“Things The Internet Likes: The Movie”
Alas, this stunningly accurate description of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch movie — which has a new trailer above — isn’t mine, but was coined by Tom Brazelton on Twitter. It’s basically 300 + John Woo + a women-behind-bars flick, but also with dragons, robots, and a giant samurai demon thing wielding a giant gatling gun. I’m on the internet, and admittedly like all of those things, especially the giant samurai demon thing wielding a giant gatling gun, as it turns out. And while you might think that co-star Vanessa Hudgens, the chick from the High School Musical movies, might be a thing the internet doesn’t like, I believe her leaked nude cellphone pics prove otherwise.
About The Author
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.