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RE: swashbuckler's....& ... fanboys

Posted by user510 on March 25, 2015 at 11:40:32:
in the vein of those movies with screenplays based on novels by Rafael Sabatini. examples: The Sea Hawk, Capt. Blood etc.

Why not transpose/re-write those into outerspace? Outlaws scratching out a desperate existence but in starships rather than gallions. In a loose sort of way, the Firefly TV series pretty much tried to do that.

I regard the term "Fanboy" as a derogatory label. Yes, you can find several movie franchises that do attract the 'fanboy/fangirl crowd'. But I would refrain from pasting that label over the movies themselves. Ergo, not everyone in the audience at a Star Wars screening can be described as a fanboy. (But many are.)

Btw I recall sitting in the audience on a Wednesday afternoon at the first showing of the "Lord of the Rings (fellowship of the ring)" movie. At one point I did take a look around at those in the theater I found myself surrounded by. Funny how, in retrospect, so many appeared dressed and groomed much like the movies maker was in those early days, (Peter Jackson)

It seems probable that Jackson himself fits the profile of a fanboy. Irrationally devoted. A JRR Tolkein fanboy.....and his wife too, apparently.

So now I contradict my earlier statement. Yes you can call some movies 'fanboy flims'. Particularly when the movies are created by fanboys and made specifically for other fanboys. I just prefer to put some distance between myself and anyone you'd call a fanboy. I'm more detached than that.
(ouch, I'm not a fanboy...;-)

-Steve