After a long period of kicking and screaming, The Weinstein Co finally has given in to the very small audience that existed for Fanboys in the first place… at least on DVD.
The real question now is… after getting their way, will they pay to buy this DVD anyway?
Theatrical… if they get 30 screens, it will be a freakin’ miracle.
The press release follows after the jump…
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR
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DP: Just had a chat abt Cock du Lac suggesting not an AIDS metaphor, but abt disposable sex in gay world. More interesting. Not sure I’m buying
DP: Lots of jury guessing out here at #Cannes13 … I say they have a really hard job this year… at least so far… no obvious choice
Sunday, May 19 2013 12:52:48
“Two hours in the labyrinth of Paramount’s Avarice…. It was my first–and my last–IMAX venture. Haven’t been to a 3-D movie in years, and it’s bye-bye to THAT scathing visual transgression for the remainder of MY lifetime… It was an unceasing, unrelenting, take-no-audience-prisoners audial and visual back-alley mugging for two hours… I have been beaten up many times; I know what it feels like: this was a two-hour assault. I weep, as Jesus wept, for the generations that will grow up thinking this is what it means to “go to the movies.” I am near-on 79, and I [understand] that this is a generational opinion, but I do not think any sensible person not of a tot age where videogame… overkill is pro forma, could confuse the IMAX “experience” with a Saturday matinee outing. The term “author” as regards Summer Blockbuster movies, is not only moot, it is Urdu. Mountains heave mightily, and give birth to volcanic ant-hills.”
~ Harlan Ellison Takes In Star Trek: Into Darkness
“One of the things I wish I could do in my life would be to watch this film through somebody else’s eyes. I just can’t. I still see it as just a giant mess, and other people are seeing that it has a shape. That’s really exciting, because I still have a hard time seeing it clearly.”
~ Sarah Polley’s Greatest Wish About Stories We Tell
So why, exactly, did Big Harv shell out for the movie if the didn’t like the premise? Rather than a “subplot” it sounded like the boy’s cancer was the whole point of the flick–a ragtag band treks to Skywalker Ranch, hoping to guilt Lucas into showing this dying boy Episode 1 before he kicks…though seeing Jar-Jar probably would’ve made him wish he’d died BEFORE seeing the flick, back when he might’ve held out some hope that it might be a work of greatness rather than the craptacular it turned out to be.
(Personally, I’ve always wondered just how many rabid Star Wars fans died before “Empire” came out, never knowing who Luke’s father was, never hearing the philosophy of Yoda, never seeing a brother and sister kiss…oh, those poor souls.)
I can’t imagine this movie being any good at all. It sounds like a dumber, nerdier version of Detroit Rock City.
This sounds like the Star Wars version of the old Zemeckis comedy I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND. Did anyone see STARWOIDS, the documentary about these same kinda geeks?
STARWOIDS….available now through Film Threat DVD
Simpsons already did it.