July 18, 2005

  • Well, there it went, the last day of the San Diego Comic-Con went by
    already. It's been a tiring but very entertaining experience once
    again.  To truly appreciate the convention, you really have to go
    all days.  In fact, it's been announced that there's a chance that
    they might even expand preview night for us to take advantage of. Well,
    on to what happened on the last day...

    So The Rock and Karl Urban (from LOTR) came down to Comic-Con to
    promote the Doom movie.  Both of them had a good sense of humor
    and were entertaining. I came by to see the Rock actually with no real
    interest with the film, but the panel ended with me actually wanting to
    see the Doom movie now.  They showed a teaser trailer of the film
    and it looked like it could be something like James Cameron's
    Aliens.  That's a good thing. Another positive is that they are
    taking advantage of Stan Winston's workshop to create the monsters and
    not relying on CGI (which they said would look too "floaty").  In
    fact, in the footage shown, the monsters does indeed look definitely
    more "grounded" to reality than CG monsters could ever look. Now to top
    off the teaser, they showed us a "First Person Shooter sequence" that
    occurs in the movie and it was pretty damn cool, feeling like how the
    game is.  It had FPS camera style and movement, with reloading in
    front of your face and all.  Think of it like a really really
    REALLY detailed DOOM3.  It suggested that it could be a mind trip
    type sequence, so this isn't totally a big diverted distraction to the
    film.

    The Chronicles of Narnia panel didn't really show too much more in
    regards to extra footage that hasn't already been seen in the trailer.
    There was a "making of.." special, but that too was scarce in showing
    new footage. The majority of the panel was them reassuring us that this
    will be a good film that will be faithful to the books. Basically, they
    showed a lot of the talent behind the film, as well as artwork, and
    even creature work.  There was even a live satellite feed with the
    producer and the director in London, that became humorous because of
    the 15 seconds delay. Either way, I'm still looking forward to it.

    Afterwards, I went downstair to the dealer's room to see if I can see
    anything else that I haven't seen yet. First off, I know I skipped
    going in the dealer's room on Saturday, and only 30 minutes on Friday,
    but damn, where did all these girls and women come from? It was
    literally 50/50 of guys/girls in attendance.  Not only that, but
    there were a lot of pretty girls.  With this in mind, it's really
    getting to the point of ignorance when people stereotype how male
    dominated these comic conventions are.

    So there were in fact merchandises that weren't available when I was
    there on Thursday.  I got to purchase the other books I was
    missing, and the serenity fan booth had more items to give out as well.

    Now if you are familiar with how it's been with me and the Comic-Con
    since 2002, I've always ran into the lovely Lisa who is always in a
    nice costume that compliments her beauty.  In 2003 and 2004, I've
    been able to get some "action shots" of her beating me up, because I
    thought it would be a pretty damn cool picture concept.  This
    year, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to keep that "tradition" up,
    because even though I saw her at the Masquerade photo shoot, I wasn't
    really able to approach her. Well, the Comic-Con God's must have known
    this, because I was able to encounter her at the dealer's room. 
    Courtesy of my pocket PC, I got her attention by showing her the
    picture of her punching me last year.  She read my mind and knew
    that I wanted another "action shot" again.  Not only that, but she
    kinda remembers the one she did with me in 2002 also! With her
    boyfriend's help (and blessings, cool guy) we went for her kneeing me
    in the stomach.  It was cool of her (and her boyfriend) to indulge
    me in this "tradition" of mine.  Hopefully we'll be able to keep
    this up until she stops attending in costume; whenever that is.

    Afterwards, I went upstairs to the masquerade video repeat, so i can
    actually see the show that I missed because I was taking photos
    backstage. I took several video shots of some of the performance, but
    there was a problem with the recorded DVD and it cut out about 15
    contestants.  Darn.  At least I got Lisa's Napoleon Dynamite
    Dance!

    So back down stairs, I went to visit Linda Tran's booth again to say
    goodbye.  While I was talking to her, a San Diego friend of mine
    showed up.  wow, Sundays has become the "meet people" day for me
    it seems. Considering that I actually got to see That Pepsi Girl (Mandy
    Amano)     right before I leave the comic-con was a nice touch. When I was
    approaching her, I saw her hugging her boyfriend and for a slim body frame,
    she's got muscles! Damn she keeps fit. She's a bit pale though, and
    could definitely use a good tan. I took her picture, and then we talked
    a little; because we all know that i like to always chat it up with
    girls i think are pretty. I mentioned that kevin & bean interview
    she did, and she told me how surprised she was in them setting her up
    in talking to the blogguy. Afterwards, I wished her luck in her
    endeavors, left to say goodbye to my friend as well, then left the
    convention center.

    oh yeah, for the record, I saw Golden Bikini Slave Leia at least three different times at three different areas of the convention.  Man she gets around.

    San Diego Comic-Con, you are definitely my Christmas in July combined
    with a birthday gift to me. It was fun, until next year then.

    - I'm still working on getting more pictures uploaded for your viewing pleasure...
                 
                   
               
         

                       
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    ...also videos, expect more videos coming up sometime soon. But here are two for now...

    1) The rock's eyebrow
    2) Ashe does Napoleon Dynamite