The Only Part of Priest You Need to See
A long time ago, we all agreed that there was no need for me to cover Priest, the extremely generic live-action movie based on the not all that unique Korean manwha. I apologize for breaking that code today, but I thought you’d want to know that Genndy Tartakovsky has animated a three-minute prologue to the film, and I guarantee it’s the only part of Priest that bears watching. Now, the story doesn’t make a lick of sense — if the Priests powers are killing vampires, why does the Church disband them? What are they afraid they’re going to do, kill more vampires? And why would “the people” ostracize the dudes who, you know, saved all of humanity?– but that’s more Priest‘s problem than Genndy’s. And besides, the dude still animates a hell of an action scene. (Via Blastr)
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.