Honest Abe, the Vampire Slayer
The international trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter came out shortly after the U.S. trailer. It features different footage — specifically more talk and less action, although there’s still plenty of action. It doesn’t end with Lincoln emancipating a tree with a single blow, either. Is this difference because Americans are actually more predisposed to find their presidents boring? Do foreign peoples just have less sense of American presidents, and thus don’t need as much footage of Lincoln kicking the shit out of people to be impressed? Or is the difference that Hollywood feels that American movie-goers can’t handle dialogue in their movie trailers, and foreign people can? I couldn’t say for sure, but I do know this: U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
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.