Uwe Boll’s Contra: The Movie
Between the Chrono Trigger musical and the above video, it’s been a good day for videogame fan videos. I was about to say this video actually looks better than a Uwe Boll flick, but then there was the guy wearing two eyepatches, the utterly needless blonde reporter, and the bizarre and wholly inappropriate use of the word “contra” shoehorned into the plot…and I realized it was pretty much exactly right. Thanks to Ground Zero for the tip.
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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.