Here’s a Two-Second Preview of The Hunger Games That You Should Feel Bad About Yourself for Watching
One of 2012’s most anticipated films is the adaptation of The Hunger Games, which MTV will run the first footage of during the yearly atrocity that is the VMAs on Sunday. In order to get you excited about this trailer, they’ve released a trailer of the trailer, which includes the film’s logo and about two seconds of footage of one of its stars/characters, I don’t know who. Don’t watch it. Seriously, it’s beyond inane. Don’t waste your time; just watch this actual preview when it comes out on the net on Monday.
Seriously, I’m mostly posting this to show my contempt for MTV for making this horrible teaser trailer teaser at all, and sites for posting it as news. Of course, I understand I’m part of the problem by posting it myself; however, I do genuinely hate myself, so really, there’s no contradiction here. “Self-loathing” is right up there in the site’s tagline, people. I may be awful, but at least I’m consistent.
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.