10 Movies That Prove Fanboys Should Never Get What They Want

2. Their Desperation For More, More, More - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

In a similar way to allowing Peter Jackson to exploit fans' tireless thirst for more Hobbit-based adventures, fanboys of the Star Wars franchise simply got so wrapped up in their desire for more, more, more, that they didn't even consider the fact that, well, George Lucas might just make a new Star Wars trilogy that completely sucked. It's easy to forget that Lucas only directed the first original movie, and though the story has always been his, the screenplays of the latter-two movies were heavily influenced by Lawrence Kasdan, so seeing Lucas write and direct a new series almost entirely by himself was in retrospect not such a hot idea. The problem is that it had been over 15 years since the last movie, and Star Wars fans were so starved for more of the same thing that the quality of it wasn't even the first thing they thought about: they just needed more. Yes, the backlash around The Phantom Menace in particular was devastating, and it does represent a rare example where the box office for the second movie was a significant drop from the first, but fanboys still turned up in droves for Revenge of the Sith, because no matter how badly Lucas had wounded his prized property, there was no way he could screw up the creation of Darth Vader, right? Right!? Fanboys were desperate for it, Lucas dove in without any sensible people around him to veto his stupid decisions, and for the most part the new trilogy sucked. He knew it would print money, though, and that was enough to validate Lucas' thinking that he knew what was best. Thankfully, Lucas is being kept at arms' length from Star Wars Episode VII, which as a result actually has a chance of being pretty good...