New York ComicCon Saturday - Part 1
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healingmirthSo, right. New York Comic Con. Assume there are spoilers herein, although I really don’t know what’s already out there, so maybe this was all only news to me. Anything that they specifically said that no one else had seen yet, I’ll put in an extra spoiler-tag.
So I got up at dark o’clock, took the train into Grand Central, and walked the two miles to the Javits Center (and let’s just appreciate the irony of the most exercise I’ve gotten this month resulting from a comic convention). Picked up my badge, and headed down to the giant line waiting for the doors to open at 10 AM.
9:50 AM - first stormtrooper sighting
9:55 AM - whole herd of stormtroopers appears, throwing cards for some business I will never patronize into the crowd. Comic website, maybe?
10-10:15 - mooooo. Costumes I passed while filing in: One midget-sized hulk, One possibly generic ninja, One Flash rocking the unitard, six people in various Captain America t-shirts, and at least 10 people in costumes I have no effing clue about including some blue person with Link. At least I think it was link. Was definitely a video game character because they had P1 and P2 suspended above their heads.
When in doubt, just assume – I have not read the comic, I do not recognize that character, and I don’t know who that guy is.
Warner Panel: Watchmen, Friday the 13th, Terminator Salvation
Watchmen
Dave Gibbons (illustrator, and involved with the project) had a really cute analogy about waiting for this movie to premiere being like counting down to Christmas and dropping hints about what you want, and hoping you get what you really want, instead of “the crap version” – I’m not sure if he just meant to be talking about the fans waiting, or himself, but it works on both levels anyway. Continuing on with the analogy (shaking the present, trying to guess) they showed the first 18 minutes of the movie (which has been shown to press) and another scene (which hasn't). Both completely awesome, and a very distinct style to it. The opening credits alone are pretty sweet. Other scene was clearly an iconic one that the whole audience, save myself, recognized. Spoiler-ish - From the voice, might have been Rorschach? Wikipedia informs me that yes, Rorschach was in prison, so that would make this his scene in the cafeteria.
Some rambly question about Alan Moore, which Gibbons rephrased to: "Is Alan Moore batshit crazy?"
Short answer: no. Short answer as far as Hollywood is concerned: Yes, because he stuck to his scruples about not being involved with the movie, based on bad past experiences with Hollywood, and didn’t even want them to put his name on it, thereby cutting him out of any potential profits. Gibbons then went on to say, though, that of course if the movie is amazing, that it will bring in a whole new audience for Moore’s work, so it’s okay in the end.
Watchmen was apparently referred to as something along the lines of “the unfilmable comic” because of how detailed it was, even down to little things in the background. Gibbons says that in that respect, the movie is very much like the book, because "everything in the frame matters" and he expects that he, like many people, will be paging through the DVD frame by frame when it comes out, to take in all the detail
Friday the 13th
Right, so I don’t watch horror/slasher/thriller movies. I think I might have seen two of the Scream movies, and nothing since then. So, the producers, Jared Padalecki (plays some guy looking for his missing sister) and Derek Mears (Jason Voorhies) were there to talk about the upcoming (11th?) Jason movie.
They showed a trailer, which I managed to watch most of, and then something like the first 5 minutes of the movie, which I didn't watch for more than 2 seconds at a time, but it was apparently very, very scary. And thanks for reminding me why I don't watch horror movies.
I took some video on my digital camera of Jared Padalecki’s answers to questions on the panel – if I’d known that the sound on my camera was that good, I’d have made more of an effort to get decent video. Oh well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8mq3Xt9l0&feature=PlayList&p=C3889E1663F8A119&index=0&playnext=1
Terminator Salvation
(That title should totally have a colon, but IMDB seems to think it doesn’t.)
And continuing the I am not a fan theme. I haven’t actually seen any of the Terminator movies all the way through, nor a single episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles (I know, I know, I live under a surprisingly large rock.) I’m not opposed to them, I just never got around to it.
McG talked a lot (boring Hollywood ego blahblah) and then showed some footage which was pretty kickass, but I have no idea whether we were supposed to know who anyone was, besides John Connor.
“Highlights” of the talking. And I will say right now – I’m not a big fan of McG as a person, but I don’t have to want to be his friend to like his work. However, he was monologuing, and I wanted him to stop.
“I'm tired of my own bullshit.” – and proceeded to show the movie footage, after making us cheer again.
“He might kick me in the balls and tell me to fuck right off," on showing the film to James Cameron (and his lack of position on the movie one way or the other when McG pitched the idea to him)
My personal favorite: McG got some mic feedback, and someone in the audience yelled "fucking unprofessional!" in the silence when he backed away from the mic. The crowd goes wild, and McG tries not to look to embarrassed for his star. Continuing on the Christian Bale theme, McG said something to the effect of “[Christian Bale] doesn't like to talk,” preferring to let his work speak for him, and then decides to call him, at home, so we can all yell and let him know how awesome he is… McG should have coordinated that a little better. We ended up telling Christian Bale’s wife, and she was very nice about it.
I left as soon as the lights came back up to try and get into the Penny Arcade panel (still haven’t decided if I'd rather have seen the terminator footage, or the first half of mike and jerry) but as I was leaving, McG pulled three "terminator fans" up on stage to answer questions with him. No clue how that went.
