They Live + Mad Men = Branded
With all the Amazing Spider-Mans and G.I. Joe: Retaliations and Dark Knight Riseses coming out, it can be hard to remember other nerd movies are still being made. Movies like Branded, in which Rowdy Roddy Piper some young dude discovers the world is secretly full of aliens with great hair monsters made out of advertising that are controlling everybody’s minds controlling everybody’s minds. I’m not sure what allows this guy to see the ad monsters sucking on everyone’s brains — it doesn’t appear he has a special set of sunglasses or anything — and I would imagine this guy is going to try to save the world instead of simply engaging in the world’s greatest fight scene, but… ah fuck it, now I just want to watch They Live again. IS THIS THE RESULT OF SECRET ADVERTISING CONTROLLING MY BRAIN? Because if it is, making me want to see a 25-year-old movie instead of the new one they just made probably isn’t what they were shooting for. (Via First Showing)
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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.