COMIC CON 2005 REPORT:DAY 3

Day 3 started of early...too early if you ask me, but it was worth it.

I woke up at 5:45am, still tired from yeaterday, I got out of bed around 6:10am. Made some breakfast, took a shower and headed for the convention center at 7:15am. I arrived at 7:30am and saw that there was a line already for HALL H. Today's panel at Hall H consited of: Superman Returns, Aeon Flux, and Kevin Smith. There was more, but I was really just interested in these threes.

They actually allowed us to go into Hall H early! Around 9:00 am. At 10:30am the first panel came up.

It was Bryan Singer. Who just got off a flight and looked really tired. He did say that he had to attend Comic Con cause, #1 Comic Con is the biggest Comic book Convention, and #2 it is Superman!

"Superman is the ultimate immigrant." Singer replied, it got a few chuckles from the crowd, but Singer did not mean the comment to come out the way it did.

Singer said that this movie follows after the events from the first Superman film. He agreed with the crowd about Superman II and also laughed at the comment that was made on Family Guy with the S.

Singer surprised us by bringing a full video of the film running at about 7mins!

Now this might be a SPOILER!!! SO YOU ARE WARNED!

The video starts by looking at what looks to be a corn field, followed by a beautiful sunset, but actually it could be a sunrise. We then see a mailbox with the name Kent on it. Then we see Superman sitting in what looks like a throne at his ice castle(not big on superman, so I can't remember what he called his Base of Operations in Antartica) The next sequence shows a child Superman, falling from the top of the barn and hitting dividers left and right and just before he hits the ground, the sequence suggests that he floats. We find out that Superman has been missing and seems to return to his parents home via a spaceship cause we see his mother look into some smoke and we see a hand that touches her shoulder and she turns around scare and is surprised to see who it is. In this video we see a lot of flashbacks to a boy Superman, like a clip that shows him finding the crystal. We then find out that ClarkKent returns to the Daily Planet to find out that Loise Lane has gotten married and has a kid. There is a line where Lois says to Superman, "Even you cannot stop time Superman." Which got a few laughs from the crowd. She also wins a Pulitzer Prize award for a piece titled "Why the world does not need Superman." We also see Kevin Spacey who plays Lex Luthor, happens to somehow get a hold of the crystal.

In all this video acts as a mood setter. There are no action shots and the best shot is the shot of superman in outer space, sees the land, and you could see the shinny lights of the city off in space and then he just dives into the earth.

After we watched the video the entire room just broke into a long applause. Mr Singer said let's watch it again and, we did!

There are high hopes for the film and dispite the fact that some people dont like how the costume looks or who is playing Superman, this movie looks like it is going to rock.

The next panel was the Aeon Flux panel.

It seems that somebody was running late cause we were treated to Pablo. Pablo works in special effects and talked about the Special Effects in War of The World and showed a clip from that movie. After about 10 mins of talking he thanked eveyrbody and left and then the panel for Aeon Flux was announced.

The panel consisted of the creator of Aeon Flux, a producer, the director, the actor that plays Trevor, and Charlize Theron.

We were treated to a DVD quality "Making of Documentary" which was really good. This movie is really going to seem faithful to the comic. I will now paste what i wrote about Aeon Flux at gamertag.com forum...yes I am that lazy...I am just tired, it has been a long day.

POSSIBLE SPOLIERS ON AEON FLUX, so read ahead if you want. Also I just got back and I am very tired from running to the other panels, plus I got a massive headache. So please forgive me if I mispell the names.I attended the panel for Aeon Flux today and I must say that I am excited for this movie. In the panel were the creator of Aeon Flux, one of the porducers, the director, the guy that plays Trevor, and ofcourse, Charlize Theron.They played a 5-8 min clip of footage from the movie, and it rocks. The best part? they re-created the intro scene were Aeon Flux catches the fly with her eye lashes!The movie itself looks to be very stylish and sexy. There were parts of the cartoon that were re-created in the movie. So it does seem that this will be a faithful translation. Well ofcourse except for the suit that Aeon wears. They could not go with her regular skimpy suit due to being too revealing in live action."Somethings just need to remain hidden!" joked Charlize Theron.The story revolves around the last city in Earth. Just like the cartoon it is suppose to be a place for bliss. There are 5 people that are in the power in the city. Aeon is given the assignment to kill Trevor but cannot.I am pretty sure that this has been said before so I dont know how much of an exclusive I am given ya.At the end they played the RAW trailer for Aeon Flux and it looks promising.

The next panel was Kevin Smith! I wish i could re-create what he said word for word, but I can't. The man was just hilarious, from dick jokes, to mamma jokes to making fun of Jesus himself. Kevin went into a rant about Christ and after a few secs we started to hear somebody from the audience yelling that Jesus died for our sins. Kevin still ripped a new ahole to this guys and when I stood up to see who he was talking to, it turned out that he was talking to a kind in a wheelchair. Pretty hardcore for Kevin Smith, he does not care if you are dosable, he will still tear you a new asshole, in a funny way though!

It is always a pleasure to spend an hour with Kevin Smith. he talked about his new movie for Clerks 2 and that was about it. The rest of the time he just answer questions. he wil also be in the new movie from the director of Donnie Darko. He also played a clip from a TV show about a high school were he is doing a cameo.

After the Kevin Smith panel, I ran back home cause I forgot my camera. i came back to the convention and walked around. I then became plauged by a headache, which I still have by the way. So I made my way to the Film Festival again. This time the theme was Animation, and boy were we treated to some really good animation.

The Zit was the first one I was able to catch. http://www.thezitmovie.com/ It was made by a guy that works for Disney and did it in the spare time. Really funny story about a kid that is about to go out on a date but finds that he has a Zit. Very Toy Story like in the animation department and liek I said before very funny.

The next film was called Bid'em In, which is based on a saong by a civil rights activist of the 1950's. Very strong about how the slaves were auction off.

The next film was a very sweet story called The Fan And The Flower by legendary Bill Plympton.

Text taken from Mr. Plympton's website www.plymptoons.com

"Bill's new short film, "The Fan and the Flower", is now appearing in film festivals around the world. The film is about an ill-fated and unconsummated romance between an electric ceiling fan and a flower, with a magical fairytale ending. Based on a story by Dan O'Shannon, the narration for the film features the voice of Paul Giamatti (Sideways, American Splendor). "

The next film was the very excellent "9" by Shane Acker http://www.shaneacker.com/ due to the film being in the works for a feature film. Mr Acker cannot show the film outside of film festivals which is a bummer cause this film totally rocks. Please go to his wesite and click on "Films" and watch "Mr. Grenade"

The last film of the night was also good. It was called "Herman, The Legal Labrador. the thing was insanely funny. It is about a dog that becomes a lawyer and all he can do is bark, but ofcourse those in the cartoon understand what he says. Brilliant Stuff. You can see more at the website http://www.herman.nakedfella.com/

If you can somehow manage to have a chance to see these films THEN DO IT!!!!!!!! They are all short films, except for Herman, which ran at about 22 mins, but SEE THEM!!!! THEY ARE WORTH IT!!!

I am off to bed and to rest for tomorrow's final Comic Con Day :( I hate Sundays, I always hate the last day of Comic Con. Till tomorrow my friends.