Needs More People Saying “Sorcerer”
Here’s a new trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; I don’t have any particularly deep thoughts on it, but I can’t tell if the movie is awkwardly serious or humorously self-aware of its own goofiness. There’s a lot that could go either way, depending on whether the movie’s earnestly trying to be funny or not. Look, any film where Nic Cage not only fires a “plasma bolt” from his hands, but actually calls it a “plasma bolt” out loud… that film is really fucking goofy. All I’m saying. (Via /Film)
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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.