The headline says it all. After launching Fanboyz.net in February 2009 we have decided to spice things up a bit for both our writers and of course, you, our readers. We have outgrown our original look, which while we appreciate our amateur design and logo, we felt it was time to take this site to the next level. We have many new changes that we look forward to hear some feedback on. We have a much more organized design that will showcase our featured news and articles in a cleaner design. The new design is all about being accessible to our readers so check out what new features we have added:

What’s New?

Starting at the top and working our way down we completely transformed Fanboyz.net. With a new logo, color scheme, and layout the way we present news, reviews, and featured articles has been transformed into what you see today.

We began with a new logo which captures the essence of our website. Covering the big news stories in both the movie and comic book world we wanted to create a logo that would be symbolic of both of these forms of media. With a design that looks like it was ripped from the pages of a comic book we bring you the new and improved Fanboyz.net brand.

Highlights

Displayed below our new logo is our featured news. The big headlines, the latest movie reviews, the original articles, and more will all be features here.

Directly beneath our featured news scroll box are our latest movie news story, movie review, and movie trailer to hit the site. You know when you go to a website and want to just see the latest trailer for a movie, but don’t want to navigate all around searching for it. Now we have the latest trailer featured right on the front page. Can’t miss it.

To keep with our plan to make everything more organized and user friendly we have added several links that will assist in navigating Fanboyz.net. Want to follow us on Twitter? Click the box. Want to be a fan of Fanboyz on Facebook? Click the box. How about subscribing to our RSS feed? You know what to

do. Don’t forget to check out our links for complete coverage at San Diego Comic-Con, as well as our weekly Comic Book Cover of the Week and Fan Noise Video Blog. We got it all here just for you.

Social media plays an important role in building a fanbase for a website and is vital in maintaining that audience. We have made it even more accessible to partake in the social media aspect of the world wide web by enabling our readers to submit our articles to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and Digg. Allowing our readers to submit what they like gives us even more exposure – which is what we want!

After you navigate the top portion of the site, continue scrolling for all of our recent articles. We got the latest breaking news from Hollywood right here for you to check out.

The Future

What is in the future for Fanboyz.net? You will more than likely notice more changes throughout the site as we adapt this new design into our writing style. Have a suggestion of what could be better? What you like, don’t like, would like to see? Let us know! Go to our Contact page, fill out the form, and we will get back with you on your notes for the website. Fanboyz.net is for the readers so it would only make sense you should have a voice in how everything looks. We look forward to the future of Fanboyz.net and are happy to have you along for the ride.

Cheers,

Jeff Olson

Executive Editor

Fanboyz.net

As you may be aware, we often find funny videos on the Internet machine. One of my favorite sites for funny stuff is Ebaum’s World, where they have some of the best videos and pictures for people who like to laugh. They have two videos that stood out to me today, one is a montage of some of the best movie insults, and the other is a spoof trailer. People who’ve seen a lot of movies will enjoy both; the insults are pulled from some awesome movies, and the spoof trailer mocks the formulaic way critically acclaimed movies are made. Check the movies out below.

100 Best Movie Insults

Academy Award-Winning Trailer

Be avised, LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof did not write a BP oil spill flick, he did this as a joke

Source: Esquire

Damon Lindelof, executive producer and writer for the hit TV series LOST, has been a bit bored since the show wrapped up. On his Twitter account, he revealed his next project, a summer action movie based on the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For those unaware what’s happened over the past 50 days in the Gulf, well you should really watch the news more often. Anyway, the story sounds a bit familiar (LOST co-creator J.J. Abrams wrote the movie Armageddon). Read below for a brief synopsis of ARMAGEDDONER!

A greedy, evil corporation has unwittingly created a natural disaster the likes of which the world has never seen. Protocols were ignored. Warnings were unheeded. And none of the damn eggheads in Washington can seem to come up with a way to stop millions of barrels of crude from pumping into the goddamned Gulf, threatening our Americanism!

What we need, ladies and gentlemen, is experience. Experts who know their way around an OIL RIG. But not just any ROUGHNECKS. No. For this crazy plan to work, we’ll need men who have experience with SPACE TRAVEL. Why?

Because we’re gonna reverse-ARMAGEDDON this shit and call it a sequel.

FADE IN:

We OPEN on Billy Bob. He doesn’t need the cane anymore — maybe he has some kind of Iron Man cyberleg or something. This will be important later. Just don’t ask me why. The phone rings.

