1. Sometimes What Fanboys (And Girls) Like Just Plain Sucks - Twilight
And finally, there's no getting around the fact that sometimes fanboys/girls/people just like things that out-and-out suck. We're going primarily with the Twilight example, but we're not trying to specifically pick on tween novels or works aimed at 14-year-old girls: it just happens to be the best example of something popular that really, really sucks. Yes, there are those who treat Twilight as ironic, cinematic junk-food to be laughed at incessantly, but the core fan-base is made up of hormonal teenage girls who take the series' mythology as seriously as gospel: that is the mindset which made Breaking Dawn Part 2 gross over $800 million worldwide. We're likely to see this hormonal hive-mind stir up again with the release of Fifty Shades of Grey next year, though the R-rating should make the fan-base slightly more tolerable at least. Yes, opinion on what's good and isn't is entirely subjective, and there's surely an inverse argument to be made against fanboy-baiting movies like Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, which with its giant samurai and seductively-dressed femme fatales couldn't have pandered any harder to male gamers and comic book geeks if it tried, but at least that movie was a colossal box office bomb, and was widely rejected by its target audience. On one hand, perhaps studios are just trying to give fanboys/girls what they want, but on another, it seems somewhat patronising: fanboys should expect more from studios than lowest-common denominator nonsense that appeals to their reproductive organs and little else. Did we miss any major fanboy misfires? Let us know in the comments!