The Germans Will Look Up and Shout “WTF?” and I’ll Whisper “LOL”
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Were you desperately hoping that the Watchmen DVD would come in an odd package shaped like a flat version of Rorschach’s head? Of course not. no one would want that. Alas, that’s exactly what Watchmen-loving Germans will be getting if they order the Amazon exclusive Watchmen special edition in August. Yes, the head slides in half to reveal the DVD, and yes, the head is plastic. Clearly, Ozymandias’s mechandising team is behind this madness.
Worse, although Germany will be getting this “special edition” of Watchmen, they won’t be getting the director’s cut — Paramount has the rights to worldwide release of the theatrical cut while Warner Bros. has the extended version, and they either are waiting to release it or still figuring out how to split the future sales with Fox or something. Point is, sucks to be nerdy and German at the moment. (Via Blu-ray Blog)
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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.