COMIC CON 2005 REPORT:DAY 4

The final day of the Con had come. Five days had already pass? It seemed so unreal. However, when I look back at all I've seen and done during the Four previous days at the Con, it was really amazing.

The day started by getting into the Con about 5 mins earlier. Sneaked in Solid Snake style. I got to the JoyRide booth once again to try, for the final time, to get another limited edition Master Chief. I got on line and got a ticket and then made my way to Hall H to see them play a series of trailers, then the Cry Wolf panel and finally the Doom panel.

Trailer Park is where they play a lot of trailers for upcoming movies. They showed:

The Island

Hellbent. This one seems to be a weird movie. It is about a serial killer that kills only gay men. The trailer shows a bunch of "straight" guys that for one one indulge in homo-erotica stuff. The trailer was really gay(no pun intended) some people were uneasy about the whole man on man thing. I mean this trailer showed guys kissing and doing some really gay stuff.

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Is Wallace and Gromit, need I say more?

Into The Blue. Somekind of triller about some people that find a treasure and have some bad guy come after them to get teh money. Jessica Alba is in it and she wears a swimsuit most of the time. :)

The New World. It is the story about Pocahonta. Starring Will Ferrel(you know that Irish guy. Dont know if I spelled the name right)

Red Eye. I like this trailer. It starts with a guy and a girl meeting at the airport and they strike a conversation. The trailers leads us in the path that this is a love story. Eventually the girl finds out that she has a seat next to the guy that she has been running into the airport. She then asks him what business he is in and he says that she is her business. it turns out that this guys is hired to keep her hostage and if she does anything that her father will be killed. This one seems like it is going to be a good movie.

Boo. A trailer that started good and then sadly falls into your sterotypical teen horro flick. The trailer showed potentianl. However, we all laughed when we saw that the titled of the movie is actually "Boo". That is just plain stupid.

Nightwatch. This looks like a real good film. It is made in Russia and the subtitles are interactive with what goes on in the screen. Think of Broken Saints in a live format. This one looks like it is going to be really good. It is about the balance between the forces of good and evil and how they try to balance each other.

Zathera. I can't remember. I guess the trailer was not that impressive.

Slither. A horror movie that pushes the boundries. The trailer starts by showing names for classic horror movies followed by, "Those movies were for pussies."

Aeon Flux. Already posted about it.

Legend Of Zorro. Antonio banderas anb Seta-Jones are back, along with their kid(movie kid). This seems to be a fun movie.

Serenity. Do I need to say more? If you know Serenity, you will like.

Corpse Bride. Already posted about it.

Harry Potter. Already posted about it. Potter will go to the dark side. I so hope so.

King Kong. The trailer has been out for awhile.

The next panel was the one for Cry Wolf. the movie is about a bunch of kids at a boarding school in Virgina that decide to play Mafia. Mafia is a game were people are rewarded for being the best liar. So two of the kids come up with the idea to create a killer. It turns out that the real killer gets pissed about the story they have made and decides to start his own killing spree at the school.

This movie looks promising. The writer/director said how he was at Comic Con 2004 just walking the showroom since he is a big fan of comics and got the call from the studio saying that the movie was approved for production. He also had 3 hot girls at the panel. They were really attractive, specially the asian girl.

Next was the panel for Doom. Since I am too lazy to write again. Here's what i posted about the movie at gamertag.com.

Today I was able to get into Hall H of the Convention Center for the panel on the Doom movie.The panel started with Chris Carle(of IGN.com). He then introduced one of the guys from Id, followed by a co-star of the movie(cant remember his name but he was in LOTR) and then The Rock.

Let me start by saying that this guy pretty much asked all the questions during the panel and sugarcoted the entire interview. He did not ask any questions as far as why people infected with a virus rather than the demons of Hell.He then introduced two of the producers which showed the trailer for the movie.

The Trailer itself is ok. It did not leave us breathless like Superman Returns did. However, the movie does show promise in a blow things up kinda way. But they did say that the movie takes place in Mars and eventually it seems to work it's way to earth perhaps.

The following can be consider a SPOILER so read at your own advice.

