The Flop House Movie Minute #6 - Con Men

[0:00] And now, the Flophouse Movie Minute.

[0:09] Okay, I got however many hours to build armor.

[0:12] Okay.

[0:13] Alright, nerds.

[0:14] Sure.

[0:15] We all went to the New York Comic Con this year.

[0:17] Uh, yeah, we wore press passes, dude.

[0:19] I did too.

[0:20] Um, so, Stuart, you and I went together.

[0:24] Yep.

[0:25] Elliot, you went the next day.

[0:27] Now, I can only assume that you went dressed in some sort of sexy cosplay outfit.

[0:33] Uh, well, pretty much, yeah.

[0:35] I was a Japanese character called Katakari,

[0:37] who is kind of a half-girl, half-cat,

[0:40] who dresses like a sailor who works for the UPS.

[0:44] That sounds like someone on the internet would find it erotic.

[0:47] Yeah.

[0:48] Hint, hint, letter writers.

[0:52] I didn't go as any of that shit,

[0:54] though I wish I did.

[0:56] I actually had a family dinner that night,

[0:58] so I was dressed nicer than usual.

[1:00] Oh, weird.

[1:01] So, people thought that was your cosplay,

[1:03] was dressing nicer than usual?

[1:05] They were like,

[1:06] oh, you're dressed up as someone with a job.

[1:08] People there were like,

[1:09] nerd,

[1:10] and you're like,

[1:11] you're dressed like,

[1:12] you're dressed like zombie Wolverine.

[1:13] Yeah.

[1:14] That's one of my favorite costumes.

[1:15] The guy went,

[1:16] Wolverine?

[1:17] That's been done.

[1:18] I'm such a big fan of the Marvel Zombies series.

[1:21] Uh, I didn't see enough fat, futuristic samurais,

[1:25] wait, no, I saw a bunch of those.

[1:27] Did you see the girls who were just dressed like sluts,

[1:30] but not like characters?

[1:31] Yes.

[1:32] That was interesting to me,

[1:33] because I just like that schoolgirl

[1:35] is sort of an all-purpose thing

[1:37] that women can dress up as.

[1:39] Like, they can dress up as that going to the club,

[1:42] they can dress up as that at Halloween,

[1:45] and then you do that for Comic Con.

[1:47] Yeah, certain schools.

[1:48] Yeah, going to school or Comic Con.

[1:50] Yeah.

[1:51] I'm not complaining.

[1:53] Those guys who have the really fancy costumes,

[1:55] I bet this is like second Christmas for them.

[1:58] Or second Halloween, I guess.

[2:00] Or Hanukkah.

[2:01] Or Hanukkah.

[2:02] Oh, my mistake.

[2:03] I will say that it's one of those things

[2:05] where it's like,

[2:06] these people are king of the con.

[2:08] Like, there was a guy in a Stormtrooper costume,

[2:10] The 501st?

[2:11] Yeah, I think he was a member of the 501st, yeah.

[2:13] And he was constantly being stopped for people to have,

[2:16] and I saw the same guy would get stopped

[2:18] three times, four times in a minute.

[2:19] Are you sure it just wasn't different Stormtroopers?

[2:21] Because there was a shitload of 501st guys.

[2:22] Some of them were different guys,

[2:23] but you would see the same guy get stopped

[2:25] for someone to take a picture with him,

[2:26] then seconds later someone else would come up.

[2:28] And it was so popular,

[2:29] I saw this a lot,

[2:30] to have your picture taken on your knees

[2:32] with your hands behind your head

[2:33] with the Stormtrooper pointing his gun at your head

[2:35] and just like,

[2:36] uh, I'm about to be executed by Stormtrooper.

[2:38] Why the fuck didn't we do that, Dan?

[2:39] I'm sorry.

[2:40] But I saw, at the entrance to the con,

[2:41] there was a kid on his knees,

[2:43] hands behind his head,

[2:44] Stormtrooper with a gun to him,

[2:45] and his dad.

[2:46] And the Stormtrooper shot him.

[2:48] And the Stormtrooper blew his head off.

[2:50] But it was like,

[2:51] this is great,

[2:52] I'm glad I'm gonna have a picture of my kid

[2:53] with a gun to his head.

[2:54] Although I wonder, you know,

[2:55] you say that they're king of the con,

[2:57] but when do you think they snap?

[3:00] Like at what point do they just

[3:02] suddenly become furious

[3:03] when someone asks them for a photo?

[3:04] I would say in the last few hours of the con

[3:06] when the Javits Center staff makes their announcement

[3:08] the Javits Center will be closing in two hours,

[3:11] they go,

[3:12] no, no, I won't go back!

