Review: The force is weak with `Fanboys'

"Fanboys" isn't so much a cohesive movie with a plot as it is a shoddily shot litany of random geek arcania.

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Set in the suburban Midwest of 1998, "Fanboys" follows a group of obsessive "Star Wars" fans who hit the road to the Bay Area with a plot to break into George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and attempt to steal an unreleased copy of "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."

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A science fiction fan sparked a bomb alert, which led to 100 homes being evacuated, after reports of a man seen with a longbow.

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TO the fury and dismay of relatives of mafia victims, pages posted on the social networking website Facebook idolising Cosa Nostra godfathers have generated thousands of supporters in Italy.

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Ubuntu on national television

Yesterday I happened to see a fragment of a television show that consists of satirical sketches that take place in an office building. Being the geek that I am, something struck me on the screen of one of the office workers: Ubuntu.

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Like Clark Kent ducking into a phone booth, Comic-Con International is about to get super. The geek gathering that got its start catering to comics fanboys in 1970 has turned into a pop-culture kingmaker, and outgrown its name in the process.

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Think you paid too much for your Playstation 3? Don't expect any sympathy from Sony.

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On every forum they strut their stuff as the world experts on everything. Yet in reality they know very little, just what they glean secondhand from the internet.

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Leave it to Bill Maher to bring us down to earth about the frickin' iPhone. Thanks, Bill. We needed that. Well, at least the "nerd tax" was reduced by $100.

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With last week's announcement by Steve Jobs that his company would be reducing the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399, many people were wondering why.

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Funny!!

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Pundits often refer to them as "zealots" or "fanboys." The more polite references include "Mac loyalists." I am, of course, talking about Apple's more vocal customers, those who will defend the company and its products in any debate going on around them.

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Wow. I wonder if this is true...

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fanboyism

hmm, I have been here for exactly 24 hours and something is of concern to me. The sheer amount of apple related opinion posts.

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