He answers it. It’s the PRESIDENT. African American will seem too current and 24 just did two seasons with a chick in the Oval Office, so I say we get real progressive up in here and go Jew. Maybe Dreyfuss or Hoffman.

President Jew lays it out. Tragedy in the Gulf. Lives lost. Massive ecological disaster. But the public is only being told half the story. If the other half were revealed, they’d be rioting in the goddamned streets (end of Act Two, by the way) so Billy Bob had better sit down. VROOOVK! — with a whir of knee-servo-motors, Billy Bob does just that, “Tell me, Mr. President.”

And in a series of totally awesome CGI graphics (this thing is in 3D, bitches) we learn that through history, GEOLOGISTS have conspired to hide the truth of our own planet from us — that, in fact, the Earth does not have a molten core but instead, a core comprised entirely of OIL. And armed with that secret knowledge (the Vatican should be in on this, too — let’s tap that Da Vinci Code audience), corporations have been racing to TAP that oil, thus controlling our long-term energy supply and blahblahblah who gives a shit, we GET IT! But the headline is THIS:

Now that the core has been tapped, it is spewing like a sailor on shore leave. And if it can’t be stopped? The core of the planet will empty out. And then?

The Earth will fucking COLLAPSE!!!

Billy Bob takes a dramatic pause and quietly says “Good God, Mr. President. We’re all dead.” (Trailer moment.) But then he realizes why the President has called HIM of all people.

Because he’s saved the world before. He hatched the plan. He put it into action. He got a team of roughnecks off an oil rig and into OUTER SPACE to nuke an asteroid that was threatening our way of life. But what’s that got to do with the oil leak?

Well, the wonks at NASA have found an ASTEROID that will pass by Earth in about three days. On its current path, it’ll miss us by a good million miles or so.

But if… dammit, IF… someone were to go up there and detonate a calibrated warhead on that damn thing, its trajectory could be altered. Altered so specifically that it could be made to hit a very specific target.

A target on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

It can plug that leak.

Yes. Once such an asteroid threatened to destroy us all. But now? It’s our only chance at salvation. (Movie poster tagline!)

CLOSE ON Billy Bob. Moment of truth. It’s too much. There’s no time. He’s retired now. And he has a drinking problem and an ex-wife who doesn’t respect him. It’s just him and his bionic leg on a horse farm in Wyoming.

He shakes his head as President Hoffman awaits his answer. Then, finally, “I know you don’t believe in Jesus Christ, sir…how the hell can you believe in me?”

Hoffman sighs: “Because you were the only one who answered the damn phone.” (Trailer moment No. 2.)

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is only the first PAGE AND A HALF of the movie.

Bay’s in. He loves the “James Cameron fucking environmental message bullshit” of it.

Willis wants to do it, even though he seems to have forgotten he died in the first one. If we want him, easy enough to say he’s a twin brother or do some time travel thingamajob once they get into space.

Normally, I hate sequels, but this is a no-brainer.

Literally.

Whaddaya think?

Happy May the Fourth Be With You Day! Star Wars is a cultural phenomenon, capturing the imagination of grown-ups and children alike since the first film debuted in 1977. Since then, fans have been given 5 more live-action movies, animated and CGI television shows, and even a Christmas special. Star Wars has been constantly on the mind of sci-fi fans for the past 33 years, and continues to influence fantasy to this day. This video demonstrates how much fun fans have with the series. Check out Star Wars in Lego form below the jump.

Investigated by Jordan Tunney and David Williams

A local father was at a movie theater when he spotted something interesting on an advertisement for How to Train Your Dragon at the Imax. Apparently, he was standing and looking at the poster when he saw a weird shape in the clouds above the title. It’s not as in-your-face as some of Disney’s antics (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King) but let’s be honest, it’s Dreamworks, they don’t go above and beyond like Disney. Check out the pictures below.

Here’s some help if you can’t see it easily…

Throughout Hollywood history, countless characters have been played by various actors. While some have clearly been better than others, other times it is difficult to decide which actor does the best job in the role. Square Off takes two actors and puts them against each other, and determines the best. For our first match-up, we are going to take a look at Brian Cox and Danny Huston in their portrayals of Col. William Stryker from the X-MEN series.

