Why Skyline Is Still Less Scary than E.T.
When we last saw Skyline — which was also the first time, for most of us — it had an awesome teaser trailer of people getting sucked up by giant spaceships-vacuums, and it was fucking awesome. Now that there’s a real trailer, I’m looking forward to this movie even more. While it might be all about an alien invasion of Earth, where the aliens have monsters and tentacles and spaceships and evil lights, I still find them far less terrifying than E.T. With these aliens, you know where you stand — fucked. Also, they seem to have a very cruel sense of humor., since they like to destroy human hopes at the most emotionally devastating moment… but that’s still a sense of humor. With E.T., you never know if he’s going to mistakenly believe you’re his best friend, make you sick with some crazy empathy disease, or pop out of the closet in women’s clothes. That’s the true horror, people.
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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.