Just going to post this now, but I’ve got move. But wow, this is long already.
Also, I sat next to a very convincing Ewan McGregor-as-Obi-Wan.
So I got up at dark o’clock, took the train into Grand Central, and walked the two miles to the Javits Center (and let’s just appreciate the irony of the most exercise I’ve gotten this month resulting from a comic convention). Picked up my badge, and headed down to the giant line waiting for the doors to open at 10 AM.
9:50 AM - first stormtrooper sighting
9:55 AM - whole herd of stormtroopers appears, throwing cards for some business I will never patronize into the crowd. Comic website, maybe?
10-10:15 - mooooo. Costumes I passed while filing in: One midget-sized hulk, One possibly generic ninja, One Flash rocking the unitard, six people in various Captain America t-shirts, and at least 10 people in costumes I have no effing clue about including some blue person with Link. At least I think it was link. Was definitely a video game character because they had P1 and P2 suspended above their heads.
When in doubt, just assume – I have not read the comic, I do not recognize that character, and I don’t know who that guy is.
Warner Panel: Watchmen, Friday the 13th, Terminator Salvation
Watchmen
Dave Gibbons (illustrator, and involved with the project) had a really cute analogy about waiting for this movie to premiere being like counting down to Christmas and dropping hints about what you want, and hoping you get what you really want, instead of “the crap version” – I’m not sure if he just meant to be talking about the fans waiting, or himself, but it works on both levels anyway. Continuing on with the analogy (shaking the present, trying to guess) they showed the first 18 minutes of the movie (which has been shown to press) and another scene (which hasn't). Both completely awesome, and a very distinct style to it. The opening credits alone are pretty sweet. Other scene was clearly an iconic one that the whole audience, save myself, recognized. Spoiler-ish - From the voice, might have been Rorschach? Wikipedia informs me that yes, Rorschach was in prison, so that would make this his scene in the cafeteria.
Some rambly question about Alan Moore, which Gibbons rephrased to: "Is Alan Moore batshit crazy?"
Short answer: no. Short answer as far as Hollywood is concerned: Yes, because he stuck to his scruples about not being involved with the movie, based on bad past experiences with Hollywood, and didn’t even want them to put his name on it, thereby cutting him out of any potential profits. Gibbons then went on to say, though, that of course if the movie is amazing, that it will bring in a whole new audience for Moore’s work, so it’s okay in the end.
Watchmen was apparently referred to as something along the lines of “the unfilmable comic” because of how detailed it was, even down to little things in the background. Gibbons says that in that respect, the movie is very much like the book, because "everything in the frame matters" and he expects that he, like many people, will be paging through the DVD frame by frame when it comes out, to take in all the detail
Friday the 13th
Right, so I don’t watch horror/slasher/thriller movies. I think I might have seen two of the Scream movies, and nothing since then. So, the producers, Jared Padalecki (plays some guy looking for his missing sister) and Derek Mears (Jason Voorhies) were there to talk about the upcoming (11th?) Jason movie.
They showed a trailer, which I managed to watch most of, and then something like the first 5 minutes of the movie, which I didn't watch for more than 2 seconds at a time, but it was apparently very, very scary. And thanks for reminding me why I don't watch horror movies.
I took some video on my digital camera of Jared Padalecki’s answers to questions on the panel – if I’d known that the sound on my camera was that good, I’d have made more of an effort to get decent video. Oh well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8mq3Xt9l0&feature=PlayList&p=C3889E1663F8A119&index=0&playnext=1
Terminator Salvation
(That title should totally have a colon, but IMDB seems to think it doesn’t.)
And continuing the I am not a fan theme. I haven’t actually seen any of the Terminator movies all the way through, nor a single episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles (I know, I know, I live under a surprisingly large rock.) I’m not opposed to them, I just never got around to it.
McG talked a lot (boring Hollywood ego blahblah) and then showed some footage which was pretty kickass, but I have no idea whether we were supposed to know who anyone was, besides John Connor.
“Highlights” of the talking. And I will say right now – I’m not a big fan of McG as a person, but I don’t have to want to be his friend to like his work. However, he was monologuing, and I wanted him to stop.
“I'm tired of my own bullshit.” – and proceeded to show the movie footage, after making us cheer again.
“He might kick me in the balls and tell me to fuck right off," on showing the film to James Cameron (and his lack of position on the movie one way or the other when McG pitched the idea to him)
My personal favorite: McG got some mic feedback, and someone in the audience yelled "fucking unprofessional!" in the silence when he backed away from the mic. The crowd goes wild, and McG tries not to look to embarrassed for his star. Continuing on the Christian Bale theme, McG said something to the effect of “[Christian Bale] doesn't like to talk,” preferring to let his work speak for him, and then decides to call him, at home, so we can all yell and let him know how awesome he is… McG should have coordinated that a little better. We ended up telling Christian Bale’s wife, and she was very nice about it.
I left as soon as the lights came back up to try and get into the Penny Arcade panel (still haven’t decided if I'd rather have seen the terminator footage, or the first half of mike and jerry) but as I was leaving, McG pulled three "terminator fans" up on stage to answer questions with him. No clue how that went.
Just going to post this now, but I’ve got move. But wow, this is long already.
Also, I sat next to a very convincing Ewan McGregor-as-Obi-Wan.
