Grainy and pretty horrible quality, but since this is literally the only copy of the trailer to make it out of Comic-Con alive, you’ll just have to deal.
Originally posted AVI file is here.
MPG version here.
I’d host it myself except something weird happens when you download big zip files from my server — they seem to become… not… zip files.
AVP Review
Dear George Lucas,
Watch AVP. From that, learn the right way to ‘foreshadow’ events in ‘later’ movies that you’ve already filmed; you’re doing it wrong.
A coworker won some free tickets to a Thursday night screening of AVP, couldn’t go, and gave me the tickets. I wasn’t actually planning on going to the film in theatres, but hey, free tickets.
Very very glad I went (with Dave, which Jackie arranged by… well, Dave retells it all over here).
Might even go again. It was fun.
I’ve always enjoyed the Alien movie franchise in all of it’s incarnations — it’s the sort of thing that just suits me, I guess. I think that AVP makes a fine addition to the list, being much more ‘fun’ than Alien3, with a better ending than Alien Ressurection (though I like that movie’s first 2/3rds perhaps a bit better), and with some really great homages to Alien, Aliens, and both Predator movies.
I went in with only moderate to low expectations, having no real interest in the concept for the movie and left feeling like I’d had a good time.
Very very vague spoilerishness ahead.
Genius Marketing
Missed the BNL Concert at Red Rocks, or maybe one in your own area of the country?
Want to hear the concert anyway? No problem, you can download it here.
Welcome to the BNL bootleg site! We want everyone to have access to as much BNL material as possible, so now we are recording shows from Barenaked Ladies concerts for you to download as Mp3’s or to purchase as CD’s. All download files can be burned to disc, played on your computer or transferred to portable players or played on your stereos. Each show also comes with printable artwork!
This is where you can come to download live Ladies’ shows within a few days of the concert or purchase CD’s.
You can even buy a download coupon at the show… I saw the sign when I was there.
This strikes me as absolutely brilliant. I love BNL, I love them in concert, and this lets me have as many BNL albums as I could ever possibly want.
Do any other bands do this? If so, who? If not, why?
Brilliant.
Ron Glass’s new job
During the Serenity Panel, Joss asked his own questions of the actors, one of which was “what are you doing next?”
Many amusing answers revolving around Serenity spin-offs and homelessness followed, but Ron Glass (the last to answer) set everyone a bit back on their heels by announcing that he had recently (would have been two days before the panel) accepted a position as the National Campaign Chairperson for the Evansville African American Museum.
To which Joss commented, “One thing I love about Ron is how he can make everyone else look really shallow.”
Hear the screams of the faithful.
FIREFLYFANS.NET posts San Diego Comic Con Serenity Panel Images and an MP3 recording of the whole thing.
Missed it by ttttthhhhAT much.
The Ain’t It Cool News Comic-Con Reporter talks about the Serenity panel and compares the fan ovations to the other panels at the con. * I saw four panels besides the Serenity one at the point in which stars were introduced. NOTHING matched this level of energy in this room. Honestly, I can’t think of a rock concert that saw more screaming. Seriously, Firefly fans are nuts.Second Opinion
It’s as I suspected: Joss’s ovation was “the second largest of the Con” losing out only to the cheering for the cast themselves. (Certainly I can’t see how that room could have gotten louder. My neck and chest muscles actually hurt the next day.)
Also, all that fan love may have created a Firefly convert in the process of reporting on the panel.
In other Firefly-convert news, my sister had the good fortune to contract strep throat the day that the Firefly DVD set I sent her showed up.
I mean she was lucky to get the set the day she had to stay home with strep… yeah, that was it.
I’m very nearly using Firefly DVDs as currency — I recently sent a set to my folks and my sister, and gave a set to Mary-the-Super-Con-Hostesss as well: It’s a present and propaganda all rolled up into one. The DVD set really fills the lamentable gap in American currency that lies between 20 and 50-dollar bills.A few Serenity Panel/Preview thoughts, in no particular order, and redundant
* Joss is clearly focused on making One Good Movie and not worrying about other projects — all he’s working on right now is Serenity and the X-men monthies — that’s practically a vacation for him. He did mention it would be nice to make a trilogy, and it doesn’t sound like he’s going to push to get the show back on the small screen — he wants his Big Damn Heroes on the Big Damn Screen.
* The pseudo-trailer (you won’t see it in theaters; it starts with “They’re Back” and follows with a series of shots designed to get the hardcore faithful amped up) looked really, really tight and better than the show. As much as I liked the guy who did the TV show and hoped they’d use him for the movie, their new stuff is hot. The backgrounds, costumes, and environments looked a bit more SF-y than the show, which may help folks get over their ‘horses in sci-fi?’ reactions.
* In the trailer, we see: Mal and Zoe holding up a back-room gambling set-up with all their classic panache and snide comments, Jayne doing things from the back of a hover truck of some kind, Inara in what looked like a Companion temple and meeting one of the movie’s Big Bads, and River.
* Lots of River. People who don’t like River are going to get her shoved down their throat anyway, cuz that story is the movie, people. And just so we’re clear, this is the River of Objects in Space and War Stories — this is psuedo-mind-reader River with Gun-fu Grip.
* There’s not much (overt) Blue Sun/Blue Hands in the movie; the Alliance presence is there via “The Operative” (a bounty hunter that we see visiting Inara). He is the Hard Place — the Rock on the other side consists of the Reavers.
* We’re going to see a lot of the Reavers in this movie — they might have even been in the trailer if one shot I saw was what I think it was.) Serenity: River and Reavers — I’m there.
* Literally no swag. Bummer.