CON: Your feedback!!

As per most of our
convention stuff on the site, we really want to know what you guys
thought of our coverage, so
please use the FEEDBACK FORM below to let us know what you
liked and didn’t like about it all, so that we can keep
focusing on the good shit in the years to come. You can catch on
whatever you might’ve missed by checking out our CON WRAP-UP PAGE
and check out the final Comic Con thoughts to our awesome JoBlo.com
crew below. 

So what did you
think of our Comic Con coverage? What did you like the most/least? What
would you like to see more/less of in the future?

 

 

JOBLO.COM CREW’S
FINAL THOUGHTS

AMMON
GILBERT

LOVED:

• The WB Panel
  was awesome, as I dug the footage from every movie they
  featured.

• ZOMBIELAND/2012
  was also exceptionally cool. Both movies look dope.

• IRON MAN 2 blew
  me away. And only 6 days after wrapping production, very
  impressive.

• Running into
  The Dude (Jeff Bridges) and Superman (Brandon Routh) in the Hard
  Rock elevator was cool. But since it was an elevator, it was
  awkward.

HATED:

• I didn’t even
  cover it as a panel, but the footage from SOLOMON KANE blew ass.
  That movie’s gonna bomb, mark my words.

• Hall H. The
  long lines to get in (or not get in), and the uncomfortable
  seats makes Hall H the biggest FAIL of the entire Comic Con.
  Even the hot, sweaty, and body odor filled Floor was better.

JIM
LAW

LOVED:

• Getting
  to hang out with the JoBlo.com staff is above anything else.
  I’ve never seen so many guys, from so many different places, get
  along the way we do.

• The
  people of Comic Con in general are all pretty fun to be around.
  Stand in line for an hour and you’re bound to chat up any random
  stranger about something that interests both of you.

• The
  Kevin Smith panel delivered for me once again, at a time when I
  just needed to chill out and enjoy my job.

• The
  Wrath of Con just keeps getting more amazing.

• The
  Hard Rock Hotel showers are the greatest things ever created.

• Throwing
  shit at people while they’re eating at Dick’s Last Resort.

• Secret
  Pics have become sort of an obsession to me and Ammon. I tried
  secret pic-ing my wife when I got home and it just wasn’t the
  same.

• Free
  Booze.

• Actually
  getting recognized from The JoBlo movie Podcast.

HATED:

• Hall
  H is a disaster. The scheduling people need to be strung up by
  their balls for putting TWILIGHT as the third panel of the day.
  Especially when little girls were already in line two days
  earlier.

• Lines
  in general. This convention center must be getting smaller
  because there’s no way I should be waiting in line for BOONDOCK
  SAINTS II for two hours and not even get in.

• Outside
  the convention center is almost as brutal as inside. You have
  thousands of people trying to cross the street at these tiny
  little stairwells and get stopped every twelve seconds for
  another tram-car.

• Try
  to pick up the wi-fi in the convention center is like trying to
  get Direct TV with a UHF antenna.

• Preview
  night is now busier than Friday night. I don’t understand this.

• I
  wanted way more TOY STORY 3 footage.

JOHNNY
MORENO

LOVED:

• The
  Kick Ass Panel! I knew knew nothing about this comic or movie
  before the panel and now it’s one of my most anticipated movies
  to watch. Sadly it still doesn’t have a distributor but
  hopefully that changes, as the panel received many standing
  ovations.

• Partying
  it up with my co-workers and all of the cool websites.

• I
  loved getting recognized, it validates my existence (take THAT
  Dad!).

HATED:

• Hard to say since I
  really enjoyed this Con opposed to previous years, but the
  scheduling for HALL H the first day was atrocious. It seems like
  Twilight: New Moon should’ve been the VERY FIRST panel on
  Thursday and Avatar right after. People who wanted to see the
  Disney Animation panel (the first one on Thursday) we’re shit
  out of luck because of the huge line.

RUSTY
ELTRINGHAM (videographer)

LOVED:

• Hanging with my JoBlo.com brothers and sisters. This includes the awesome JoBlo faithful we met throughout the weekend. A lot of you recognized my man Jimmy O and many of you spotted the logo on our mic and came up to say hi. Super cool! 

• Meeting Anthony Daniels. I still have the C-3PO action figure I got
  when I was six years old. 

• The fact that the people we interviewed for the most part exceeded expectations, including Rob Zombie, Peter Jackson and Denzel Washington. 

• Running into celebrities outside my room, including Megan Fox, Anna Faris, Anna Paquin and Woody Harrelson. 

• The Wrath of Con. Holy shit that is a fun night. 

• The Kick Ass panel

• Hearing a woman say, “Hey Zack this is JimmyO from JoBlo” and turning around to be introduced to Zack Snyder.

HATED:

• The Summit publicist! 

• Only got to see one panel in Hall H. The lines were out of control. 

• Sunday’s programming was weak. 

JIMMYO

LOVED:

• Being
  with the JoBlo.com crew again (although we missed you and Arrow)

• I
  loved the fact that so many of our readers said hello and gave
  props to the site.  It happened quite a bit and they were
  all very nice.

• Meeting
  Peter Jackson… I LOVE that human being!

• The
  KICK ASS footage.

• FINALLY
  seeing Trick ‘r Treat, on a big screen no less.

• A
  cool Rob Zombie interview.

• Having
  a "moment" with Megan Fox… I said hello, she gave me
  a cutesy wave.

• Wrath
  of Con baby!

• Meeting
  Anthony Daniels aka C-3PO.

• Also
  having to do with the Trick ‘r Treat screening, it was terrific
  seeing it with a cool group of guys I meet in line, and then of
  course having Niki aka BeatrixKiddo there too.

• The
  Tin Fish, a little seafood place just outside of the con.

• The
  Hard Rock Hotel.

• Dicks,
  the restaurant.

HATED:

• Gene Simmons and his
  son for being self-involved, elevator hogging douchebags

• The
  "security" who oftentimes had their heads up their
  asses.  It’s a hard job, but way too many of them had no
  idea what is going on.

• The "Tim Burton
  Press Line" that didn’t have Tim Burton.

• And speaking of Tim
  Burton Press Line that was mostly just Summit, the offensively
  rude publicist who apparently doesn’t need us to cover SORORITY
  ROW.

• Not enough cool
  swag.

• The food was too
  expensive everywhere, and you can only have Subway so many
  times… I ain’t Jarred.

MIKE
SAMPSON

LOVED:

• Riding
  the elevator at the Hard Rock! Rode with Mila Kunis, Scarlett
  Johansson, Jeff Bridges, Jon Favreau (not at the same time, of
  course…)

• Johnny
  Depp!

• Disney’s
  marketing strategy.  The TRON 2 arcade and ALICE exhibit
  were money!

• Patton
  Oswalt as a Hall H moderator

• District
  9

• Fox’s
  announcement of AVATAR Day to show 15 minutes of the movie for
  free to people

HATED:

• Con
  security. They bully the fanboys and press, but when they’re actually
  needed, they’re nowhere to be found – a
  crazy fan gets up on stage during the Peter Jackson/James
  Cameron panel.

• Hall
  H connections. It’s a black hole of web and cell phone
  connections to the outside world.

I actually didn’t
dislike much this year. In my mind there wasn’t a real clear
WINNER or LOSER like last year (where it seemed that WATCHMEN and
THE SPIRIT were obvious winners and losers last year). AVATAR didn’t
gain anything, but didn’t lose anything either.  IRON MAN 2 got
a warm reception, but I also heard people complaining it looked
EXACTLY like the first film. See ya next year!