I’m Pretty Sure That’s Not How You Play
Ah, foreign countries. They delight and amuse us with their lovably wacky reinterpretations of American culture. Like Thailand, for example — these zany folks think that basketball is played with punching, martial arts, swords, more punching, the ability to kill the other players, and a healthy dose of parkour. I admit their way is much better, but still, that’s not strictly basketball. I guess this is why this film is called Fireball for its American release…although maybe the ball actually gets set on fire and kicked into someone’s face. Frankly, either seems pretty plausible. (Via FilmDrunk)
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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.