Brokeback Fyrine IV
I’m still tabulating the Worst Aliens Ever contest results, so I invite you to pass the time with this fan video; many people suggested the alien from the 1986 sci-fi non-classic Enemy Mine, but only Giveumtheboot also linked to this Enemy Mine/Brokeback Mountain mash-up. Now, I know that Brokeback parodies are still overdone, all these years later, but I still think it’s worth watching for how fucking insane — and eerily appropriate — the Enemy Mine footage is. If you haven’t seen the movie (and I hadn’t) definitely give it a watch. At the very least, it’s useful in remember that Dennis Quaid has starred in some truly terrible movies.
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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.