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Capone wants you to come to Flashback Weekend in Chicago and chill with Romero, Coscarelli and tons of horror greats!

I like... by Sailor Rip	Jun 16th, 2008 10:20:27 AM
...me some Phantasm.
I'd love to come... by tomdolan04	Jun 16th, 2008 10:45:20 AM
I'm 5233 miles away - can anyone give me lift?
Flashback Weekend has taken a complete shit... by JackLucas	Jun 16th, 2008 10:55:16 AM
from what it was a few years ago. The past two years have been very lackluster and I blame the organizers. Having gone to this a few times now and seeing how half assed it is run, I decided to take my convention dollar elsewhere. When you can't even decide what time you are going to open the doors even though the posted time is 5pm on Friday (with said doors opening at around 6:30pm only after a near riot breaks out in the hallway); when your panels are so misguided that most of the stars end up looking at eachother and shrugging their shoulders because the moderators are so gaga over their fanboy lusts that they can't compose themselves long enough to move the show along; and when you run 35mm drive in type screenings for the first few years only to further cheapen a once great show by throwing DVD projections that we could watch in our homes with friends up on a screen... these and SO many more reasons compell me to warn any first timers away from this convention. There are a lot more MUCH better run cons out there for you to enjoy than to keep allowing the folks running this show to take your money for a sub par presentation. Sorry Flashback... you've lost a loyal customer (and my group of usually about five or six that I drag along with me to these things). I'll wait to hear from friends who are local to Chicago (and feel even more burned than I as they have gone every year since Flashback started) and see if things get any better with this year's Weekend.
tomdolan04 by daddyfatnads	Jun 16th, 2008 10:58:44 AM
sure were do you want picking up from,and can you put a couple of quid in for petrol.should be about 5 grand unless it goes up again
RE: JackLucas by TheRealCapone	Jun 16th, 2008 12:35:19 PM
For the record, the comments from JackLucas are coming from someone that used to be affiliated with the Flashback Weekend event and hasn't been for quite a number of years, although he has tried to sneak in a couple times since. I'd guess he'd fall under the category of "disgruntled former employee." I believe the only thing he says here that is even remotely true is that the outdoor screenings are now shown on DVD, but that has nothing to do with the organizers. It has to do with the city where the event takes places essentially forbidding the organizers from doing the drive-in format any longer. Naturally I'm biased when it comes to his comments about the panel moderators, but considering I've been doing these for seven years and the co-emcee is a professional radio broadcaster with more than 20 years of experience, I'm guessing you can take those comments with a shovel full of salt, as well. Everything else he said is overly exaggerated horseshit. The only reason you would post something like this is to hurt the show, and that makes you a full-blown cockbag.
Two Massive whats? by Hikaru Ichijo	Jun 16th, 2008 01:32:38 PM
ahhhh! to hit puberty in the eighties...
_night_ at 40 by duanejones	Jun 16th, 2008 01:49:37 PM
posted this before, but this was the cover story in the fairfield weekly celebrating _night_'s 40th, and not really celebrating romero's work subsequent to _dawn_ very much at all: http://tinyurl.com/2m87qm . a fun read. less fun: can one of you all heading to chi-town ask george why he has sucked so hard for a generation-plus now? thanks in advance!
Not to sound like a 'cockbag'... by kayleefan	Jun 16th, 2008 02:03:09 PM
I agree with JackLucas. I've gone to Flashback for the past five years and the past two or so have been weak. The panels have been disjointed and unorganized. Whether it's the fault of the city or not, he's correct about the outdoor screenings. Sitting on hard-back hotel chairs for four hours kinda sucks.
Plus, it's the same weekend as Wizard World Chicago by gruntybear	Jun 16th, 2008 03:25:20 PM
Chicago has been screwed for the last few years as far as geek-cons are concerned. We get one - count it, ONE! - comicon a year now. So why schedule Flashback weekend at a hotel kitty-korner across the street from one of the the last few remaining comic book mega-shows in the country - let alone the city? I can only imagine that the dealer's room at Flashback will suffer massively since many of the same dealers would put up booths at Wizard World where the greater foot traffic would be. While I would not wish the organizers of FlashBack ill-will, I truly think someone needs to get their heads out of their asses when it comes to scheduling the con. Why not put the show together for sometime closer to Halloween? Put it together in conjunction with one of the many, very professional haunted attractions that dot the area in the fall months. But don't try to split the geek-bucks with WWChicago. We get few enough geek-event in this city now as it is.
Wizard World vs. Flashback by I. Ratzkywatzky	Jun 16th, 2008 05:42:10 PM
Gruntybear beat me to my question. Why schedule the two Cons on the same weekend? I plan to attend both, but since I have to split my time between shows, I will end up spending the same amount of money as previous years but I'll be forced to miss some events. I also know of people that normally go to Flashback that won't be able to attend this year, because they work in the comics industry.
I don't know who Capone thinks that I am, but... by JackLucas	Jun 16th, 2008 08:26:16 PM
he obviously has me mixed up with someone else. I am just a normal everyday fanboy who has hit enough conventions to know when he is getting screwed over. The fact that you took my comments so much to heart shows who I may have been talking about (without stooping to your personal level of course). One need only check out the most recent Anchor Bay (a Flashback sponsor) dip into the Evil Dead cashpool (see: Evil Dead Ultimate Edition) to see Capone's "moderation" of a panel. (See: standing there with a slack-jawed fanboy gawk as the celebs do their best to make their way through questions on their own.) But, no... sorry man. My only connection to Flashback Weekend is my shelling out cash for tickets and a hotel room only to see the convention sink deeper and deeper into the kind of fuck-the-fans money grubbing that has ruined one convention after another over the years. Good luck with this year, though. I hope things improve.
Okay Capone... Are you Eric from the Sunday night Nick D show? by SherlockMonk	Jun 16th, 2008 11:14:24 PM
Just wondering. If not then are you on his show under a name I'd know?

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