I bought this and was so completely put off by it that I happily deleted it immediately after watching it. It is so bad that it is embarrassing and I shudder to think that poor George Lucas allowed them to film at the Skywalker Ranch. Maybe George is just getting old and sentimental.
How could this garbage have been greenlighted and over 3 million sunk into it? What was there - a let's find some utterly pathetic script and make it into a movie freebie day at Triggerstreet? Did Kevin Spacey actually read this script and say - I know I have two academy awards and all but I really really want to put my name as producer on the worst film I can possibly that isn't porn with dwarfs and mechanical bulls. Well Kev - this is it. Go back to the theatre - where you can do little harm.
The characters are offensive stereotypes, not a single heartfelt emotion exists in the film even after putting in a character dying of cancer (you find that out in the first ten minutes). He's lucky that he gets to die before the cheezy end but not so lucky that he doesn't have to go through most of the ridiculous film although he looks healthy and fit as a fiddle I might add with only a few months to live.
I know that people think that nerds like this cannot possibly have real lives but many nerds do. They get married, they have kids, they even tend to have good jobs. Being a nerd is not the pathetic loser thing that it was in the 80's though a film like this acts like the dotcom boom never happened and that there are no Google and Yahoo billionaires. It's just so out of date - even taking place in 1998-1999.
It copies the Judd Apatow/Kevin Smith variety of gross-out, frat boy humor, even including a cameo by Smith and Jason Mewes, as well as a couple of cameo parts played by Judd Apatow's favorite dish - Seth Rogen. I assume this was to give the film a connection with more successful nerd guy gross-outs like Knocked Up and others too numerous to mention - you know the drill - nerdy, loser, drug-user guy hooks up with extraordinary babe who falls for him (which does not happen in real life unless nerd guy is actually one of those Google billionaires). Fanboys even has that happen. .
As a Star Wars and Star Trek fan I found it insulting. I did enjoy William Shatner's cameo, because the Shat is the shezit. He was the best thing in the movie. They dusted off Billy Dee Williams (well-preserved) and Carrie Fisher (not so well-preserved) and I cannot believe that they stooped this low. Maybe they got to hang out together on the set and talk about when they made a really great film like The Empire Strikes Back.
The film looks very much like some guys made it in their backyards for You Tube.
It could have been done so much better if there had been a decent script without the gross unfunny jokes, if the characters had not been cardboard cut-outs with no depth or characterization, if the film hadn't looked like it was shot with a handy-cam and if every on-screen moment had not literally been a smack in the face to fans of Star Wars and Star Trek.
As it is - it belongs right in the Death Star trash compactor with the slime and the walls closing in.
How could this garbage have been greenlighted and over 3 million sunk into it? What was there - a let's find some utterly pathetic script and make it into a movie freebie day at Triggerstreet? Did Kevin Spacey actually read this script and say - I know I have two academy awards and all but I really really want to put my name as producer on the worst film I can possibly that isn't porn with dwarfs and mechanical bulls. Well Kev - this is it. Go back to the theatre - where you can do little harm.
The characters are offensive stereotypes, not a single heartfelt emotion exists in the film even after putting in a character dying of cancer (you find that out in the first ten minutes). He's lucky that he gets to die before the cheezy end but not so lucky that he doesn't have to go through most of the ridiculous film although he looks healthy and fit as a fiddle I might add with only a few months to live.
I know that people think that nerds like this cannot possibly have real lives but many nerds do. They get married, they have kids, they even tend to have good jobs. Being a nerd is not the pathetic loser thing that it was in the 80's though a film like this acts like the dotcom boom never happened and that there are no Google and Yahoo billionaires. It's just so out of date - even taking place in 1998-1999.
It copies the Judd Apatow/Kevin Smith variety of gross-out, frat boy humor, even including a cameo by Smith and Jason Mewes, as well as a couple of cameo parts played by Judd Apatow's favorite dish - Seth Rogen. I assume this was to give the film a connection with more successful nerd guy gross-outs like Knocked Up and others too numerous to mention - you know the drill - nerdy, loser, drug-user guy hooks up with extraordinary babe who falls for him (which does not happen in real life unless nerd guy is actually one of those Google billionaires). Fanboys even has that happen. .
As a Star Wars and Star Trek fan I found it insulting. I did enjoy William Shatner's cameo, because the Shat is the shezit. He was the best thing in the movie. They dusted off Billy Dee Williams (well-preserved) and Carrie Fisher (not so well-preserved) and I cannot believe that they stooped this low. Maybe they got to hang out together on the set and talk about when they made a really great film like The Empire Strikes Back.
The film looks very much like some guys made it in their backyards for You Tube.
It could have been done so much better if there had been a decent script without the gross unfunny jokes, if the characters had not been cardboard cut-outs with no depth or characterization, if the film hadn't looked like it was shot with a handy-cam and if every on-screen moment had not literally been a smack in the face to fans of Star Wars and Star Trek.
As it is - it belongs right in the Death Star trash compactor with the slime and the walls closing in.