Paul - the homage to geeks everywhere! Totally amusing - and LOL and OMG! Our group really enjoyed it and laughed ourselves silly over the Comic Con intro (and end). I mean - geeks going to con! and just overwhelmed.
I think they must have filmed either at the end of the day after chasing out 'non-actors', or before the dealers room opened. Because there other wise would have been NO WAY there was that much open space around them. (the halls are very much more crowded than shown).
**huh** I was right - the wikipedia says this: Principal photography wrapped on September 9, 2009, with additional scenes filmed in July 2010 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, which was designed to look like the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con. After obtaining permission to use the Comic-Con brand, the settings had to be changed to avoid crowds, and extras were used to portray attendees since there had been some issues regarding filming inside San Diego's actual convention center. As a result, only exterior shots of the San Diego Convention Center were filmed on the streets of Downtown, San Diego.
NO DUH that Comic Con was too crowded! Actually, that answers the one thing in the film that I was like 'thats NOT our convention center'. It shows a large 'snack bar' area with many food choices and places to sit. HAHAHAHAHA. NO. Let's just say, no choice, you get one food choice and no where to sit.
Anyway, the film is FULL of sci-fi jokes and in jokes and puns and even more in jokes. I'm afraid... I got most of them, and I've even DONE a number of them.
--Wearing Sci-fi slogan shirts. Oh yea.
--Touring Sci-Fi Southwest hotspots? Done it. I've been to Roswell. Yes, I really have.
--Talking photos of yourself at said fanish site- Points to a few posts back.. you, know standing next to a sign that says 'Hobbiton'? Yea. Well. I've also got one of me next to a lake being a Rohan refugee, and next to a tree being Frodo.
--I've also seen the reaction/had the reaction/done the reaction the two do to stars. *sigh* it's hard being a fangirl sometimes.
--fanish weapons are never as cool as you think they are (and are MUCH more expensive at con).
Never ran into an alien though. Drat.
Once you've all seen the movie - I want to know who you think they are 'punning' as the "famous science fiction writer". In Paul - it's someone called 'Adam Shadowchild', who's their hero who they've come to see and to have him sign something (and who's very much 'omg, why am I here'). And everyone they meet later on they are like 'and we saw..' and the person is like 'WHO?' and they are 'you know - wrote this/this/this/this' and the non-geek is like 'WHO?'. LOL. I think it's Harlan Ellison. As evidenced, when I told my co-worker this, he was like 'Who?' and I stood there staring at him and realized I could go on about Star Trek and City on the Edge of Forever and he would still be clueless.
Is Paul worth seeing. Hell yes. Even better in a group so you can all catch the in jokes :)
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