A Quick Field Trip to District 9
Goddamn. I feel like I need to clarify something: When I said the new G.I. Joe movie trailer made the film look good earlier today, what I really meant was “not actively bad.” It would be downright asinine of me to use the word “good” to describe both the G.I. Joe trailer with the new trailer for the sci-fi flick District 9, which I think we can all agree looks definitively “good.” It also appears to be science fiction, have aliens, action scenes but also a coherent plot that makes sense within its sci-fi world. Wacky! Thanks to everyone who sent this tip in.
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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.