Col. William Stryker rivals many humans with his hatred for mutants in the X-MEN universe. As a father, he was unable to stop his mutant son from manipulating his wife’s mind as she killed herself. From that point on, he set himself to rid the world of mutants. Pragmatically, he surrounds himself with mutants and pulls their strings to work towards his sick final solution. In X2, Stryker is portrayed by one of Hollywood’s greats, Brian Cox. Stryker’s plan in the film is to use Charles Xavier’s Cerebro machine to end the lives of all mutants around the world. Danny Huston, in the prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine, plays a younger Stryker, who seeks to create the ultimate mutant weapon, and use it to do his evil bidding. Two very different actors, two very different movies. Which one will the winner?

Brian Cox – X2

Brian shows the more emotional side of Stryker in X2. Stryker explains to Xavier the reason for his hatred stems from the loss of his wife. He describes in detail how his wife put a power tool to her head while his son manipulated her thoughts. Instead of being short-sighted and thinking small, Stryker uses his learned knowledge of Cerebro to strike at all mutants around the planet at once. He successfully invaded Xavier’s mansion, and his deep pockets through the military have supplied him with a tactical force to secure one of the most powerful mutants, Xavier himself. The last we see of him, his plan has been foiled, and Wolverine leaves him injured and chained up to face a storm of flooding water from the broken dam at the military facility.

Danny Huston – X-MEN Origins: Wolverine

Danny Huston plays Stryker as a younger and more fluid man. His overall plan in the film is to create the ultimate killing machine, but throughout the movie he goes back and forth with allegiances. The opening shows him with his mutant team, including Wolverine. After Wolverine leaves the team, Stryker goes after the other teammates who left before sending Victor Creed after him. Ironically enough, Stryker puts Wolverine through the Weapon X program, testing him to see if the adamantium process is viable. It’s with the indestructible metal that Wolverine would eventually defeat Stryker in the future, but not before the Colonel shoots him in the head, leading to his memory loss.

And the winner is…

Brian Cox, who not only gave Stryker a deeper portrayal than Huston, but also is comes across more believable as a rogue military man. This decision was fairly straightforward, but in upcoming Squared Off features, we will be looking into some that are much more difficult to determine. Do you agree with this outcome? Leave your comments below.

Just Cause 2 knows what it’s supposed to be; fun, open-world gameplay that’s loose on the story and firm on the action. You play as Rico Rodriguez, a man of many talents, as he attempts to overthrow a dictator on an island nation. With a parachute and grappling hook, you can go just about anywhere on the map in no time at all. One of the coolest actions is flying a large Bowing 737 around the map. Not long after its release yesterday, it was discovered that flying one of these planes over a smaller island on the map caused a unique series of events. The plane crashes, and you soon discover a broken Egyptian statue, a survivors camp along the beach, and a hatch into the ground. Sound familiar? Check out the Lost hidden gems below.

Web Crawler is a segment where we bring you fun videos, pictures, and other unique gems that are hidden on the web. Today features a great You Tube video created by waynesmalereturns and is a mash-up of both the original Die Hard and Stars Wars films. Set to the trailer voice over from Die Hard and put with various clips from Star Wars, this trailer shows you what could have been if a galaxy far far away had been taken hostage by terrorists. Check out the video after the jump.

It takes a skilled person to photoshop a picture well. On top of that, it takes a lot of skill to make it look good. Flickr, the picture-sharing website, has a collection under the name of Avatized. On that account, over 100 photos have been twisted and edited to make the characters of the picture look like Na’vi creatures from the box office smash Avatar. If you want to take a look at all the pictures on the account you can go here, but I pulled out a few of my favorites and put them below.

I guess we were incorrect when we reported last week that this poster would be the final one sheet for Toy Story 3. Today Empire has released another fun looking poster for the animated film from Disney and Pixar. Hitting theaters (in 3D, of course) this summer, Toy Story 3 reunites the entire gang of toys who have been donated to a day care center after Andy heads off to college. The trailer for this is fantastic and the movie is one of my most anticipated of the summer. Check out the full poster after break.

The creators of the beloved ‘Toy Story’ films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in ‘Toy Story 3.’ Woody and Buzz had accepted that their owner Andy would grow up someday, but what happens when that day arrives? In the third installment, Andy is preparing to depart for college, leaving his loyal toys troubled about their uncertain future.

Toy Story 3 arrives in theaters June 18th 2010.