Word: fanboy
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...summer surprises. The bargain-basement sci-fi epic District 9 surged on ecstatic reviews and fanboy support past $100 million. With Inglourious Basterds - and may I never have to type that misspelled title again - Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt got people to sit through a 2½-hr. film mostly in foreign languages; it too has surpassed $100 million domestic, and is nearing that abroad. And female stars whacked their male counterparts in the season's comedies. Movies featuring Sandra Bullock (The Proposal), Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth) and Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) all outgrossed films starring Will Ferrell (Land...
Internet marketing doesn't always work - remember three years ago, when Snakes on a Plane was predicted to be a smash because of all the fanboy chat, then crashed on arrival? - but it can help spread the word for a film that has other elements, like thrills and ugly aliens. And when, like District 9, it's a damn fine movie...
...gate with more power than the original, which establishes a brand. Its box-office domination may annoy critics and sentient adults, but this savvily marketed franchise is as impervious to failure as McDonald's. It's not a fast-food but a fast-film experience, cunningly mixing the twin fanboy magnets of large marauding toys and luscious Megan...
...don’t know, something. Originating in a grease truck on Rutgers’ campus, it contains a hearty portion of Cheesesteak, chicken fingers, two sticks of string cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup, lettuce and tomato heaped onto Italian bread. Oh and French Fries too. The Fat Bitch fanboy later confessed that he was the one who had asked Widener to purchase the PBS sandwich documentary.Five sandwich-filled dreams later, I realized I had crossed over to the other side. My inability to control my research was like the Schmooze’s inability to contain itself on the forum...
...otherwise missing from the enterprise. And it's always great to see Liu, who bounded onto the Hong Kong screen as the head-shaved star of such '70s action classics as Challenge of the Masters and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin; his lingering impact in these roles led ex-fanboy Quentin Tarantino to cast him as a mob potentate in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and as the white-bearded Pai Mei in Kill Bill Vol. 2. Now in his early 50s, Liu still looks sinewy topless. This time his chief weapon is not his flying feet but a boomerang bowler...