COMIC CON 2005 REPORT:DAY 2

Please pardon the spelling. I dont have MS Word installed and I this spell check for blogger sucks, plus I am tire...but scroll to the end of this post and there are some pics from today's Comic Con :)

Day 2 of Comic Con began very badly. The door that I was waiting to get into was not opened at 10am. After waiting for about another 10mins I headed for another door. I made my way to the JoyRide booth and they had already sold out of the MC Lt Ed figure. That just pissed me off that Elite(The security people working the event) are so crappy. They cost me a ticket to get the Master Chief Lt Ed.

After that I headed to Hall H where Warner Bro were having their panel on V For Vandetta, The Fountain, Corpse Bride and ofcourse Harry Potter. The line to Hall H was incredibly long. Don't believe me? Take a look here

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The line was so long that it twisted and turned like a crazy. However, once the Hall opened the line moved fast. And I was able to get a seat! That Hall is just insanely huge! I am so glad that they decided to start using that Hall. 2004's Comic Con was the first time that Hall had been used for Comic Con.

The first panel up was for V for Vandetta. The premiered the trailer, which was good, but I am not holding my breath on the movie. This is because I know very little of V for Vandetta. Natalie Portman, one of the creators for V for Vandetta were there along with the slime ball Joel Silver. I hate that fat fuck, "I cant believe people are trashing the Matrix Reloaded. The move has made over 100 mil!" Mr Silver, we trashed the Matrix Reloaded and Revolution cause the script sucked and the Washowsky(however you spell their names) dropped the ball on what could have been a great trilogy. I just pray that Mr Silver does not get his hands on Broken Saints.

The interesting thing about V for Vandetta is that one of it's co-creator refused to be part of the movie(and even demanded that his name be taken from the credits of the movie), while the other co-creator did. You think that this would be a great panel to discuss this issue, which was, briefly. The entire time was devoted to idiots asking moronic questions to Natalie Portman! The first question was by some moron who asked Natalie Portman, "Can you give me an original moment right now." Fucking moron. All the questions were straight out of a stupid teen mag. I was so disguted and bored. Nothing about the movie was discussed. Natalie Portman said, "Hey guys! There are more people here than me that would love to answer questions about the movie." I like Natalie Portman. I find her to be a good actress (love her in The Professional) and acted very mature and sincire during this teen-hormone Q&A.

After V for Vandetta, it was time for the Corpse Bride. We were treated to a greeting message from Mr Tim Burton which was cool. He is still working on Corpse Bride and promos for The Chocolate Factory. They played a clip from the movie which ran about 7 minutes and then into a musical number that was funny. I have high hopes for this movie. The panel was two procuders who talked about the stop animation and how they hate that people are doing more CGI and saying that stop animation is dead (which the room broke into thunderous applause). They were fun to listen to and really enjoy the work that they do.

Then the panel for The Fountain came on. The Fountain is directed by the same man who directed Pi(cant do the sign for it) and Requiem Tony Scott and the beautiful Rachel Weisz (I swear everytime she spoke it was as if I was falling in love. i just love her accent) Hugh Jackman stars in the movie too, but he could not be there. We were also treated to a very humorous gretting clip from him. He starts by saying that he loves the work that he is doing in X3..he then stops and says ohh The Fountain! This is for The Fountain? This movie looks really good. They showed the first 10mins of the movie and if you played Xenogears, I think it is the same idea, and far as the relationship between Fei and Allie. Rachel Weisz also gave away a big part of the movie, but what she revealed, I kinda figured from the 10mis they showed. This was the highlight of the panel. I will defitnetly see this movie!

Ofcourse Harry Potter was next, and they actually messed up in the panel. Before The Fountain panel came up, the accidently announced that it was time for Harry Potter and showed a 5 min clip of the movie. the clip was very raw, you could see that they are still working on the special effects. Let me tell you something first, this movie seems to be going dark. I swear that Harry Potter is looking more and more like Anaken Skywalker. I sure do hope that he starts doing some dark magic shit and tears that school apart...that would be awesome!

After the panel was over I headed for the Broken Saints booth and bought the 4-disc DVD. i just got done playing the first 4 chapters and all I can say is "OH MY GOD!" what work of body this Broken Saints is. Amazing work.

I also stopped by the Red Vs Blue booth and bought all 3 seasons and got season1 sign by most of the cast. Tex is there and she is hot!

I then went to the Film Festival room and saw a bunch of movies that suck. the main one was this movie called "Outpost" what we saw was the trailer to a series they are trying to have done. Awful, I wanted to chew on my own vomit than to watch another minute. What was more sickening you might ask? The fact that some of the people that worked in the film were there and one guy in particular kept laughing at the jokes that they were trying to do on screen. Nobody in the room laugh, but you could hear this obnosious guys laughing like he watching South Park The Movie. The guys were uneasy to go up to the front of the room and talk about the film cause they could sense that the movie did not go well with the crowd. Except for the guy that kept laughing, the entire crew that was there was actually pretty cool. The director answered all questions honestly and one of the actors had a degree in acting and has been acting for 20 years now, and believe me dispite the fact that the movie suck, he was pretty good in it. the guy that kept laughing got his acting degree from an online course...what a shocker!

I then headed to Mike Mignola panel. Mike Mignola is the creator of Hellboy which is one of my favorite characters ever since I saw the movie. He discussed future plans for Hellboy and he also had some writers and artist in the panel.

I walked the showroom some more and saw some TMNT comics. i bought the #1 issue of Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles! well it is 5th edition, which makes it worthless, and I bought book 1 of Return to New York series. In this series that is were Leanardo fights The Shredder one more time and decapitates him! i sure hope i can find books 2 and 3 tomorrow. I also purchase a few Hellboy comics and then saw that Kevin Eastman was in the Heavy Metal booth!!! So ofcourse I made my way with my nwe recently purchased TMNT comics and asked him if he could sign them which he did! How awesome is that?

To end the night, i headed to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim panel. They had another one today. i dont watch adult swim alot, so alot of the shows that they showcased where new to me, but Robot Chicken is just hilarious! I have got to watch that. The night ended with the announcement that a movie of Dr Weird is being made. Also a movie about one of Adult Swim's lineup is being made into a movie, but I cant remember the name. it involves a meatball, a really fat guy, a soft drink and some megabite looking thingys. Funny stuff and I wil lbe watching Adult Swim sunday night.

Gabe out for the night! Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I have to arrive to the Convention Center 2 hours ealier to ensure a seat in the Kevin Smith, Superman and Aeon Flux panel!

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