Pok?mon the Movie: Pok? Harder
Someone made a neat but exceedingly not real trailer for an adult, “gritty” Pok?mon movie. It’s pretty shockingly good looking, with good special effects and CG Pok?mon critters — not quite good enough for a big American movie, but certainly reasonably for a big Japanese movie. Of course, then it would need to star Japanese people, which it doesn’t. Also, I’m pretty sure if anyone did make a dark n’ gritty Pok?mon reboot — dark n’ gritty enough that someone actually holds a gun to their own head, at least — they’d probably change the logo, too. Oh well. It’s still fun and neat-looking. Although I do wish the guys that made it had just released the footage instead of pretending it’s some kind of secret cam footage. Sigh. If you want to know more about attempted ruse, head over to Shogun Gamer.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.