The Flop House Movie Minute #6 - Con Men

Dan McCoy

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

Stuart Wellington

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

Dan McCoy

[0:12] Okay.

[0:13] Alright, nerds.

[0:14] With working repulsors.

[0:14] Sure.

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

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

[0:19] I did too.

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

[0:24] Yep.

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

[0:26] Now, I can only assume that you went dressed in some sort of sexy cosplay outfit.

Elliott Kalan

[0:33] Well, pretty much, yeah.

[0:34] I was a Japanese character called Kadakari, who is kind of a half-girl, half-cat, who dresses like a sailor who works for the UPS.

Dan McCoy

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

Elliott Kalan

[0:47] Yeah.

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

Stuart Wellington

[0:51] I didn't go as any of that shit, though I wish I did.

Elliott Kalan

[0:55] No, I actually had a family dinner that night, so I was dressed nicer than usual.

Stuart Wellington

[0:59] Oh, weird.

[0:59] Went to the con.

[1:00] So, people thought that was your cosplay, was dressing nicer than usual?

Elliott Kalan

[1:04] They're like, oh, you're dressed up as someone with a job.

[1:07] People there were like, nerd.

[1:09] And you're like, you're dressed like...

[1:11] You're dressed like zombie Wolverine.

[1:12] Yeah.

[1:13] That's one of my favorite of the costumes.

[1:14] The guy went, Wolverine, that's been done.

[1:17] I'm such a big fan of the Marvel Zombies series.

Stuart Wellington

[1:20] I didn't see enough fat, futuristic samurais, but...

[1:24] Wait, no, I saw a bunch of those.

Elliott Kalan

[1:27] Do you see the girls who were just dressed like sluts, but not like characters?

[1:31] Yes.

Dan McCoy

[1:31] That was interesting to me, because I just like that schoolgirl is sort of an all-purpose

[1:36] thing 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 on Halloween.

Stuart Wellington

[1:45] Or going to school.

[1:45] Do that for Comic-Con.

[1:47] Yeah, certain schools.

Dan McCoy

[1:47] Yeah, or going to school or Comic-Con.

[1:50] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[1:50] I wonder, like, those guys...

[1:52] I'm not complaining.

[1:52] Those guys who have the really fancy costumes, I bet they get, like...

[1:56] I bet this is, like, second Christmas for them.

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

Elliott Kalan

[2:00] Or Hanukkah.

[2:01] Oh, my mistake.

[2:02] I will say that it's one of those things where it's like, these people are king of the

[2:07] con.

[2:07] Like, there was a guy in a Stormtrooper costume and...

[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 three times, four times in a minute.

[2:18] Are you sure it just wasn't different Stormtroopers?

Stuart Wellington

[2:20] Because there was a shitload of 501st guys.

[2:22] It was different.

Elliott Kalan

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

[2:23] But you would see the same guy get stopped 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 with your hands behind your head with the Stormtrooper

[2:33] pointing his gun at your head.

[2:35] And just like, uh, I'm about to be a skeet of a person.

[2:37] Why the fuck didn't we do that, Dan?

Dan McCoy

[2:39] I'm sorry.

Elliott Kalan

[2:40] But I saw at the entrance to the con, there was a kid on his knees, hands behind his head,

[2:44] Stormtrooper with a gun to him, and his dad completely taken a picture of him.

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

[2:50] But it was like, this is right.

[2:51] I'm glad I'm going to have a picture of my kid with a gun to his head.

Dan McCoy

[2:54] Although I wonder, you know, you say that they're king of the con, but...

[2:57] Blaster.

[2:58] Blaster.

Dan McCoy

[2:58] Blaster.

[2:58] When do you think they snap?

[3:00] Like, at what point do they just suddenly become furious when someone asks them for a photo?

Elliott Kalan

[3:04] I'm saying in the last few hours of the con, when the Javits Center staff makes their announcement,

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

[3:11] No!

[3:12] No!

[3:12] I won't go back!

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

[3:14] This is my life now!

Dan McCoy

[3:16] Oh, so you're saying that they love being photographed all the time.

