COMIC CON DAY 2

SKYLINE

This is one of the many alien projects happening this year. A few clips were shown and it is described as a mix between District 9, Cloverfield and Independence Day, all favorites of mine. Donald Faison (Scrubs) and Eric Balfour (24) are there talking about the film. Here are two descriptions of the footage:

Clip was pretty cool. Giant alien ships sucking human bodies off the earth. Heroes hiding and fighting against these digital looking aliens.


Second clip showed Eric and Donald on a roof watching dozens of blue lights fall to the ground. People start shooting into the air around the lights. Then a slew of giant alien motherships reveal themselves out of the clouds to catch all the people. Smaller ships exit the mothership (think Independence day) and start scanning the areas for more humans. Eric and Donald get caught and are chased back to a locked door.

Showed the clip again. There's something going on with the eyes of people that look directly at the light of the ships. The sockets start glowing and all the veins surface around their face. The climax has a giant fighter jet crashing down on top of a sky-rise roof while two of our heroes try to avoid it. Friday July 23, 2010 3:46



DRIVE ANGRY 3D
Nicholas Cage and Amber Heard just took the stage to show some clips from Drive Angry 3D. It was said that Cage's hair was nice and tammed and that the footage shown wasn't all that impressive and that it is something audiences have seen a hundred times already. I'll wait to see for myself, but that pretty much knocks any interest I had in this film.




PIRANAH 3D




Originally they were supposed to screen the entire film, but due to the graphic content, it got pulled. They did end up showing ten minutes of the film however. Here's what was said:

The footage begins with Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames walking along a broken down pier where an abandoned boat floats. Shue investigates and naturally falls in the water where a nasty half eaten body clings to her as if a zombie.

Cut to two divers descending into an underwater ravine. One takes a turn into a tunnel which takes him into a massive, "endless" cave. Aja plays with the 3D, pulling his camera backward through the cave, giving the shot some fun perspective. The diver sees a string of fish eggs and continues on as a single egg floats towards us closer, closer still until this thing is in your face and we can see the embryo of a nasty lil' piranha spinning inside, a chance for Aja to provide a stinger scare. Another shocker comes when the diver is bit. When he turns around, he's surrounded by hundreds of prehistoric piranha who move in for the kill.

The next scene introduces us to big Spring Break wet t-shirt scene hosted by a pun-dropping Eli Roth. "Look at those weapons of masturbation, right over heeeeahhh!" he yells as he sprays water on some well endowed hotties. The fun is cut short when Ving Rhames and his fellow police officers try to declare an emergency. Of course, the revelers don't listen and the party continues…until the fish attack and the Spring Break massacre begins.

Fish flood the camera. Aja takes us underwater as bodies struggle to escape the feeding frenzy. Kids try to reach higher ground - particularly a giant stage which eventually overturns due to the weight. A snapped cable lashes out cutting two girls in half…their bikinis come off first, naturally. And Roth suffers a particularly awesome death that splashes a blonde girl in gore. One jack-ass races through the lake on his speed boat, running people over and chopping them up with his propeller.

It's madness and every bit as bloody as you've read about.

On shore, it looks like a World War is being fought. Cops pulls people out of the water. Everyone is chewed up. One girl is split in two. KNB's Greg Nicotero is spotted carrying half a body on his back. AC/DC's Highway to Hell kicks into the preview and gives us a montage of clips with Rhames grabbing a boat propeller and jamming it into the water, Steven McQueen looks like he's doing tequila shots, a girl vomits off the side of a boat…and onto the camera lens, Kelly Brook and Riley Steele share an underwater nude swimming scene, a piranha bursts out of a girl's mouth and another piranha gets a taste of Jerry O'Connell's unfortunate member.


Sounds awesome.