[3:13] I can't go back!

[3:14] This is my life now!

[3:16] So you're saying that they love

[3:17] being photographed all the time.

[3:19] Oh yeah, no, they love the attention.

[3:20] I'd just like to point out that the Flophouse

[3:22] does not have a problem with the 501st.

[3:24] Oh no, they're great.

[3:25] Nor is making fun of the 501st.

[3:27] If I had the time...

[3:29] In fact, this member of the Flophouse

[3:30] doesn't even know what the 501st is.

[3:32] If I had the time,

[3:33] and I didn't sweat profusely

[3:34] even when I'm wearing a baseball cap,

[3:36] I would join immediately.

[3:37] But aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?

[3:40] Yo!

[3:41] Oh!

[3:42] Voiced by my own petard.

[3:44] I saw Mark Texier,

[3:46] the guy who used to ink Ghost Rider.

[3:48] I saw Mark Texier, too.

[3:49] He looks weirder than I thought.

[3:50] That's one of the things I love about comic conventions,

[3:52] is seeing what comic book creators look like

[3:54] and realizing they're way older than you think they are.

[3:56] Like Steve Epting, who does Captain America now.

[3:59] Yep.

[4:00] I always think, I'm like,

[4:01] I'm not that familiar with his work.

[4:02] He's probably a young guy.

[4:03] No, he's got a gray mustache, gray hair.

[4:06] You forget that these guys,

[4:07] if they're in a big title,

[4:08] have probably been working in the industry for 20 years.

[4:10] I got a gray mustache, though,

[4:11] and I'm not that old.

[4:12] You don't have a gray mustache.

[4:13] Yeah, I do, back home.

[4:14] In a jar.

[4:17] A chance to a human face.

[4:19] That took a weird turn.

[4:22] That's the strangest joke I've ever heard.

[4:25] You get to see what Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman look like,

[4:28] and it's like, oh, when I was a kid,

[4:29] I was in love with characters created by

[4:31] some sort of goth hippie monster biker

[4:33] and an accountant.

[4:35] That's kind of how I would imagine them to look like.

[4:38] Now, movie-wise, though,

[4:39] because this is a movie podcast,

[4:41] anything there?

[4:43] We saw the incredible Hulk panel,

[4:47] and Tim Roth was there looking pained

[4:51] at all the Comic-Con conventioneers

[4:54] just standing up and being like,

[4:56] I loved you in Reservoir Dogs.

[4:58] That first scene in Pulp Fiction

[5:00] is the most awesome thing in the world.

[5:02] He's just like, yeah, thanks, thanks.

[5:04] That was a movie I was in.

[5:05] I remember years ago he said

[5:07] he was not going to make another violent movie like that

[5:09] because of the epidemic of violence among teens,

[5:12] so I wonder if he's ashamed of having made those movies.

[5:14] Yeah, I don't know.

[5:16] The Plan of the Apes remake,

[5:17] I'm sure he wanted to talk about for hours.

[5:19] Sure.

[5:20] Or I think being asked questions like,

[5:23] is this Hulk movie going to be a lot more like the comic books?

[5:27] Oh, no, Lou Ferrigno's right behind you.

[5:31] Yay, Lou Ferrigno's here.

[5:33] I have a cameo in the film.

[5:35] Ten dollars per signature.

[5:37] The director was there, too,

[5:39] who seemed really happy.

[5:41] Marie K. Letourneau.

[5:43] He made the Transporter movies.

[5:45] Marie K. Letourneau?

[5:46] Yeah.

[5:47] Directed by Marie K. Letourneau.

[5:48] He made the Transporter movies.

[5:50] Oh, perfect Hulk material.

[5:52] Yeah.

[5:53] Probably better than Ang Lee.

[5:54] Did you see any panels or anything like that?

[5:56] Unfortunately, I was there on a Sunday

[5:58] because I couldn't get there in the previous days,

[6:00] so I missed most of the panels,

[6:01] and I missed the one panel on Sunday that I wanted to see.

[6:03] But I did see a lot of movie merchandise around,

[6:06] Hulk stuff, Iron Man stuff,

[6:08] some kind of 3D animated movie called Igor.

[6:11] I don't know what that was about.

[6:13] Oh, all sorts of wondrous things.

[6:15] Well, because this is a Movie Minute

[6:17] and not a special supplementary episode

[6:19] all about Comic-Con, we should wrap it up.

[6:21] But I did want to ask what everyone's favorite thing

[6:24] they saw or heard at Comic-Con was.