Elliott Kalan

[3:19] Oh, yeah.

[3:19] No, they love the attention.

[3:20] These people are usually kicked.

Stuart Wellington

[3:21] I'd just like to point out that the Flophouse does not have a problem with the 501st.

[3:24] Oh, no.

[3:25] They're great.

[3:25] Norwood is making fun of the 501st.

Elliott Kalan

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

Dan McCoy

[3:29] In fact, this member of the Flophouse doesn't even know what the 501st is.

Elliott Kalan

[3:32] If I had the time and I didn't sweat profusely, even when I'm wearing a baseball cap, I would

[3:36] join immediately.

Stuart Wellington

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

Elliott Kalan

[3:40] Yo!

[3:41] Aww!

[3:43] Hoisted by my own petard.

Stuart Wellington

[3:45] I saw a Mark Texier, the guy who used to eat Ghost Rider.

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

[3:48] He looks weirder than I thought.

Elliott Kalan

[3:50] That's one of the things I love about comic conventions, is seeing what comic book creators

[3:53] look like and realizing they're way older than you think they are.

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

[4:00] I always think...

[4:00] I'm like, I'm not that familiar with his work.

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

[4:03] No.

[4:04] He's got a gray mustache, gray hair.

[4:05] Like, you forget that these guys, if they're on a big title, have probably been working in

[4:08] the industry for 20 years.

Stuart Wellington

[4:09] I got a gray mustache, though, and I'm not that old.

Elliott Kalan

[4:11] You don't have a gray mustache.

Stuart Wellington

[4:13] Yeah, I do.

[4:13] Back home.

Elliott Kalan

[4:14] Boo!

[4:15] In a jar.

Stuart Wellington

[4:16] That's attached to a human face.

Elliott Kalan

[4:19] That took a weird turn.

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

[4:24] You get to see what, like, Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman look like.

[4:28] And it's like, oh, when I was a kid, I was in love with characters created by some sort

[4:31] of goth hippie monster biker and an accountant.

[4:35] You know?

Dan McCoy

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

[4:38] Now, movie-wise, though, because this is a movie podcast.

[4:40] Yeah.

[4:41] Anything there?

[4:42] We saw the Incredible Hulk panel.

[4:45] Hulk panel, yeah.

[4:45] We saw the panel.

[4:46] And Tim Roth was there.

[4:48] Oh, that's right.

[4:48] I forgot.

[4:48] He was Emil Blonsky.

[4:50] Looking pained.

[4:51] Looking pained at all the Comic-Con conventioneers just standing up and being like, I loved you

[4:56] in Reservoir Dogs.

[4:58] That first scene in Pulp Fiction is the most awesome thing in the world.

[5:01] And he's just like, yeah, thanks.

[5:03] Thanks.

[5:03] That was a movie I was in.

Elliott Kalan

[5:04] Well, he was also, I remember years ago he said he was not going to make another violent

[5:08] movie like that 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.

[5:15] The Planet of the Apes remake, I'm sure he wanted to talk about for hours.

[5:19] Sure.

Stuart Wellington

[5:20] Or I think being asked questions like, is this Hulk movie going to be a lot more like the

[5:26] comic books?

[5:28] Oh, no, Lou Ferrigno's right behind you.

[5:30] Yay, Lou Ferrigno's here.

[5:32] I have a cameo in the film.

Elliott Kalan

[5:34] $10 per signature.

Stuart Wellington

[5:36] The director was there too, who seemed to really have a...

[5:41] Mary Letournier.

[5:42] Yeah, he made the Transporter movies.

[5:44] Mary Kay Letourneau?

[5:45] Yeah.

[5:46] Directed by Mary Kay Letourneau.

[5:47] He made the Transporter movies.

Elliott Kalan

[5:49] Oh!

[5:50] Perfect Hulk material.

[5:52] Yeah.

[5:52] Probably better than Ang Lee.

Dan McCoy

[5:53] Did you see any panels or anything like that?

Elliott Kalan

[5:55] Unfortunately, I was there on a Sunday because I couldn't get there in the previous days,

[5:59] so I missed most of the good panels, and I missed the one panel on Sunday that I wanted

[6:02] to see.

