Posters from the Avatar Movie — No, the Other Avatar Movie
I’m one of the few people on this planet that didn’t like The Sixth Sense, so M. Night Shyamalan’s plummet into cinematic irrelevance has surprised me less and delighted me more than most (reminder: I am a bastard). When Night was announced as the director of the Avatar cartoon movie — carefully retitled The Last Airbender so James Cameron wouldn’t skullfuck everyone at Nickelodeon — I assumed airbending fans were in for a mass suicide. Then the trailer came out, and it looked awesome. Like, even to me, who’s never seen a second of the Avatar cartoon. 
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Now the movie posters have come out, and they’re equally as awesome and stylish as the trailer. How is this possible? How is Night not fucking this up? Also, isn’t that our first decent look at Zuko, and doesn’t he look kind of badass? What the hell is happening here? My brain tells me the movie will be a disaster, but my eyes keep telling me something different. It’s all very confusing. (Via /Film)
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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.