[6:26] And I'll say that mine was, as Stuart mentioned,

[6:29] Lou Ferrigno was a special guest.

[6:31] And earlier in the con,

[6:34] I overheard a very excitable young man go,

[6:38] I told you! He's here!

[6:41] Lou is here!

[6:44] And I enjoyed that very much.

[6:47] Yeah, that was awesome.

[6:48] I think my favorite thing was seeing about 47 different

[6:51] Naruto's that Japanese...

[6:53] There were a lot of Naruto's.

[6:55] Yeah, of various shapes and sizes.

[6:57] So I really liked seeing all those little Naruto's

[7:00] running around.

[7:01] What are Naruto's?

[7:02] It's some kind of Japanese character with, like,

[7:04] shit painted on his face and crazy hair

[7:06] and a weird, like, bandana.

[7:08] Yeah, what does it sound like? Come on.

[7:09] Okay, fair enough.

[7:10] And before I get to what my two favorite things were,

[7:14] I will say I saw the trailer for The Spirit.

[7:17] The adaptation of that.

[7:18] And it seems like Frank Miller, who's directing it,

[7:20] is going about it in the exact wrong way,

[7:22] which is to make it a second Sin City movie

[7:25] and not kind of a fun, madcap, you know, crime adventure.

[7:29] Sure.

[7:30] But anyway, that's besides the point.

[7:31] Take that, Frank Miller.

[7:32] Burn.

[7:33] My two most memorable moments were meeting Mike Diana,

[7:37] the only man who's ever been imprisoned

[7:39] for his comic book work

[7:41] and who seemed like a strange fellow

[7:44] and draws things that I...

[7:46] It's one of those things where if I read one of his books

[7:48] as a kid, I probably would have had nightmares

[7:50] to this day about it.

[7:51] And then being shaken by that

[7:53] and then walking away and seeing, hearing...

[7:55] Da-da-da-da!

[7:57] All right, everybody, it's time for the battle!

[8:00] And wave after wave of lightsaber fighters

[8:02] coming up on stage at the back of the hall

[8:04] as this huge audience of people sitting down

[8:07] applauded and cheered

[8:08] and being like, oh, okay, good,

[8:10] there is hope in the world again.

[8:12] There is a brightness there.

[8:14] There are lightsabers inside all of us.

[8:17] There is a Jedi Knight tournament force

[8:19] that shows up at the Comic-Con and fake fights.

[8:22] I think fake fight is an injustice.

[8:24] They're sorry, they're real lightsabers.

[8:26] Well, I think the moral of this story

[8:28] is the sort of guys who would do a podcast

[8:31] about bad movies are also the sort of guys

[8:34] who would go to New York Comic-Con

[8:36] with press passes.

[8:38] Stuart's very excited.

[8:41] I mean, I don't know about you guys,

[8:42] I do work in the press.

[8:44] I had a legitimate press pass,

[8:46] even though we would never cover that

[8:47] in a million years.

[8:48] Yeah.

[8:49] No, I felt really cool.

[8:50] Our legitimacy.

[8:51] I will tell you, the press passes

[8:52] were far easier to get this year

[8:54] than they have in past years.

[8:55] In the past years, they had your name

[8:57] and where you worked on them.

[8:58] This year, it just had a number on it,

[9:00] so you could just hand it out to anybody.

[9:02] Oh, and here's the press pass story I heard.

[9:05] Two of my co-workers went, and their...

[9:07] Boring!

[9:09] Their forms had been lost,

[9:10] so they had to fill out new forms

[9:11] while they were there.

[9:12] And my co-worker told me that

[9:14] while she was filling out her form,

[9:15] a guy went,

[9:16] excuse me, you were supposed to have

[9:17] a press pass for me?

[9:19] I'm from aquafan.blogspot.com,

[9:22] I guess an Aquaman fan site or something like that.

[9:24] And she goes, oh, well, can you spell that out?

[9:25] We'll get the paperwork for you together.

[9:27] So, not a high bar set for the press at Comic-Con.

[9:31] So, everyone out there,

[9:33] go to aquafan.blogspot.com.

[9:37] I may have forgotten the URL.

[9:38] Nice advertising, dude.

[9:39] Let's see if that's a real URL, yeah.

[9:41] Okay, let's see.

[9:43] Okay, it looks like aquafan.blogspot.com

[9:48] is underwater sex experience.

[9:52] Has anyone tried it yet?

[9:55] There's only one post here, guys,

[9:56] and it's just asking if anybody's had sex underwater

[9:59] and if it was awesome or something.

[10:01] Yeah, this is really weird.

The Flop House Movie Minute #6 - Con Men

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