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

[6:06] Hulk stuff, Iron Man stuff, some kind of 3D animated movie called Igor.

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

[6:12] Oh, all sorts of wondrous things.

Dan McCoy

[6:15] Well, because this is a movie minute and not a special supplementary episode all about

[6:20] Comic-Con, we should wrap it up.

[6:21] But I did want to ask what everyone's favorite thing they saw or heard at Comic-Con was.

[6:27] And I'll say that mine was, as Stuart mentioned, Lou Ferrigno was a special guest.

[6:32] And earlier in the con, I overheard a very excitable young man go,

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

[6:41] Lou is here!

[6:45] And I enjoyed that very much.

[6:47] Yeah, that was awesome.

Stuart Wellington

[6:48] I think my favorite thing was seeing about 47 different Naruto's that Japanese...

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

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

[6:58] So I really liked seeing all those little Naruto's running around.

[7:01] What are Naruto's?

[7:02] It's some kind of Japanese character with shit painted on his face and crazy hair and a weird

[7:07] bandana.

Elliott Kalan

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

[7:08] Come on.

[7:09] Okay.

[7:09] Fair enough.

[7:10] And before I get to what my two favorite things were, I will say I saw the trailer for The

[7:16] Spirit, the adaptation of that.

[7:18] And it seems like Frank Miller, who's directing it, is going about it in the exact wrong way,

[7:23] which is to make it a second Sin City movie and not kind of a fun, madcap, you know, crime

[7:28] adventure.

[7:29] Sure.

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

[7:31] Take that, Frank Miller.

[7:32] Burn.

[7:32] My two favorite, two most memorable moments were meeting Mike Diana, the only man who's ever

[7:38] been imprisoned for his comic book work and who is, seemed like a strange fellow and draws

[7:44] things that I, that if I, it's one of those things where if I read one of his books as

[7:48] a kid, I probably would have had nightmares to this day about it.

[7:50] And then being shaken by that and then walking away and seeing, hearing, all right, everybody,

[7:58] it's time for the battle.

[8:00] And wave after wave of lightsaber fighters coming up on stage at the back of the hall as

[8:05] this huge audience of people sitting down applauded and cheered and being like, oh, okay, good.

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

[8:13] There is a, there is a, a brightness there.

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

[8:17] There is a Jedi Knight tournament force that shows up at the Comic-Con and fake fights.

Stuart Wellington

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

Elliott Kalan

[8:25] They're sorry.

[8:25] They're real lightsabers.

Dan McCoy

[8:26] Well, I think the moral of this story is the sort of guys who would do a podcast about bad

[8:32] movies are also the sort of guys who would go to New York Comic-Con with press passes.

[8:40] Stuart's very excited.

Elliott Kalan

[8:41] I mean, I know about you guys.

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

[8:44] I had a legitimate press pass, even though we would never cover that in a million years.

[8:48] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

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

[8:50] Our legitimacy.

Elliott Kalan

[8:51] I will tell you, the press passes were far easier to get this year than they have in past

[8:55] years.

[8:55] In the past years, they had your name 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] And I, oh, this is, and here's the press pass story I heard.

[9:05] Two of my coworkers went, and their, their forms had been lost.

[9:10] So, they had to fill out new forms while they were there.

[9:12] And my coworker told me that while she was filling out a form, a guy went, excuse me,

[9:17] you were supposed to have 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] 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.

Dan McCoy

[9:31] So, everyone out there, go to aquafan.blogspot.com.

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

Elliott Kalan

[9:37] Let's see if that's a real URL, yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[9:40] Okay, let's see.

[9:42] Aquafan.blogspot.com is underwater sex experience.

[9:52] Huh.

[9:52] Has anyone tried it yet?

[9:54] There's only one post here, guys.

[9:56] And it's just asking if anybody's had sex underwater and if it was awesome or something.

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

[10:03] I'll see you next time.

[10:03] Bye.

[10:04] Bye.

The Flop House Movie Minute #6 - Con Men

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