Suddenly, A Week’s Worth of Crap Movie News Is Suddenly Redeemed
Kristen Stewart might be in Akira. Two terrible Snow White movies. The possibly talent-depleted Tarsem Sing wants Samurai Jack. And, of course, the terrifying rumor of a Doctor Who movie — all these things have made it a shit week for movie news. And yet… and yet what if I told you the entire week could be redeemed if you watched a single video? That there was one movie trailer that could make up for all of this week’s horrible news? Because there is, and it’s this:
After watching this, the new Doctor Who’s TARDIS could be a Camero with machine guns attached and I’d be okay. Nothing can take away the pure joy of watching a shitty Terminator action figure throw a car onto a woman, nor the bliss of seeing an even shittier Alien toy kicking a baby into low orbit. (Via the Daily What)
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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.