The video was introduced by one of the producers as "Something that has not been done in Hollywood before."The clip starts with the co-star laying down and slipping to the floor, while a female character calls out his name. The camera then zooms into his eyes and we start to see everything thru his eyes. We see him get up and walk towards a mirror in which he proceeds to wipe the blood of his face, and goes towards a door that opens. The entire video was done like a FPS!!! We see him pull out his gun, we see him reload, we hear him taking deep breath. He starts to walk down the corridors and monsters and people infected come at him! All very FPS like. We see some of the Imps!! Yes they are in the movie. As the clip ends we see our co-star battle an Imp that has the Chainsaw and shoots his arm off. We also see him get hit and fall off the ledge to the lower level and gets his gun back and keeps on firing.

The entire thing was just fricking cool! The things has not been completed yet, so we were treated to some raw material, but it still looks promising!As i said, the guy from ign took up most of the panel time asking the usual questions. "How you(the actors) got interested in the movie" "Why did the producers decided to work on Doom" "How hard was it to make the film"The guy literaly did his little own interview for ign in front of us.Somehow they eventually let the fans ask some questions.

I got in line so I could ask the obvious question.The fans then asked why change the stuff about hell and the producers gave us the typical "We wanted to do something new" and "somethings just need to be changed to make things work"Somebody asked if this movie will be like Street Fighter: The movie, which the producers laughed and said, "We told the studio that this will not be watered down. This cannot be a Pg-13 movie." That statement generated thunderous applause from the crowd.

Eventually it was my time to ask a question. Something I did not think i was going to be able to do since the ign guy took most of the time. I also realized that all of my main questions had been asked, so I had to scramble for a question and avoid looking like an idiot in front of The Rock(something the guy that was ahead of me did, not his little cousin, but the grown up)When it was my time to get the microphone I just said,

"Rock, let me first just say that we miss you in the WWE." That got the room to start cheering and applauding.

I then said,

"We miss the people's elbow."The Rock said that he misses the WWE too, he said it in a melancholy tone.

I then asked the panel, "Why not use the writers that make the storyline for the video games to make the script for the movie rather than just use them as consultants?"The answer I got was that those type of writers do not have experience working on a movie script, but they said that it is possible that in the future such a thing could very well happen.

In all the movie looks promising. Just dont expect oscars and for this movie to have the answer to the meaning of life. i think it will be all action and video game references, and being faithful to the Doom series.

After the panel was over i made my way to the JoyRide booth. it turned out that the ticket it got was for a raffle. I was not guarantee a figure. Which I did not get. :(

I walked the floor for abit and then when to the Nintento panel were they displayed 3 new games. Pokemon, Fire Emblem and Zelda. They pretty much played the Zelda demo that was in the showroom plus a real cool boos battle. Which was also playable in the showroom. the other two games look good, but did not grab my attention.

I then walked the showroom again and bought a few things for the girl at work and my friend back in Jersey.

My friend aske me to get her some Hentia. Which I said I would and she said that I would not dare to do such a thing. So she will be surprised when she gets the Hentia in the mail. i felt like a pervert looking at the magazines and they were expensive too! So I got one in the mid prive range.

I was really tired from the entire 5 days that I had been at Comic Con. I felt sad that they event had come to an end. Somehow I feel that this is my life. Comic Con is where I feel most at home. It is the place were i see my peers. I had a blast the whole 5 days. This is the best Comic Con that I have attended in the entire 5 years that I have gone to it. It was a real uplifting expereince.

From meeting the great guys from Broken Saint, to meeting the guys from Red Vs Blue. To being at the panel to Superman and Harry Potter. Talking to The Rock and seeing that Doom the movie has promise. To ofcourse the Final Fantasy concert. My only regret is that I was not able to share this with my friend or the girl from work. I tried to get her to come on Saturday since there were things that I know she would have loved to have seen. But tha's how life is. Is really hard to find someone that has the same devotions I have to the world fo sci-fi, games and ofcourse comics.

Sometimes is better to go alone so I can see all the panels that I want to see and do what i want to do when I want. Still, there were time where I wished I could have turned to someone and said, "Did you see that? awesome!" i did, but to the strangers around me.

Enough malancholy! I cannot wait for Comic Con 2006. Hopefully i will still be here in San Diego and if not, I will fly here and stay the 5 days for the convention.

Gabriel Out!