Harry Potter and the Exceedingly Great Trailer (Part 1)
It’s another trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parte the Firste), and I don’t have anything to say I haven’t said many times before — that the HP trailer makers are geniuses. I wish the Academy offered a statue for best trailer, just so someone could recognize their incredible work. Now, I’ve read the Harry Potter books and seen most of the films (4 or 5) and I know neither of them are ever that exciting, but every single Harry Potter movie trailer has looked supremely badass since about Prisoner of Azkaban. Plus, they manage to look awesome without giving away the whole damn story, which is a lost art in Hollywood — and the craziest thing is they don’t even need to, since everyone on the goddamn planet has read the goddamn books! So well done, Harry Potter trailer editors. I, for one, have noticed your supreme skill and high standards, and I thank you.
About The Author
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.