July 17, 2005

• So I just spent my birthday at the comic-con, or to be more specific;
  "Hall-H" and "the masquerade show." I was at Hall-H for the panels from
  9:15AM - 7:25PM! No breaks, no leaving the room, I didn't even set foot in the dealer's room, nothing like that. My
  butt was definitely tired from seating the majority of the time. Hall-H
  had a ton of great panels set up, which is the reason why I was pretty
  much stuck in there. Luckily I was able to find a seat near the front,
  and were surrounded by some really nice people that I got along with.

  First up for Hall-H, Bryan Singer came by for the Superman Returns
  panel, and showed us a comic-con only montage reel of the movie. It
  freakin blew me away.  I've been very skeptical as to how this
  Superman movie will turn out, but based on what I saw, it's going to be
  excellent. Brandon Routh IS a young Christoper Reeves.

  Aeon Flux had their panel next, and it showed a lot of action sequences
  that had a lot of gymnastics in it. It looks like it has potential to
  be really good, but I still have reservations, even though they had
  scenes in the movie that was VERY fateful to some scenes from the
  animated series. Charlize Theron was there to promote the film, and
  she's so incredibly gorgeous.

  Kevin Smith was there for another Q&A panel, and it was absolutely
  hysterical! His panels are always the best and if I was able to film
  the whole thing, I would be really happy.  I was able to get some
  footage from the panel, but I missed recording a really really good
  comment about his reactions about the Passion of the Christ, when some
  Jesus freak was heckling him for "bad mouthing" Jesus.

  "Slither" was a new up and coming horror movie that was being promoted.
  They showed a trailer for it, and boy, it looks really messed up in a
  demented way.  Prepare to be grossed out. Also, Nathan Fillion;
  who is one of the stars of Firefly / Serenity, is also in this movie
  and he is just full of crazy antics and humor when he was there. 
  He really livened up the panel some more.

  "Serenity" also had a panel to promote their movie, and along with
  creator / writer Joss Whedon, he brought with him eight of the nine
  main stars of the show.  It was also an entertaining panel, being
  really spontaneous and all, plus Nathan Fillion carried over his
  zaniness humor from Slither to this panel as well. On a side note,
  there were people in the audience who I overheard were really wondering
  WHY this cast is so loved by the fans in that panel.  If they
  watched the show, maybe they'll understand, so don't criticize
  something you don't know!

  Underworld : Evolution had a panel, and showed a comic-con only trailer
  to us, but it still looked like another "style over substance" action
  film.  Kate Beckinsale was there though, and she's quite the
  hottie.  The director is her husband too, so I wonder how he felt
  when a lot of the guys in the audience kept commenting on how hot she
  was.

  "The Fog" remake also had a promotional panel, and they even brought
  it's female star Maggie Grace, who is a beautiful woman known for her
  character in the TV series Lost. Tom Welling of Smallville fame also
  stars in this, but after showing the trailer for it, it still looks
  like it'll be your standard scary film.

  They showed an unfinished trailer of Ghost Rider, which also looked
  like your standard action film. The CG for the character wasn't
  finished yet though, so they couldn't show us anything like that,
  although they showed the poster that has the image that closely
  resembles what he will look like.  Eva Mendes was there to promote
  the movie.

  The "Stealth" panel brought some surprises by having Jamie Fox and
  Jessica Biel show up to promote the film.  Stealth still looks
  bllaahh though.

  At the King Kong panel, they showed the trailer for the film, AND they
  showed about 3 mins of unfinished footage of the T-Rex fight.  I
  was never excited about the remake, but damn, it looked really really
  good. Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, and Jack Black was there to promote
  the film.  Very entertaining panel, with Adrien Brody providing
  some humor, and Jack Black being... Jack Black. Oh, and Jack Black
  actually did a "king kong" song too.

  After that was the Tenacious D performance! It was freakin awesome,
  with them playing new songs from their upcoming movie / album, several
  of their current hit songs, played the "saxaflute," did a hilarious
  "nothing but lip synching" song, some subliminal drumming, and even did
  covers of  Flash Gordon and Pinball Wizard.  It was hella
  cool, and I actually would not have been there if it wasn't for the
  fact that I didn't have to stand in line for the Masquerade show (all
  thanks to the photo pass).

  That was the end of Hall-H for me, and I went straight to the photo
  section of the
  masquerade show.  This is the first year that I got a pass to the
  press area for the masquerade contestants.  The only problem there
  is
  that while I have the best possibilities for really good pictures, I
  don't get to see the show itself.  Ofcourse the problem will be
  the
  other way around if I do things otherwise. So I was at the masquerade
  show from about 7:30PM - 11:55PM! Care to do the math there? But
  through all that, I was able to see a lot of really really good
  costumes.  I got to see my personal comic-con celebrity that is
  Lisa again (damn, she's still oh so pretty). Also once again, we were
  all graced with the most popular cosplayer of comic-con 2005, the
  Princess Leia golden bikini slave outfit!

  Anyways, once it was all over I
  went straight back to my last night at the hotel, and here I am
  blogging. I can't believe I only have one more day at the Comic-Con left!

   - alright the PICTURES are all linked below (didn't have time for thumbnails) -

  31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
  41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
  51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

  videos I will do in the very near future

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