Harry Potter and the Naked Cash-Grab
Well, that didn’t last long. Not a week after I praised Warner Bros. for not forcing 3-D shittiness onto Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, Warner Bros. has decided to force 3-D shittiness on… all the Harry Potter movies. Yep, all the HP movies from Sorcerer’s Stone on up will be retrofitted into 3-D, and we all know that looks awesome and has no problems whatsoever, like the critically acclaimed Clash of the Titans. Which is great, since the same company that did Clash is doing the HP movies for Warner! I believe the appropriate response here is “Squick.” (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.