12 Annoying Fanboy Complaints That Drive Everyone Insane

11. "My Favourite Movie Of The Year Wasn't Nominated For Best Picture"

The Complaint: "The movie I enjoyed the most this year obviously deserved to be recognised by the Academy Awards, and aside from a few tech nominations nobody really cares about, was snubbed in all the major categories, including Best Picture, which it totally deserved to win." Why It's Annoying: Because the Oscars aren't some instant validation of your movie tastes, and more to the point, the Oscars are so all over-the-place that there's no point holding them to a standard where they should be accepting more mainstream movies into the mix. Fanboy or not, it was widely accepted that The Dark Knight was snubbed for a Best Picture nomination in 2009, which resulted in the field being expanded to a possible 10 nominees, and ever since it's resulted in those blockbusters that went over huge with critics being almost immediately cited as Oscar-worthy, namely The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and, of course, Mad Max: Fury Road. Isn't it enough that the movies themselves are fantastic? If the Academy doesn't recognise them, then that's less power to them: their prerogative is to recognise more down-the-line, traditionally "artistic" fare, and that's probably never going to change in the way that fanboys want. Plus, a lot of the time what fanboys might deem to be the year's best movie simply isn't good enough: Avengers: Age of Ultron, for instance.