{"id":11583,"date":"2009-06-16T02:29:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2009-06-16T02:29:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:29:17","slug":"fanboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/16\/fanboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0489049\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24 aligncenter\" title=\"Fanboys\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fanboys.jpg?resize=263%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fanboys\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Managed to catch &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0489049\/\">Fanboys<\/a>&#8221; in the cinema.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the trailer of it some time ago and thought that I should watch the movie.\u00a0 And I was right.\u00a0 I guess most movie fans, and especially those of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; religion among you, will enjoy the film.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty light, with lots of movie-related jokes, and a touch of drama, which only makes it so much better.<\/p>\n<p>I found the cast to be quite interesting.\u00a0 Main characters are played by not yet so famous young actors (they needed the geeky look after all) &#8211; Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell,\u00a0 Dan Fogler.\u00a0 But while they move through the film, there are many familiar face such as Danny Trejo, Seth Rogen, William Shatner and even Kevin Smith.\u00a0 Even though their roles are very short, almost cameos.<\/p>\n<p>While this film is not a masterpiece by any measure, I did enjoy it quite a bit.\u00a0 <strong>4 stars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Managed to catch &#8220;Fanboys&#8221; in the cinema.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the trailer of it some time ago and thought that I should watch the movie.\u00a0 And I was right.\u00a0 I guess most movie fans, and especially those of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; religion among you, will enjoy the film.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty light, with lots of movie-related jokes, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/16\/fanboys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fanboys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1707,1,24],"tags":[1751,1753,1805,1480,1826,1882,1904],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-dan-fogler","tag-danny-trejo","tag-jay-baruchel","tag-kevin-smith","tag-kristen-bell","tag-seth-rogen","tag-william-shatner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11636,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/14\/pineapple-express\/","url_meta":{"origin":11583,"position":0},"title":"Pineapple Express","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I just watched one of the worst films of the year, maybe even two - \"Pineapple Express\".\u00a0 It's one of those films which is not funny enough to be a comedy and not serious enough to be an action movie.\u00a0 All the main characters are stoned during the whole film,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2 stars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2 stars","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/movies\/movie-reviews\/2-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pineapple Express","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pineapple_express.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11833,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/30\/funny-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":11583,"position":1},"title":"Funny People","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got back from the cinema, where I watched \"Funny People\".\u00a0 When I saw the trailer, I wasn't sure if I wanted to see this film or not.\u00a0 There were a funny scenes, but it looked like a clich\u00e9, more or less.\u00a0\u00a0 But then I saw a 7.3\/10 rating at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;4 stars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"4 stars","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/movies\/movie-reviews\/4-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Funny People","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/funny_people.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9406,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/02\/miss-congeniality-2-armed-and-fabulous\/","url_meta":{"origin":11583,"position":2},"title":"Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous\" - the sequel. 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