good story) but I  think it was just  a little too  much  story  about Sam (Spike, you  should know this Fanboy) Witwiki., and not enough character  develpment of the Aitobots and Decepticons. That is the only issue I  have with  Beyformers....well that  and they  could have added Hot Rod in the movie.
Maybe the will be saving that  for Beyformers 4. (oh yes my dear Fanboys and Fangirls, there WILL be a Beyformers 4)
I give Beyformers 3 a B.

COWBOYS  and ALIENS ($100 million) 
Fanyboy gold right?  Han Solo/Indiana Jones and 007?
 This year's example of the Goldman Rule that in Hollywood, nobody knows anything. A film based on a comic book, directed by the guy who did the Iron Man flicks, starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig? How could it not work? And yet it didn't. Maybe ther should have had Ridley Scott's Aliens in it.
Cowboys and Aliens gets a C--

RISE of the PLANET of the APES ($176 million)

Now I  honestly thought this was going to  be shitfest. I  thought it was going to  be made campy or goofy, or "kid friendly"  This movie was awesum! clearly the best   of  all the Sc-Fi films of 2011! Great  backstory, paying homage to the original AND leaving the future wide open . You can actually  see where they  can go  with  this, and it doesn't  make your brain bleed out  of your  ears trying to deal with the concept  of time travel like with  the last APES movie. This was a damn good film! The actor who uttered the ICONIC line, "get your hands off me  you  damn dirty ape!" was a little lackluster (definately not Chaleton Heston) but it was still  coll that  it was in the movie...it had to  be!....I  can't wait to  see the sequel on this one!
I  give RISE a solid A!

2011 gave us some stinkers and some truly  awesum movies.  2012 will be intersting as well, some Fanboy movies I  am seriously  looking forward to...
like Prometheus
 








and GHOST RIDER SPIRIT of VENGEANCE


some other.....well we will just  have to  see, we have everything from AKIRA and HIGHLANDER, to TOTAL RECALL and MIB3.

...yes, I  said it,  a HIGHLANDER remake...i know, I  know, the can only  be one.

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