Oh, Yeah, There’s Another G.I. Joe Movie Coming
Man, I sure was excited for G.I. Joe: Retaliation to premiere at the end of the summer. The trailers looked great, the crap from the first movie had been culled, and it all just looked like it was going to be a remarkably fun rendition of the classic cartoon. Then, of course, Paramount decided it needed heavy doses of 3-D and Channing Tatum, delayed the movie to next spring, and I promptly forgot it existed. Here’s the first international trailer for the delayed movie, which… uh… looks pretty much exactly like the original trailers, actually (there are a few news shots, which is why I bothered posting it). I don’t want to tell you how to run your business, Paramount, but seeing as you postponed this movie less than two months before it was going to premiere — negating countless months of promotion, not to mention costing Hasbro millions in the tie-in toyline — maybe you could pretend to give the tiniest shit about winning audiences back over? Just a little one? (Via ToyNewsI)
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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.