The Spike TV Scream Awards were taped last week and will be on this Tuesday on Spike TV. The stage and production value of the event was really high. The stage had a huge Donnie Darko like rabbit and the fans were all dressed in costumes. Press from all over were squashed in on the red carpet for a chance to talk to the elite group of stars that attended the Spike TV Scream Awards. Just looking at the list, it was definitely a who’s who in pop culture for the past year. The cast of True Blood was there, along with Lautner from Twilight, Johnny Depp made an appearance to introduce Keith Richards and Megan Fox was there to look pretty.

The red carpet, or rather the black and white checkered carpet had angels on swings and even a unicorn. Which many stars stopped to take pictures with and pet.

Unicorn

I was in the “blogger” section which was quite interesting. We were on the end, so many of the stars sped right past us on their way in. One guy standing next to me was dressed in a crazy doctor outfit and the other guy next to me asked every star what their favorite sandwich was. The stars gave him colorful responses as you can imagine. This made it pretty difficult to get a word in otherwise. Eliza Dushku literally ran past us.

One star we spoke to was incredibly nice and I really enjoyed meeting her. Jon Mack is starring in the new Saw VI movie. It was her first Scream awards and she was really excited to be there. In the Saw VI movie she plays Jane, “who has similarities to the Amanda character”. I explained to her that I’m a wuss and can’t watch scary movies, so I asked her if anything scared her in real life. Jon was scared of sharks as a little girl and has respect for them now, but still gets scared now and then.

While the red carpet was sort of a bust, the awards seemed like they were amazing. I can’t wait to watch the show on Spike TV Tuesday at 10 PM, ET/PT. I love seeing True Blood clean up with awards and I heard there was new previews shown for both Alice in Wonderland and Twilight: New Moon. Another awesome award show put on by Spike TV. I can’t wait until the VGA’s!

Spike sent us some clips from the awards:

Below are some of my pictures so you can really see how the stars “ran” past us:

It’s never too early to start planning for con season. Which is why Wizard World Anaheim is gearing up to provide a fun comic book convention experience in Southern California. The dates to mark in your calendar are April 16-18, 2010.

The con is already busy booking guests including Eliza Dushku from Dollhouse, Ted Rami, Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar.

“There is a real desire in Southern California for a comic based pop-culture experience, and I feel privileged to get back in touch with our west coast fans in this way. This will truly be an event for families and people of all ages,” said Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard Entertainment

Full Guest list so far:
William Shatner
Eliza Dushku
Christian Serratos (Twilight actress)
Catherine Bach
Ernie Hudson
Taylor Dayne
Brande Roderick
Jake Busey
Lori Petty
Lucianna Carro
Mick Foley
Lorenzo Lamas
Rob Van Dam
Lita
Lindsay Wagner
Daniel Logan
Traci Scoggins
Bernie Wrightson
Charlie Huston
Christopher Knight
Adrianne Curry
Tim Bradstreet
Tom Jane (Punisher, Hung)

You can purchase tickets at https://wizardworld.ticketleap.com/anaheim.

WET

Excited to get WET (See what I did there?), I rushed to XBL Marketplace to give company “Artifical Mind and Movement” my time of day. I hadn’t read too much about WET, but I knew it was backed by a few Hollywood renowned such as Eliza Dushku, Alan Cumming, and the man McDowell himself. Besides, I usually enjoy demo hunting for future titles because I enjoy wetting my palette with desirability. I want to be “WOWed” without ogling the whole package. Much like everyone beckoned, I was supposedly expected to feel slightly amused, disgusted, and in awe—the way Tarantino would have me feel and initially, WET looked promising because it looked different yet familiar. In short, I was hardly impressed if not slightly embarrassed and a wee-bit confused.

Don’t get me wrong, WET has all the ingredients for a game well-worth a play through but I’m thoroughly questioning the preparation method. Don’t forget, while I do regard a demo as still in a meager “kiddie” stage, I can’t envision myself saying anything different in full.

If we were to discuss technicalities, we could go into how our angry, foul-mouthed heroine, Rubi Malone, is who I assume we’re supposed to put-up with for the majority of WET and let me tell you, Ms. Malone is hardly the next “Black Mamba”.  She’s ferocious, she’s mildly sexy, and blood is her biggest turn-on, apparently. I assume our protagonist is supposed to scream HBIC, but Dushku manages to deliver little more than a flat, “I’m so burdened, grr” exterior, often times sounding like a panda being poked by a pointy stick instead of a girl getting a bullet blown through her brains. With a few, necessary weapons in-hand, I found myself flailing through the air in slo-mo, accompanied by bad camera angles, and stiff, jumpy movement. The would-be cool, magical ability to run-up poorly textured walls with no velocity, glide, and go into crazy, fast, cool “frenzy” mode seem like a less-fluid, mediocre toss-up between Bloodrayne and OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad if not a cheap-shot at making the gameplay more complicated. On a positive note, Ms. Malone’s flashy ladder technique is a good use of otherwise pointless equipment; her ability to bend-backwards, gun, and slide down metal are effective ways to increase the body count while keeping your hot, little feet off the ground. Not to mention, as classy a broad as Rubi is, it’s quite entertaining to watch her replenish her life by taking “swigs” while hearing her bloated-panda self murmur, “I am going to kill you, F****” ORLY? For a second, I thought she had a burning desire to play billiards.

While it’s clear that WET attempts to deliver a variety of “stylish” combat to prevent boredom and repetition in murder, I can’t help but feel my own bitterness slowly seeping through the cracks of this wannabe “Kung-Fu” film. There really is no question that wall-running and rope-gliding get old level after level and chase after chase. I suppose my heightened criticism stems from the fact that WET destroys itself; the stylistic approach feels too overbearing, adversely causing itself to lose any real character it could’ve salvaged. I probably wouldn’t be such a meanie if it didn’t try so hard to be something it just isn’t, nor would I be if other aspects of this title were a little less flawed. I mean, this is next-generation, so if you’re going to make the gameplay scream mediocrity, AT LEAST grope my butt really hard with stunning visuals. WET didn’t feel or look exceptional to me; it just looked flat. I felt drowned in catchy and loud music. Yes, I suppose I have this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach that the peak of excitement in WET is the action-button sequence. I’ve already seen our charming protagonist, Rubi Malone, leap-off moving, exploding vehicles in crowded streets—what more is there, yokes?! In any case, I haven’t excused myself from picking-up this game sometimes in the future, I just want to know what WET will really contribute to the realm of third-person-shooters, yellow jumpsuit style, or not.